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[Shinjini Das @SpeakerShinjini]

Thank you for supporting my motivation go-getter. I didn't know who would support but I have AFRICA on my back. And we going all the way to the top because we are GO-GETTERS 😭🙏🏽🤞🏿.

[Kio Amachree @Ivory1957]

AN OPEN LETTER TO PETER OBI — A WORD FROM A SON OF NIGERIA

On Power, Courage, and the Unfinished Business of a Nation

Kio Amachree | President, Worldview International · Stockholm | April 2026

Dear Mr. Peter Obi,
I owe you a confession before I offer you counsel. In the last presidential election, I supported you. Not casually — I believed in you. I watched you speak in Atlanta, and what I saw was something Nigeria has rarely produced: a man who sounded like he had actually read the brief, who understood the gravity of the office he was seeking, and who spoke to Nigerians not as subjects to be managed but as citizens deserving of respect. I was moved. I was persuaded. And I trusted a process that, as I now understand more completely than ever, was never designed to be trusted.

I looked across at Bola Ahmed Tinubu — a man who, in the most charitable interpretation of his observable condition, appeared to be fighting a daily battle simply to remain upright and coherent — and I made the mistake of assuming that what was obvious to my eyes would be obvious to the outcome. I did not account sufficiently for the depth of the organised criminality arrayed against the Nigerian people. I did not account for the degree to which the machinery of power in that country has been engineered not to reflect the will of the citizenry but to override it. I switched off in disgust. I am ashamed to admit it, but I did. For a moment, I despaired.
What reactivated me was not optimism. It was fury — and the particular fury of a man who was raised to believe that silence in the face of injustice is its own form of complicity. My father, Chief Godfrey Kio Jaja Amachree QC — Nigeria’s first Solicitor-General, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, General Gowon’s personal envoy to Washington during the Civil War, one of the architects of Rivers State — was not a gentle man. He was rigorous. He was demanding. He was, at times, difficult to love. But he built into me something I could not switch off even when I wanted to: the sense that Nigeria is not merely a country one happens to have been born into. It is a responsibility. It is a debt owed to those who came before and those who will come after.

My grandfather, Chief Sekin Amachree, sat at the 1958 Constitutional Conference and the Willink Commission. These men shaped Nigeria before it was even Nigeria. I am their reflection — and as any man who has stood before a mirror knows, a reflection does not always like what it sees. But it cannot look away.

Now I come to you with what I hope you will receive in the spirit in which it is offered: not as flattery, not as political alignment, but as the hard, frank counsel of one educated man to another. I was educated at Eton College — not the softened, therapeutic Eton of today, but the Eton that broke you down and rebuilt you; the Eton that fed you deliberately terrible food so that you would learn to endure discomfort without complaint; the Eton that placed you among the sons of dukes and diplomats and expected you to hold your own. The school that in its long and morally complicated history produced twenty-four British Prime Ministers — including, most recently, Boris Johnson and David Cameron.
I mention those two men for a reason, Peter, and I need you to listen carefully because there is a lesson in them for you. Boris Johnson — the blond, blundering, self-consciously bumbling figure that the British public came to love and loathe in equal measure — is not what he appears. That persona is a construction, polished over years at Eton, refined at Oxford, deployed with extraordinary precision.
Johnson’s great-great-grandfather was a Turkish journalist named Ali Kemal, a man of dark complexion and Muslim faith who was so critical of the Atatürk revolution that he was killed by a mob and his body dragged through the streets of Istanbul. His family fled to England during the First World War — on the wrong side of the conflict, since the Ottomans had fought with the Axis against Britain — and his widow, terrified of persecution, changed the family name to Johnson. A safe, plain, English name. Over generations, the Turkish identity dissolved. The grandson of that terrified widow became the Foreign Secretary and then the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

I am not telling you this to diminish Johnson. I am telling you this because it is the greatest lesson Eton teaches, though it never states it plainly: the surface is a weapon. The carefully constructed persona — the apparent bumbling, the Latin quotations, the self-deprecating humour — was armour and ammunition simultaneously. While his opponents were laughing at him, he was outmanoeuvring them. David Cameron, by contrast, came from genuine money and genuine breeding. He had no need to construct anything. He was charming, handsome, instinctively confident, loved his Bob Marley, smoked his weed at school, was caught — and was not expelled, because Eton looked at him and saw a future Prime Minister, which is precisely what he became. Two very different men. Both utterly ruthless. Both winners.
The lesson I am drawing for you is this: you must stop campaigning like a man who is trying not to offend anyone, and start campaigning like a man who intends to win. Nigeria in 2027 is not a debating competition. It is a knife fight. And a knife fight is not won by the man who is most correct — it is won by the man who is most prepared to use what is in his hand.

Let me now speak plainly about Bola Ahmed Tinubu, because plainness is what this moment demands. In my considered assessment — and I do not use such language lightly — Tinubu represents the most comprehensively corrupt political figure to have occupied the highest office in Nigeria’s troubled history. That is not rhetoric. That is a conclusion drawn from evidence that is now, in significant part, part of the public international record.
There is the matter of the United States federal narcotics investigation — the case that cost him his forfeited funds in Chicago and that lies at the core of the FBI and DEA files that a United States federal court, under Judge Beryl Howell, has ordered released. Those files, due by June of this year, may well constitute the most consequential document release in the history of Nigerian political accountability. The man currently sitting in Aso Rock has a documented relationship with American federal law enforcement that has never been honestly reckoned with by the Nigerian political establishment or the Nigerian press.

And then there is Gilbert Chagoury. Let us be precise: Chagoury is a man convicted in Switzerland of money laundering and reported by American intelligence as having financed Hezbollah. He is also the man to whom Tinubu’s administration has directed billions of dollars in no-tender infrastructure contracts — including the controversial Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway — without competitive bid, without transparency, without the basic procedural safeguards that any functioning government owes its people. The relationship between Tinubu and Chagoury is not incidental. It is structural. It is the architecture of how power and money move in this administration.

And then there is the son. Seyi Tinubu. A young man installed on corporate boards, positioned as a conduit for the family’s accumulation of influence, presented to the public through the cynical theatre of rice distributions to the poor while billions are being distributed to the connected. He is not a peripheral figure. He is the succession plan. He is also, for your purposes, the most humanly comprehensible point of attack — because nothing angers ordinary Nigerians more than watching a president’s son live like a king while they cannot afford to eat.

Peter, here is my direct counsel to you. Stop being careful. The time for careful has passed. These are not normal political adversaries operating within a normal political system. These are people who have weaponised the state, corrupted the judiciary, terrified the press, and enriched themselves beyond any defensible measure while the Nigerian naira has collapsed and ordinary families have been reduced to desperate improvisation simply to survive. You are not going to defeat them by being measured. You are going to defeat them by being relentless.

Make the Chagoury contracts the centrepiece of your campaign. Demand accountability for every naira. Make Nigerians understand not just that money has been stolen — they already know money has been stolen, they have always known — but where it has gone, into whose hands, and at whose instruction. Make the connection between the billions flowing to Chagoury’s companies and the intelligence reports linking Chagoury’s network to Hezbollah financing. Ask the question publicly and loudly: are Nigerian state funds being used to finance terrorism? Ask it until you get an answer.
I write this from Stockholm. I cannot vote. I cannot march. I am a Swedish citizen of Ijaw and Niger Delta royal lineage, a diaspora voice, a man who has slept in palaces and on floors and worked on Wall Street and in the City of London and in the Nigerian National Assembly and in the boiling heart of African civic struggle. I have no party. I have no financial interest. What I have is a name, a history, and a conscience that my father — for all his severity — programmed to be incapable of looking away.

I pray that the United States releases those FBI and DEA files on schedule. I pray that the Central Intelligence Agency, which has long maintained its own complex relationship with Tinubu, makes the calculation that he has become more liability than asset — particularly as the Chagoury-Hezbollah nexus moves from allegation toward documented fact in international law enforcement circles. These are not fantasies. These are live proceedings in active jurisdictions.

Nigeria does not need saving — that framing is too passive, and it places too much burden on a single individual. Nigeria needs someone willing to fight for it with the same ferocity that those who have looted it have fought to keep it. My grandfather helped write the terms of this nation’s existence. My father spent his life in its service. I have spent mine trying to honour them both while finding my own voice in a world that did not always make room for it easily.
I am offering you that voice. The counsel of an Old Etonian who was taught not how to be a gentleman — though that too — but how empires are built, how power actually functions, and why the most dangerous man in any room is often the one who appears least threatening. I am offering you the analytical framework of a man who has studied Nigerian politics from the inside and from the outside, who understands the diaspora, who understands the international legal architecture that can be brought to bear, and who believes, despite everything, that this fight is still winnable.
Go for the jugular, Peter. Do it with evidence. Do it with precision. Do it with the controlled fury of a man who has genuinely reckoned with what is at stake. Cast away the niceties — they have cost you enough already.
Nigeria is watching. The diaspora is watching. And the dead — among them the men whose names I carry — are watching too.

I wish you strength, clarity, and the wisdom to know that in this particular fight, mercy extended to the wrong people is simply cruelty extended to the right ones.

Go well. And go hard.
Kio Amachree
President, Worldview International
Stockholm, Kingdom of Sweden
Son of Chief Godfrey Kio Jaja Amachree QC, Nigeria’s First Solicitor-General

[Willy kanga @Willy_kanga_]

The scariest thing about Nigeria is not even the problems, it’s how normal everything is starting to feel

[Mr. Czar @Mrczar_]

Dear APC supporters, that Bwale video is actually how you all sound on this app everyday. Use it as a mirror.

[Oyindamola🙄 @dammiedammie35]

Gov Amunike don go make skit about the APC rep offering 3k gig for Twitter influencers chai 😭😂💔

[I am because we are#ubuntu @Geonez2]

@HerbalistChief I have 2 trees but both haven't produced any fruit for more than a year, any solution @HerbalistChief 🙏🏽?

[I am because we are#ubuntu @Geonez2]

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[James Maddison @Madders10]

The power and positive side of social media🙏 Hi Kelly. I have spoken with the club and we would absolutely love to invite Harley and his immediate family to the Newcastle game to watch in a lovely box where I will come and say hello and spend half time in there so we can have that cup of tea & have a nice catch up with Harley. Me and everyone at @SpursOfficial are sending our love🤍

[I am because we are#ubuntu @Geonez2]

@NY_amankwaa To pay the fees of the wards under my care 🤲

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

Over 20 million children are out of school in Nigeria and we’ve somehow made peace with that number.

We walk past them every day selling sachet water, carrying loads and begging to survive.

Then we act shocked when insecurity grows.

You cannot abandon children at scale and expect peace at scale.

What hurts the most is that we don’t lack money rather we lack priority. We fund convoys before classrooms, we fund elections before education and also fund allowances before teachers.

A child who never enters a classroom doesn’t just miss lessons, they miss structure, hope, discipline, and belonging.

That vacuum never stays empty. Something else fills it.

This is not about North vs South vs East. Not religion nor tribe.

It’s about a country deciding, quietly, that millions of children are expendable and history has never been kind to nations that make that choice.

[I am because we are#ubuntu @Geonez2]

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[iPaul @funnyscandal]

@DavidHundeyin Tinubu cheated, but guess what he’s being recognized as Nigerias president because we all allowed the robbery unchallenged. Well said!

[I am because we are#ubuntu @Geonez2]

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[E. T. A @uniqueeta]

May each step you take today, bring you closer to your hearts desires.

Wishing you a calm, & a beautiful day ahead. GM my X Fam❤️❤️

[ChiefHerbalist @HerbalistChief]

This week, set a day aside and give your stomach a healthy rest. FAST !!!!

Fasting is an effective and safe method of detoxifying the body. It helps the body heal itself, prevent degenerative diseases, reverse the ageing process and rebuilds the body's immune system.

Happy new week.

[I am because we are#ubuntu @Geonez2]

Happy birthday @pshegs , onwards to greatness. God bless you

[pshegs @pshegs]

+1 today.
Happy birthday @pshegs

All clothes by @inscriptionsonX

[𝗔jebo✧.🎩 @_heisajebo]

Piece by piece, you are going to make a life for yourself. Not because you have finally arrived at a place where everything is perfect, but because you have allowed flowers to grow in between the concrete of your grief. You are going to make a life for yourself, even if you fear you're not. You've been doing it all along.
Have a blessed morning …..❤️

[I am because we are#ubuntu @Geonez2]

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[Geocrypt @Geocrypt_]

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[EzugwuUgwu @Ezugwu_ugwu]

Since I was born or long before, the quality of almost everything here has been on the decline.

Quality of education/educators — decline

Quality of policies — decline

Currency — decline

Quality of infrastructure — decline

Corruption — level (the same)

Morality — decline

True leaders — decline

Overall Quality of people — decline

Government frugality — decline

You remember one thing or sector that’s been different?

The last thing here is one of the reasons I believe so much in @PeterObi. He is the only one capable and trustworthy enough to reduce the cost, and attractiveness of governance.

[E. T. A @uniqueeta]

May each chapter, in the year 2026 be delightful , glorious, prosperous , and above all safe for us, amen🤲🏽.

Welcome to the year 2026🎊🍾🥂 my wonderful X Fam❤️😃!

[Giannis Antetokounmpo @Giannis_An34]

I ain't no painter but you get the picture💯🤞🏽

[Opeyemi Babalola @BOTAD01]

Armed robbers don't care about how difficult it is for you to make money. What an armed robber is after is to rob you of what you have.

Now change Armed robber to APC in the post.

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

Nigeria is walking into a one-chance that will shock generations.

FIRS just signed an MoU with France’s DGFiP to “modernise tax administration”, “data-driven enforcement”, “information exchange”, and “capacity building”.

If you like believe sweet grammar.
Translation: Nigeria has opened the engine room of its tax system to France.

Who is advising these people?

Let’s be clear. France is not an innocent actor in Africa. France is the most aggressive economic-intelligence power in West Africa.

They hold CFA countries by the throat.
They control currency reserves.
They shape customs rules.
They monitor financial flows from Dakar to N’Djamena.
They embed “advisers” inside governments.

France does not play.

Without Africa, France would be a mid-tier country nobody sends.

Once France enters your revenue backend, they can read your entire economy like a Bible:
– Who pays tax
– Who evades
– Which sectors are weak
– Which sectors are profitable
– Where money comes from
– Where money goes
– Where wealth lives
– Where political networks hide

That is not “capacity building”.
That is POWER.

And Nigeria handed it over like a Valentine gift.

Instead of building sovereign capacity, we are outsourcing our fiscal brain to a foreign power that survives by controlling African economies.

Even Francophone countries are fighting to escape France’s grip.
Nigeria is rushing into it by itself. Incredible.

France didn’t build wealth with chains alone.
They used African tax, labour, rubber, gold, cash crops, and minerals.

Today, the chains are called:
“MoUs”
“Digital transformation”
“BEPS frameworks”
“Cross-border cooperation”

Same script. New costume.

Now imagine this as Nigeria transitions from FIRS to Nigeria Revenue Service in 2026 with foreign fingerprints already on the backend, algorithms, enforcement logic, data pipelines, and compliance structure.

Who do you fight tomorrow when your tax DNA is exposed?

Does the US give IRS backend to Mexico?
Does the UK hand HMRC to Pakistan?
Does India give its tax system to China?
Does France give Algeria its revenue architecture?

Never.

But Nigeria keeps behaving like a giant that signs away sovereignty for photo-ops.

Nigerians, your future is being auctioned in broad daylight.
Line by line.
Signature by signature.
Document by document.

“Our dear native land” is no longer poetry.
It is slipping away quietly.

Clap if you like.
Play tribal politics if you like.

But hear this truth:
Once a foreign power holds your tax system, your independence is finished.

No guns needed. Just MoUs.

Every sensible Nigerian must speak with one voice.

Not today.
Not tomorrow.
Not ever.