So, whenever I see tweets from Sierra Leoneans, all I remember is a fraudulent nation.
Recently made a new Sierra Leonean friend based in London and couldn't help but tell her I feel extremely sad about how few folks could paint a nation that bad.
@PoliceLeone
Lost over USD50,000 to scammers in Sierra Leone in Q1 2026. Every attempt to engage the Sierra Leonean authorities (including the High Commission in Abuja) or media folks to even properly report or find a way around recovering my money has been null.
@VickieRemoe
What Rufai does is not journalism.
You frankly can't bring guest to your show and keep riding your position on them.
You have brought them to discuss their views, so why impress yours on them. It should simply be a discussion, not debate.
@ARISEtv@ruffydfire
I'm genuinely asking.
If a Politician lacks the tact to manage politicking within a party with less than a million stakeholders, how do you manage a cross-cultural and massive nation like Nigeria where partisanship is a functional requirement to influence net change and order?
I think that this is something anyone who knows Nigerian politicians should have anticipated. Making Nigeria work will be a difficult task and to succeed you must find ways of dealing with all the roadblocks to progress that will be put by those who benefit from the current rotten system. Starting with getting a ticket.
So perhaps this is your first real test. If you cannot find a way around the system and create a platform that works, then why should people trust that you will be able to govern Nigeria and make very difficult changes (all of which will be fiercely and violently opposed by the parasites currently sucking the life out of Nigeria). Goodwill alone will not work. Being nice will not work. This is why those of us watching could predict this outcome from the day you decided to partner with the very people you once accused of destroying the country. Did you think the people who you know benefit from Nigeria being the way it is would just let you have a platform with which you will snatch stolen food from their mouths?
In the famous words of Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, if you ride the tiger, you will end up in its belly. Nigeria is very difficult and it is bold even just to try. But you cannot assume you will do this by partnering with people whose very existence relies on the broken system.
You still have the chance to go back and build the platform that millions of Nigerians gave you, one where you are not dependent on the whims of the very people you have so loudly condemned. You still have support among millions of Nigerians. This is not something you can rush. Because whatever they did to ADC they can do to NDC.
In the end, as many of us fear, being a third (popular) candidate and splitting the votes has the potential of guaranteeing an even bigger win for the incumbent who currently has a stable political party, and the resources and will to stifle opposition. Either completely distinguish yourself from the rest and prepare to fight, or fully join them and play their game until you can find a way from within (highly unlikely but not impossible). You cannot have one hand on the table of dysfunction and hope that those who sit on that table with nowhere else to go will play fair and help you dismantle the table.