Don Whyte

God-fearing

[Queen Bee 👑 🐝 @RealQueenBee__]

"We should refuse to agree that this is Nigeria, where:

-Nothing works
-Certificates are forged and it's ok
-Elections are rigged and you're told to Go-To-Court

These things have consequences"

-John Cardinal Onaiyekan of the Catholic Church

He's been consistently consistent!

[Joel Osteen @JoelOsteen]

In the Scripture, rain is symbolic of God’s favor, His goodness and blessing. Sometimes we find ourselves in a dry season, not getting any good breaks, dealing with these problems. The good news is you can create an atmosphere for rain in your life. When you send praises up, you create an atmosphere for God to work.

[Zekeri Idris Jnr @IdrisZekeriJnr]

As a former two-term President of the Catholic Youth Organization of Nigeria (CYON) in the Army Chaplaincy, I didn’t need a second look to recognise this as a poorly fabricated forged press release.

The forgers in Aso Rock and their team of failures are now clutching at straws.

For God and For Youth…….

[Baron Chymaker.𝛑 @chymaker]

APC and Tinubu is a curse to Nigeria.

Under this regime, forgery is officially endorsed

[Don Whyte @garrywhyte13]

@ozo_chukwu Nengi Nengi

[Chimama ❤️ Obi @Chima_Obi1234]

This is good. He should not get one vote from all the members of the Catholic Church Community.

He doesn't deserve it

[oseni rufai @ruffydfire]

All Is Fair in Politics? — Cardinal Onaiyekan's Analysis
I have listened to Daniel Bwala. I have also listened to Babajide and a number of others make very uncomplimentary remarks about John Cardinal Onaiyekan.
To Bwala, the Cardinal merely spoke for Catholics. Babajide, on the other hand, portrayed the eminent Prince of the Church as partisan. His expectation was that the Cardinal should have suppressed his obvious disquiet over a system that is visibly decaying. He seemed to suggest that the Cardinal ought to have remained neutral—standing neither here nor there, balancing between good and evil, and treating corruption, falsehood, and electoral misconduct with kid gloves simply because he is a priest.

Perhaps I should excuse such a misunderstanding of the prophetic tradition. A careful reading of Scripture reveals that the prophets were never spectators in the face of injustice. Consider the courage of Elijah before King Ahab and Jezebel during their reign of oppression. Recall Nathan's fearless confrontation of King David after his grievous sin. Reflect also on John the Baptist, who openly condemned the immoral relationship between King Herod and Herodias. He neither spoke with his tongue in his cheek nor handled the matter delicately. He denounced evil boldly, without fear or favour, and ultimately paid for it with his life.

When the President declared that "all is fair in politics," many interpreted it as an expression of political realism. Yet, taken to its logical conclusion, it suggests something far more troubling—that the end justifies the means.

If indeed all is fair in politics, then ballot-box snatching becomes permissible. Vote-buying becomes acceptable. Manipulating electoral outcomes becomes excusable. Influencing institutions meant to be impartial becomes legitimate. In essence, every unethical act can be rationalised in the pursuit of political victory.
That is precisely why the pulpit must never become silent.
The purpose of the pulpit is to proclaim truth, condemn evil, rebuke reckless and dangerous rhetoric, educate the faithful, and uphold the timeless principles of ethics, morality, justice, and human dignity—the very values that politics, at its worst, often seeks to erode.
Cardinal Onaiyekan did not criticise the obvious shortcomings of this administration because he wanted to give any political opponent an advantage. Neither did he speak because President Tinubu is a Muslim. Had the President been a Christian and uttered the same words, the Cardinal's response would undoubtedly have been the same.
Besides, the Cardinal enjoys the same constitutional rights as every Nigerian citizen. He has the freedom to associate with anyone, to be photographed with anyone, and to vote for whomever he chooses. Those are fundamental rights guaranteed in a democracy. Exercising those rights neither diminishes his priesthood nor compromises his prophetic responsibility.
The real question therefore is this: How should any rational and objective person interpret a sitting President's declaration that "all is fair in politics"John Cardinal Onaiyekan simply discerned the implications of that statement and courageously exposed them. He stripped the phrase of its political polish and revealed the dangerous philosophy that could lie beneath https://t.co/PCSvA7SVkL John Cardinal Onaiyekan, you spoke in the finest tradition of the prophets—calmly, courageously, and without fear or favour.Let the criticisms continue. They are hardly surprising. A festering wound always cries out when touched. Truth has a way of disturbing those who are comfortable with convenient falsehoods.
The Cardinal's words struck their intended target. The reactions merely confirm that the message landed where it mattered most.The duty of the prophet is not to comfort the powerful in their errors, but to discomfort them with the truth. When the pulpit becomes silent in the face of moral decay, society loses one of its last remaining consciences." Uche o

[Chidi Anselm Odinkalu, CGoF @ChidiOdinkalu]

When he left high school in 1962, John Cardinal Onaiyekan was 18.

His grades were so outstanding, the Premier of the Northern Region, Sir Ahmadu Bello, asked to see him & offered him a free cheque to the best anywhere in the world.

The man said #ThankYou & headed off to priestly formation.

64 yrs later, an #OrganizedCrime ring - led by a man with no verifiable record of having gone to school - wants to do a #RoyalRumble with a man who gave up on worldly things as a teenager.

There can be only one winner & it will not be the criminals!

[Don Whyte @garrywhyte13]

@Agbotokun @ukocarter I agree because it’s difficult dealing with hardened people like him. Microphone-licking president with drug trafficking, forgery and identity baggage.

[Harry Da Diegot @trigottista]

Good morning my neighbors

[Don Whyte @garrywhyte13]

@Agbotokun @ukocarter Monkey president that has only brought reproach to Yoruba nation

[Akwa Ibom 1st Son @ukocarter]

Tinubu cows have forgotten that Peter Obi supporters are not like GEJ supporters.

If you do Peter Obi, they do Tinubu. 😂😂😂😂

[Don Whyte @garrywhyte13]

@Omatune @ogkuku2 Hahahahaha! Guys let’s make this go viral

[D' Empress @Omatune]

Frame 1: Integrity carrying integrity

Frame 2: A tif carrying a tif

[Tony Ajah @tonyajah]

THEY TOOK THE CRY OF NIGERIANS TO THE PRESIDENT. THEY RETURNED WITH AN ANSWER THAT SHOULD WORRY US ALL.

The Catholic Bishops didn't go to Aso Rock seeking contracts.

They didn't go lobbying for appointments.

They didn't go "standing on any mandate."

They went carrying the pain of millions of Nigerians.

They said Nigerians are hungry.

The answer? "There has always been hunger before I was born."

They said the economy is crushing ordinary families.

The answer? "The economy is doing well."

They expressed concerns about public confidence in INEC.

The answer? "INEC is neutral."

They worried about whether the next election would offer a level playing field.

The answer? "Whoever wants power should be ready to wrestle for it."

And immediately, my mind went to Rehoboam.

The people begged him to reduce their suffering.

The elders pleaded with him: "Listen to your people."

His loyalists told him: "Show them who's boss."

He listened to the loyalists.

He ignored the people.

The result?

A kingdom that took generations to build split in a single day.

The people walked away shouting:

"To your tents, O Israel!" (1 Kings 12:16)

Every government should fear one thing more than criticism:

The day it stops listening.

The greatest threat to any president is not the opposition.

It is the army of professional cheerleaders who tell him that everything is working while the people are telling a different story.

A nation cannot be governed by applause.

Propaganda cannot fill empty stomachs.

Slogans cannot reduce the cost of living.

And praise-singers cannot rewrite reality.

History is littered with leaders who mistook loyalty for truth.

May President Tinubu never become another Rehoboam, surrounded by people who protect his ego while exposing his legacy.

Because when leaders stop listening, history starts speaking.

Think about it.

Credit: Stephen Ekwenugo

[Felix @felixherbt]

The Christian Association has woken up 👀

The President of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, Bishop Francis Wale Oke, has spoken the truth to power…

[Don Whyte @garrywhyte13]

@ruffydfire Obi

[Kio Amachree @Ivory1957]

THE MAN WHO DOES NOT EXIST: A CHRONOLOGY OF DECEPTION, AND A QUESTION FOR THOSE WHO STILL DEFEND IT

By Kio Amachree
Letters from Stockholm

Every serious nation knows who governs it. Nigeria does not. Nigeria is governed by a man whose age cannot be verified, whose schooling dissolves under the mildest scrutiny, whose money was seized by American authorities as narcotics proceeds, and whose responses to every documented contradiction have been arrogance, evasion, and the word inquisitive, spat at a Chatham House audience as though the question itself were an impertinence. What follows is not gossip. It is the record. And at the end of it, I have a question for those who defend him.

1952. The claimed beginning. Born 29 March 1952, Lagos, son of the late Iyaloja Abibatu Mogaji, or so the story goes. No birth certificate has ever surfaced. Persistent accounts tracing his origins to Iragbiji in Osun State, under another name, have never been answered with a single document. His response to the question of parentage was not evidence but a dare: come and ask for DNA. That is not the language of a man with nothing to hide. That is the language of a man who knows no one can compel him.

The vanished school years. His 1999 gubernatorial filing claimed St Paul's, Ibadan, then Government College, Ibadan, class of 1965 to 1968. The old boys of Government College denied him. His own press secretary later admitted the truth: no secondary school at all. Understand what this means. He did not misremember a school. He invented one, on a sworn electoral form, and signed it. In any functioning democracy, that alone ends a career. In Nigeria, it launched one.

Chicago, mid-1970s. When the Southwest College records were finally forced into daylight in 2023, the transcript used for his university admission listed the student as female, with birth years of 1954 and 1955 scattered across the file. Human error, his defenders chorus. One error is human. A biography made entirely of errors is a construction.

1979. Chicago State University confirms a degree was awarded on 22 June 1979. His defenders wave this single verified plank like a flag. Notice what surrounds it.

1993. The United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois. He forfeits 460,000 dollars to the American government as funds traceable to narcotics trafficking. He did not contest it. Sit with that. The man who lectures Nigeria on sacrifice surrendered nearly half a million dollars to the DEA's satisfaction rather than explain where it came from.

1999. The perjured form. Government College Ibadan, false. University of Chicago, false. A sworn affidavit about a certificate conveniently lost in exile. A perjury petition within months. A Lagos Assembly panel that evaporated, as every panel around this man evaporates.

17 June 2022. He hands INEC a certificate purportedly issued in 1979 and signed by Elnora Daniel, a woman who did not arrive at Chicago State University until 1998. Nineteen years after she supposedly signed it. This is not a discrepancy. It is an impossibility, submitted under oath, to become president.

2023. He fought the release of his own records through every level of the American courts. Innocent men do not spend fortunes suppressing their own transcripts. When Judge Maldonado forced the disclosure, CSU admitted it could not locate the original diploma, the registrar under oath could not reconcile the certificate given to INEC, and Tinubu's own lawyers retreated to blaming an unidentified clerk. The released transcript says 1954. The admissions form says 1955. The man says 1952. Pick one. He never has to, because Nigeria's institutions have knelt.

Now, my question, and I address it directly to his defenders, particularly those who defend him not on evidence, of which there is none in his favour, but on tribe.

You know this record. You have seen the female transcript, the impossible signature, the narcotics forfeiture, the invented school. If this exact record belonged to a rival from another region, another faith, another tongue, you would call him a fraud without hesitation, and you would be right. So tell me: what precisely are you defending? Not the man, you cannot be, no honest person could. You are defending a flag of tribe planted on a foundation of documented deception, and you have decided that the flag matters more than the truth. How do you rise in the morning, look at yourselves in the mirror, and call that patriotism? How do you tell your children to be honest in their examinations while you defend a president whose entire examination record is a fiction? Tribal loyalty that requires you to swallow this much falsehood is not loyalty. It is complicity. And history records accomplices by name.

Enough is enough. A nation of over two hundred million people, brimming with genuine scholars, genuine achievers, genuine records, deserves better than a presidency built on paperwork no honest institution can authenticate. The questions are on the table. The documents are in the public domain. The silence from Aso Rock is itself an answer.

I do not ask Nigerians to believe rumour. I ask them to read the record, and then to stop defending the indefensible.

From Stockholm, with the record open.

#Nigeria #Tinubu #CSUGate #EnoughIsEnough #Accountability #TribalismIsComplicity #ChicagoStateUniversity #INEC #AsoRock #LettersFromStockholm #NigeriaDeservesBetter #RuleOfLaw #DiasporaVoices

[oseni rufai @ruffydfire]

She present buses to her party members but she wants us to fry akara

[MayDay @MayDayCam]

@_dinomelaye His Royal Highness Emir of Hardship and His Royal Highness Emir of Looting are on the same page, and there is nothing different between the two Emirs.