A smart freedom-fighting movement never traduces its leader in time of his distress by the State.
Historically, nations rarely prosecute leading freedom fighters under the banner of "freedom fighting” or self determination.
Instead, a State often deploys serious criminal charges, such as treason or terrorism, to delegitimize what the State sees as an inconvenient political rebellion.
When the State jails a leading freedom fighter under these labels, a strategic liberation movement must present a unified front.
Rather than exploiting a leader’s imprisonment to weaken or traduce him, a smart movement rallies behind him to sustain momentum.
Global history contains prominent examples of this phenomenon:
Nelson Mandela (South Africa): Famously tried for high treason and sabotage.
Jomo Kenyatta (Kenya): Imprisoned under charges of managing the radical Mau Mau society.
Mahatma Gandhi (India): Repeatedly jailed by British authorities for sedition.
Fidel Castro (Cuba): Prosecuted for conspiracy and insurrection after the Moncada assault.
In all these cases, the rank and file of the movement, plus it’s intermediate leadership seized the moment to be more loyal and compliant, thus transforming such imprisoned leader into an eternal symbol of the movement.
Yours shouldn’t be different.
#AloyEjimakor.
A senior Hamas official just said it on live television: "We Palestinians are not indigenous of this place. Half of us are actually Egyptians, and the other half are Saudis. We are not from here."
This isn't an Israeli claim. This isn't Zionist propaganda. This is a Hamas official, on camera, telling the truth by accident.
When I was in Kuje Prison, I met Haruna Garba Gololo, who was sent there by Senate President Godswill Akpabio. He had been granted bail for nearly three weeks but was still unable to meet the bail conditions.
He’s spent several weeks in prison before being granted bail.
I also met David Nwokorie, who was arrested and detained by the Nigeria Police Force following a messy breakup with Genevieve Opara, the daughter of retired Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) Hilary Opara. Last week, when Justice Rita Ajumogobia of the Federal High Court granted David bail after he had spent close to four months in prison, he was required to present a Level 16 officer and a colonel in the Nigerian Army as sureties. these are almost impossible bail conditions.
Even the Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, who is complaining of wrongful imprisonment of 93% of current inmates dragged a critic, Emorioloye Owolemi, before the Federal High Court sitting in Akure, Ondo State, over alleged cyberstalking, and the man languished in prison for months.
I was sent to prison by Tinubu.
There are 817 awaiting-trial inmates in Kuje out of a total prison population of 1,115, with 47 of them diagnosed with tuberculosis.
An average prisoner in Nigeria today is a victim of the state. Basically, a powerful individual gets a senior police officer to arrest and charge a Nigerian citizen to court. The judge is briefed in advance, bail is refused, and the person is remanded in prison.
When bail is eventually granted, it often comes with conditions that cannot be fulfilled, forcing the accused back to prison until another victim is shipped in.
Meanwhile, the real criminals are the ones filling the prisons with innocent countrymen and women. Nigeria must experience a REVOLUTION to end impunity.
BIGGEsT COVER UP EVER!
The arrest and reported dehumanization of Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi, the alleged Director-General of a “fake agency,” points to what appears to be an official cover-up rather than a genuine search for truth.
By now, President Tinubu’s Chief of Staff, @femigbaja should also be under arrest and investigation if the authorities are truly committed to uncovering the facts.
So far, the individual alleged to have collected the ₦400million bribe on @femigbaja behalf has reportedly died under mysterious circumstances, while the hotel allegedly used for the exchange has since been demolished.
In addition to the real crimes, we are now witnessing obstruction of justice by the @officialABAT criminal regime.
#RevolutionNow
The global Christian community’s ignoring of the brutal persecution of Christians in Nigeria by Muslims is something that Christians around the world should be ashamed of. This is a great shame for Christianity. It is a stain on the fabric of its history.
Even the International Monetary Fraud (IMF, sorry, Fund) which would typically tolerate and enable its favourite puppet thieves, could no longer stomach Tinubu and his gang of thieves
₦8.8 TRILLION in public fund is stolen! #RevolutionNOW
BREAKING:
Following the intervention of Nigeria Medical Association & others (including an intense media spotlight), MAZI NNAMDI KANU’s personal doctor, Prof Martin Aghaji has just been FREED. While welcoming this development, the DSS is hereby admonished to do better than this.
BREAKING: Yesterday, Emeritus Professor Martin Aghaji, MAZI NNAMDI KANU’s personal physician was arrested at his residence in Enugu. This is the height of the official harassment he has been facing since he issued the medical report that did not comport with the DSS’s medical report on #MNK. The legal team is weighing-in at the moment.
#JusticeForProfAghaji.
I don’t understand why Nigerians even remotely think @officialabat Tinubu’s Chief of Staff, @femigbaja , was acting alone in taking a N400million bribe to create a fake government agency. Come on!
Do you guys not know @femigbaja's history in Atlanta, where he was stealing his client’s money as a lawyer? And @officialABAT himself lived in Chicago, where his past was tied to drug-trafficking and a major forfeiture case.
So, please, spare me the nonsense that @officialABAT suddenly discovered he had a thief beside him! Do you seriously think Tinubu doesn’t know Gbaja? Birds of the same feather don’t need introductions.
The real question is not whether Tinubu knows what Gbaja is capable of. The question is whether the entire @officialABAT government is not a racket.
If you truly care for MAZI NNAMDI KANU & wish him well, stop questioning his authority, stop hobnobbing with his enemies, stop defaming him, stop threatening & blackmailing those working very hard for his release & treat him the same way Mandela was treated when he was in prison.