Elvis Pepple

Life is all about the things you do

[Elvis Pepple @PeppleElvis]

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

[Elvis Pepple @PeppleElvis]

@ShehuSani Sorry to say you’re not going anywhere

[Elvis Pepple @PeppleElvis]

@officialABAT @DavidsonDozie01 Remember Nigeria will never forget

[Peter Obi @PeterObi]

Nigeria at 66: Looking Back, Looking Forward

Fellow Nigerians,

Today we mark the sixty-sixth anniversary of our independence. It ought to be a day of celebration and thanksgiving to God Almighty for the gift of life and for the immense blessings He has bestowed on our nation—our diversity, our abundant human and natural resources, our vast agricultural potential, and the relative absence of devastating natural disasters.

It should also be a day of appreciation and patriotism: a day to remember our founding fathers and all those who made selfless, and in many cases supreme, sacrifices for the birth, survival and growth of our dear nation. We must acknowledge the efforts of past and present leaders who have laboured, however imperfectly, to build a better Nigeria.

Yet independence anniversaries must never be reduced to mere celebration. They are moments for honest national reflection. We must look back, examine where we stand today, and ask ourselves whether we are moving in the direction our founding fathers envisioned.

In national planning and strategy, every serious nation must continually ask three fundamental questions:

Where are we today?
Where do we want to be?
How do we get from where we are to where we want to be?

These questions are especially urgent now. Despite the enormous promises made by the APC-led government in 2023, our nation continues to face deepening challenges across virtually every critical sector of national life.

Today we stand before the world as a nation:

With an extraordinarily large population living in poverty and severe hardship; over 140M

With one of the largest populations of out-of-school children in the world; over 18M

Where insecurity, terrorism, banditry and kidnapping continue to threaten lives and livelihoods, just recently 37 young Nigerians in their productive age lost their lives

Where millions of Nigerians struggle with hunger and food insecurity; over 40M Nigerians will be in extreme hunger by the end of 2026.

With unacceptably high rates of infant and maternal mortality; Nigeria today is the worst place to be born.

Where youth unemployment and underemployment remain alarmingly high; over 35M

Where drug abuse and substance misuse increasingly threaten our young population; today 14% as against global average of 6%

Where life expectancy remains among the lowest globally, today 54 years against global average of 74 years

And the list goes on.

This reality demands serious, sober and honest reflection. Socrates taught that “the unexamined life is not worth living.” By the same principle, an unexamined nation cannot successfully chart its future. We must therefore ask ourselves: Are we cursed, or have we become the curse through the choices we have made and the failures we have tolerated?

The answer cannot be that Nigeria is cursed. We are a nation immensely endowed and blessed. Our greatest problem is not a lack of resources; it is the failure to convert our enormous resources into human development, productivity, security and shared prosperity.

Only yesterday, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso and I returned from a two-day visit to Sokoto State. We held extensive consultations with people from different parts of the state on insecurity, out-of-school children, poverty, youth unemployment, drug abuse and other challenges confronting our people.

In concluding the visit, we went to the Internally Displaced Persons camp at Ramin Kura within Sokoto metropolis. What we saw was deeply troubling. Thousands of women and children live in deplorable conditions, displaced from their homes and deprived of the basic necessities of life. Many of the children have no access to education. Mothers and children have limited access to basic healthcare. These are Nigerians who should be living in their communities, going to school, farming their land, conducting their businesses and contributing to the economy. Instead, they live as displaced persons in their own country.

[JezebelReborn🧙‍♀️ @JezebelReborn]

“We complain about unemployment, poor healthcare and underdevelopment, yet Tompolo donated over 500 vehicles for Tinubu’s campaign. How do we explain this to the people still struggling?”

— Man questions Tompolo, saying: “We will not agree.”

[General Asabuja @Gabrielasabuja]

Abia State is shining,I believe the pple of Abia deserve to enjoy good road, better infrastructure and a government that focus on development. I’m here in Umuahia, I’m seeing it for myself, and I can confidently say, Abia is changing. The results on the ground speak for themselve

[Elvis Pepple @PeppleElvis]

The man for the job

[Elvis Pepple @PeppleElvis]

@vanguardngrnews This is the man for the job

[Elvis Pepple @PeppleElvis]

@officialABAT Please do something Nigerians are die daily

[General Asabuja @Gabrielasabuja]

O.K Chinda no dey go anywhere, River State people has rejected him through supreme court. We said no to godfatherism in River State.

[General Asabuja @Gabrielasabuja]

Make una ask this minister which party he dey? The same way he scatter PDP, he will soon scatter APC too. This minister get presidential ambition, and na why he dey do everything possible to gain control and influence over both APC and PDP.

[General Asabuja @Gabrielasabuja]

I challenge President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the APC: mention just THREE things Tinubu has done that have genuinely benefited the poor masses and should make Nigerians vote for him again in 2027. Just THREE THINGS.

[Elvis Pepple @PeppleElvis]

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[Elvis Pepple @PeppleElvis]

@Gabrielasabuja Good man

[General Asabuja @Gabrielasabuja]

Lulu-Briggs and the NDC should prepare we are ready to work with them. We need good governance in Rivers State. We don’t need a governor wey another person go dey control from behind. Rivers State deserves a governor who will be independent, accountable, and focused on the people

[Elvis Pepple @PeppleElvis]

@ShehuSani Which look set up that can set it up and make it in this had economy