I have been here since 2020, and I did not say much when it comes to politics or leadership.
But this Tinubu's administration has forced me to deviate sometimes.
It's really bad.
Very very bad.
No sane mind with good conscience should support the APC government.
End.
Dear Nigerians, PAY ATTENTION!
Lere Olayinka has deleted the tweet that exposed his crime. He deleted it without accountability. The DSS are yet to pick him up.
@OlayinkaLere is yet to explain to all Nigerians how he was able to gain unfettered access to INEC’s restricted area of the backend.
Wike’s aide is yet to tell us how he managed to publish Emeka Ike’s sensitive data. Professor Joash Amupitan has explanations to make as well. It will cost you nothing to retweet this, until INEC gives a satisfactory explanation.
Lere must tell us what happened to the IREV.
INEC wrote a whole load of rubbish, but failed to mention @OlayinkaLere name; not once!
WHAT DOES THIS TELL YOU?
INEC & whoever wrote the rubbish on their behalf, including Lere Olayinka, are laughing at Nigerians behind the scene. Any result/results declared by Joash Amupitan will be REJECTED!
INEC WILL SET NIGERIA ON FIRE!
#ArrestLereOlayinkaNow !!!
Supporting bad governance because it benefits you today is a dangerous gamble.
Many think they can dine with the devil using a long spoon. Sooner or later, the spoon disappears, and they realise they were never exempt from the consequences.
A broken system eventually serves everyone the same meal.
THE BACKDOOR IS OPEN: How APC is Entering INEC's Secret Database
The lie that INEC is independent has finally been exposed. It did not happen because a whistleblower spoke out or because of a big investigation. It happened because APC operatives are now so proud of their power that they do not even care about hiding their tracks.
To mock actor Emeka Ike because he transferred his voter registration from Imo State to Abuja, an APC apologist, Lere went online to share screenshots. But he made a big mistake. He did not just share a rumor; he shared clear screenshots taken from inside the secret, password-protected backend database of INEC.
For an ordinary person, the pictures look like normal registration slips. But if you look closely at the top of the browser tab, the web address shows https://t.co/Ne2YNhFv0f.
Let this sink in very well. This cvradmin is not a public website. It is not the place where you and I go to check our voter cards. It is the highly restricted, internal database meant ONLY for INEC ICT officials and data managers. Yet, an APC member has the password to enter inside, see a citizen's secret tracking number, check his private details, and look at internal system steps.
This shows us two scary things: First, it means INEC has completely sold out. They have handed over their secret passwords to APC boys so they can spy on citizens' data whenever they want. Second, it means INEC’s computer security is totally broken. Their database has an open door where politicians can easily enter to pack, track, and change the data of over 90 million Nigerian voters.
If you think this is just a fight between big politicians, you are wrong. If the ruling party can sit in their house, log into INEC’s backend, and track who is transferring their PVC, exactly when they applied, and where they are moving to, then no opposition strategy is safe. Your privacy as a citizen does not exist.
This explains the magic numbers we always see during elections. When a political party has access to the computer backend, they can trace where voters are moving to. They can target specific transfers and reject them, stop registrations in areas where people do not like them, and fix the election results long before the election day. By using private data to bully people, they have proved what Nigerians have been saying all along: INEC and APC are using the exact same server room.
This is a big crime under the Nigeria Data Protection Act and it threatens our national security. INEC cannot just release one useless press statement to blame "glitch." The Data Protection Commission must launch a proper investigation immediately to find out the exact INEC staff whose password was used to leak this file. Also, the INEC insiders who gave out the password and the politicians who used it must be arrested and sent to jail under the Cybercrimes Act.
The battle for Nigerian democracy is no longer just about guarding ballot boxes at the polling units. The real war is now inside the INEC computers. If INEC has given its keys to the ruling party, then a free and fair election in Nigeria is a total lie. INEC Chairman must tell the nation the truth: Why is APC managing your backend?
Dear Nigerians,
I hope you saw how Peter Gregory Obi went to South Africa & met some of their leaders?
That was a quick test run. He demonstrated his Foreign Policy & Diplomatic skills even without presiding. That’s leadership unblemished!
Peter Obi is practical, Tinubu is theoretical.
This is Obi’s capacity in its original shape.
How did you feel as a Nigerian? When was the last time you felt a sense of country & the “Greatness of Nigeria?” I talk about Foreign Policy or “Image Making” a lot. That’s how countries shape their image or perception around the world. The only time Nigeria had a Foreign Policy Framework was on OBJ’s watch.
That was the first & only time you had three American Presidents visit Nigeria. The last time Nigeria had a passport that meant something was on OBJ’s watch. That was the last time that South Africa & Ghana respected Nigeria.
Since then? Nigeria has been in constant retreat. You are now in rampant obscurity!
You can no longer shape events beyond your borders. Nigeria used to cough, & everyone paused to listen! You were once the most conspicuous in rooms abroad. My country led the ECOMOG, the AU, & ECOWAS bloc.
We were once the Colossus, an invitee at the G7 Summits. All of these happened on OBJ’s watch. No one could have steered the ship of the state like he did. Peter Obi is Foreign Policy in many ways. When I see him? I see HOPE!
Hope for a country in constant retreat.
In him? I see greatness: The Greatness of Nigeria. This man has connections beyond the shores of Africa. An international man, he is everything I wrote about in my pinned tweet.
I left it there since 2022. I am still in the market, shopping. Who is going to match OBJ’s records; perhaps surpass it? It’s obvious that Bola Ahmed Tinubu is not the man. He cannot shape events beyond the borders of Nigeria. Bola Tinubu has zero international clout. He is not his own man. His foreign trips are one-sided.
You can tell he is just a willing pawn in the games globalists play. Tinubu is the man that goes home empty-handed. He has failed in rebranding the Image of Nigeria. He needs the rebranding himself. He is the first Aso Rock tenant that pays a bunch of K-Street firms in Washington to launder the image of Nigeria.
That has never happened before!
Then again, he has failed to attract the Foreign Direct Investments (FDIs) that could get Nigeria started. FDI creates jobs, it takes the youths off the streets. No one builds an economy on loans, taxes, & inshallah, except Asiwaju.
Peter Obi met Leon Schreiber, the Minister of Home Affairs (who is a prominent figure in the Democratic Alliance). Then he met Velenkosini Hlabisa, South Africa’s Minister of Cooperative Governance & Traditional Affairs who is a leader of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP).
He met Mr Gayton McKenzie, South Africa’s Minister of Sports, Arts & Culture who is a leader of the Patriotic Alliance (PA) as well.
By so doing, he deepened the ties between Nigeria & South Africa (without even presiding). That’s a presidential material if you ask me.
Their discussions focused on immigration, regional cooperation, security concerns, youth unemployment, & the growing tensions affecting African foreigners, especially Nigerians residing in South Africa.
Africa has men who know what to do. Peter Obi is one of them. Africans await his presidency.
The Glory of Nigeria is near…….. 🇳🇬🇳🇬👏👏
My dear Nigerians, colleagues in the media, critics, and everyone who lent their voice during this difficult period, I sincerely thank you all.
To everyone who spoke concerning my release, prayed for me, and demanded fairness, I will never take your concern and solidarity for granted. And even to those who disagreed with me or questioned my actions, I still appreciate your voices because democracy gives room for different opinions.
I also want to say clearly that my desire has never been to bring down any institution or create division. I respect the sacrifices of the men and women serving this country, just as I remain committed to speaking for ordinary Nigerians who dream of a better nation.
Since the matter is still before the court, I will avoid making statements that may interfere with the legal process. However, I remain confident in the rule of law and due process.
At this moment, my focus is not bitterness, blame, or conflict. My focus remains the Nigeria we all deserve — a Nigeria that works for everyone, where justice is fair, opportunities are equal, and where the child of nobody can truly become somebody without knowing anybody.
This experience has only strengthened my belief that Nigeria must continue to grow through dialogue, understanding, accountability, and unity.
Thank you once again to everyone who stood up in one way or another.
God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria 🇳🇬 Justice can't be cracked
All he wanted in that moment was one chance, just one, to say a proper goodbye.
His eyes carried the weight of everything he never got to fix.
He begged.
Not with pride, but with a broken, heavy heart.
He wept and called out to them the way only a father can:
“My children, please. We are victims too.”
Nobody answered.
They moved closer.
A knife found his throat.
A camera was already rolling.
He asked himself quietly, is this real?, and for a second, maybe he hoped it wasn’t.
But the blade didn’t lie.
The pain told him everything.
They didn’t stop.
Not until it was over.
Maybe he wasn’t your father.
Maybe he wasn’t from your tribe or your side of the country.
But death doesn’t check your ID or your region before it knocks.
If it could happen to him, it can happen to yours.
2027 is on the table.
And the choice sitting in front of you is simple, choose the money, choose the stomach infrastructure, choose the temporary, and we will bleed like this for another eight years.
The blood is already on the ballot.
Choose wisely.
Dear APC supporters,
With all you have witnessed in the last almost 14 years, please can you give us one reason why people should vote for APC?
1. You're not better financially.
2. You're not safer.
3. More family members call you to beg for money.
4. Young men can't raise a family.
5. You can't travel safely on our roads.
6. Yahoo and prostitution have been on an all time high.
7. We are the poverty capital of the world.
8. People get kidnapped everyday.
9. Innocent people are beheaded.
10. Your president hardly grants press interviews.
11. Suspected criminals are being given pass to contest for primaries.
12. Police officers are killing citizens in broad daylight.
13. Our debt profile has increased despite removal of subsidy.
14. More citizens have died from terrorism and banditory like never before.
15. Thugs and louts do not allow you vote.
I can continue.
What exactly should Nigerians use as yardstick to vote for you in 2027?
End.
Peter & Kwankwaso got the presidential tickets without giving dollar bribes or bags of rice or garri or using thugs.
And they remain the greatest threats to the ruling party.
That's how you know men who do not want their integrity to be compromised by dirty politicians.
End.
Today, we will be doubling down on eliminating all forms of corruption in universities, polytechnics and colleges of education in the South East.
We have launched https://t.co/oTbEuYeDq4
Every student's data will be highly protected and will never be shared without express authorization from them.
We want students to freely and safely report any form of admission racketeering, sorting, extortion, victimization, sex for grades, threats etc without any form of fear.
We will engage all the necessary authorities to ensure that every legitimate complaint is duly handled and justice served.
We want to sanitize our tertiary institutions and restore full integrity, to ensure that within 2 years we will start producing top quality graduates across board.
We will be the greatest workforce in Africa within 10 years and we are very serious about it.
@firstladyship Nigeria is indeed a zoo. All Nigerians should be worried with what APC and these greedy politicians are upto.
Nigerians, get your pvc. This is a war btw the citizens and your greedy politicians out there holding this country down. Our Lives Matter
Peter Obi is the smartest politician alive. How he was able to navigate through all the air, sea, & land mines must be studied at Harvard. It only shows that the man is going to navigate the ship of state to safety. He survived Tinubu, INEC, Abure, Nafiu Bala, & village people.
Dear Frank Edoho, this is a financial and life advisory from someone who has been watching.
First, the school fees, the properties, the years of provision, the emotional labour, all of that is gone and it is not coming back, mourn it for exactly 30 days, after that it becomes a tuition fee for the most expensive masterclass in human character assessment you will ever attend, file it under education and move forward.
Second, you are 57 years old, still handsome, still distinguished, still employed, still relevant, still the man who made “is that your final answer” a cultural moment in Nigerian television history. The woman who left that did not leave because you were not enough, she left because some people confuse a blessing for an entitlement, that is her problem now, not yours.
Third, your next investment will not be in a woman who needs building, you have already built two complete human beings from scratch with your resources, your time, and your emotional capacity. Going forward you are only investing in something that already has equity, no fixer upper projects or rehabilitation contracts, you are not NNPC and you cannot afford another turnaround maintenance scam.
Fourth, separate your finances permanently and structurally, whatever you own going forward carries your name only until a relationship has proven itself over years not months, love is beautiful but a joint account requires the same due diligence as a business partnership….which it literally is.
Fifth, the woman making noise publicly right now naming people and building a victim narrative is doing you a favour you have not recognised yet. She is showing everyone watching exactly who she is without you having to say a single word, your silence is not weakness Frank, your silence is evidence, let it speak.
Sixth, stop falling in love with potential, you are a television professional, you understand production, you know the difference between a pilot episode and a complete series, stop funding pilots that never make it to season two.
Now the most important advice of all.
Come back to television, but not with a quiz show this time, Nigeria has moved past multiple choice questions, we are living in an era of N800 billion missing from FAAC, senators buying tax clearance like recharge cards, a Budget Office that has gone silent on the biggest budget in history, and a government that travels the world giving speeches about transparency while accountability stays at home.
Come back with a current affairs programme, sharp, structured, uncomfortable, the kind of show where powerful people sweat under studio lights and ordinary Nigerians get the questions actually answered, hosted by a man who has already survived two public storms with his dignity completely intact, which means nobody can threaten him, blackmail him, or buy him with a land allocation.
Nigeria needs a broadcaster who has nothing left to lose and everything to say, and after what you have been through Frank, that man is you.
The show writes itself, the audience is already waiting, and this time when you ask the question, we will not be thinking about the money.
We will be thinking about the answer.
Is that your final answer Frank?
Make it count this time.
Omor i just woke up now and realised that to fill 50 litres of a Corolla car during President Obasanjo's regime cost ₦3,750. During Yar'Adua's time, it became ₦3,250. During Goodluck Jonathan's time, it was ₦4,350. During Buhari's regime, it was ₦11,900. Now under the current President Tinubu's regime, to fill 50 litres of a Corolla car is now ₦61,350, and you tell me this man is the hope Nigerians should have for a better future? How d/mb can some of you supporters of tifinubu be?
Dele Farotimi wrote: "As a Yoruba man. I really envy Peter Obi. And would be waiting patiently for the day when we will have a Governor of South west extraction that would replicate what he did in Anambra state.
I can't wait to have a Governor of a south Western state who like PETER OBI will rule a state for 8yrs;
1. He didn't borrow a Kobo.
2. He didn't use bulletproof car.
3. He never lived outside the state till end.
4. He met a debt of N36billion.
5. He met Onitsha as a terror zone.
6. He met his state at 27 in WAEC and NECO.
7. He met a kitchen called Govt House.
8. He met no Primary Healthcare.
9. He met no General Hospital in 14-LGs.
10. He met poor Pri. and Sec. school structures.
Before leaving;
1. Anambra wasn't owing any contractor or worker.
2. He cleared the inherited ₦36billion debt.
3. He brought in SMEs to the traders of the state.
4. He built the today's Govt House.
5. He built 18-Gen Hospitals and a state Specialist.
6. He built 178-Primary Health centres.
7. He fought and won the state against hoodlums.
8. He pushed the state 1st in 3yrs consecutively in WAEC and NECO.
9. He built brewery that employed over 3000 direct and indirect job seekers.
10. He even had to save ₦36billion and $150million for his successors to use and run administrations.
11. He drove 406 and Innoson throughout.
12. He didn't acquire any property anywhere while in office.
13. He never awarded any contract to family members.
14. His wife hadn't office, and allowed to mess with the state. She had her enterprises in UK.
15. Obasanjo had to come to Onitsha and spent 1-week bcos of peaceful environment.
16. He invited anti-graft to come and audit his administration, before handing over.
17. He refused to accept a piece of land, and gratuity and pension.
18. He never went close to State Govt House after handing over.
19. He never struggle to frustrate his successors policies.
20. Till today, he kept gifting multi-millions to Schools, Healthcare development, and entrepreneurship developments.
21. He even work as Chairman of SEC at the national stage without pay
If your definition of leadership is right you won't be against Peter Obi.
Only a selfish mind would see all these and still question it.
Peter Obi - a man that defiles Nigeria's version of leadership.
- Dele Farotimi
WHY THE SENATE?
I have spent years calling out the problems.
Now I am seeking the platform to implement the solutions.
From the outside, I could shout.
From the inside, I can legislate.
From the outside, I could demand.
From the inside, I can enforce.
A better Abuja will not build itself. It requires constitutional power
Because I don't understand it.
Is it not obvious to the blind & deaf that Nigeria & Nigerians are suffering far more under the APC government?
You can't tell me otherwise.
You all know this & you think I'll promote more suffering?
When I am not mad & not an illiterate.
End.
I borrowed an umbrella from my Airbnb host in Kyoto. I forgot to return it when I checked out, and realized when I was already on the train to Osaka.
I felt terrible. It was a nice umbrella, not a cheap one. I messaged the host apologizing.
She responded: "No problem! Enjoy the umbrella. It's yours now."
I said I'd mail it back. She said "please don't. Postage costs more than an umbrella. Just use it and think of Kyoto when it rains."
I insisted I wanted to return it. She said "okay, but I have a different idea. Next time you see someone who needs an umbrella and doesn't have one, give them this umbrella. Tell them to do the same when they are finished with it. Maybe an umbrella travels all around Japan helping people."
That idea was so beautiful I agreed.
Two weeks later I was in Hiroshima and it started pouring. A woman with a baby was standing under an awning looking stressed. No umbrella, the baby was crying.
I walked over and gave her the umbrella. Told her the story in broken Japanese. She understood enough.
She tried to refuse but I insisted. Told her "when you're done with it, give it to someone else who needs it."
She nodded, said thank you about ten times, and hurried off with her baby.
I got soaked walking back to my hotel but felt good about it.
Sometimes I wonder where that umbrella is now. Hope it's still traveling, still helping people.
"Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others change their principles for the sake of their party." Winston Churchill
Today, May 9th, I attended the 1st convention of my latest party, the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) in Abuja, Nigeria. The convention was successful and continued to show the resilience of Nigerians to change
I express my sincere appreciation and gratitude to the NDC family, led by the distinguished Senator Henry Seriake Dickson, for inviting us and for the generosity of spirit with which they have accommodated us at this critical moment in our national journey.
I also wish to express profound gratitude to the African Democratic Congress(ADC), particularly Distinguished Senator David Mark, for providing a democratic platform and showing uncommon understanding when the ongoing litigation forced us out of the Labour Party and the New Nigeria People's Party, NNPP respectively. That spirit of solidarity must remain the foundation upon which a better Nigeria will be built.
Today, the most painful aspect of our political existence is that many who once benefited from democratic governance have now become willing accessories to the destruction of democracy itself. Those who once fought for justice now openly celebrate electoral injustice. Those who once spoke against impunity now defend coercion, manipulation, intimidation, and outright political gangsterism, especially against opposition voices. What we are witnessing is not politics; it is a systematic assault on democracy and the will of the people.
Nigeria today stands at a dangerous crossroads. Our democracy is under severe threat. Our nation is drifting without direction, and our people are passing through immense suffering. Across the world, Nigeria is increasingly described as a failing and disgraced nation. This is not the destiny God ordained for our great country. It was not always so, and it must never be allowed to remain so.
Across virtually every recognised indicator of good governance - accountability, political stability, rule of law, control of corruption, government effectiveness, regulatory quality, and the separation of powers - Nigeria continues to record alarming failures. The institutions that should protect the people are weakening daily, while the burden on ordinary citizens grows heavier with each passing moment.
Today, over 140 million Nigerians live in multidimensional poverty. Tens of millions of young people remain unemployed or underemployed. Inflation continues to crush families. Businesses are shutting down. Farmers can no longer safely access their farms. Communities live in fear. In this month alone, hundreds of innocent Nigerians have lost their lives to insecurity, while many others have been kidnapped, displaced, or thrown deeper into poverty.
The most heartbreaking question confronting us is this: Who consoles the grieving mother whose child was abducted on the way to school? Who speaks for the father who can no longer feed his family despite working every day? Who defends the young Nigerian whose dreams have been destroyed by a nation that rewards connections over competence and corruption over character?
Our present tragedy is not accidental. It is the direct consequence of years of deliberate sabotage by a political class that prospers by dividing the people and weakening the nation. Nigeria is not a poor country; rather, we are being looted into poverty. We have abundant human and natural resources, yet we remain trapped in deprivation because leadership has failed to place the common good above personal interest.
Our choice as a people is therefore clear: whether to surrender to despair and national decline, or to summon the courage to rescue our country and rebuild it on the foundations of unity, equity, justice, competence, and productivity.