Ayodeji

ICT & Renewable energy professional

Passionate about good governance and politics

[Ayodeji @ayooladayodeji]

I always find this very funny. Unfortunately so but this is where we find ourselves.

[Tope Akinyombo @TopeAkinyombo]

@osazenoo @LegendaryJoe

[Ayodeji @ayooladayodeji]

@ruffydfire FYI...no be politician but fellow ...

[Ayodeji @ayooladayodeji]

@OsosaChris This is a good development. Rather than looking for cheap petrol which is relative, these refineries will provide jobs, earn fx and boost economy.I started buying petrol at 72k/ltr and b4 this subsidy removal, it had risen to 140+ yet subsidy fraud reigned.

[Ayodeji @ayooladayodeji]

360???

[Channels Television @channelstv]

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[IamJP 🪖 @iamjuspat]

After this generation, God will miss our set😭😭😂😂🤣

[Ayodeji @ayooladayodeji]

@HighChiefOkoro Security is everyone's responsibility.Everybody should just play his or her role. See something, say something. Report unusual wealth, loittering/unusual movement etc

[Oyo Matters @Oyo_Matters]

“For the past five years, I have been stealing from Davies Hotel. I shared the proceeds with other staff because we were all involved. Between May 2025 and June 2026, about ₦17.8 million of the hotel’s money passed through my account, and I built a house from the proceeds.” — A senior staff member of Davies Hotel Bodija during his confession.

[Ayodeji @ayooladayodeji]

@BlessingCh73232 @itzchristunique @kenkenlewu And those too will cry for a new Nigeria....

[Nononsense @NoNonsensezone]

NOT LONG AGO THEY CAUGHT THIS SERIAL K:!!ERS, KIDNAPPERS IN OGUN STATE

They are all Ibos who lurk in the bushes of Ogun state to kidnap people for Ransom until they got caught

They speak Yoruba fluently to blend into Ogun state community

[Ayodeji @ayooladayodeji]

@lindaikeji No be Party dey conduct Party primaries?

[Ayodeji @ayooladayodeji]

@omoluabi1sq Look...genuine concerns who refuse to learn from history will learn the hard way. Understand where you are so you can chart a good course for yourself.

[Ayodeji @ayooladayodeji]

This picture is most disturbing of a presidential aspirant. Presidential Power is not for boys but men, in any society, no matter how humble one can be.

[Ààrẹ Ọ̀nà Kakanfò @AareOnaKankafo]

@AishaYesufu How results of the NDC primaries were determined by the owner of the party….😂😂😂

[Lere Olayinka - Aresa 1 @OlayinkaLere]

Cambodia orders Africans to leave their country by Sunday.

Imagine Cambodia o!

Meanwhile, 1,000 Cambodian Riels (KHR) is equivalent to approximately ₦342.75 Nigerian Naira.

[Ayodeji @ayooladayodeji]

Some people don't understand that we run a federation and there is a law that guides the sharing of proceeds to it. It is like sharing inheritance where the will says assets must be shared in certain %. We just must hold n probe all tiers of govt for efficiency of govt to be felt

[Emir of Port-Harcourt @WOkene]

Before the removal of fuel subsidy, Rivers State was receiving around N18 billion monthly, while Obio/Akpor got about N450 million.

Last month alone, R/S eceived N50 billion, while Obio/Akpor received roughly N1.31 billion.
But on X, I am still asking Tinubu where the fuel subsidy money is going.

[Ayodeji @ayooladayodeji]

@CrownprinceCom2 Thr constitution guarantees you freedom os speech and not after the speech...people shoile shsoildnshoildnleaen respect other people's space.

[Laban Mbunya @LabanMbunya]

Just happened now!
Avoid installing this close to buildings to save lives.

[LEGENDARY J.O.E @LegendaryJoe]

SENEGAL - PROPER CONTEXT

For those seeking context to the Senegal comparison I made here. Now, follow me attentively:

Shall I Begin?

Senegal's government delayed full fuel subsidy reforms because of fears of social unrest and political backlash. You see, Nature is generous - perhaps too generous - for she has evenly distributed, across every society on earth, a proportionate measure of the headless mob.

An unrepentantly ignorant and vacuously loud population of empty irritants - people who rise like rabid dogs the moment reform knocks on the door, who violently insist the status quo be maintained regardless of the damage it does to them, who will bark at the surgeon and defend the tumour.

We have the Obidients in Nigeria. Senegal has its own chapter of the same miserable franchise.

The young President of Senegal feared their rage. Worse, he grew addicted to their cheap applause. He enjoyed walking on the streets, playing table tennis by the roadside, bathing in their deafening chorus - all while his weak populist policies quietly kept fuel prices low and long-term development on the altar as a permanent sacrifice.

The man who eats without planting - his abundance has an expiry date.

He postponed full fuel subsidy reforms expected in early 2023 all the way to late 2028. Even partial reductions in diesel subsidies triggered earthquakes of political tension. The Senegalese equivalents of Atiku and Peter Obi - the opposition figure Ousmane Sonko - riled up the public to resist even the mildest reform.

They found the young President weak, addicted to cheap popularity and political correctness, and they exploited every crack in his resolve.

Where has the populist agenda taken Senegal today?

Senegal is currently facing perhaps the worst fiscal and debt crises in modern West African history. The numbers are severe enough that analysts now openly compare aspects of it to the Greek debt crisis.

● The Debt: A Nation Living Inside Its Own Grave

Senegal’s public debt is now estimated at about 132% of GDP in 2026. Nigeria is roughly 50% or far less. WAEMU regional ceiling: 70%. Senegal is almost DOUBLE the regional limit. But, the President is young, strong and healthy.

● The Hidden Debt Scandal: Borrowing in the Dark

Audits uncovered roughly:
$13 billion in previously undisclosed debt. Senegal is in so much economic crisis that it had to be borrowing secretly.

That single revelation shattered investor confidence, shocked international lenders, triggered an IMF intervention, and froze Senegal's entire IMF support programme.

The IMF suspended a $1.8 billion lending programme because the country's fiscal numbers were found to be - and I use the technical economic term here - shameful.

● The Growth Collapse: Africa's Former Star, Now Flickering

Senegal was once among Africa’s fastest-growing economies.
Growth figures:
2025: about 6.7%
2026 projection: just 2%

Far below the Sub-Saharan African average of 4.3%. Nigeria is 4.4% by the way.

Every sector in Senegal now bears the bruises of that years-long performance of false kindness. The very people who craved cheap fuel - who chorused for it, who marched for it, who cursed reformers over it - are today the worst casualties of their own demand.

They are at the receiving end of the underdevelopment that subsidy addiction constructed, brick by painful brick.

The road paved with cheap populism has a very expensive destination.

I hope this explanation helps your confusion.

Good Morning Severally...

[Ayodeji @ayooladayodeji]

@Flohairs @jimidisu FYI. At least, the President is a young man.

[LEGENDARY J.O.E @LegendaryJoe]

WE COULD HAVE BEEN SENEGAL TOO

Shall I Begin?

The night before the dawn of 2022, Nigeria had already written her own obituary - the budget told the ugly truth our rulers were too shy to admit.

Nigeria initially budgeted for N443 Billion for fuel subsidy payment. Before the year shut its eyes, the government returned seeking an additional N4.39 Trillion Naira. Ten billion dollars.

For appropriate context:

The entire national budget for year 2022 under review was N17.3 Trillion.

A staggering N4.39 Trillion of that was budgeted just for an unproductive, wasteful and retrogressive subsidy regime.

Approximately 20% of our national budget squandered just to sustain an expensive lie of a cheap fuel to earn the applause of a largely ignorant population.

For a more effective context and this is where it gets interesting or should I say annoying:

The budgetary allocation for:

Health - N711B
Education - N1.3T
Infrastructure (Transport, Works, Power, etc) - 1.45T
Housing - N500B
COMBINED - N3.97T

But Fuel Subsidy alone was N4.39 Trillion - Far higher than the 4 most critical sectors of the economy combined.

The rot was more expensive than the remedy. The poison was better funded than the cure. Generation after generation, we fed the trap and called it governance.

By 2023, the calculations had grown obscene. N18.4 Billion per day.

Not for teachers. Not for surgeons. Not for asphalt or electricity or the crying farmer under a failed irrigation system. Just - fuel subsidy. Every single day.
Madness.

No wonder our Universities were poorly funded and went on strike for a cumulative 59 Months between 1999 - 2023.

No wonder our infrastructure decayed without renovations and reinvestment and no federal road was motorable.

No wonder our hospitals became glorified mortuaries due to poor funding and inadequate investment.

No wonder km long fuel queues consistently plagued us.

No wonder State governors became professional beggars going bowls in hand to the Villa for bail outs just to meet salary obligations.

No wonder that even at the height of our oil prosperity, we still couldn't record formidable achievements.

Until a true leader emerged and did what cowards catalogue as impossible. He took the bull by the horns - bare-handed, in broad daylight, before a nation that had mistaken poison for provision. He damned the consequences. Risked the applause. Staked his re-election on an altar and courageously pulled the trigger.

He removed the subsidy.

And with that singular, seismic, long-overdue act - he did not just balance a budget. He lanced a boil that had been festering for four decades. He healed the nation of its fastest-spreading cancer, even as the patient screamed that the surgery was the disease.

Without that decision, Nigeria today would not merely be struggling. Nigeria would be a cautionary tale that other cautionary tales whisper about - worse than Senegal.

And yet - it was Senegal who got the young president. The photogenic revolutionary. The crowd's favourite. The one Twitter fell in love with.

Good Evening Severally...

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