Blessing Babatope

[Winners Chapel International @WinnersWLD]

An instruction to everyone!

Get your PVC!

[Adedayo Agarau @adedayoagarau]

I've had it that we have to have a conversation as Yoruba people. Nothing is well. Nothing.

[tobi jacobs! @thejacobsss]

terrorists are kidnapping people- una go do skit.

nigerians fry akara to cope with the bad economy - una go do skit.

nigerians are going through xenophobic attacks - una go do skit.

what exactly is funny about these situations? are you people cursedddd???

[ODINAKA. El Toro. @TheAjibolaGrey]

We have to play our parts, you and I, we have to vote! Make sure you get your PVC, please register at https://t.co/lAxelM0DLD.

Collect your PVC
Collect your Power

#GoNigeria

[Ebelechukwu @_ebelechukwu]

This is the problem with us as a people. Someone complained about the cost of living and it went viral. All of a sudden you want her to be a voice against the government. She mustn't be an activist. This was how you people made VDM an activist.

[Oríadé @michaelinioluwa]

This is really shameful on so many grounds.

“The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) had earlier forecast that 2026 would witness above-normal rainfall, with Lagos expected to experience a greater impact due to its coastal geography and low-lying terrain. “ -

Knowing this, what did you do to make sure Lagosians do not suffer this misfortune? What exactly did you do to prevent this disaster since you had the information that this could happen?

“It is also important to note that the flooding currently being experienced is not peculiar to Lagos State.”

What is the point of this statement? How does this help Lagosians? Telling them that they are not alone in their hardship and other states are experiencing this too?

Not only have you actually failed at your job to protect the people. You’ve also gone ahead to focus on the very thing that has zero impact on the health and safety of Lagosians in this moment. You’re talking about blogs and people politicizing this. Should this be your focus when people’s houses are literally being flooded right now?

It is unfortunate that you are in power right now. This is disgraceful.

[Oríadé @michaelinioluwa]

I am not sure people like @tokunbo_wahab and his colleagues actually understand that we’re paying them to do a good job. We are paying your salaries so that you can deliver. In case you’re not sure what that looks like, ask the young people working in corporate. People get put on probation, placed on PIPs, and eventually fired for gross incompetence.

If Lagos State were a tech startup and the entire TL, year after year, was filled with customer complaints about problems the product team refused to solve, that Product Lead would be fired. If the Head of Customer Support was caught arguing with customers on Twitter and defending absolute nonsense year after year the way you’ve been doing, that Head of Customer Support would also be fired. Incompetence is not rewarded. People lose their jobs and their source of livelihood when they consistently fail to deliver on their KPIs.

You and your colleagues have failed Lagos consistently for years. Lagos flooding happens year after year, people keep raising the same issues, and yet nothing fundamentally changes. You should be out of jobs.

When we tag you on Twitter over your failures, your focus should not be to untag yourself or defend yourself. Your focus should be to get to work and do the job for which we are paying you. Lagos flooding has become an annual crisis, yet the people responsible behave as though public criticism is the real problem instead of the failures that caused it.

You can’t try this kind of nonsense in the private sector. Why do you think it’s acceptable in the public sector?

This is really terrible.

[Omodolapo @Sisinene_of_Eko]

She’s not lying.
Fashola deputy was bullish on education and model schools.
What did Hamzat do??

[JagunJagun PhD (CSU), AAT, π 🦴🐐🐕ØRF @PivotOladimeji]

Power Corrupts, Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely

An Open Response to Tokunbo Wahab

Dear Mr. Tokunbo Wahab,

I read your response to a fellow Lagosian:

“The attention you seek, trust me, you will not get it. Quite simply, you are not worth the time or engagement.”

Ordinarily, I would have ignored it. But because those words came from the Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources in Lagos State, they deserve scrutiny.

You see, sir, the problem is not whether you choose to engage a critic or not. The problem is the mindset revealed by your response.

As a public servant, you are not merely Tokunbo Wahab the individual. You are a representative of a government sustained by the taxes, sacrifices, and trust of millions of Lagosians. Therefore, when you tell a citizen that he is “not worth the time or engagement,” you inadvertently diminish the very people whose resources fund the office you occupy.

No Lagosian is beneath engagement.

No citizen is too insignificant to deserve respect.

No taxpayer is unworthy of acknowledgment from those entrusted with public authority.

You may disagree with criticism. You may reject accusations. You may even decide that a particular conversation is not worth your participation. Those are entirely your prerogatives. What should never happen is for a public official to communicate in a manner that suggests contempt for the citizens he serves.

That is not leadership.

That is not accountability.

And it is certainly not the democratic culture that Lagos should aspire to promote.

As Commissioner for Environment, you oversee matters that directly affect the daily lives of millions of people. Flooding, waste management, sanitation, drainage infrastructure, and environmental sustainability are not abstract policy discussions. They are realities experienced by ordinary Lagosians every single day.

When citizens raise concerns, ask difficult questions, or criticize government performance, they are not necessarily seeking attention. More often than not, they are seeking answers.

The danger of power is that it sometimes creates the illusion that criticism is an annoyance rather than a democratic necessity. Public office can become so consuming that those who occupy it begin to mistake authority for superiority.

That is precisely why Lord Acton’s warning has endured through generations:

“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

Corruption is not always financial. Sometimes it manifests in attitude. Sometimes it reveals itself through arrogance, dismissiveness, and an apparent belief that public accountability is optional.

Mr. Wahab, the citizens of Lagos do not work for you.

You work for them.

Your office exists because the public exists.

Your authority derives from the people.

Your responsibility is owed to the people.

That is the social contract upon which every democratic government rests.

The measure of leadership is not how one responds to applause. It is how one responds to criticism. Respect is easiest when people agree with us. Character is revealed when they do not.

I therefore urge you, not as an adversary but as a concerned citizen, to reflect on the implications of your words. Public officials must be held to a higher standard because their conduct shapes public confidence in government institutions.

Long after titles have changed and offices have been vacated, what will remain is the record of how those entrusted with power treated the people they were privileged to serve.

Power corrupts.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Humility, accountability, and respect for citizens remain the only enduring antidotes.

✌️

[Aunty Teda @imoteda]

Exactly what we need, the touts plaguing lagos roads being given more state backed power to harass citizens.

Yall skipped over low hanging fruit like installing large skips for refuse collection along major areas affected the most by indiscriminate dumping, more public bins on the roads and actually paying the PSPs what they’re demanding and jumped straight to policing.

Your only thought is oppression.

[🔥SANGO OLUKOSO🔥 @Otunbakush1]

Waste Police…. So u mean KAI is a useless organization….

[A @dijammmm]

That you needed to be directed to do this should get all of you sacked.

[Lit! @JusttLit]

You’d think this whole thing started yesterday. It’s been almost 8 years of this administration and 3 years of your tenure. Yet, zero significant changes but you know how to type epistles on Twitter and chant tribalist lingos. O ye olorun.

[‘Déróunkẹ́ Dákẹ́jà @ronniebee3]

Had to move our bins from the front of the house because it’s always full and lawma refused to pickup despite doubling the fees months ago.

This is why I get irritated when people come online to kiss ass of the same irresponsible politicians. Tueh!

[‘Déróunkẹ́ Dákẹ́jà @ronniebee3]

You are the king of selective responses tho

Haven’t seen a response from you on the issue of lawma trucks not picking up refuse from homes for months and the dumping sites being inaccessible/full. Are people supposed to swallow the refuse?

You can berate and parade citizens but cannot ensure those involved do their jobs. My payment is up to date and I still have to pay someone to dispose the waste in front of my house (this has been happening since last year)

You have failed woefully, it’s not about travelling abroad to speak or being a banger commissioner online. You are a failure and Lagos stinks!!!

[Ayo FBI @PureMinD__]

Dear Peter Obi supporters,

Amplify pro PO posts, stop engaging people who have sworn lifetime allegiance to their chains.

[TiMoRi @Ogbeni_Mo]

No Lagos State Governor can ever be like Fashola again….man was a calm and firm disciplinarian who doesn’t shout.
Someone that forced all okada riders and their passengers to start wearing helmets.
He forced all commercial bus drivers to close their doors, nothing like conductors standing by the door and not sitting down.
There were planting of trees everywhere in Lagos.
The roads were clean and safe
Whenever he gives a directive, it stands !!!

[Jackson Johnny @JohnnyDewattsj]

@tokunbo_wahab The Lawma trucks are not even going into street to park dirts anymore. These days they show up maybe once in 2 months. It's just terrible

[Lit! @JusttLit]

Now that the whole thing is over, please register your faves for night classes and adult education. They are still young. It’s not every time money and biscuits okay? 🤲🏻

[LIMOBLAZE OMO JESU @Limoblaze]

You can’t support an evil government and then come online to be posturing like you care about the lives of others, no you don’t! You’re a Selfish, greedy, money worshipping human, so miss me with all of that posturing.