Benjamin Yugo

The truth shall set you free

[Benjamin Yugo @Benjamin_Yugo]

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My Dwarf Is Shorter Than Your Dwarf

By Robinson Osisi Okoro
Ndi Amazu Ikpakwu, Arondizuogu, Imo State

“My dwarf is shorter than your dwarf.”

That, in one sentence, captures how we now assess governance in Nigeria.

Over the last two weeks of the Christmas season, I travelled extensively across the South-East—every state capital and several Tier-1 and Tier-2 towns—attending meetings and engaging returnees. Everywhere I went, I heard the same refrain: “Our governor is doing very well.”

When I asked how they judged performance, the answer was almost always the same: roads.

It was as if the states were created last December.

I have travelled these same towns and roads at least twelve times every year for over twenty years. Yet suddenly, a few kilometres of tarred road are presented as evidence of transformational leadership.

So I asked harder questions.

Why is the primary school in your village still without a roof, teachers, or a dignified learning environment? What has been done to improve basic education or update its curriculum? Where is primary healthcare? Where is functional secondary healthcare? Why is life expectancy in the South-East still below 60 years if governance is “performing”?

Why, then, do the ‘big men and women’ move everywhere , including inside their mansions with soldiers and men carrying AK-47s? Why are businesses suffocating under more than fourteen different levies? How did this governor come into office—and has he conducted free, credible local government elections since?

Silence usually followed.

Eventually came the familiar defence: “At least he is better than the former governor.”

In one state, the previous governor built over eight bridges—despite having the lowest GDP per capita and school enrolment in the South-East. Today, many of those bridges and roads are riddled with potholes. In one case, women returning from the market were trekking across a bridge on foot—no vehicles in sight. Some concrete roads cracked barely four years after completion.

That same former governor is now a federal minister, once again “doing things” with our roads.

This is not development. It is theatre.

Infrastructure without economic logic, social investment, maintenance, or institutions is not progress—it is misallocation. Roads do not educate children. Bridges do not vaccinate communities. Asphalt does not extend life expectancy.

Yet we celebrate them because our expectations have collapsed.

We have lowered the bar so far that a 50-kilometre stretch of road—regardless of quality, purpose, or impact—has become a miracle worthy of applause. We compare mediocrity only to past mediocrity and call it improvement.

In doing so, we absolve leaders of the harder work of governance: building human capital, functional local governments, healthcare systems, education pipelines, and economic ecosystems that actually improve lives.

It is time to admit an uncomfortable truth: we are now complicit in our own underdevelopment.

When citizens accept visibility over outcomes, activity over impact, and comparison over standards, they reward shallow governance. And shallow governance is exactly what tkhey will continue to get.

Until we rethink what “performance” truly means, our dwarfs will keep getting shorter—and we will keep clapping.

[Benjamin Yugo @Benjamin_Yugo]

@Onsogbu @PeterObi And you are a mad man.

[Don Moen @donmoen]

"For you shall go out in JOY and be led forth in PEACE; the mountains and the hills before you shall break forth into SINGING!"
-Isaiah 55:12

#godisgood #worship #praise #christian #donmoen

[BSN @Barristerstreet]

🇳🇬 Dear Nigerians,

We have carefully reviewed the released Certified True Copies of the Tax Reform Acts and the gazettes your government now parades.

We have also taken note of the dates boldly printed on them.

With that established, let us be clear.

Your government is not smart. They simply assume many of you are ignorant.

After weeks of sustained public pressure, they issued this clumsy press statement claiming they had “released” the gazetted copies of the Tax Reform Acts, applauding themselves as leaders of a transparent government.

That claim is false. It is insulting and honestly misleading.

While the world was focused on Venezuela, the House of Representatives, in quiet coordination with the Presidency, released what it now calls Certified True Copies (CTCs) of the four Tax Reform Acts.

They even congratulated themselves and praised the Speaker’s so-called “transparency drive.”

If you examine the released files, you will find presidential assent pages attached and a Google Drive link to gazettes dated June 26, 2025.

This is nowhere near transparency. It is damage control.

The timing tells the real story.

The four Acts are now being presented as the “AUTHENTIC” versions, conveniently cleansed of the coercive provisions that triggered national outrage.

No compulsory 20 percent appeal deposits.
No unchecked garnishee powers without court orders.
Oversight restored.
Due process acknowledged.

Fine. At least public fears have been partially allayed.

But this question remains unavoidable: if these gazetted copies were genuinely published in June 2025, why were Nigerians previously shown different texts? Why wait until January 2026, after implementation commenced on January 1, before releasing these CTCs? Why only act after public outrage peaked, following Hon. Dasuki’s warning and interventions by other prominent Nigerians?

This release is an admission by stealth.

They are loudly conceding that rogue versions indeed circulated. They refuse to say who inserted those clauses, who printed them, who distributed them, and under whose authority Nigerians were subjected to texts that were never law.

The press statement dismisses the earlier versions as “unauthorised and misleading,” instructs citizens to ignore them, and praises institutional memory while the Betara-led ad hoc committee drags on with no timeline, no findings, and no consequences.

Nigerians, re-gazetting does not cure the offence. It sanitises the record and evades responsibility.

Post-assent alteration is not an error.
It is forgery. It is uttering. It is conspiracy. It is misconduct in public office. It is legislative usurpation under Section 4 of the Constitution.

If the CTCs reflect what the National Assembly actually passed, then the earlier circulating texts were criminal fakes and indeed doctored, and someone must answer for publishing fake laws as binding statutes.

So far, there are no conclusions. No prosecutions. No apologies. Only PR and forced normalisation as usual.

But the deeper danger here is precedent. If laws can be quietly altered and later “corrected” without consequence, then legislation becomes an executive plaything.

Nigerians, please do not be distracted by executive conspiracies and shenanigans. We are not fools like the nepotistic zombies who applaud their foolishness.

This was a legislative smokescreen.

Please let us continue to demand the essentials. A full independent probe must be conducted.

Those who altered our laws must be identified. They must be prosecuted once forgery is confirmed. There must be immediate suspension of implementation until this issue is cleared.

Anything less normalises CONSTITUTIONAL TREASON.

Laws must not become playthings in the hands of executive mischief makers. We are not fools, even though we are led by chronic kakistocrats.

#SuspendTaxReformAct
#SayNoToForgedLaws

[BSN @Barristerstreet]

🇳🇬 Dear Nigerians! I need us to pay close attention to what is happening in Iran and the raging protests.

Let me clue us in a bit in case you have not been following.

President Trump has just promised to intervene as the protests spill into 2026. Iran’s economy is collapsing. The rial is crashing. Inflation has crossed 42 percent. People are already dead.

This is what happens when power is unchecked and citizens are reduced to spectators.

President Trump was explicit. He warned the Iranian regime on Truth Social: “If Iran shoots and violently kills peaceful protesters, which is their custom, the United States of America will come to their rescue… We are locked and loaded and ready to go.”

That is not diplomacy. That is a warning. BRUTALITY NOW CARRIES CONSEQUENCES.

We sane Nigerians must read this moment carefully and properly.

If you noticed, Trump has shown zero regard for the octogenarian in Aso Rock. He has never mentioned Tinubu by name, nor shown any intention to meet with him. Yet he has repeatedly criticized Nigeria’s security failures and spoken plainly about Christian persecution, even calling us a disgraceful country.

In global politics, silence is not neutral. It is a message.

As I said in my New Year message, 2026 is not a prayer year. It is a pressure year. Whatever we do now to demand accountability, transparency, and humane governance will matter. The world is watching and taking notes.

For the first time in a long while, World President Trump and Uncle Bibi are openly listening to the plight of Christians in Nigeria.

That attention must be leveraged, not for sympathy, but to demand good governance and reject inhumane economic policies, including the poverty-tax reforms being forced on the people.

Nigerians, 2027 must not repeat the criminality of 2023.

If elections are manipulated again, whether by INEC or the new Mahmoud, we will not wait for compromised courts or biased and corrupt evil judges to determine our fate and destinies anymore.

Our silence is consent. Our endurance is endorsement. Pressure is the only language this system understands.

They have shown zero regard for our constitution or democratic governance.

This is not the season for comfort, vibes, or wishful prayers, not anymore.

Sustained and organised pressure will be required.

This is not the year for spectating. We have a lot of work to do to save this country from the evil and destructive enemies of progress who have kept this nation in chains.

The world is watching. We must leverage that attention to make our plights known through next year’s elections or by applying pressure when the poverty-tax they just implemented starts hurting us.

No foreign leader will save Nigeria. But disciplined internal pressure, applied consistently, can attract global attention and amplify our demands.

I know this write-up is long, but the situation demands clarity. I will not shorten the truth. Never will!

We all need to get involved to govern our governance this year. 💯

[The Sound @thesoundhub_]

There is no one like Jesus!

[Benjamin Yugo @Benjamin_Yugo]

@caz_sm0rs Joao Pedro made the pass look like a great one. It was just a normal long pass. Had the defender dealt with it, we won't be here.

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@Judechigozie3 @InibeheEffiong Fact

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@TheRich_Gospel Amen 🙏

[Benjamin Yugo @Benjamin_Yugo]

@KingdavidForex @instablog9ja Omoh... the most useless reason ever.

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@Kingfex12 @officialjudikay What a blind thought. Are you really God's own?

[Aku N’esi Obi Ike (I) @Kasieobi_1]

Any Nigerian who is still supporting Obama-endorsed candidate, Kamala Harris, after watching this video, is an enemy of Nigeria.

[Benjamin Yugo @Benjamin_Yugo]

@SeunAdesanyaGS @ZenithBank @fjagozy They must have been hacked. They are doing damage control.

[@𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗷𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗯𝗼𝘆 @OneJoblessBoy]

"We don't have elites in Nigeria...They are building a country their children cannot survive in. They are all carrying second passports"

- Dele Farotimi

[Benjamin Yugo @Benjamin_Yugo]

@OjiUgo_nwa @DavidHundeyin Louder. The worst Citizen Award goes to Nigerians.

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@Harmless12345 Ho9÷

[Omotayo Williams @KadunaResident]

After Tinubu’s four years, there will be intense suffering in the nation. It’s important to start preparing and planning ahead. I can tell you, there is no hope. If you remember how things were under Buhari, the pattern is the same. The government is selling empty hope and constantly asking for time.

You voted for a man who couldn’t communicate his plan for leading the country. Instead of discussing his manifesto, he was dancing at rallies.

At Chatham House, he disgraced Nigeria on an international stage, unable to speak for himself—others spoke on his behalf. You were lied to about him building Lagos.

I hope you are enjoying your renewed hope.

[Benjamin Yugo @Benjamin_Yugo]

@kizzstone @Hmp2million @firstladyship That's not exhaustive and as such unrealistic. You need to underscore the place of external influences fighting Nigeria well-being in the frame of US and UK even France. 4 year is not enough to make Nigeria working again, maybe 20 years can do.