Oluwasegun Odudimu

Master of Ceremonies| Weddings 💒 | Corporate| Life of the party| Strategist|Staunch believer in a New Nigeria| 🇬🇧🇳🇬

[Olumuyiwa Igbalajobi, Ph.D @olumuyiwaayo]

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[Davido @davido]

Accord members stay safe! Just got intel next few hours they want to start arresting our people for nothing!! The plan cannot work! Stay safe! Mount your guard! ✌🏽 we coasting to victory

[Davido @davido]

A CALL FOR ATTENTION TO PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP

President Donald Trump, I am calling your attention to the situation in Osun State, Nigeria, as we approach the election.

There are growing concerns about tension and the possibility of violence, intimidation, or disruption of the democratic process. Osun people deserve to exercise their constitutional right to vote freely, peacefully, and without fear.

I appeal to the United States and the international community to pay close attention to the election and encourage all relevant authorities to ensure that every voter is protected and every vote is respected.

We do not want bloodshed. We do not want intimidation. We want peace, transparency, and a free and fair election. @realDonaldTrump

[Oluwasegun Odudimu @phenomenalsege_]

@uttdkola Kane

[Oluwasegun Odudimu @phenomenalsege_]

@dollyesor @davido

[Oluwasegun Odudimu @phenomenalsege_]

@imalice97 Hello

[Oluwasegun Odudimu @phenomenalsege_]

Some people hate corruption because they’re not directly benefitting, watch them twist their convictions once the corruption starts to line their pockets.

[Oluwasegun Odudimu @phenomenalsege_]

Some people hate corruption because they’re not directly benefitting, watch them twist their convictions once the corruption starts to line their pockets.

[Oluwasegun Odudimu @phenomenalsege_]

I don’t know who needs to hear this but please make sure you brush your teeth and spray some perfume, even if it is air freshener please spray something

[Oluwasegun Odudimu @phenomenalsege_]

I don’t know who needs to hear this but please make sure you brush your teeth and spray some perfume, even if it is air freshener please spray something

[Ken 🧙 @thekenndubisi]

There’s a smarter way to handle black tax and it’s what wealthy immigrants do. Share this video with someone who needs to see this.

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[Oluwasegun Odudimu @phenomenalsege_]

I found this amazing grandma at this event I hosted #london #viral #vira... https://t.co/pAWFSkbzcI via @YouTube

[Oluwasegun Odudimu @phenomenalsege_]

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[Oluwasegun Odudimu @phenomenalsege_]

@maintishe Oluwatise edumare soro mi dayo, erujeje alewilese

[Oluwasegun Odudimu @phenomenalsege_]

@Solomon_Buchi Wait oooo, please somebody should tell me where Solomon said the woman should take a break for 7 years. Man only said they need their mothers more in the first 7 years of their life.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

It's not as if I have anything personal against people who voluntarily emigrate from Nigeria. After all, when I went into exile, that was a form of voluntary migration, too.

The issue is that the Nigerian diaspora - easily the largest African diaspora on earth - mostly consists of people who don't know why they exist, and have zero plan for their life beyond the next shift they want to pick, the next party they want to attend, the next overpriced holiday they want to go for, and the next "Detty December" they want to spend in Lagos and Accra stunting on poor people, and straining their livers and sex organs. And of course, the next hot japa destination to submit passport for, because wherever they are is somehow never avtually good enough, and there is always another place with "greener pastures." No single plan or higher thought beyond that.

And that's why as soon as socioeconomic headwinds change wherever they are, it NEVER occurs to them to step back and examine the wider geopolitical picture of why the world is how it is, and what role they should be playing in it as Africa's premier flagbearers. Nope. As soon as wherever they are should "cast," next thing you know, they're submitting passport, filing application, and entering plane to chase the same chimeras somewhere else.

Get a UK student visa in Lagos. Start hustling in London after school. Move to Hannover because you heard the pay is better. Jump to Brisbane because Germany is too cold and racist. Dip toe in Auckland after finding out that Australia is full of racist South African boers. Then book a Qantas flight to Saskatoon because New Zealand has no jobs and you heard that even though Ontario is crowded, Saskatchewan has streets flowing with milk and opportunity because nobody wants to move there. Eventually cross the border into Detroit because America offers more opportunity than Canada. Then spend the next 10 years moving from Detroit to Chicago to Atlanta to New York to Houston to Los Angeles to San Diego to Boston because there was a job with an extra $10/hour, until you fall over and die of Coronary Artery Disease at 57, leaving behind a bickering family, 3 secret children scattered around the world, an overpriced ghetto-fabulous house in Lekki that you never lived in, and that's it.

The mindset of a rat foraging for grains.

Zero attention span, zero self-awareness, zero situational and spatial awareness, zero geopolitical awareness. Just doing a cheap labour parade around the world achieving nothing, but leaving a lot of noise and unnecessary drama in your wake. Cannot organise themselves in large groups to accomplish anything back home. Cannot organise themselves even to do anything where they are, unless it is a party or an opportunity to exchange gossip and fuck each other's wives. Cannot fund political takeovers back home to secure their own overpriced Lekki and village mansions. Cannot organise anything to take care of their own group interests.

The only thing they know is that as soon as everything should "cast" where they are, na to rush enter plane to start over somewhere else - anywhere else except Africa. Very useless mindset.

[Oluwasegun Odudimu @phenomenalsege_]

@AlfretonTownFC David solademi 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[Oluwasegun Odudimu @phenomenalsege_]

@Ojay_Reborn @SirVick266 I don’t think that’s the reason though. Maybe because the car was branded😂. I know some people that would look at a GAC SUV and say the same thing just because it’s painted white and blue and it’s been used for LAGRIDE

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

4 years ago on October 20, 2020, my ongoing journey began with the Lekki Massacre, which happened just a couple of kilometres from my apartment. Within the next 17 days, I was forced to smuggle myself out of Nigeria and I haven't been able to go back since.

In the intervening period, I have spent time in a Ghanaian safe house, I have been declared wanted for "national security violations" in Nigeria, and I have survived a kidnap/assassination attempt in Accra organised by the (now former) Director of the National Intelligence Agency, Ahmed Rufai Abubakar.

In all this time and across all these experiences, one piece of wisdom I heard from my good friend @YarKafanchan has never left my head and remains my true north. She said it in passing one evening in 2021 when we were hanging out at Breakfast 2 Breakfast, Osu, and she probably didn't realise that what she said was so profound that it would remain stuck in my head forever.

She said: "Nigeria's biggest trick is convincing you that nothing is happening. Meanwhile everything is happening."

She said that in the context of us figuring out whether the Buhari regime had forgotten about teaching us #EndSARS people a lesson, and if we should risk returning home, but I took that pearl of wisdom, expanded its application, and made it my True North for analysing Nigeria.

Nigeria was not always this way, but after decades of deliberate actions by internal and external actors, it has become the country where "nothing happens." When it comes to anything consequential, meaningful and positive like favourable trade policy, economy-boosting infrastructure projects, or diplomatic and geopolitical positioning to enhance regional integration, nothing happens in Nigeria. It is frozen in time and covered with dust and cobwebs. To all intents and purposes, nothing is happening.

But behind the scenes, when it comes to listening to the counsel of American econmic hitmen and piling on ruinous dollar-denominated debt that the country categorically does not need, or when it comes to spending billions of dollars to develop military, intelligence and law enforcement capacity, only to use it to monitor the young girlfriends and political opponents of middle aged big men with potbellies, everything is happening. Nigeria may not be able to generate more than 5,000 MW of electricity for 200 million people, but when it comes to using NIA field agents - actual intelligence operatives trained expensively in Israel and North Korea - to go after outspoken Nigerian citizens in foreign countries, everything is happening.

This is why I cannot bother myself with who Peter Obi chooses or does not choose to wish Happy Birthday to. It's not that I don't think Yakubu Gowon is a genocidal a-hole. It's that his involvement in what happened between 1966 and 1970 is not even the worst or most disastrous thing he has done. The worst things Yakubu Gowon did came AFTER the war, and they are why we are where we are today.

Nigeria as it existed then, was one of the most powerful countries in the entire Global South, and a very consequential country on the world stage. Nigeria was a country that funded liberation movements in other countries, used its economy and military to massive geopolitical effect in Africa, gave out foreign aid, and came within one Ajaokuta Steel Complex of becoming Africa's first proper industrial economy.

Most of this period, when Nigeria was one of the world's real movers and shakers in the decade between 1970 and 1979, fell under Yakubu Gowon's tenure. The Nigeria he had was a country where everything was happening, and everybody could see that everything was happening. Nigeria was one of the players moving pieces on the global chessboard, and not merely one of the pieces being moved.

Yakubu Gowon had the unique opportunity with a postwar Nigeria that found itself economically, militarily and geopolitically in the proverbial Garden of Eden, to lead the country into World Power status. There was a perfect storm of geopolitical circumstances, and Nigeria was right in the sweet pot. The country had real money to spend on infrastructure and industrialisation, and very little foreign debt. It had de-facto geopolitical leadership of Sub Saharan Africa, and infinite possibilities for continental alignment and integration. He didn't even have to worry about winning an election every 4 years. All he had to do was deliver leadership

If he had delivered Sub Saharan Africa's first industrialised nuclear power, Africa and the African diaspora would have finally had an untouchable base to build from, and the world would never again have been able to treat Black people with the levity it continues to do in 2024. I am 34 this year. Gowon became Head of State at 33. He found himself leading this budding postwar superpower with everything falling into place for it at 37. And what did he do with this once-in-a-century opportunity?

He did Cement Armada. Udoji Awards. Offshore bank accounts. Contract and invoice inflation. Free Nigeria Airways flights for anyone who could get a "note" from a military officer, which eventually ran the airline into the ground. Cars, houses and holidays in London for girlfriends of big men in government. The beginning of the Rolls Royce culture in Ikoyi. During his 5 postwar years in power, Nigeria for the first time began piling on dollar-denominated foreign debt that it did not need, which was the fuel for the explosion that came 15 years later called IMF Structural Adjustment.

He met a country that was powerful and competent enough to hatch its own foreign influence and subversion operations around the world. Nigeria used to be so consequential that every single liberation war it directly or indirectly intervened in swung the way it wanted. From Lagos, the outcomes of liberation wars in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Namibia were decided. By the time he and his mad dog successor Murtala Mohammed left the scene, Nigeria had gone from this to a victim - a country that couldn't pay its debts, started suffering electricity blackouts, and ended up having American intelligence penetrate its core, to the point where the outcome of elections or post-coup succession was decided by people like Susan Rice.

It was once a country where everything happened in plain sight, but by the time Yakubu Gowon and the Class of 1966 were done, it became the Nigeria we know today - a benighted country where you have to be highly connected or extremely intelligent to even suspect when anything is happening, because to all intents and purposes, nothing ever happens.

The challenge for my generation and the coming ones is to hijack and regain control of our collective destiny, which Yakubu Gowon and his contemporaries lost for us. They inherited the Black world's most powerful country and potent nation state. They bequeathed a parody of a country that has been fully captured by economic hitmen, where the CIA has been able to openly install a drug peddler with urinary incontinence to become puppet president of the largest Black country in the world - a level of blatant disrespect that illustrates just how much has been taken from us.

Instead of getting mad at Peter Obi for wishing such people Happy Birthday (which doesn't actually change the figurative price of garri in the market), our generational challenge as Millenials and Zoomers is to wrest back control of our country and its governance, intelligence, law enforcement and military institutions from the foreign interests that took them from our 90 year-old "senior statesmen" who sold their children for the proverbial mirrors, gin and red cloth.

Getting angry at Yakubu Gowon is pointless and is not going to save us. Getting mad at people wishing him Happy Birthday is borderline asinine. He has already got what he wants out of life. At 90, he has amassed a lifetime's worth of oyibo's mirrors, gin and red cloth, and the Black superpower he once led is now dragging status with Eswantini and Sao Tome & Principe. We should be happy for him. He is a fulfilled man who led a life that clearly fills him with fulfillment.

We have our own mission now, and it is to start undoing his damage. In our lifetime, Nigeria should once again becomes a country where everything is happening. It has to happen soon. Otherwise, 200 million people go kpai.

Let's be guided.

[Aisha Yesufu @AishaYesufu]

How is she not in jail?