OlajideA

On A jOuRnEy. uni Herts alumni.

[Peter Obi @PeterObi]

Let us reflect, sincerely and without sentiment.

In the past few days, the President has reportedly approved ₦3.3 trillion as a “full and final” payment for debts in the power sector. Yet, this is not the first time such approvals have been made.

On May 17, 2024, ₦3.3 trillion was approved for the same purpose. On July 25, 2024, another ₦4 trillion bond was approved to settle similar debts. There have also been other approvals in between, all targeted at addressing the same power sector liabilities.

This raises a fundamental question: were the previous approvals mere announcements without execution?

₦3.3 Trillion Again? Nigeria’s Power Crisis Without End

During the 2023 campaign, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu made a clear promise: that if he failed to deliver stable electricity, Nigerians should not re-elect him. Today, the reality is that power supply has worsened, to the extent that there are even discussions about disconnecting the Presidential Villa from the national grid.

Each time legitimate concerns are raised, what we see appears more like policy pronouncements than measurable progress.

Now, again, we are confronted with another ₦3.3 trillion approval to settle power sector debts.

These debts were largely accumulated under successive administrations of the All Progressives Congress between 2015 and 2025. This raises serious concerns about accountability, transparency, and effectiveness in public financial management.

It is important to note that government institutions and agencies, including the Presidential Villa owe a significant portion of these debts. Year after year, budgets were made and funds appropriated. Why then were these obligations not settled when due? And from what source will this new payment be made? Are we resorting once more to borrowing to service inefficiencies?

Key questions remain unanswered: How did the debt accrue? What is the actual total debt in the power sector? Which components of the debts are due to operators’ inefficiency and should be borne by them? Why have previous approvals not translated into tangible improvements? Who are the real beneficiaries of these repeated payments?

Is the ₦3.3 trillion approved on April 6, 2026, the same as the ₦3.3 trillion approved in May 2024, and how does it relate to the ₦4 trillion bond approved in July 2024?

Nigeria must move beyond recycled announcements and confront the power sector crisis with sincerity, transparency, and decisive reforms.

Until we do so, we will remain trapped in a cycle of debt and darkness.

But with discipline, accountability, and the right leadership, a new Nigeria is still possible. -PO

[SKB @seyikanbai]

“You generated over 1,000 megawatts in the 1960s, yet almost 60 years later you can’t generate 4,000. A state in Nigeria twice the size of Netherlands can’t feed themselves. That’s a failed Government”

— Peter Obi

[Abiodun @bin_gbada]

- SMEs are closing down
- There’s no electricity
- Fuel is 1,350
- Big business are laying off workers
- People cannot afford to buy fish
- The insecurity is nationwide, there’s fear of kidnapping in the air

Anyone that tells you this is good leadership deserves curses.

[Jesse Jagz Abaga @Jessejagz]

How did Nigeria become a country where citizens can’t even question those in power?

These leaders don’t even rate us enough to hold press conferences.

Just pure ‘fu*k you’ energy while they parade like untouchable kings.

[OlajideA @_stepdadd]

@martinnsSzn 12k dolls?

[Peter Obi @PeterObi]

We Continue to Confirm our ‘Now Disgraced Status’ as a Nation?

Let us all pause and pray for the souls of over 150 innocent lives lost in Kwara yesterday. This tragedy is precisely why I delayed commenting on the outrageous and shameful news surrounding our electoral system. The Senate's blatant rejection of mandatory electronic transmission of election results is an unforgivable act of electoral manipulation ahead of 2027.

This failure to pass a clear safeguard is nothing short of a deliberate assault on Nigeria’s democracy. By rejecting these essential transparency measures, they are eroding the very foundation of credible elections. One must ask: Does the government exist to ensure order and justice, or to institutionalise chaos? Is its purpose to serve the people, or to fulfil the sinister ambitions of a select few?

The turmoil, disputes, and manipulations that plagued past elections, especially the 2023 general election, stemmed directly from the refusal to fully implement electronic transmission. Nigerians were fed excuses of a fabricated “glitch” that never existed. While numerous African nations adopt electronic transmission to bolster democracy, Nigeria, the supposed giant of Africa, shamelessly lags behind, dragging the continent backwards.

We are wasting time hosting conferences and drafting papers on Nigeria's problems while we, the leaders and elite, are the real issue. Our deliberate resistance to reform is pulling the country backwards, dragging us toward a primitive state of governance.

By rejecting mandatory electronic transmission—a critical safeguard for electoral integrity—we are entrenching disorder aimed at perpetuating confusion according to the whims of a small clique. Have we not reached a point where we must think seriously about the future of our country and our children? Should leadership not focus on building a credible, orderly, and livable nation for the next generation, rather than one permanently ensnared in chaos?

When the former Prime Minister of the UK, aware of our history, labelled us “fantastically corrupt,” we reacted defensively. When President Donald Trump declared us a “now disgraced nation,” we were incensed. Yet, with every act of resistance against transparency and reform, we continue to affirm their claims. Those responsible will later point fingers at others for harming the country while they quietly suffocate its potential.

Let there be no illusion, the criminality witnessed in 2023 will not be tolerated in 2027. Nigerians everywhere must start getting ready to rise up, resist, and reject the backward trajectory, legitimately and decisively reclaim our country from the clutches of deliberate malevolence.

The International community must take heed of this groundwork for continued future electoral manipulation, endangering our democracy and development.

A new Nigeria is POssible but we must all stand and fight for it. -PO

[OlajideA @_stepdadd]

@kingSolomon76 @HAHayatu Oloriburuku

['nedu Onye Motion. @Nedu64]

Once Kwara is done.

Oyo is next.

Then, Lagos comes within range.

Ogere, GuruMaraji, Redeem Camp etc.

All those private universities along that corridor get endangered.

You're playing politics with your life.

Look at your map.

[Felix @felixherbt]

My passionate plea to all top Nigeria influencers across social media platforms:

Please, Nigeria is in big trouble
The future of over 250 million people is dying.

Use your huge platform to call out Senate President Akpabio!
Tell him: PASS THE ELECTORAL REFORMS BILL TODAY.

Let it trend for the rest of February so we can have free and fair elections in 2027.

If this law is not passed soon or it’s passed at the last minute before election day, we will see, rigged votes and massive cheating without consequences.

Please don’t stay quiet.
Lend your voice with your big platform.

Together we will defeat APC and a new Nigeria will be born

RT and tag them ✊

#ElectoralReformNow

[NEFERTITI @firstladyship]

Yar’dua gave you Attahiru Jega.
Jonathan gave you biometrics & card reader.
As a retired general, Buhari gave you the IREV.

But “JUNE 12 People” did the opposite.

NADECO crooks refused to reform your elections. They rejected the mandatory transmission of results electronically.

I blame the Opposition, they are unserious!

[gst @wearegst]

Enugu State will spend:
₦115 billion on office furniture
₦21 billion on vehicles
₦35 billion on aircraft

And just ₦679 million on buying drugs/labs/ medical supplies for 4.7 million people. That’s less than ₦150 per person for medical supplies.

It’s a crime scene.

[God has settled me @babaj1de]

You can’t kill 160 people in any nation at night and the security chiefs are not sacked

[YH @Yemihazan]

Over 100 people were killed by terrorist in Kwara yesterday, yet the news has been madly surpressed as possible... This is not a country.

[iDAN 🦸🏽 @dangbanamanager]

Over 160 of your own people butchered like animals and you’re still quiet because of Tinubu and APC.
Not strangers. Not statistics. Your fellow Yoruba. Your blood.

And you say nothing. No anger. No shame. No outrage. Just blind loyalty to one man and one failed party.

I have never seen this level of madness in my life. Since when did the Yoruba become slaves to a politician’s ambition?

Since when did fear replace dignity? Since when did silence become loyalty? Over 160 coffins and you’re still clapping. That’s not politics anymore that’s madness.

[Everest @novieverest]

Oshiomhole is just one Senator. That's how the majority of your Senators live.
That's how they spend your taxes.

Lessons.

[Joseph Kalimbwe @joseph_kalimbwe]

a) As a Zambian, i pay $20 visa to enter DRC. A citizen of Belgium pays nothing to enter DRC

b) A DRC citizen pays $20 to enter Zambia. A British citizen pays nothing to enter Zambia.

Africans charge each other to enter our own countries, then we let Europeans come in freely !!

[PROLACTIN 💉🏃🏽‍♂️🩺 @prolactin_]

Nigerians are actually wonderful people. You guys left the senator you voted to go and harrass this innocent woman.

[Rinu Oduala 🔥🔫 @SavvyRinu]

Has Mr Adams Oshiomole resigned over his private jet scandal or he is waiting for Nigerians to dare push him out???

[Omotayo Williams @KadunaResident]

Akpabio and his hooligans rejected electronic transmission of results after months of delaying it.

How 1% of the 1% of the 1% of Nigerians continue to hold 200m Nigerians down continues to amaze me.

When the revolution happens, it will be loud.

[NEFERTITI @firstladyship]

Defending a bad government is not patriotism. It is mental illness. Check yourself into rehab.