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[Sarah @chesat02]

@HC_XFamily The Lord has done it finally 🥳

[Nathaniel Bassey @nathanielblow]

Let me pray this for someone out there. It’s not for everyone. “Very soon, those who did not believe in you, and looked down on you, will look up to you.” And when that time comes, instead of paying them back, you will do them good and show mercy”

[Gbotemi @confindence24]

AYO FAYOSE'S INTERVIEW ON OSUN DESERVES TO BE WATCHED TO THE END.

This is where politics gets interesting.

Fayose was asked about the Osun election and he made a point that should make even Tinubu's critics pause.

He said, in essence, that if Tinubu wanted to use the full weight of the Federal Government to take Osun, he had the power to do it.

But Fayose didn't stop there.

He took Nigerians back to his own experience during the 2018 Ekiti election.

Fayose narrated how, shortly before the election, security operatives descended on the Government House.

He alleged that he was assaulted, his security arrangements were disrupted and that the entire place was effectively put under siege.

That is what Fayose describes as “federal might.”

And this is the part I find most interesting:

A man who says he personally experienced federal might is now giving Tinubu credit for NOT deploying that same machinery to take Osun.

Think about that.

Fayose is essentially saying: I know what federal might looks like. I experienced it. If Tinubu wanted to play that game in Osun, he had the capacity. But he didn't.

That is a serious political compliment.

You don't have to love Tinubu to acknowledge the difference.

And this is why Nigerians must listen to Fayose carefully.

He is not speaking like someone who has never tasted political power.

He has been governor. He has fought Abuja. He has been on the receiving end of federal pressure.

So when he praises Tinubu's handling of Osun, that praise carries more weight than when it comes from an ordinary party loyalist.

The real lesson is bigger than APC or Accord:

Democracy is not just about winning elections.

It is also about having the power to interfere and choosing not to.

If Fayose, of all people, is telling Nigerians that Tinubu could have deployed federal might but chose otherwise, maybe the people shouting “federal might” today should watch the interview again.

Sometimes the strongest evidence comes from the person who has experienced the opposite.

Ire oo.

[Tosan Blessing Harriman (PhD) @TosanHarrimanDr]

The kind of intelligence I get from the Osun off cycle gubernatorial elections is befuddling. How one could believe in a governor over and above his party and was directly working with the governor to ensure he wins as a precursor to a future integration is more or less antithetical. I now understand what Olusegun Obasanjo meant in his book " My watch" when he wrote that if you want to play politics go to Bourdillon. What I hear was that from the day the Osun state party chapter of the APC refused Adeleke's overtures they started walking alone. The real fight in Osun was not against Adeleke. The real fight was to place Aregbesola where he belongs in the politics of the south west.

[Jubril A. Gawat @Mr_JAGs]

For people staying in Osun, I know Adolak Hotel, Osogbo BUT how’s the ‘VIP section’ at the Lounge like exactly ?? This tweet and question is for enlightenment purposes pls ..

[Khan 🧢 🌟 @Khanstilldayy]

This can’t be real 😂😭

[ijustin @justinijeh]

Let me share a story that is obliquely related to this issue of manifestos…

Many years ago, as a middle management staff at Access Bank, I was chasing a transaction that had the potential to turn my groups profitability and balance sheet around.

The customer had landed a huge slate of contracts with the federal government. It would drive Billions in current account balances and fee fee income.

They needed a guarantee from the bank.

I made the case… wrote the credit analyses, presented the approval memoranda all the way to the management credit committee…

Everything looked good on paper. Almost too good…and it was provisionally approved after some hard grilling by the committee.

But after the meeting…My DMD at the time, the late Herbert Wigwe, called me to his office…

“Justin, I want to meet this customer in person. Schedule a meeting for next week but don’t issue the offer letter until after”

I was agitated…Haba…after all this wahala why can’t we just issue the guarantee and let me book my fees? But oga had spoken…so what to do?

I did as instructed.

We got to Abuja for this meeting as scheduled…

Hebert was just ‘gisting’… I was expecting some hard hitting technical questions, like the ones I had been asked…maybe he just wanted to hear them himself ?

But nah…

just gist…about business, how he got started, what he thought about this and that and the other…some old transactions…with other banks…politics…his relationship with the government and other deals in the pipeline …everything under the sun…but the specifics of the transaction in question.

Meeting ended. I’m confused.

We’re on the way back to the airport and I’m waiting for Herbert to say something.

Nothing.

Just talking about my business in general…other things I was working on. I knew better than to ask what I was really waiting to hear.

Then he drops the bomb just as we are landing in lagos.

“Justin, we’re not doing it”

I felt like exploding…

He continued…

“In the business of credit and banking, you will learn that willingness to repay is more important than the ability to repay…you will find other deals…”

I was deflated, confused, angry…

One guy from one of the top five banks that loves large ticket corporate deals did the transaction eventually. He got promoted for it…

The customer diverted some of the proceeds and the whole thing went sideways.

The guy also eventually got fired for it.

The only time HW revisited the issue was one day we met in the elevator a couple years after, when the news of the matter broke.

“Justin I’m sure you’re happy you didn’t do that transaction now”

I didn’t have to ask which one he meant.

How does any of this relate to manifestos?

They are important and necessary for every candidate to have. They provide clarity and a baseline for how one can evaluate a candidate in a presidential election.

But they tell you NOTHING about the CHARACTER of a candidate. They provide no insight into the most impactful attribute a leader should possess.

That can only be judged by their actions. Their track record. How they have handled previous responsibility or conducted themselves historically.

So by all means let’s have the manifestos and let’s critique them when they are made public by the candidates.

But let us also examine their manifest character, as evidenced by their lives and conduct in the past.

Otherwise the manifesto is hardly worth the paper it’s printed on

End of.

Continue to rest in peace HW.🙏🏾

[Naija @Naija_PR]

Love is kind but love is not nice.

[COCO @TWOTIMESABITCH]

i’ve tasted long term relationship, i’ve tasted casual dating. i highly recommend focusing on your career and going to sleep before 9PM.

[COCO @TWOTIMESABITCH]

Rihanna sharing a quote that said “the moment you start hiding your emotions to avoid arguments, you begin losing the bond that once made you feel like home” and the shit is real asf.

[Michael Zion Omotoye. @TheOnlineBigBro]

May every eldest daughter find an emotionally available man, a yearner, chalant, clingy, honest and a trustworthy man.

[UG @UgwunnaEjikem]

Lmfao no humor like Nigerian humor😂

[iNspiritextra @iNspiritextra]

Honestly, I was a bit scared when I saw them come out to dance last night. But in the end, it became a beautiful reminder that God unites people from different cultures and backgrounds 🫶❤️

[Encod @Encod10]

@Babajiide Hired someone from the “warrior team” and guy was a whole lot of toxicity!!! Unregulated nervous system, always expecting the worst, couldn’t sit still, gossips, so condescending, constantly checking what people wears… it was a whole mess!!!

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[El Ameen @_el_ameen]

See as Nigerian doctors Dey display illiteracy on the tl with this HMO talk mahn, like say if the patient even pay out of pocket the hospital will add it to your N270k salary

[Ekukuleku Kuleku Leku @sezuaIY]

I have not had a bad HMO experience.
I always assumed the way people tweet about how hospitals treat HMO patients were somewhat exaggerated.

Given the number of useless tweets I have seen today from doctors, I was clearly wrong.

[Kiwi 🥝✨ @KiwiOnTheSticks]

This is a divorce tip

[Malikajaan💋💜 @amynartt_]

You say wetin?

[ATL Huncho🇬🇭🇺🇸 @hunchochoppah]

Them: Why did you stop buying stuff online?

The last time I did 😂😂