Fellow Nigerians, good morning.
I woke up this morning after my church service with a deeply reflective heart, and despite every constraint, I felt compelled to share these thoughts with you.
Many people do not truly understand the silent pains some of us carry daily—the private struggles, emotional burdens, and quiet battles we face while trying to survive and serve sincerely in difficult circumstances.
We now live in an environment that has become increasingly toxic, where the very system that should protect and create opportunities for decent living often works against the people—a society where intimidation, insecurity, endless scrutiny, and discouragement have become normal.
More painful is when some of those you associate with, believing you would find understanding and solidarity among them, become part of the pressure you face. Some who publicly identify with you privately distance themselves or join in unfair criticism.
We live in a society where humility is mistaken for weakness, respect is seen as a lack of courage, and compassion is treated as foolishness—a system where treating people equally is questioned simply because you refuse to worship status, tribe, class, or power.
Personally, I have never looked down on anyone except to uplift them. I have never used privilege, position, or resources to oppress others, intimidate the weak, or make people feel small. To me, leadership has always been about service, sacrifice, and helping others rise.
Let me state clearly: my decision to leave the ADC is not because our highly respected Chairman, Senator David Mark, treated me badly, nor because my leader and elder brother, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, or any other respected leaders did anything personally wrong to me. I will continue to respect them.
However, the same Nigerian state and its agents that created unnecessary crises and hostility within the Labour Party that forced me to leave now appear to be finding their way into the ADC, with endless court cases, internal battles, suspicion, and division, instead of focusing on deeper national problems and playing politics built more on control and exclusion than on service and nation-building.
Even within spaces where one labours sincerely, one is sometimes treated like an outsider in one’s own home. You and your team become easy targets for every failure, frustration, or misunderstanding, as though honest contribution has become a favour being tolerated rather than appreciated.
And when you choose to leave so that those you are leaving can have peace, and you step out into the cold, you are still maligned and your character is questioned. Despite all your efforts to continue working for a better Nigeria and engaging people with sincerity and goodwill, those who do not wish you well continue to attack your character and question your intentions.
There are moments I ask God in prayer: Why is doing the right thing often misconstrued as wrongdoing in our country? Why is integrity not valued? Why is the prudent management of resources, especially when invested in critical areas like education and healthcare, wrongly labelled as stinginess? Why are humility and obedience to the rule of law often taken to be weakness rather than discipline?
Let me assure all that I am not desperate to be President, Vice President, or Senate President. I am desperate to see a society that can console a mother whose child has been kidnapped or killed while going to school or work. I am desperate to see a Nigeria where people will not live in IDP camps but in their homes. I am desperate for a country where Nigerian citizens do not go to bed hungry, not knowing where their next meal will come from.
Yet, despite everything, I remain resolute. I firmly believe that Nigeria can still become a country with competent leadership based on justice, compassion, and equal opportunity for all.
A new Nigeria is POssible. -PO
Quite lengthy, but bear with me.
First, God won't come down to do what He commissioned man to do. If a nation is in decline despite "spiritual activity," the answer isn't God’s silence; it’s Divine Jurisprudence at play. Usually, evil people overwork but some people who deem themselves as good laze around, and when it gets real, they try to use prayer as an escape route. Prayer works if done well, but let's judge ourselves first.
Second, We often mistake religious activity for spiritual authority. Many don't know that you can use God’s grace to get personal results without actually pleasing Him. Proverbs 14:34 says righteousness exalts a nation, and Psalm 89:14 notes that Justice and Righteousness are the very foundation of His throne.
Peep the pattern;
Throughout Scripture, whenever God prepares to judge the earth, He seeks a human legal premise.
To judge Sodom, He consulted Abraham.
For the Flood, He needed a Noah.
To break Pharaoh’s tyranny, He required a Moses.
Why didn't Pharaoh or Nebuchadnezzar have those prophetic dreams until a Joseph or a Daniel was on the scene?
Because God requires a righteous witness on the ground to authorize His intervention.
We could go on; Nehemiah, Esther, Samson or the Hebrew boys, God rides the obedience of men to replicate Heaven’s government in a local environment.
Essentially, we can say it's those men that judged the earth in their time.
It's still the same today. This is why judgment starts at the House of God (1 Peter 4:17). If the Church is in bed with the oppressors, where is the locus standi for an intervention to happen when that oppressor launches tyranny - and it's not in every case that God overrules. Overruling every time won't be fair because while He is Father to believers, He is also the God of all flesh (even the unbelievers and he loves them and wants them saved), so it's not all your "die die" prayers that he'll answer.
Ultimately, to absolutely judge the earth, The Word had to become flesh and the new standard of righteousness for men, experience what people go through so that anyone who believes levels up too; because to really be the judge of the whole earth, it's not enough to be a Spirit being, you also have to be a man. That's the only way it will be fair (or to put it rightly, just)!
I'm saying that if the core decision makers of a nation are tyrants, expecting God to judge them will be daydreaming if his people, the church, are also enforcers and rewarders of bad behavior.
@devihechukwu@ntaka_igbo@eric_gugua After salvation is Service. When you believe, you follow (discipleship). You don't need to be a Christian to be rich or poor. We need to stop all these fanatics.
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@emekabk21@ruffydfire It’s funny how I have been reading about this! Why is everyone making it seem it’s about oil? Didn’t the Venezuelans flee due to economic repression? It seems we don’t even do simple research at all
You have the largest oil reserve in the world and yet you are poor as wrench!
I believe in miracles,
I've seen a soul set free,
Miraculous the change in one redeemed through Calvary,
I've seen the lily push its way up through the stubborn sod,
Oh, I believe in miracles,
For I believe in God.
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