Dr. Olu Kunuji

Lawyer|Scholar- Business and Human Rights | ESG| International Dispute Settlement | Climate Change Law| Sustainable Finance.

[O'tega Ogra @otegaogra]

This statement by Mr Gregory Peter Obi shows a continued lack of understanding of how the apparatus of state, and indeed a Presidency, works. At best, it is lacking in critical thought.

As President and Diplomat in Chief, President Bola Tinubu has consistently travelled with Nigerian champions of business and industry, drawn from a wide range of sectors including manufacturing, finance, agriculture, fintech, technology, oil and gas, aviation, and services.

In Nairobi, Kenya, earlier this week, at least twelve of our national business champions were present, including the two richest Black men in the world, Aliko Dangote and Abdul Samad Rabiu. Also present were Jim Ovia, Tony Elumelu, Kola Karim, Wale Tinubu, Gbenga Oyebode, and others.

In Kigali, Rwanda, just two days ago, President Bola Tinubu was accompanied by even more Nigerian business leaders. At every opportunity during the Forum, he highlighted them, celebrated them, advocated for them, and pushed for opportunities for them to scale across Africa.

That is what serious leadership does. It does not reduce the state to one man. It builds systems, opens doors, creates platforms, and allows institutions and enterprise to outlive the tenure of any individual.

Please, take a leaf from our President, who understands that processes, systems, structures, and institutionalisation are what make governance and its impact sustainable long after office.

Three governors after your time in office are still trying to fix the consequences of your institutionalised “only me” approach to governing a state, an approach which left “no tangible legacy”, to quote you directly.

O’tega

P.S.: I genuinely look forward to the day when your interventions are shaped by original thought and novel ideas, rather than by shallow analogies to others that offer more theatre than substance.

[O'tega Ogra @otegaogra]

S&P’s Upgrade: Nigeria’s Reform Story Is Being Priced Differently

~ O’tega Ogra

Nigeria’s latest upgrade by S&P Global Ratings from B minus to B, with a stable outlook, is an important vote of confidence in the difficult but necessary reforms being implemented under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

It confirms what we have consistently said. Nigeria is turning the corner, not by chance, not by rhetoric, but by the courage to take decisions that should have been taken years ago.

This is not just about a rating. It is about credibility returning to the Nigerian economy.

S&P points to stronger oil production, increased domestic refining capacity, improved balance of payments, rising foreign exchange reserves, exchange rate liberalisation, stronger fiscal revenue, and the government’s continued commitment to reform. These are the foundations of a more stable economy.

For years, Nigeria paid heavily for postponed decisions. Subsidies drained revenue and foreign exchange. Multiple exchange rates rewarded arbitrage instead of productivity. Oil earnings were weakened by theft, leakages, and poor remittance discipline. The tax base remained too narrow for a country of our size and ambition.

President Tinubu chose a different path. He chose correction over comfort. He chose reform over illusion. He chose the harder road because serious nations are not built on temporary relief that mortgages the future.

That is what this upgrade recognises.

But this is not the moment for empty triumphalism. Many Nigerians still feel the pressure of food prices, transport costs, and the cost of living. Mr President is aware and doing the hard work to close that gap.

The point is that the foundation is being repaired.

And foundations matter because no household can enjoy lasting relief from an economy built on weak revenue, scarce foreign exchange, artificial pricing, expensive borrowing, and fiscal pretence.

For the regular Nigerian, the upgrade does not mean prices fall tomorrow morning. It means the country is becoming less risky, more investable, and better positioned to attract capital, support jobs, finance infrastructure, reduce pressure on debt service, and create the conditions for real recovery.

The real test now is transmission.

The gains must move from the report to the road, from reserves to relief, from investor confidence to factory floors, from improved revenue to better public services, from macro stability to household dignity. And they will. We have a President that has the capacity and the depth to ensure this happens in the quickest possible time while guaranteeing our country’s long term sustainability and shared prosperity.

At the Africa CEO Forum in Kigali, President Tinubu made the wider point clearly. Africa must put its own house in order, but the world must also stop pricing the continent through old suspicion when African countries reform, stabilise, produce, and take hard decisions.

So yes, Nigeria welcomes S&P’s upgrade.

It is useful.

It is positive.

It strengthens confidence.

But it also reminds us that Africa must build its own instruments of confidence. We must earn global respect while developing credible African institutions that understand our markets, our resilience, our informality, our demographics, and the full texture of our reform journey.

That is the balance.

We welcome external validation.

We however will never outsource national conviction.

Nigeria has not fully arrived yet, but Nigeria has turned the corner for good.

And once a serious nation turns, the duty is to keep moving with discipline, courage, compassion, and the quiet confidence of a country that knows its future will not be handed to it.

It will be built.

[JJ. Omojuwa @Omojuwa]

Hot and sizzling https://t.co/BHcZoPcMr6

[JJ. Omojuwa @Omojuwa]

May 2025. Before the coalition was formed.

[JJ. Omojuwa @Omojuwa]

I join Mr President @officialABAT in congratulating my brother @otegaogra on his election to the World Federation of Advertisers Executive Committee. Excellence cannot be hidden and O’tega has shown one thing through the years, he knows his stuff!

[Presidency Nigeria @NGRPresident]

President Tinubu Congratulates Otega Ogra on Election to World Federation of Advertisers Executive Committee.

@otegaogra

[Dr. Olu Kunuji @olu_11]

@NGRPresident @otegaogra Congratulations @otegaogra. Well deserved!

[Usman Shehu @ui_shehu]

Congratulations, Mr Otega Ogra @otegaogra, on your election to the Executive Committee of the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA).

I am truly proud to see you attain this remarkable milestone, which reflects years of hard work, professionalism, and consistency in your field.

Your emergence at the Annual General Meeting in Stockholm, Sweden, as the only representative from West Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa on the Executive Committee is a clear testament to your excellence and the global respect you have earned.

I celebrate this achievement with you and wish you even greater success as you take on this important global responsibility.

[O'tega Ogra @otegaogra]

The politicians who privatise others' political parties said Nigeria should copy Argentina and Ghana's economic reform models. Their leading contenders wrote epistles online and shouted it at any opportunity. Well, time has revealed that both countries are not exactly the models AA and PO preached them to be. Nigeria would have failed woefully had we taken that path. As always, they showed a lack of ideas neither did they show the capacity to think things or the consequences through.

Thankfully, President Bola Tinubu is not like them. The World Bank says our reforms are now used as a model for others to follow.

Follow who know road.

[O'tega Ogra @otegaogra]

We know how many tens of thousands passport backlog Aregbesola left. All passport backlog cleared under BTO. Passport renewal Process automated.

We know how many jailbreaks occurred whilst Aregbesola was minister. Better conditions at correctional facilities today under BTO.

We know that promotions were stalled for many years across the agencies under Aregbesola. All outstanding promotions approved by President Tinubu, cleared, done by BTO. 2026 promotions currently ongoing.

Better pay and working conditions as well as post retirement benefits under PBAT/BTO.

Should I say more?

[O'tega Ogra @otegaogra]

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[O'tega Ogra @otegaogra]

It is becoming increasingly obvious the team at the Morning Show may need a research unit to back up some of their hosts.

For instance, RFO’s posts of late have become so embarrassing for their lack of research, verifiable facts, or their misrepresentation of information that is in public-domain.

Personally , I’m beginning to think it is either he is not backed by a proper research team or that he deliberately chooses to misinform in order to elicit reactions.

I’ll stick to the former. For now.

[O'tega Ogra @otegaogra]

One of the clearest summaries of the ADC debacle so far. The Association of Desperate Cadidates need to put their house in order.

Nigerians are all well aware that the ADC is a retirement home for politicians Nigerians already rejected at the polls. Their gallivanting and hot-cold posture on their promises mirror the same unfulfilled pledges from their other party days. By this, I mean (amongst other things) AA privatized NITEL into a grave. PO’s Anambra had the highest unemployment in SE in 2015. RA left Osun in debt. I don't even want to talk of CRA. Sigh.

The so-called dawn they promise is a team of old twilight. They Say ‘New Dawn’ but even with their extremely poor attempts at opposition, they keep showing that they are the Same ‘Night Crew’ Nigerians keep rejecting.

I'll say no more for now.

God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

[Senior Pastor Okezie James Atañi @Onsogbu]

During the All Progressives Congress APC @OfficialAPCNg National Convention 2026 Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives Rt Hon Benjamin Okezie Kalu Ph.D CFR @OfficialBenKalu who also served as the Co Chairman of the Digital and New Media Committee of the Convention sat with the Special Adviser to the President on Digital media Mr Otega Ogra @otegaogra and had deep conversations addressing the achievements of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu GCFR @officialABAT and the role of the South East in making sure Mr president is reelected in 2027 ...

Take a listen.

[JJ. Omojuwa @Omojuwa]

In theory, state police is the way to go. It makes sense that people who know a place very well should police the place. But Nigeria doesn’t often obey theories, so I don’t know.

[O'tega Ogra @otegaogra]

2/2

Because what we are witnessing is not collapse, but correction - a correction two of the leading contenders on your platform promised to undertake but Nigerians now know they never intended to carry them out. Not drift, but direction. Not hopelessness, but the difficult discipline of rebuilding.

You call this hopelessness. I call it transition.

Not easy, not quick, not comfortable. But necessary.

So yes, Mr Abdullahi, birthdays are for reflection. But reflection must be honest in both directions.

Not just what is hard, but what is changing.
Not just what is painful, but what is purposeful.
Not just what is seen, but what is being built beneath the surface.

Nigeria cannot demand change and reject its cost.

Nigeria cannot inherit decades of distortion and expect instant perfection.

Nigeria cannot move forward by pretending the past does not matter.

We endure to rebuild. We rebuild to rise.

And here is the final truth, Mr Abdullahi, in its simple, stubborn, unavoidable form

Nigeria and Nigerians remember.
The record remains.
The future will judge.

Happy Birthday, Mr. President @officialABAT

The work continues. #NigeriaFirst

[O'tega Ogra @otegaogra]

Dear Mr. Bolaji Abdullahi, Fmr Honourable Minister under GEJ, Fmr APC publicity secretary, Fmr PDP stalwart, Fmr State Commissioner, Fmr State Governor’s Aide. In politics since 2003 @BolajiADC

There is a certain elegance to your message, sharp, emotional, deliberate. But there is also a certain amnesia to it, selective, strategic, convenient. Whilst it is unfortunate you chose the birthday of our President to highlight this amnesia, permit me, sir, to speak to it.

Three things can be true at once: a nation can reinvent itself, a government can act, and a people can endure.

You speak of hardship as though you discovered it.
You speak of insecurity as though it began yesterday.
You speak of governance as though you were never inside the room when decisions were made.

You have not just criticised but you have made an attempt at reinventing history.

Yes, Nigerians are hurting in some areas. Yes, fuel prices have risen, sharply, painfully, undeniably even though President Bola Tinubu has made cheaper alternatives availabke. But let us not pretend this storm began this morning. For years, we subsidised illusion, deferred reality, borrowed comfort, and let rent-seekers take hold of our Commonwealth. You know this more then many, sir. For years, Nigeria built a system where cheapness was artificial and sustainability was optional. Now the correction has come, and suddenly, those (including you and many members of your new-found contraption) who midwifed the distortion have become its loudest critics.

The Tinubu-Shettima administration did not remove subsidy because it was easy. We removed it because it was necessary. Hard choices, real consequences, no pretence.

Here is the antithesis you glide past so effortlessly. What feels like punishment today is what prevents collapse tomorrow. We endure to rebuild, not rebuild to endure

On security, your words carry weight, but not balance. Nigeria did not become insecure in a single administration, nor will it be secured by a single speech. The threats we face are multi-layered including insurgency, ‘glocal’ terrorism, organised crime, cross border networks. Yet capacity of our systems have improved, security coordination has tightened, investments in intelligence and equipment have increased.

Is it enough? No.
Is it nothing? Also no.

To describe a nation contending and fixing structural issues as a nation collapsing is not analysis, it is exaggeration. And exaggeration may win applause, but it does not build solutions.

You invoke grief, and rightly so. Every life lost diminishes us. But grief must not become a tool for theatre. Because while you speak of failure, you carefully omit history, the years when these fires were lit, the years when you and those in power chose delay over decision.

You were not a spectator then. You were an integral part of the system.

On the economy, the strain was real. Prices were high but are coming back down. Pressures were visible yet we have mostly stabilised. But reforms are not judged in headlines, they are judged in trajectories. FX stability is improving. Revenues are strengthening. Investment signals are returning. You do not fix decades in months. You correct distortions and direction, then you build momentum as President Bola Tinubu is doing.

We are not where we want to be. But we are no longer where we were.

And then democracy and your quiet warning of a one party state. Yet here you are, criticising loudly, freely, publicly. A democracy that permits this level of dissent is not shrinking, it is alive. Imperfect, noisy, contested, but alive.

This is the paradox your message cannot resolve.

You criticise a system you once helped shape.
You condemn outcomes without acknowledging inputs.
You demand urgency now, but defended patience then.

We shape our narratives, and then our narratives shape us.

Nigeria is not perfect. Nigeria is not painless. Nigeria is not instant. But Nigeria is not what you are trying to sell either.

1/2 cont’d.

[JJ. Omojuwa @Omojuwa]

Yesterday I saw the APC and President Bola Tinubu complete the final turn, the most difficult stretch on the track, as they race toward the last straight to the finish line. It was President Bola Tinubu representing the APC’s charge. Vice President Kashim Shettima, decked in a resplendent agbada, approaching the line with him.

I tried to look behind the APC duo leading the race to see who their competitors are, it was interesting to see they are still debating who to lead the charge against the men who are just about to close the race. So far, it’s Team Bola Tinubu alone on the track, in what appears to be a procession.

It’s a tough place for the opposition to be. I see why a lot of big wigs in the opposition are looking past 2027 and simply playing a perfunctory part for their party in the Bola Tinubu/APC 2027 procession.

I also understand the loud tears online, even when some deny the real reason for theirs. They have given up on competing. They are like fans of clubs who are out of the title race in September, they will distract themselves with anything that’d help them forget the coming pain of a big loss when the inevitable winner is decided. Dem go wan make them ban football sef. Anything but a desire to see the fat lady sing.

But the fat lady will. Arsenal aren’t in a procession like Tinubu, but we will clinch this one. You will blame corners and pretend that dominance is a crime but you will witness your fears become reality. Acceptance is a balm. Get acquainted with it.

[O'tega Ogra @otegaogra]

My brother @Mr_JAGs always showing up!
Salute!

[Presidency Nigeria @NGRPresident]

Otega Ogra, Senior Special Assistant to the President on New Media and Member of the APC National Convention Digital, New Media Sub-Committee, spoke on TVC today about the party's unmatched organisational capacity, its commitment to internal democracy, and its ability to bring together Nigerians of all backgrounds under a shared vision.

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