Also important to note that when I came under vitriol by hooligans, apart from my close friends, it was my friends who are seasoned politicians who I'd abandoned to follow wetin i follow who rallied round me. They made sure I was safe and well and comforted. I will continue to pay all of you back the best way I can. 🙏🏽
I will never forget when that low IQ subnormal nadir reasoning boy called Harry Diegot accused I and Wizarab of pulling a scam using Baddy's surgery .
His horde of Moronic followers kept hovering aimlessly around my tweets like Bees around Honey.
When the jobless twat saw i wasn't responding to him, he even came to my DM to type a whole series of stupidity.
I ignored him again. I have heard about Folly being a word. But I saw Stupidity and Folly for the first time in human form.
He was the first time I'd see a human with a reasoning capacity inversely proportional to his age.
The same NDC that the presidential candidate is the head of an organization swimming in unrestrained corruption characterized by looting of campaign funds and donations from diaspora or you've replaced the candidate?
I stopped at a canteen to have some amala in Offa few days ago and a guy approached me.
I'm used to being approached everywhere and most times I even interject with "From social media abi?" once a stranger walks towards me in such manner.
"Sir, I know you? I was a student of the University of Offa and, last year, you came to our school to talk to us on career and encouraged us", the young man started.
He was wearing what appeared to be commercial okada rider jacket.
A few seconds of confusion. Do I have Twitter followers riding okada? This guy looks too polished to be an okada rider.
"I brought someone here", he added.
This looks like someone I need to have deeper discussion with so I gave him my Whatsapp number as I felt he was at the mercy of the passenger he brought.
Not in a hurry as I had thought as I still saw him after I settled at my table, so I asked him to grab a chair and let us talk the talk immediately rather than on Whatsapp later.
His story goes: He was an accounting student, and was encouraged by the career talk I had given last year and he had enrolled for ICAN ATS, passed stage 1 and expecting result of stage 2 he wrote recently. ICAN has 5-6 stages for ATS route (non-graduate route).
"So what happened? Were you rusticated?", I quipped, with each morsel of amala becoming heavier in my hand.
Then series of bombshells: He had lost both parents. He had been fending for himself almost all his life. He is in his mid 20s. He came to Offa from a nearby village five years ago, for NCE. He got admission into UniOffa as DE to 200L. He spent nights working at a poultry and days a student.
More bombshells: He dropped out in 300L when he could not afford school fees. He could not raise the school fees when he resumed 300L. The poultry work was stressful too. So he started doing okada.
More: His CGPA at the end of 200L was 4.0/5.0. A solid CGPA.
UniOffa school fee is less than N400k, one of the cheapest private universities in Nigeria.
ICAN is cheaper (less than N100k per diet?) but I told him immediately that that ICAN will be useless without a degree. He has to go back to school and complete the degree. Serious employer looks at your degree before your professional cert.
I'm on the Governing Council of the school (he didn't know - a surprise - and he probably thought I was just brought as an external speaker at that career event. And I didn't tell him.) I asked him to go back to the school and enquire whether he can resume the 300L that just started (his set are in 400L now but that shouldn't matter).
I have seen people struggle in life. Not the worst experience, but my mind kept flashing back. Someone is dropping out of school, from a brilliant 4-pointer accounting student to an okada rider because, all his life, he couldn't raise sub N400k. An amount some guys spend on a random night at a tier 3 club.
Touching.
Joe will finish that degree. In shaa Allah.
Again, i want to let you know that Yoruba is so complete.
You see this adage, that "a house built with spit will be destroyed by the dew".
That is exactly what is happening to the obidients now.
I am currently on Omar's space and I am honestly enjoying their disarray.
All of una go shalaye tire🤣
With 24 states now committed to and approving state policing, BAT has achieved almost all the hard parts of his plans in his first tenure... things none of the other candidates could or would have gotten done. Little or no fanfare, yet huge political tasks that should have been unfeasible. If you want delivery, there's only one option. Other clowns and distractors are not getting you anywhere.
Tinubu can amend anything in the constitution from 2027-2031, I assure you, the present crop of state governors will also be on their way out, infact he can bring forth a new one if he wants
I want just 2 amendments from him after state police
- Abolishment of SIEC, LG elections organized by INEC
- Resource control
"24 States Approve State Police Amendment, Meeting Two-Thirds Threshold"
Nobody else would have delivered this; nobody else can. We have the most consequential President ever, and he's Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
If you need things done, he's your guy.
State police is here, 24 states have passed the bills in their assemblies which is the biggest hurdle in any constitutional amendment process. Making everyone responsible for themselves is how a great nation is built, how you give room for accountability, how you make minorities feel safe and part of.
We don’t need saints in Nigeria, because there are no saints in Nigeria, we’re not saints here and anyone who claims or gives the impression that he is, is a liar. What we need is people with the capacity to amend and update obsolete systems and Asiwaju has proven time without number already that he’s exactly that man
One institution at a time, one sector at a time, a decentralized Nigeria, a responsible people, Nigeria forward 🇳🇬
Tinubu is without a doubt the most consequential president we’ve ever had. State police and the removal of fuel subsidy are great achievements, especially because of the prize to pay politically (which is why many others didn’t do it).