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[Hope @NWBGA_]

@UnkleAyo @PeterObi Kai .. PO, Nigeria will be healed in our time. God bless you always.

[Hope @NWBGA_]

@Jollz God have mercy on Nigerians!!!

[Peter Obi @PeterObi]

Democracy in Decline: Reflecting on Two Years of Present Government

Today, June 12, is slated as Democracy day. Most unfortunately, in our present state, our dear country Nigeria cannot be justifiably classified as a democratic country. The vital indicators of democracy are noticeably absent. Some do not even exist.

Democracy is said to be ‘a government of the people, by the people, and for the people,’ yet none of these three measures exist in our democracy today. Rules, regulations and requirements to participate in elections or be elected for are not followed, consequently, individuals who are to be disqualified ab-initio are now holding public offices.

As we mark June 12, a day symbolizing the struggle for true democracy in Nigeria, it is deeply troubling that under this present administration in a short span of two years, our nation has witnessed broad erosion of democratic principles. There has been a corresponding decline in security and the quality of life for millions of Nigerians. We have traversed from rigged elections to collapsing social services; from soaring poverty to rising corruption; and from a seemingly stable economy to a parlous economy.

It is most troubling that in its two years in office, the present government has brought the nation to the point where our leaders now celebrate and endorse failure, lies, and propaganda. The government today, rather than show genuine accountability and measurable progress, focuses on manipulating narratives, gaslighting the public, shifting blame and weaponizing governance. Meanwhile, Nigerians live in a worsening and worrisome insecurity, widespread corruption, hunger, and general despondence. There are no clear benchmarks for measuring tangible development, as we continue to witness the collapse of key indicators - like education, healthcare, and poverty alleviation- which are parameters for measuring national progress.

Simple comparisons of what has happened in the past two years, now relies on propaganda and misinformation to mask the mis governance.

Our country today can best be described as a nation declining fast in all its facets. The security of lives and property has worsened, and the rule of law is virtually non-existent. These are the hard-verifiable facts:

1. On May 29th, 2023, when this government was sworn into office, Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) stood at $364 billion. As of today, it has declined to $188 billion, a decline of almost fifty percent (50%).

2. Nigeria’s GDP per capita was $1,640 as of May 2023, but today it has dropped drastically to about $835, a devastating decline of about 50%.

3. Nigerians living in multi-dimensional poverty increased from 38.9% to 54% within this period, with about 129 million Nigerians now living below the poverty line. The World Bank reported recently, that 75% of Nigerians in the rural area now live in poverty as at 2025, and even more than previously recorded in the urban areas.

4. Our education sector has deteriorated significantly. Today, more than 18.3 million Nigerian children are out of school, the highest number in the world. The quality of education in Nigeria is also fast deteriorating. Many of our children are being taught sciences without any science lab and computer studies without any computers. Students are now writing WAEC and other national exams in darkness relying on candles. There are now even glitches in their exams.

5. Health services have worsened drastically. The National Primary Health Care Development Agency decried that less than 20% of over 30,000 Primary Healthcare Centers across the nation are fully functional.

I have even recently visited some Health Centers where delivery rooms were without toilets. The United Nation recently reported Nigeria as the world's worst country to give birth, with one death recorded every seven minutes.

[Hope @NWBGA_]

@obianuju_pc This can’t be real. Your boss is clearly breaching standards of practice. He or She has to be reported to the council. This is very unacceptable!

[AMB. SERAH IBRAHIM @TheSerahIbrahim]

Today, while driving in the East on our way with Peter Obi for the burial of the outstanding late Nollywood icon, Mrs. Nkechi Winifred Nweje, we noticed a woman trying to board a bus on the other side of the road lifting a heavy bucket.

The bucket looked like it was quite heavy for her age, she found a bus but sadly why trying to get in, the bucket fell.
It was clear she was in distress.

Peter Obi immediately asked the driver to stop and was watching to ensure the woman was okay.
He then asked the driver to turn to her side of the road.

When we got towards her, PO got down from the car. She was excited and shocked to see him and immediately the sadness on her face turned to a beautiful smile.

She immediately asked for a hug and PO asked her if she was fine.

Some people around were trying to help her pack up what poured out from the bucket, to save at least what has not touched the sand.

She told us she was going to the market to sell it, as that is her only means of survival.

Peter Obi asked her the cost of the produce and she said it was around ₦8,000 and she’d sell them all for around ₦10,000 making a small profit of about ₦2,000

She also said she doesn’t know how much she’d make from it again, since she has lost some of the produce.
She may not even make up to the cost.

Peter Obi immediately handed her some money to cover it all.
She screamed in excitement, hugged him and prayed for him.
She even took some of her produce and attempted to offer it to PO to show her appreciation.

The joy on her face seeing that someone lifted a burden for her was touching.

Nigerians work so hard everyday for so little, while the political elite continue to steal, pad budgets and still squander our public wealth without even investing in the people or their health.

This is not governance. This is CRUELTY dressed as leadership.
We are a rich country ruled by people with cruel hearts.

This woman’s story is not isolated. It’s the consequence of years of corruption, greed, and deliberate act of our leaders to make Nigerians poor and hungry.

You cannot tell the people to fast while you feast.
Nigerians are poorer now more than ever. Our country’s wealth should be used to improve healthcare for Nigerians, provide dignified jobs and invest in market access for small business owners but rather it is squandered by corrupt and greedy leaders.

We must build a Nigeria where public money goes into investing in the people.
We deserve leaders who have compassion for the people, and will invest in pulling Nigerians out of poverty.

A new Nigeria is POssible.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

I've just come out of a conversation with a contact who is engaged in the Sahel, and the one piece of advise I have for the multiple Burkinabés from media, academia and civil society who are currently being contacted by the usual suspects to lend their vocal and intellectual support to the artificial anti-Traoré bandwagon that Paris and DC are putting together is this:

Remember that there is nothing special about you.

The same way they're reaching out to you and acting as if they respect you and your work, is the same way they've reached out to many of us across the sub-region. I promise you are not special to them at all. You're just useful. For now. The respect and reverence they are treating you with is the same affected "respect" they have bamboozled us with for 500 years, because they know that nothing gets a black man's pussy wet like receiving "respect" and "honour" from his European overlords.

They did the same thing in Nigeria between 2011 and 2015. Every squirrel, antelope, Aisha, Dipo, and Japheth who offered even the mildest criticism of Goodluck Jonathan was immediately carried aloft and paraded around as a champion of this and that by the oyibos. It didn't take them long to figure out that "Jonathan Must Go" was their ticket to what seemed like everlasting favours, treats, and funding from oyibo, and they all started unanimously pushing to oust the president that took Nigeria to #1 economy in Africa and 3rd fastest growing on the planet.

Many of these people didn't even dislike Goodluck Jonathan - they just saw that pretending as if Nigeria was being ruled by Pol Pot was their ticket out of poverty and obscurity. Some of them built this career grift in 24 months all the way from Twitter into Chevening scholarships, IVLPs, Mandela Washington Fellowships, speaking appearances in Taiwan, Canadian passports, etc etc. But those were only the lucky few. The vast majority of this demographic got discarded like a used pure water bag immediately the oyibos got their desired regime change.

Since they got their regime change, Nigeria has fallen off a cliff from #1 to #4 in Africa, losing over 60% of GDP in just 10 years. I will repeat that for emphasis. While other countries in Africa grew at 2-5% annually over the past 10 years, Nigeria SHRANK by over 60%, and you can now find Nigerians desperately searching for a better life in Burkina Faso, Algeria, Mali, Libya, Tunisia, Liberia, and even Niger which used to hold the title of "poorest country in the world." Most of the loudmouths who helped make this a reality have fallen back into obscurity and poverty.

Many of them are in their 40s and 50s now, and they're still busy chasing gigs and hunting for $1000 here, $2,500 there. A few of them did become puppet unicorns, but the vast majority are back to being absolutely nobody 10 years after they allowed foreign attention and dollars to override their natural caution and stampede them into the 2nd worst ever national mistake in Nigeria's history after the completely unnecessary civil war.

Many of them walk around in a constant state of confusion now, unable to understand why their lives are much worse nowadays, and the oyibos who seemingly cared so much about whatever they had to say between 2011 and 2015 are no longer answering the phone or replying messages. If you allow these same oyibos to inflate your egos and use it to push your mouths into parroting their narrative for their own geopolitical goals, the exact same thing will happen to you.

Before you allow the thirst for white people's validation and money to shape your responses to the questions they are currently deluding you with, just ask yourself this one question:

All those years when Burkina Faso was the deadest country on the planet and Blaise Campaore's regime was shooting Burkinabés dead in the street, where were all these bleeding heart white people? Why didn't they care then?

Why do they care about Ibrahim Traoré now? What is this REALLY about?

💡

[Hope @NWBGA_]

@RealPearMan @harreceipts ..working with the tools they have been provided. It’s like a farmer going to the farm ; It’s either you have a tractor or even a cutlass as the barest minimum. If you have neither, you can only sit and watch the birds..

[Hope @NWBGA_]

@RealPearMan @harreceipts That’s to tell you the mindset..it’s really unfortunate. its sad what has happened to his family and I empathize with them. However, having worked in healthcare for close to 7 yrs before leaving Nigeria, he needs to understand that health care workers are employees..

[Peter Obi @PeterObi]

Have I really crossed the line?

I ask the question because my New Year message has now led to threats against my life, my family, and those around me. While I have received all sorts of messages, one Mr. Felix Morka has gone further to accuse me of "crossing the line" and has warned that I will face the consequences.

I find it necessary to share this message again and urge everyone who has not seen it to watch:

https://t.co/f26UDjdT7Z

If I have truly crossed the line, I invite anyone to point it out, as I remain committed to upholding decorum. However, I will not be silenced in my resolve to speak truthfully, especially as our nation continues to drift toward undemocratic practices.

We are increasingly transforming into an authoritarian and repressive regime, where freedom of expression is being systematically suppressed.

May God help us create a better and freer society for the sake of our children. -PO

[Spotlight Abby @Spotlight_Abby]

Nigerians shocked me today.

[PeterObi Obidient Media Center @POMediaCenter]

Hello World,

Welcome to His Excellency @PeterObi Official Media Center Handle.

Thank you for joining us in this Journey. 🇳🇬🌍

[West Africa Weekly @WestAfricaWeek]

“I refuse to be reduced to those who wallow in ethnic politics” - Peter Obi https://t.co/to69C7pilm

[Dele Farotimi. A victim of Nigeria @DeleFarotimi]

Something is required to catalyze the revolution required to save Nigeria, if Tinubu and the APC are foolish enough to arrest Peter Obi, we should thank them..😊

[Dele Farotimi. A victim of Nigeria @DeleFarotimi]

If they’ll dare, I will make the call to hit the streets, if I am equally arrested, may God punish anyone who might presume to call for my release, I expect you all to hit the streets until this criminal regime is crumbled. Arresting Obi is a line that must not be crossed..🤨

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

I left the UK and returned to Nigeria to start my career in March 2013. Most of the Nigerian international students I went to uni with had already returned since 2012.

Nearly all of us who came back started planning to escape from Nigeria in 2016. There was only one thing that changed in Nigeria between 2013 and 2016. We know what or who it was.

But yeah, "GEJ was a terrible president." If you keep repeating it to yourself 9 years later, despite being mocked by all the data in existence, that will somehow make it true 👍🏿

Me, I don't care who has any investment in maintaining this gigantic untruth because none of you feeds me, and I will speak freely - "GEJ must go" was a foreign intelligence operation run out of Washington DC by the US State Department, whose doctrine interpreted Nigeria's economic growth and growing partnership with China as a strategic threat to American economic and military interests on the continent.

The Obama administration repeatedly interfered very directly and blatantly in that election cycle. Barack Obama recorded and posted a video urging Nigerians to "vote for the next chapter." Michelle Obama involved herself in #BringBackOurGirls, which was itself merely the 'Big Idea' within the larger marketing campaign that was "Jonathan must go." John Kerry travelled to Nigeria and met with the opposition.

The local players on the ground who took part in the marketing and political campaign to oust Goodluck Jonathan and replace him with the Illiterate were merely useful idiots - yes, that includes you reading this with your guilty conscience. If the shoe fits, I am definitely referring to you. You were nothing but a pawn in a geopolitical tussle between 2 of the Countries That Actually Matter.

Because you lack wisdom, insight and especially humility, you really thought you were doing something historic by removing an incumbent president - a trick you have not been able to repeat ever since, because the US State Department - which actually runs Nigeria - had no problem with 8 years of The Illiterate, and definitely has no problem with another 8 years of the Drug Dealer whom it actively protects.

You idiots thought that you were empowered, politically awakened people, when you were just chess pieces on a board being pushed around by forces you were too stupid and egotistical to recognise. Now your GDP has effectively HALVED in just 9 years, and a whole generation of high-quality human capital has been lost to the US and its allies.

And they didn't bring back your girls!

Stupid fucks.

['Fisayo Soyombo @fisayosoyombo]

In the last six weeks, I’ve fielded numerous questions about why I took on Customs every day, bar weekends. One person inboxed me to ask: “Why do you still tag Customs even though they won't eventually reply to your claim?”

On the timeline, some accounts with links to smugglers and Customs officers believed they were deriding me by saying Customs would not respond to me. But I wrote it here early on: I wasn’t trying to trigger a response from Customs. Why should I, when Customs spokesman Abdullahi Maiwada was belligerent and would have slapped me on the phone if possible when I contacted him to respond to my investigation before going to press?

A few days after publishing the story, I got wind of Customs’ response strategy. It was to wait it out. “Give Nigerians a few days and they will move on to the next story.” Well, I was determined to elongate the shelf life of the story beyond “a few days”.

It started with Twitter spaces, something I rarely did because, if given a choice, I’d limit the exposure of my voice and face to the public. I must have held three Twitter spaces in two weeks — that’s a first. Then the multiple interviews, something else I seldom did (I’ve always turned down more interviews than I’ve granted.). Then the ‘good morning’ greetings, which worked to solid effect. With the ‘good morning’ tweets, I managed to keep the smuggling and Customs stench conversation going for a whopping six weeks, as against their prediction of just “a few days”. As I would later understand from my multiple sources in Customs and smuggling, this irritated the rank and file of NCS. The proof was ‘that’ WhatsApp message seeking to raise 17,000 NCS staff to tweet against me.

So what have I gained from the extended conversation? A lot. And this explains my second, and more important, reason for the campaign: the right of the public to know. Anyone who has followed the conversation these past weeks surely must now appreciate the role of Customs in Nigeria’s insecurity and economic woes. You now understand that when Customs announces the seizure of rice or white meat or cars, the smugglers of those imports did not bribe the right people in Customs or they tried to outright outsmart Customs; and that when Customs declares the seizure of hundreds of rice bags, several thousands have been privately diverted in most cases. You now understand why Customs declares the seizure of arms and ammunition from time to time without ever revealing the identities of the smugglers. You now know the origin of some of those bicycles used by bandits and insurgents in northern Nigeria, or some of the arms that have been used to stir civic unrest in the south-east. You now know that not all the tramadol damaging the youth in the north came in from that axis; some indeed originated from the south-west. You now know that citizens get killed for feeding the Customs with anti-smuggling information; you even know the names of some victims. You understand that smuggling is an economic and insecurity crime against the state that is ironically state-backed, that the biggest smugglers are backed by nation’s highest security appointees and loftiest political office holders. You now know that border closure and prohibited/restricted imports list are sham policies that benefit nobody but state-backed smugglers and shady businessmen profiteering from the contrived black market.

All these and more you now know in tweets carefully spread out over a period of six weeks. That knowledge is something nobody can take away from me or you. And it will be useful someday. The very foundation for the revolutionary dismantling of the status quo is the knowledge of everything ‘they’ do not want you to know!

[Pearls @MissPearls]

Obi is NOT desperate to be President

He just wants Nigeria to work

Light and darkness can never have communion

Kindly keep that your rumor of any unholy alliance AWAY from my TL and STOP tagging me!

[Pearls @MissPearls]

Until My President Speaks! 🔥

[Hope @NWBGA_]

@Tutsy22 Tbh,many of us would rather Obi never becomes president if this is what it takes.He should retain his white for us; We take great pride in him being an inspiration for Africans all over.Make Nigeria also Dey in dey.This should be fake news,but I wonder the minds that thought this