Poor Nigerians are not independent-minded, we control who they vote for; hunger, insecurity won't stop them from re-electing Tinubu: Wike https://t.co/8kdWJn1233
"I swear to God anybody that collects 5,000 or spaghetti and vote for an idiot if we dont deal with him, may God burn me in he'll since you poor people have decided to continually throw us into problem"
The North is not playing this time around
We have learned that Nigerian President Bola Tinubu (@officialABAT), Dr. Sunday Dare (@SundayDareSD), Special Adviser to President #Tinubu, and their supporters are deeply unhappy with us, particularly with our founder, Dr. Von Batten, over our work destroying their reported $9 million lobbying campaign to win over President @realDonaldTrump.
We understand their frustration, and we would like to play the world’s smallest violin for their sorrows.
Here are the facts: President #Tinubu’s planned @UN meeting with President #Trump is dead. The effort to secure President Trump’s support for #Tinubu has failed. The pushed White House meeting is not going to happen. The effort to secure U.S. support for #Tinubu’s presidential campaign has failed.
You spent millions of dollars and countless hours trying to shape Washington’s perception of President #Tinubu. If your response to failure is to invent false stories about our work and Dr. Von Batten, then you have learned nothing from that failure. We are just a lobbying firm. You are the Federal Government of Nigeria. Show some dignity when you lose.
For the sake of national security; a foreign nation is NOT supposed to own compromising files on YOUR President. Talk more of one that President DESPERATELY wants to keep a secret.
The annual photoshoot at the Adewale Isa Foundation National Junior Tennis Championship is back and alive!
Almost 300 kids registered for Nigeria’s biggest national junior tennis competition, holding in Lagos.
You don’t want to miss this event, not even for a day 🤲🏽
A President and the Endless Question of His Past
As a citizen of no other country, who has never sought foreign citizenship even when doing so became fashionable, my loyalty to Nigeria and my faith in her destiny remain unshaken.
Yesterday, 30th of August, being Sunday, I fervently prayed for our nation and for those entrusted with the solemn responsibility of leadership. I found myself deeply saddened by the direction in which our country is heading.
It is profoundly embarrassing that we have reached a point where a sitting President is asking a foreign court to withhold records concerning his past, particularly records relating to matters of legitimate public interest.
Leadership, in my humble view, demands the courage and humility to confront one’s history — to acknowledge mistakes, provide candid explanations where questions arise, and, where necessary, apologise and seek forgiveness. True authority is strengthened, not diminished, when a leader accepts responsibility rather than seeks to shield uncomfortable aspects of the past from legitimate scrutiny.
This becomes particularly important when questions concern educational credentials. Issues surrounding foundational schooling — primary and secondary — should not remain unresolved or be addressed primarily through legal proceedings. Nigerians deserve clear, credible, and verifiable explanations, especially when such had been submitted in the past.
My deepest concern is the example this sets for more than 200 million Nigerians, particularly the over 30 million young people in schools. The nation’s highest office should exemplify integrity, accountability, transparency, and ethical leadership.
An imperfect past is part of the human condition. What matters is the willingness to confront it with humility, honesty and deep apology, to make amends where necessary and, when circumstances so demand, to place the interests of the nation above personal ambition.
When will our political class fully appreciate that individual ambitions are temporary, while the nation endures? The Presidency is an office held for a season; the moral standards established by those who occupy it can influence generations.
Nigeria is greater than any one person, and the integrity of the Republic must always come before the interests of the individual.
A New Nigeria is POssible. -PO
I heard someone say, satan got adam and eve to fix their eyes on one tree when god had already given them an entire garden, think about that. The enemy didn't have to convince them that they had nothing. He just had to make them forget everything that they already had. And he still, till this day, uses the same strategy. He gets us to focus on relationships we don't have, the job that we don't have, the opportunity we don't have, the healing we haven't seen yet. Meanwhile, we are blind to the countless prayers god has already answered. Gratitude isn't pretending you don't want more, it's refusing to let what you don't have make you forget the goodness of god that's already surrounding you.
📢 THEY SAID IT WAS A LIE. THEY SAID NO EVIDENCE.
NOW A CHICAGO RADIO STATION HAS VERIFIED TINUBU'S DRUG RECORDS! 🎙️
The audio is out there. The documents are out there. The city of Chicago is speaking LOUD and CLEAR about Tinubu. 💀
Is this the beginning of the end of this cover-up?
“If you vote for Peter Obi or not, you’re not doing him a favour; you’re deciding your own future. Peter Obi is not begging anyone to vote for him” — Man says
The case is no longer whether Tinubu was involved in drug trafficking, but whether his drug trafficking files should be released to the public or not.
@inecnigeria should be ashamed of themselves!
Two Presidential candidates.
• One is begging you to dig out/release any dirt you have on him.. & he’ll stop campaigning.
• The other is begging you not to.
But full grown adults want to convince you that the one with everything to hide is better than the one with nothing to hide.
NIGERIANS, UPDATE! UPDATE!!
Earlier, questions were raised as to why the President of Nigeria would request to be added to a case seeking the release of records about him.
But this new set of documents raises even more concerns.
It's the same case involving Bola Ahmed Tinubu and a FOIA request in a US court.
This time, we get to see what his lawyers actually argued to keep these records from being released.
I have attached all 15 pages.
Please read them yourself.
But let me break down the important parts in simple English.
1. Tinubu's lawyers said he should be treated as a private person.
They argued that these records are about Tinubu as a private individual.
They also argued that the fact that he is now President of Nigeria does not create enough public interest to justify releasing the records.
Think about that for a second!
The plaintiff had pointed out that Tinubu was the sitting President of a country of more than 230 million people whose lives are affected by his decisions.
Yet, his lawyers still argued that this did not create the kind of public interest needed to release the records.
Are you kidding me?!
2. They said his political career should not change things.
The records being requested relate to 1993.
So his lawyers argued that he was not a public official at the time, and that becoming a politician years later should not reduce his right to privacy over those old records.
In simple terms:
“What happened before he became a public official should remain private.”
That's their argument.
I laugh in Swahili. 😂
Someone who has records they do not want released years later should not be running for public office - abi, wetin una think?
3. They know these records could have political consequences.
This part is important.
The filing talks about the records being sought because they could be used in Nigerian politics.
His lawyers described the requests as attempts to obtain information about an individual and use it to influence politics in another country.
So yes, they know these records are politically relevant.
To me, that raises an obvious question:
If these records are completely harmless, why fight this hard to keep them from being released?
At this point, I can't help but wonder:
What exactly is BOLA TINUBU hiding?
4. And this is the key point.
Tinubu's lawyers are NOT telling the court:
“Release the records. They contain nothing important.”
They are asking the court to protect the records from being released.
They are relying on privacy protections and US laws that allow certain information to be withheld.
Nigeria, this is your President!
Again, let me be very clear:
The attached documents do NOT prove that Tinubu committed a crime.
Nor do they prove that he has been convicted of drug trafficking.
But another fact also remains:
The President of Nigeria, your President, personally intervened in a US federal case involving records about him.
And his lawyers are fighting to prevent information identifying him from being released.
This is what the court documents say.
You don't have to believe me.
And don't believe whatever APC tells you either.
Read the documents yourself.
Run them through AI to simplify them for you if you must.
Look at pages 3, 9, 10, 13 and 14.
Look at who filed them.
Read what his lawyers actually said.
Then draw your own conclusions.
A country of over 230 million people should not, in my opinion, be dealing with a President carrying this much baggage on top of everything else we already have to deal with.
But you guys draw your own conclusions.