In life, bamboo trees will snap under a strong gale, but grass always stand up no matter how the wind blows.
You can act like a bamboo tree, but your heart should be like grass, arising again and again.
Please bear with it until the end.
don't break! #OVOSpaceIt
OLODO LEADERS
Sowore built his party - the AAC - brick by brick, and has contested elections under its banner without once running foul of the law. Even Seriake Dickson, in his quiet deliberateness, has gone and registered his own.
But these so-called heavyweight clowns? They have wandered like cattle without a herdsman.
They drifted from their various parties into ADA like men fleeing a burning house with no destination in mind. They dispatched Mallam to SDP - only for that one to arrive and begin throwing his weight around like a landlord in a house he did not build. The party threw him out like used pad and suspended him for eternity.
Then came ADC. Still unwilling to plant, to water, to tend - they grabbed the leadership like a child snatching a kite mid-flight, haphazard, undemocratic and lawless... and now, predictably, they stand stranded again. The kite has fallen.
This is why, if you never appreciated Asiwaju's leadership acumen before, you must bow your head and reckon with it now.
Here was a man who looked the monstrous PDP in the eye - at the height of its power, when joining it was the path of least resistance - and turned away. He chose instead to forge his own road, slowly, through discipline and strategy, the way a blacksmith shapes iron: with heat, patience, and repetition.
That journey must not only be studied - it must be internalized, lived, preserved, and passed down like an heirloom to every future generation that dares to lead.
These olodo leaders should stop polluting the political atmosphere and humble themselves to learn the rudiments of party formation and leadership for the Jagaban... As for Peter - The man is still a boy.
Do you also know that Isaac Boro wanted a Niger delta Republic for his people but Aguiyi-Ironsi & Ojukwu arrested him. Beat him. Killed his followers and told him that they won't be any Niger delta Republic that we're all one Nigeria?
This afternoon, I spent time with stakeholders and victims of the recent terror incident in Jos, Plateau State.
No amount of money can bring back the dead, but the Federal Government will do our best to comfort them, walk with them and provide necessary assistance. Rhoda Favour, I feel your pain but no matter what we say, we cannot bring Ayuba back.
We will find the perpetrators of this dastardly acts.
Bola Ahmed Tinubu
President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
ABACHA IS BETTER THAN DEMOCRACY ACTIVISTS - PETER AGULU-JESUS OBI
MY FIERY REACTION:
1. Abacha and Ken Saro-Wiwa: A friendship that ended in a Noose.
Abacha may have been a dictator to all, but to Ken he was first a friend. Ken laughed through his trial, confident Abacha would save him. But little did he know the game was lost before he knew he was playing. Ken was dealing with a merciless dictator he named friend.
"Does Abacha know?" - His final desperate words before execution. The answer came not in words, but in a signature. Abacha's own hand had signed the death warrant. When soldiers showed it to him, Saro-Wiwa cried "This must be fake!" A man who laughed boldly in court wept in disbelief at ink on paper.
The hanging was not enough. Abacha demanded erasure.
After the executions, the bodies of Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni Nine were loaded onto a tipper and driven to a place called Bolokiri - where soldiers poured acid over them. Their bodies melted instantly, all nine of them dumped together into a single pit.
They were buried at night in unmarked graves, with heavy military presence preventing anyone from approaching the cemetery. For many years, the exact location of their remains was unknown to their families and the public.
Abacha did not just want him dead - it wanted him unfindable, his legacy untraceable, his path untrackable. A voice that had echoed across the world in fight for justice, fairness and equity, reduced to liquid in a pit with no name.
BUT WHAT WAS KEN SARO WIWA's CRIME?
Since Royal Dutch Shell struck oil on Ogoni lands in 1958, an estimated $30 billion worth of oil had been extracted. The Ogoni - some 550,000 farmers and fishermen - received little in return except a ravaged environment.
Farmland once fertile turned to contaminated fields. Uncontrolled oil spills dotted the landscape like puddles of ooze the size of football fields.
Ken's crime was asking: why should the land that feeds the nation devour its own children?
For demanding justice, fairness and equity for his people, Abacha arrested Ken, sentenced him to death by hanging, extinguish life from his body by the noose, and in death his body wasn't spared torture or given the dignity of final respects, his remains was dissolved in acid and his family left to carry the burden of a father lost for no just cause.
Ken Saro-Wiwa - writer, griot, conscience of a people - a man who chose words over weapons and paid with his life - Peter looked at this sacrifice, still wet with the blood of martyrdom, and called it worthless.
And if that were not enough sacrilege for one mouth to carry, he elevated Abacha - the butcher, the acid- pourer, the unmarked grave- digger - above every man and woman who ever raised a voice, risked a freedom, or lost a life for democracy, for a fair society, for a just Nigeria.
How desperately wicked can a Man be? How demonically inspired can Peter be? Must he be President if he does not possess the brain to prosecute his cause to a desired end? Why desecrate the struggles and sacrifice of our heroes on the altar of political desperation?
Peter - Hear this and let it echo through every corridor where your ambition prowls:
For this sacrilege, you will never become President. Not Vice President. Your name, if not mercifully forgotten, shall be spoken only in disdain and ignominy.
No evil of this magnitude must be promoted among us. No man who spits on the graves of martyrs must be handed the keys to the house they died to build.
2. ABACHA AND SHEHU YAR'ADUA
Shall I Begin?
Good Morning Severally.
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This is a statement that is very emotionally powerful to people who chose to be obedient to you (or whatever term they use), but in reality is cho cho cho.
In any case, if this is an issue now, why wasn't Abacha's lack of democratic credentials an issue when you chose to work with him as part of the Task Force on Port Decongestion starting April 1996? Speaking of 1996, Kudirat Abiola was murdered in June of 1996, nothing indicates you immediately resigned your position based on democratic principles.
Let's get back to why we are here. Since you seem to have forgotten history, here are 5 ways Abacha was fundamentally worse than President Tinubu in pursuing his presidential ambition:
1) Self-succession through manufactured consensus Abacha orchestrated all five registered political parties to simultaneously adopt him as their sole presidential candidate, eliminating any pretense of competitive elections or voter choice. Maybe I haven't been paying attention, but I am positive President Tinubu has not made any attempt to be the candidate of the PDP, LP, ADC, NNPP, PRP and the other parties. He is the candidate of the APC and the APC only, rest of the parties can field any qualified Nigerian of their choice.
Democratic Advantage: Bola Tinubu
2) Systematic elimination of opposition
Abacha's regime imprisoned, exiled, or killed political opponents and activists, including the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni Nine, the prison murder of Gen. Shehu Musa Yar'Adua, the assassination of Kudirat Abiola, Alfred Rewane and a host of others. Of course Gen Obasanjo was in jail, so were many other 'outspoken' voices. Who has this administration imprisoned, exiled or killed for opposing Bola Tinubu. Please take your time and name a few.
Democratic Advantage: Bola Tinubu
3) State terror and media suppression
Abacha's government brutally cracked down on press freedom, killing journalists like Bagauda Kaltho, shutting down media houses, and using security forces to intimidate any dissent. Instead President Tinubu has brought in leading media voices into his administration , people like @SundayDareSD and @aonanuga1956 to name a few. Anybody can write anything, and instead of detention, exile or murder, they either get ignored or might actually get a response.
Democratic Advantage: Bola Tinubu
4) Rigged constitutional conference
Abacha convened a Constitutional Conference (1994-1995) that was heavily manipulated, with handpicked delegates who ultimately recommended he could contest as a sitting military head of state - violating basic principles of civilian-military separation and paving the way for a civilian dictatorship. What has President Tinubu done? He has used the office of the President to devolve power, LGAs now control their statutory allocations, State Police is loading and so on and so forth.
Democratic Advantage: Bola Tinubu
5) Destruction of civil society
Abacha's regime systematically dismantled labor unions, professional associations, and civil society groups that could organize opposition, including violently suppressing strikes and protests by groups like ASUU and the petroleum workers' unions. What has President Tinubu done? He's allowed any Union that desires to strike to do so without stressing, but because he is fair and just, ASUU which is usually a hot bed of agitation has not gone on strike a single time during his administration
Democratic Advantage: Bola Tinubu
I could go on and on but I'll stop here.
I understand writing essays for twitter is how you communicate, and you hope to 'shame' President Tinubu into making your electoral chances easier, but that's not how politics work.
If you want the presidency, work for it, instead of rewriting history as if we were all born last night.
I Bought 45 Litres of Fuel (12 US Gallons) For ₦115K In California. Stop Condemning Nigeria. Fuel Price Hike Is Global Due To The Iran War. Appreciate Nigeria And Dangote!
When, in February, the Independent National Electoral Commission, pursuant to a court ruling, recognised the pro-Peter Obi-backed Nenadi Usman-led faction of the Labour Party, why didn't we hear accusations that Peter Obi was tele-guiding INEC? We have to follow the law rather than our emotions, and people who cannot or would not do that are not politically mature.
Instead of whipping up public sentiments, let us put Nigeria first. It is in nobody's interest for the Independent National Electoral Commission to be undermined. This is a vital national institution that needs the public's trust and confidence to do its job.
Happy 74th Birthday To The Father of the Emerging New Nigeria
Dear President Bola Ahmed Tinubu,
On behalf of my family, please permit me to wish you a happy 74th birthday and declare you the father of an emerging New Nigeria and the global Face of Beneficial Reforms.
Mr President, in three years, you have added $67 billion to our economy, with our GDP rising from ₦269.29 trillion on May 29, 2023, when you became President, to ₦372.8 trillion today.
You have overseen the expansion of our capital market, as the total market capitalisation of the Nigerian Exchange, which stood at ₦27.915 trillion on December 30, 2022, before you took over the saddle, hit ₦122 trillion in January of 2026, which we thought was unprecedented. That is almost five times what it was before you were elected.
But what we thought was unprecedented has now been precedented, with the All Share Index hitting the 200,000-point mark on Monday, March 16, 2026.
Mr President, during the campaigns, you promised Local Government Autonomy, and have delivered on that promise on Thursday, July 11, 2024.
Almost a million Nigerian students are living out your student loan promise as a reality in our ivory towers.
You said a four-year course would be a four-year course, as you vowed to eradicate strikes by the Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities by adequately funding the education sector. That promise is fulfilled as this is the first time in forever that Nigeria has gone three years without a nationwide ASUU strike.
And quite significant to me, as a diplomat, is the fact that you have delivered to Nigeria her most significant diplomatic feat in thirty-seven years, with your State Visit to the United Kingdom on the invitation of His Royal Majesty, King Charles III.
For these accomplishments, and for turning Nigeria from the largest importer of fuel in Africa in 2023, to the single biggest exporter of refined petroleum products in West Africa in 2026, I proudly flew the City Boy Movement Flag on the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro, which is the highest peak in Africa, signifying that you have taken Nigeria to the height of the continent.
On that basis, my family and I join a grateful nation in wishing you a very happy birthday and many returns of this day, in good health and prosperity.
May God bless you, and may God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria and all Nigerians.
Reno Omokri
Ambassador Designate to Mexico. Gospeller. Deep Thinker. #TableShaker. #1 Bestselling author of Facts Versus Fiction: The True Story of the Jonathan Years. Hodophile. Hollywood Magazine Humanitarian of the Year, 2019. Business Insider Influencer of the Year, 2022. 21st Most Talked About Person in Africa, 2024.
One thing we must NEVER do is play politics with death.
No "calculus" has changed and there ought to be no triumphant celebration over such grave matters.
This tragic event is beyond politics and the gathering and support of all those that expressed their condolences and/or attended the funeral and prayers reflects their collective humanity which comes before anything else.
Compassion was displayed, restraint was shown, decency was enthroned, maturity was exhibited and respect was extended by all and sundry.
This is a testimony to the courage and decency of the Nigerian political class.
People from every side of the political divide came together to pay their respects to the matriach of the El Rufai family and the mother of an old friend.
That is precious and humane. It proves that we are all still civilised.
It has nothing to do with politics or political calculations.
It has nothing to do with the triumph of one or the defeat of another.
It has everything to do with being a human being and not a monster.
This display of unity when faced with adversity serves us well.
We must NOT bring politics into it.
May God watch over us all.
(FFK)
If the death of a man's mother becomes raw material for political banter and social media sport - it is not your loyalty to the man you name leader or friend that stands in question.
It is your humanity!
Your decency!
The very basic architecture of your intelligence!
the death of a mother is the pestilence that strips the corn bare. There is no harvest after it. No politics. No point-scoring. No banter. Only grief. Only silence. Only the sacred weight of a son who has lost the first person who ever loved him.
A mother's death is not a game. The loss of one's mom is not content.
There are griefs so emotional, so universal, so bone-deep that even sworn enemies lay down their swords at the graveside. Warriors who have spent lifetimes trying to destroy each other have been known to lock eyes across a coffin - and mourn. Because death reminds even the most hardened hearts what the living so easily forget: that we are, all of us, living on borrowed time.
Mr. Dele. You are approaching seventy years on this earth. Seventy years of sunrises. Seventy harvests. Seventy opportunities to grow into the weight of your own grey hairs. And this - this - is what you have chosen to do with that inheritance? Do not become a living exhibit for the ancient belief that grey hair does not always travel with wisdom.
You are screaming Tinubu over a fresh grave. If the sun fails to rise - Tinubu. Rain choose not to fall or it falls and floods - Tinubu.
At this rate, you will blame your inability to perform your conjugal duties on Tinubu - ignoring entirely the unhealthy weight through greedy feasting, the damage that gluttony and unresolved envy have done to a body that was once agile. A man's bitterness devours him long before it touches its intended target.
Sir, act your age.
Not everything under the sun is politics. Some moments demand silence, dignity, and the simple respect owed to a grieving son.
Good Morning Severally.
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Humanity, Decency and Maturity Cannot Be Bought With Money!
"Thanks to the passage of MALLAM NASIR EL RUFAI'S Mum."
Mr Momodu, did you read the above words before releasing your statement? Don't you think it is rather callous, reckless, and most insensitive of you to give thanks for the passing of another person's beloved mother? Would you not be wounded in spirit if someone thanked God for the death of your own beloved mother?
No true Omoluabi can behave this way, and I honestly thought your account had been hacked, which is why I waited a day before responding to your horrifically abominable conduct.
I am not a psychiatrist, but reasonable people would question the mental health of anyone who would attempt to profit politically from the death of someone else's beloved mother, and even on the day she was buried, when their grief is most intense.
Where is your compassion, Dele? Are there no elders in your family who can advise you to bring out the humanity in you rather than this monstrosity of indecency? Well did our people say Ẹni tó láṣọ tí ò lé èniyàn, ìhòhò ló wà!
Mr Momodu, this is certainly not normal human conduct, and you may want to see a therapist for counselling. Until then, please find within you the decency to allow the bereaved to mourn, without making their loss about you, and desecrating the memory of their deceased.
Thank you, and may God bless you with the ability to act maturely.
Reno Omokri
Fake news everywhere 🤣. These opposition elements are so pained by my appointment and they are doing everything to discredit me and scuttle it. Whether they like it or not I will serve my country! Keep crying! 🤣
SURELY THEY SHALL GATHER....
It is clear that the strategy of the opposition is to spread fake news in the media in order to create tension and panic in the ranks of the Government and the ruling party, knock our heads together, create dissection in our ranks and plant doubts in our minds about our ability to win.
Every day they come up with something new like the fake news about the Governor of Nassarawa state working for Atiku. Tomorrow it will be someone else.
The space is getting heated up now and judging by their level of desperation and their inclination for disinformation those of us that are in the APC and that are supporting President Tinubu must close ranks and brace ourselves for the mother of all struggles in 2027.
The Holy Bible says "surely they shall gather but it shall not be of me. Whosoever gathers against thee shall be scattered for thy sake".
On its own part the Holy Koran says "surely they are planning but Allah is the greatest planner of all".
No matter how many local collaborators and traitors with the help of their foreign friends that are trying to destablise our Government and country and set us on fire one thing remains clear, light cannot be overcome by darkness and evil cannot prevail over good.
I have no doubt that despite the fact that they are gathering together more and more each day we shall surely overcome.
What we need to do is to get our act together, prepare our battle formations and rise up to the occassion by bringing some of our youngest, brightest and most courageous youths into the fray and the forefront of the fight.
By Gods grace the President shall be re-elected in 2027 and Nigeria shall continue to go from strength to strength.
God wills it!
(FFK)
They can blow as much hot air, enlist as many big names, engage in as many photo ops, appear on all the television stations for their shallow and meaningless interviews and peddle as much fake news as they like but judging from their internal wranglings and warring factions it is getting clearer by the day that the ADC may not even be in a position to field an INEC-recognised presidential candidate in the next election.
Supporting or joining ADC may ultimately end up being an exercise in futility for those that insist on treading that thorny path.
I appeal to them to get their house in order, bury their differences and stop taking each other to court so that they can produce a legitimate candidate that is recognised by INEC who we can have the opportunity to beat the hell and nonsense out of in the 2027 presidential election.
Winning will not be as much fun unless we give them a good hiding in the field of battle.
Whichever way they should prepare for a mighty fall and the greatest humiliation in the history of Nigerian politics.
INEC De-registration: ADC Professional Party Jumpers Have Only Themselves to Blame!
I read the statement by the spokesperson of the David Mark faction of the African Democratic Congress rejecting the interpretation of the March 12, 2026, Court of Appeal judgment by the INEC, and expected to see their own interpretation of the said judgment. But none was forthcoming, which makes no sense.
If you reject an interpretation, you ought to at least suggest an alternative understanding of the ruling. And if you, who were a party to the case, do not have one, then on what basis do you question the interpretation given by the INEC?
When, in February, the Independent National Electoral Commission, pursuant to a court ruling, recognised the pro-Peter Obi-backed Nenadi Usman-led faction of the Labour Party, why didn't we hear accusations that Peter Obi was tele-guiding INEC? We have to follow the law rather than our emotions, and people who cannot or would not do that are not politically mature.
The David Mark faction of the ADC clearly brought this calamity on themselves.
Rather than appealing Justice Emeka Nwite's initial Federal High Court ruling asking their faction of the ADC to come to court and show cause why the court should not grant the injunction requested by the Bala Gombe faction, it would perhaps have been more prudent to do just that and show cause as to why the requested injunction was unnecessary.
Having elected to appeal that ruling, then the David Mark faction ought to be bound by the decision of the Court of Appeals, as a law-abiding body.
And if they feel that the interpretation of the Court of Appeals judgment by the INEC is wrong (looking at the judgment itself, I see no other way that it could have been interpreted than the interpretation given by the INEC), then the Mark faction should approach the same court for clarity or appeal to the Supreme Court.
But to whip up public sentiments against the INEC and seek to undermine the election umpire is a dangerous and desperate move by the David Mark faction.
You do not throw the baby away with the bathwater!
And sadly, the present quagmire the ADC is embroiled in is no surprise. Their move into the ADC was mercantile rather than naturally democratic.
Political parties are not like commodities. You don't buy them in the market. You don't negotiate to take them over, as though they were a company that you bought majority shares in. Political parties are built. From the ground up. They are not absorbed from the top down.
If you look at the history of every democratic country, every attempt to purchase political parties has failed because a purchased political party cannot become a movement.
Nigeria has had one democratically elected Prime Minister, Alhaji Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, and six democratically elected Presidents, including:
•Olusegun Obasanjo (1999–2007)
•Umaru Musa Yar'Adua (2007–2010)
•Goodluck Jonathan (2010–2015)
•Muhammadu Buhari (2015–2023)
•Bola Ahmed Tinubu (2023–Present)
None of them has come from a purchased party. Each of these leaders had to do the hard work of building their parties from the ground up.
If you have to buy a party rather than build one, then how can you say you will build a country?
Not just that, but Nigeria has NEVER had a professional party jumper as President.
Rather than blame the INEC or slander the All Progressives Congress by claiming it is tele-guiding the INEC, what the David Mark faction of the ADC ought to do is realise that they purchased a defective product, and it is best to resolve the defects in their purchase or acquire another political party, because with elections just ten months away, I doubt that they can build a new party from scratch.
Reno Omokri
Ambassador Designate to Mexico. Gospeller. Deep Thinker. #TableShaker. #1 Bestselling author of Facts Versus Fiction: The True Story of the Jonathan Years. Hodophile. Hollywood Magazine Humanitarian of the Year, 2019.
Dear Peter Obi,
You worked for Abacha, so of course, you will defend your boss. But how on Earth can you say General Abacha "will be remembered as seemingly more democratic and more respectful of human rights than the so-called champions of activism from the NADECO days."
Do you know how many state-sponsored murders of prominent Nigerians your boss, Abacha, whom you served as a task force appointee, was responsible for? Let me help you with some:
Mrs Kudirat Abiola
Major General Shehu Yar'adua (via injection)
Chief Alfred Rewane
Admiral Olu Omotehinwa
Alhaja Suliat Adedeji
Dr Sola Omatsola
Bagauda Kaltho
Toyin Onagoruwa
Mrs Bisoye Tejuoso
Rear Admiral Babatunde Elegbede
Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni Nine (judicially murdered)
To mention only a few.
And yet, today, you are dancing on the grave of all these great Nigerians by claiming that Abacha is better than President Tinubu.
Has there been even one single state-sponsored murder under President Tinubu? If the President was worse than General Abacha, as you claim, would you, Peter, still be free after repeatedly lying about the state of things in Nigeria, just to de-market the country?
Peter, may God forgive you for disrespecting and dishonouring the memories of these good men and women who died to give Nigeria the democracy you are enjoying today.
Reno Omokri
Ambassador Designate to Mexico. Gospeller. Deep Thinker. #TableShaker. #1 Bestselling author of Facts Versus Fiction: The True Story of the Jonathan Years. Hodophile. Hollywood Magazine Humanitarian of the Year, 2019. Business Insider Influencer of the Year, 2022. 21st Most Talked About Person in Africa, 2024.
I do not normally interfere in stuff like this, but this is a classical example of ignorant engagement bait. Is it because of X payouts? If you want to be ungrateful, I will gladly remind you.
Lest you forget, one of the requirements for getting paid is setting up a Stripe account. If many of you do not have amnesia, this is a country where you could not even do a 5 dollar international transaction, let alone earn directly in dollars without cutting corners. The government initiated the reforms that eased our financial restrictions in the international system.
That is why the ecosystem is open enough for you to route those Stripe payouts and get paid right on your phone today. If not for anything, you should acknowledge that. You ungrateful lot.