We, as opposition, proudly held Jonathan's government accountable.
We were voracious. We were relentless. We descended on Jonathan's administration heavily, relentlessly, and mercilessly.
Brazen corruption by his most trusted aides? We named it. The criminal mismanagement of our finest economic years? We indicted it - loudly, and without apology. For in the very season of oil boom, Nigeria was borrowing to pay salaries. Let that sink.
We attacked Jonathan with all we had; all we were; and all we wielded.
But one thing we never did - not once - was drag his tribe, his ethnicity, or his religion into the conversation.
Our quarrel was with Jonathan. Our confrontation was with power, and with the failures of power. We kept it there.
As civilized men do. As decent men do. As intelligent men do.
And that distinction - that restraint, that deliberate discipline of our grievance - is what separated us from this mob. These angry clowns. The gullible irritants discipled by Abacha's boy.
Good Evening Severally...
I read a comment now and it banged.
The person said: if you are used to listening to unintelligent people, when intelligent people speak, you are confused.
@cabeecroft23 At this point, it’s no longer about policy, it’s about standards and intellectual alignment.
Two different frequencies entirely.
Tinubu is operating on another level. Simple. 🇳🇬
Q: Let's assume you won your second term. What would you do in the first two years of your second term?
President Tinubu: Do more work, more challenges are there. The world won’t wait for anybody, you have to continue to reset and rethink.
This is a shallow definition of progress. Governance is not a family lifestyle audit. A state is not run to prove personal frugality or produce modest children; it is run to deliver vision, growth, jobs, infrastructure, and opportunity. Not stealing is the bare minimum, not a medal. The real question is: while in office, did the state grow or did its youths flee? Were industries built or excuses preserved? Did public funds circulate in the economy or sit idle earning interest in private vaults?
A leader who keeps clean hands but leaves empty streets, closed schools, stagnant hospitals, and migrating youths has not governed...he has merely managed optics. Progress is measured in outcomes, not anecdotes.
This is a shallow definition of progress. Governance is not a family lifestyle audit. A state is not run to prove personal frugality or produce modest children; it is run to deliver vision, growth, jobs, infrastructure, and opportunity. Not stealing is the bare minimum, not a medal. The real question is: while in office, did the state grow or did its youths flee? Were industries built or excuses preserved? Did public funds circulate in the economy or sit idle earning interest in private vaults?
A leader who keeps clean hands but leaves empty streets, closed schools, stagnant hospitals, and migrating youths has not governed...he has merely managed optics. Progress is measured in outcomes, not anecdotes.
Watch these videos carefully.
If you voted Tinubu against the grossly confused intellectually impoverished man in the last two videos, tap your head and tell it well done.
I’ll never talk down to anyone. Each of you is a potential gift to our world with your uniqueness. However, that doesn’t mean I won’t describe what I observe in your character and how you treat others. If that triggers you, then you know what to change. 🪴
ALL NIGERIA NEEDS IS A MAN -
THE WISDOM OF CONVENIENT IGNORANCE - PASTOR SAM ADEYEMI
Let us properly funnel this masterpiece by Pastor Sam -
from the wide plains to the narrow path,
from the unrelated to the concerned,
from the ornaments to the koko - the real punchlines.
As a Christian, find yourself a shepherd with visible strains of wisdom, an adequate measure of discernment, and a sufficient volume of sensitivity. Just these three - for a start.
His godliness, or the lack thereof, belongs to the deeper chambers of spiritual discernment where only the Holy Spirit has full access. But these three? They are visible to the naked eye. No fasting required. No visions. No ghosts - holy or otherwise. Just ilàákàyè - plain common sense.
How some of you still end up in ministries where Sunday sermons sound like
“I can never follow a poor pastor”
“I drive a Rolls Royce”
"Yorubas are cowards."
is your personal project o.
NOW, TO THE MATTER -
Pastor Sam threw a well-aimed spear, almost a direct hit at those who would have us deny the evidence of our eyes, suspend reason, and reduce governance to a raffle draw.
“All we need in this country is for God to give us a man.” 😆
After all the men we have had since 1960? Hehe…
Be honest with yourself: which of those men who had the opportunity to lead this great nation is Peter better than?
Be sincere.
None.
Maybe Aguiyi-Ironsi alone. Not even Abacha - at least when Abacha spoke, you were certain a man had spoken.
These simplistic, mundane, parochial conclusions - Pastor Sam insists - can only proceed from shallow waters.
“If Peter gets there, everybody will sit up.” 😆
Like they did in Anambra? When schools and hospitals shut down for months over Peter's misgovernance.
“If Peter does not steal, no minister will dare steal.”
Chai!
Even Buhari - whose personal discipline we all acknowledged, whose lifestyle was ramrod straight, and we are certain wouldn't corrupt his hands - could not prevent others from satisfying their greed. And now you expect a man we know lies for a living to perform miracles of institutional discipline?
As the great Ezemmuo, Dr. Joe Abah, consistently reminds us: governance is not rocket science - but it is harder than rocket science. Governments are not run on vain hope, empty chants, and emotional euphoria. They are run on experience, technical competence, institutional memory, and superior leadership capacity.
Pastor Sam added,
As Paul said,
The Jews seek after signs,
The Greeks after wisdom…
We, the progressives, seek track record - because he who has done it before is best positioned to do it again. You can't call that cynicism; it is plainlogic. Even Christians believe in God today not by mere hope, but by knowledge - He has done it before.
So our message to the Obidients is simple:
If you insist that a man with an excellent track record of success has failed, imagine handing over a nation to a man with a woeful track record of failure.
The stumble - if any - of a horse in a race is no motivation to a dog. An injured horse will still outrun a healthy dog. We will not hand over a nation to mediocrity because of emotional blackmail wrapped in spiritual slogans - “God has given us a man.”
A man who cannot confidently stand on his own achievements as a two-term governor of a promising state, but must reduce national discourse to toilet washing, food serving, one shoe, one boxer, no house in Abuja, and other inanities - should not be allowed to even crouch anywhere near national assignments.
Good Morning Severally.
@LegendaryJoe Brilliantly dissected. Pastor Sam’s point lands hard...nations aren’t governed by vibes, slogans, or “God give us a man” rhetoric, but by track record, capacity, and institutional competence. Faith doesn’t cancel facts. Experience still matters. History is the loudest sermon.
That a fellow whose people collectively agreed failed as a Governor can perform as a President is like believing a man who drowned in a stream can now command the ocean's depths.
If you cannot build your father's compound, how will you construct the kingdom's wall? The state under him witnessed the highest level of migration into his rival's state - young and vibrant indigenes fleeing hunger, poverty and his misrule like birds abandoning a burning forest.
This man cannot today profess new governance skills he didn't deploy while he was a young leader of a smaller space. Yesterday's failures are not tomorrow's blueprints for success.
Breath-taking audacity for one who stumbled while carrying a calabash of water would now convince us he can balance the great river itself upon his head. If your own kith and kin, those who spoke your language and can identify your father's compound, can boldly curse your lack of leadership and painfully brand you a misfit - if those who broke the same bread with you have pronounced you unworthy - your sermon of a rebrand can never make sense to strangers. A man rejected by his own household makes a poor king in the marketplace.
The verdict is written not in propaganda, forget campaign, it is the footprints of exodus. Those who fled speak louder than those who now campaign. A governor who failed his state is but a preview of a president who will fail his nation - for leadership, like character, does not transform by title but reveals itself through trial. The compound he couldn't build stands as monument to the kingdom's wall he never will.
Who do you think I speak of?
Can you guess right?
Good Morning Severally...
@LegendaryJoe A man’s record doesn’t reset with ambition. If leadership failed in a small space, scaling it up only magnifies the failure. Titles don’t create capacity...results do. History, not hype, is the final judge.
@john322226 😌 Calm & Classy
When grace is loud, even hate turns into promotion.
Some people don’t want peace...they want impressions.
Do your thing and let the numbers speak. ✨
@john322226 Supportive & Growth-Focused
This is the right mindset.
Growth starts with intentional community, not waiting for “big accounts.”
Let’s connect, engage genuinely, and grow together @nyore🤝📈