John Igoh

[Phrank Shaibu @phrankangel]

My dear Senator Murray-Bruce,

This long epistle collapses on its very first assumption: Atiku is NOT proposing a return to the old subsidy regime.

You wrote an entire thesis attacking a policy nobody proposed.

Atiku’s AERP proposes a targeted, capped and transparent subsidy on DOMESTIC PRODUCTION, not the old open-ended subsidy on imported fuel. The objective is simple: support Nigerian refining, lower the cost of energy, reduce production and transport costs, and ensure the benefit reaches Nigerians.

And there is a delicious contradiction in your argument.

You say subsidy is bad because it “made a few men billionaires,” then spend the rest of your essay proposing that governors should pay private transport operators the difference between the market fare and ₦500.

My brother, what exactly do you think that is?

A SUBSIDY. 😂

So after all the grammar, you are not against subsidy. You are merely debating what should be subsidised, how it should be administered and who should pay for it.

Welcome to Atiku’s argument.

The difference is that while you want 36 governors subsidising bus fares after high energy costs have already worked their way through the economy, Atiku wants to attack a major source of those costs by supporting domestic energy production.

And please spare us the attempt to absolve the Federal Government of the consequences of its own economic policy. Tinubu removed fuel subsidy and unified the FX market. The resulting energy and exchange-rate shocks fed directly into transportation, food and production costs nationwide.

You cannot light the fire in Abuja and then send Nigerians to their governors for extinguishers.

Your transport proposal may be worth debating.

But next time, read Atiku’s proposal before writing a dissertation against it.

The funniest part is that after thousands of words trying to prove Atiku wrong, you ended up proposing a subsidy yourself.

Welcome aboard.

[Kio Amachree @Ivory1957]

AN OPEN LETTER TO KASH PATEL, DIRECTOR OF THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Letters from Stockholm

Dear Director Patel,

I write to you as a Nigerian of the diaspora, a Swedish citizen, and the founder of Worldview International, on behalf of millions of Nigerians at home and abroad who have watched your Bureau's conduct before Judge Beryl Howell with growing disbelief.

On August 20, 2026, your agency filed a motion asking the United States District Court for the District of Columbia for permission to explain, in secret, ex parte and in camera, why it continues to withhold records concerning Bola Ahmed Tinubu, records dating to 1992 and 1993, records connected to a Chicago heroin trafficking investigation, records a federal judge ordered you to process more than a year ago. You claim their release could endanger lives and reveal law enforcement techniques. Techniques from 1993, Director. Thirty-three years old. The rotary telephone was still in service.

So permit me to ask you the question every Nigerian is asking.

Why is Bola Tinubu's file more sacred to your Bureau than the Epstein files?

Your administration promised the American people transparency on Jeffrey Epstein, files in which your own President's name has reportedly appeared, alongside the names of some of the most powerful men in the Western world. That promise collapsed into memos, redactions and retreat. And yet here you are, three years into Greenspan v. Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys, deploying the full machinery of the Department of Justice, extension after extension, Glomar responses that Judge Howell ruled improper, sealed declarations, secret submissions, all to shield the file of a foreign head of state who, in 1993, forfeited 460,000 US dollars to your government in a civil action alleging the funds were proceeds of heroin trafficking.

He was never charged, you will say. Correct. He simply handed over the money and walked away. Innocent men do not ordinarily pay the United States Treasury nearly half a million dollars to make questions disappear. And your Bureau's conduct since, producing not a single processed page despite a court order, despite your own promised timetables of January, March and June of this year, despite the open irritation of a federal judge who noted this case has been pending for over three years, tells its own story.

Why is this man so important to your agency, Director?

What service has Bola Tinubu rendered the United States that earns him protection your own citizens cannot obtain about their own government? Was he a source? An asset? A cooperator? If so, say it. If not, release the file. The Freedom of Information Act does not contain an exemption for the embarrassment of foreign presidents.

Let me tell you what your lawyers in Washington may not have explained to you. Nigerians are not fools. We are among the most educated diasporas in the United States, your own census data confirms it. We read court filings. We know what a Glomar response is. We know what ex parte means. We watched Judge Howell rule in April 2025 that your refusal to confirm the existence of records was, in her words, neither logical nor plausible, because your agencies had already acknowledged that Tinubu was a subject of investigation. Playing games with our intelligence will not work.

And understand this clearly. You may have leverage over one man. You do not have leverage over 230 million Nigerians. Nigeria is Africa's largest democracy, a trading partner worth billions of dollars annually to American business, the anchor of West Africa. Bola Tinubu will leave office, whether in 2027 or before. The government that follows him, and the generation that elects it, will remember precisely who shielded him, and why. A partnership built on the concealment of one man's past is not a partnership with Nigeria. It is a partnership against her.

There are also questions this file may finally settle that go to the heart of our 2027 presidential election. Questions about identity, about credentials, about a biography that has never withstood scrutiny, questions currently before Nigeria's own Federal High Court in the Atiku Abubakar suit over his eligibility. Nigerian voters have a right to the truth before they vote, not after.

Director Patel, you built your public reputation denouncing the deep state, secret files, and two-tiered justice. You wrote a book about government gangsters. Here is your test. The box is already open. The dots are already connected. Every day of delay, every sealed declaration, every extension request is itself an answer, because no agency fights this hard, this long, to conceal a clean record.

Release the Tinubu files. All of them. Let Nigerians judge for themselves.

History is watching you, and so are we.

Yours faithfully,

Kio Amachree
Founder and President, Worldview International
Stockholm

[Von Batten-Montague-York, L.C. @batten_von]

Update: We have now been informed that @uscourts Judge Howell this morning granted the @FBI permission to provide the court with the documents in private and has given the @FBI, @DEAHQ, @TheJusticeDept, and Nigerian President Bola Tinubu (@officialABAT) until August 28, 2026 (“and no later”), to file their opposition to the release of Tinubu's alleged drug-trafficking records. I stress the judge’s “no later” comment because the court has reached its limit and is making it clear that the FBI must now convince the court why the documents are too sensitive to be released.

Unlike the @JoeBiden @TheJusticeDept (DOJ), where the DOJ and FBI blocked, stonewalled, and refused to admit they had any sensitive drug-trafficking-related documents on President #Tinubu, the DOJ and FBI under President @realDonaldTrump are moving fast and being transparent as they move through the process. The #FBI has now admitted that it has highly sensitive drug-trafficking-related information about President #Tinubu. By admitting this, we now know Tinubu's claim that the case was simply about civil forfeiture is untrue. The FBI does not deem civil cases highly sensitive and seeks to present the evidence to the judge in private. This is usually done in high-level drug cases where the goal is to protect the agency's dealings with the criminal informant. This ties into the allegation that President #Tinubu ratted out his alleged co-drug traffickers in exchange for immunity from prosecution.

The #FBI admitting in court that it has sensitive information on President #Tinubu and requiring the court to review the documents privately before any court order ordering their release is given aligns with what our friend in the Trump Administration has told us: We will follow the law, but we do not protect drug traffickers. The FBI is following standard procedures for protecting informants, but is also openly communicating that President #Tinubu's claim of innocence is far from the truth. We thank President Trump and the White House senior staff for moving this case forward after three years of stalling and for being fully transparent, unlike the Biden DOJ, which did not acknowledge it had sensitive information on Tinubu.

@JDVance @SecRubio @SusieWiles47 @HouseForeignGOP @HouseForeign @SFRCdems @StateDept @AsstSecStateAF @SenateForeign @SenTedCruz @RepBrianMast @SusieWiles @RepGregSteube @RepJames @Jim_Jordan @RepRaskin @FBIDirectorKash @ChuckGrassley @SenatorDurbin @HouseJudiciary @JudiciaryGOP @FoxNews @washingtonpost @joerogan @joeroganhq @seanhannity @IngrahamAngle @chicagotribune @AGToddRokita @GovBraun @tmhuston @INHouseGOP @indgop @SOSDiegoMorales @indystar @JudgeJeanine @GOP @Republicans

[Mr. E Osanyin (nObEl) @E_Osanyin]

I don’t understand o. Nigerians are saying they don’t want to suffer again and u should give them back their subsidy. APC is insisting the suffering must continue.

Ah ah! Suffering na by force? 😂

Vote ADC!
Vote Atiku Abubakar for president!

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[Phrank Shaibu @phrankangel]

The issue isn’t simply “subsidy or no subsidy.” It is WHAT KIND of subsidy, WHO benefits, and HOW it is administered.

Atiku is not proposing a return to the old import-subsidy racket. He is proposing a targeted, capped and auditable subsidy for DOMESTIC PRODUCTION :supporting Nigerian refining, not foreign imports and middlemen.
So the real debate should be:
Do we subsidise IMPORTATION and consumption, or strategically support Nigerian PRODUCTION and jobs?
Those are two fundamentally different economic choices.

[Mr. E Osanyin (nObEl) @E_Osanyin]

Atiku’s interview wasn’t even in English, it was conducted in Hausa and it has made Tinubu himself to come out of his “bunker” to respond. His aides have also been falling over one another trying to counter it.

They are truly in disarray.

Now imagine what happens when Atiku breaks everything down in a language everyone understands - English. They will runaway o. 😂

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[Hamma @HAHayatu]

Seems the mainstream media are avoiding this good news , No Problem, some of us are as good as media houses , we shall tell Nigerians the good news

[Phrank Shaibu @phrankangel]

https://t.co/mkaNbOcyRT

[DGov @omoluabi1sq]

“I saved Obasanjo’s life in prison by leaking information about an impending injection that could have killed him. They did the same to Yar’Adua, and when I learnt they planned to do it to him, I warned him not to allow the injection. Today, he wants the world to hate me because I opposed his third-term ambition.” — Atiku Abubakar, former Vice President.

[Abdul Rasheeth @Rasheethe]

A distinguished cross-section of H.E. Atiku Abubakar’s media team during the strategic planning of his recent live interview with Hausa platforms, Facebook Live, and Northern Radio Media Houses.

The conversation continues — directly with the people.

[Dee @hajaramusa17]

This is his plan to restore fuel subsidy if elected

The Atiku Subsidy Plan will not return Nigeria to the old system of subsidising imported petroleum products through opaque retail differentials.

The subsidy will be redirected from importation and consumption to domestic production and refining.

The idea is for government to make it cheaper for Nigerian refineries - private and public - to produce petroleum products locally by supplying them with Nigerian crude at a subsidised price. In return, participating refineries will be required to meet transparent technical, financial and regulatory standards, refine efficiently and sell their products to the local market at a regulated ex-gantry price determined through an independently verifiable cost formula.

This fundamentally changes the subsidy model.

In the former import subsidy operated through a complex chain involving foreign refiners, traders, shipping companies, importers, terminal operators and marketers, government paid the difference between the cost of imported products and the regulated domestic price, creating considerable opportunities for inflated claims, diversion and leakage.

Under the Atiku Plan, subsidy will be concentrated at the point of domestic production. Government will be able to verify the quantity of crude allocated to each refinery, the subsidised price, the volume actually processed, the quantity and type of products produced, the verified refining cost and the final ex-gantry price.

The subsidy will follow the barrel.
Every subsidised barrel must, therefore, be traceable from allocation to processing and ultimately to refined petroleum products. Subsidy will be tied to verified production, not claims. Refineries that violate the rules will lose access to subsidised crude and face appropriate regulatory and legal consequences.

The economic impact will extend far beyond the filling station.

*Lower domestic refining costs will reduce petrol and diesel prices
Which will in turn reduce transportation and logistics costs across the economy;

*Farmers will spend less moving produce to markets;

*Manufacturers will face lower production and distribution costs;

*Traders will spend less transporting goods;

*And businesses will have greater capacity to invest, employ and expand.

[John Igoh @johnigoh718]

@Enogie4rmEnugu @Eromosele6 Did he stop you from aspiring?

[Gimbiya @FaiyitSylvester]

HE Atiku Abubakar on corruption cases in Nigeria:

“When we came into office in 1999, we inherited the government of Abacha. President Obasanjo came in angry, and I told him that this was not how we should do things.

We had records of what everyone had stolen. We called them, sat down with them, and told them to return what they had taken, while allowing them to keep 5%.

I chaired the committee, with Aliyu Gusau as a member. That was how we recovered money for Nigeria. Later, we established the EFCC to fight corruption.”

Atiku has promised to fight corruption to the fullest if elected.

['Demola Olarewaju @DemolaRewaju]

Atiku is doing this single-handedly against Tinubu internationally while still suing him over academic records as a pre-election matter in Nigerian courts but some fellow opposition are still asking him to step down so Tinubu can win easily.

Let it all be on record for history.

[John Igoh @johnigoh718]

@AishaYesufu @atiku Please quit playing the victim here. You guys live in active perpetual denial

[E.J. @Enwagboso]

Peter Obi's camp's recent coalition push is pure political maneuvering.

He reluctantly joined a united opposition after being part of the discussions for a while.

He rejected an initial united opposition consensus and demanded a primary, clearly believing the presidency was owed to him.

When granted control over the primary process, he assumed he had the numbers in the bag, only to run away right before the vote to secure a guaranteed ballot spot elsewhere.

Now that he's on the ballot, his camp is hypocritically asking for a coalition again and expecting other candidates to step down for him.

This level of entitlement is unreal and a show of arrogance.

Any candidate who steps down for him needs their head checked.

You cannot step down for the worst candidate on the ballot. Never.

#EbubeAguUkwa

[Seleman @Eromosele6]

If Atiku’s desire to serve Nigeria is “a craving for power,” then Peter Obi’s political career deserves the same scrutiny. A politician who has moved from party to party, abandoned political alliances when they no longer served his interests, and still expects Nigerians to treat him as the only principled alternative.

Peter Obi wants the image of a man driven by conviction, but his political journey tells a different story. He wants the platform, the delegates, the votes and the support—but when things don't go his way, suddenly everyone else is selfish.

You cannot spend years chasing the presidency and then pretend ambition is a disease that only affects Atiku.

Atiku may be ambitious, but at least he has consistently shown the willingness to build political alliances and fight for what he wants.

Obi wants the crown without accepting the realities of the political battlefield.

That isn't principle. That's entitlement.

[Von Batten-Montague-York, L.C. @batten_von]

We just received a copy of President Bola Tinubu’s (@officialABAT) filing from just two business days ago. Not surprisingly, President Tinubu has now formally joined @TheJusticeDept’s request for a 10-day extension, which the judge has now swiftly denied.

We surmise that President #Tinubu wants to use any delay to call upon his friends in DC to argue that the release of these files would harm U.S.-Nigeria relations and undermine his ability to work with the United States to combat terrorism and the killing of Christians in Northern Nigeria.

We believe that any U.S. government personnel who improperly attempt to interfere with the judicial or FOIA process on behalf of #Nigerian President #Tinubu to prevent the lawful release of these records should be exposed and fired.

President @realDonaldTrump and the United States do not protect individuals alleged by the DOJ to have been part of a criminal organization that smuggled heroin into the United States.

[Dr Usman Isyaku @DrUsmanIsyaku]

Obi of Anambra is now sending a kangaroo G100 group including his senior influencers and content creators to beg Atiku Abubakar to withdraw from the race for him. What an audacious effort. What happened to his "I must be on the ballot"? Isn't NDC a platform for his ballot yet? These people are time wasters. Atiku doesn't need Obi of Anambra to become the next president. Who will tell them this?