Macdonald Emeka

love is sacrifice

[Macdonald Emeka @saintsinnot]

@_hafsat_paki Trump got his findings from pastors in the northern part of Nigeria
They blame the igbos
Trump is going to invade Nigeria because of intels of massive killing in the north
They blame the igbos
This one is even saying they feeds they shelter they allowed

[Macdonald Emeka @saintsinnot]

@PeterObi Happy birthday sir

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

It only takes an honest answer to 1 simple question to destroy this cargo cult myth called "democracy."

If "democracy" is the gold standard of government, and the global promoters and apostles of "democracy" believe in it and want the best for us, why don't they practise it?

When they came to Africa and started cutting it up like a cake and naming it after themselves ("Rhodesia," "Leopoldville," "Johannesburg"), was there any democracy practised there? When they classified Southern Africans and native Australians as "flora and fauna," (so as to strip them of human identity and the right to their own land), and when they legally defined Africans in the US as "⅗ of a man" and "property with no rights," where was the "democracy?"

When they sat across a table in Berlin and drew imaginary lines across other people's land, and started giving it names like "South Africa," "Upper Nyasaland," "Gold Coast," "Upper Volta," and "Central African Federation," were we consulted? Was our opinion sought in a "democratic" process to determine whether we wanted to speak English and French and Portuguese, and become Christians, and become imperial subjects of one fat inbred in London called Victoria Windsor?

Most African countries practised "democracy" with full and equal universal rights long before the US, which had to pass an actual Act of Congress in 1964 to give black people the same rights on paper that whites had. Until 1964, it was illegal for you and a white man in the US to shit in the same toilet because that's exactly how lowly they think of you. And even today, Nigeria practises more "democracy" than the UK, which has an entire house of parliament that is unelected, holds seats for life, and can pass down seats to their children depending on how much land they own.

So who gives a single fuck about what NED or UK FCDO or the fucking Ford Foundation have to say about "democracy"?

I support local dictators and dictatorships with my full chest as long as they are nationalists/sovereignists with a plan and the capacity to execute it. Better to have a well-intentioned dictatorship in plain sight that you can learn to live with, than to have a clandestine dictatorship run by rich inbred families and secret intelligence agencies completely hidden behind layers of Jeffrey Epstein's "democracy."

[BudgIT Nigeria @BudgITng]

🔈BREAKING: @BudgITng Uncovers 11,122 Projects Worth N6.93 Trillion Inserted by National Assembly in 2025 FG Budget.

We have combed through the 2025 FG Budget, and you will be shocked at what we found.

@nassnigeria inserted 11,122 PROJECTS worth N6.93 TRILLION into the Budget! 🤯

PRESS STATEMENT
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[Macdonald Emeka @saintsinnot]

@VoiceOfTheEast Onitsha

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Yesterday, Trump froze funding for @NEDemocracy, after nearly half a century of facilitating colour revolutions and regime change operations in Latin America and Asia.

But are you aware that NED has been active in your African backyard too?

[Macdonald Emeka @saintsinnot]

@realTrumpNewsX Congrats mr president

[Somto Okonkwo @General_Somto]

The Origin Of Igbos: How Igbo People Have Been In Existence Even Before Abraham (In The Bible) Was Born. What’s Your Take On This???

[Macdonald Emeka @saintsinnot]

@realTrumpNewsX Yes

[Macdonald Emeka @saintsinnot]

@AMAZlNGNATURE Story
Where’s is warthog?

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Temporarily coming out of my self-imposed Nigerian Public Affairs Twitter exile to say that many if not most legal professionals in Nigeria are some of the country's weakest links and are among its dumbest people.

Why am I saying this?

Think of the law as a basketball rim. FIBA regulations state that the rim must be exactly 3 metres high with a diameter of exactly 45cm. These are the dimensions required to maintain the competitive sanctity of the game. If the rim were any wider, people could just spam 3-pointers from all over the court and the game would lose meaning. If it were any higher, only South Sudanese would be able to play the game. If it were any lower, it would be too easy to block or dunk, also making the game lose meaning.

In Nigeria, instead of keeping the rim at regulation dimensions, the rim is rather mounted on a moving backboard that can be 2 metres or 5 metres high, depending on what side of the bed the referee woke up on. The match commissioner also has the ability to expand the rim diameter to 70cm, depending on which team he wants to win. Effectively, there is no sanctity of the law in Nigeria because there is in fact, no law.

Laws in Nigeria are deliberately written in an infuriatingly ambiguous, awkwardly-worded way, so that they can be interpreted as generously or as fastidiously as the authorities deem fit. Nothing is unambiguously legal or illegal in Nigeria. There is NOTHING that anyone can do in Nigeria that is 100% guaranteed to result in a specific legal outcome 100% of the time. No standards are fixed, no enforcement is uniform. Everything is subjective and movable.

In this situation, you would expect that lawyers of all people, would understand how the lack of clearly definable law in Nigeria makes them existentially threatened, but you see our brothers who wear coloured wigs and gowns? They think that being able to score a 3 pointer when the rim height is reduced to 2 metres and rim diameter is increased to 70cm makes them "smart." They think that being able to successfully argue that 2+2 is 4 today, then argue that 2+2 is 22 tomorrow makes them "legal luminaries."

Instead of understanding the existence of a clearly defined set of legal standards as the only thing that makes their profession viable in the long run, they are busy colluding with the police and judiciary to lower the backboard or raise it to 5 metres, depending on what Jankara Market judgment they are hoping to procure.

That's why it's only in Nigeria that you'll see a Senior Advocate of Nigeria go to court and argue that someone's expired passport means that they no longer have citizenship of the country that issued the passport. Now they're doing it again with Dele Farotimi's abduction. One of them has started posting threads about why writing a book that a specific individual feels defamed by can be treated as a criminal matter, not the civil matter that even my dead grandma can see that it is.

Absolute weak links.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

At the end of the day, even if by some miracle Peter Obi becomes president in 2027, his US-backed opposition will fire up the fierce 2012-2015 propaganda campaign literally from May 29.

Yemi Adamolekun, Samson Itodo, Aisha Yesufu, Chidi Odinkalu and everybody else in that Abuja CSO space will be briefed by their funders to turn him into the most mocked, disrespected and reviled person in Nigeria, like they did to Nigeria's last real president between 2012 and 2015.

The supporting cast of Premium Times Mojeed, Sahara Reporters Sowore and the social media opinion-havers will get their own share of the colour revolution budget like they did the last time. They will turn Peter Obi's name into "Clueless Man," "Gap-tooth fraud from Agulu," "Ineffective Buffoon" and "Corrupt Failure" even if he is delivering 10% annual economic growth.

We've literally seen this movie before.

There is absolutely no point going through all the trouble of putting a competent nationalist in Aso Rock only for the progress to be constantly haunted by the spectre of another hostile, foreign-sponsored regime change operation less than 4 years away.

If Nigeria is to enter long-term growth and start reabsorbing all its externally displaced people from the diaspora, we need to know that we are not constantly a maximum of 4 years away from disaster at the hands of 90-something million of the continent's dumbest voters instigated by a civic space and mainstream media that is completely owned, funded or captured by hostile foreign governments.

As long as that opportunity to disrupt progress by giving loaded electoral pistols to 90 million toddlers remains present every 48 months, it doesn't matter whether Peter Obi spends 8 years as president, like Obasanjo spent 8 years. The Yanks will just install one idiot that used to be a drug dealer in Chicago or didn't complete primary school, and all the gains will be lost.

Nigerians can barely even pronounce the name of their own country. What the fuck business do they have making important leadership decisions within it?

They should be allowed to vote for BBN and Miss Universe contestants. Everything more important than that should be treated as an executive recruitment process.

[Macdonald Emeka @saintsinnot]

@FS_Yusuf_ Louder pls
They won’t see it but will pounce on igbos at slight opportunity
Everyone should separate and rule themselves the manner they deemed fit

[Macdonald Emeka @saintsinnot]

@realTrumpNewsX Yes 👍

[Macdonald Emeka @saintsinnot]

@realTrumpNewsX He was and also Africa greatest mistakes

[Macdonald Emeka @saintsinnot]

@chude__ Shei Soludo dy help us solve any problems if not high tax Mtchewww

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

The same World Bank spent Buhari's 8 years claiming that Nigeria has a low debt-to-GDP ratio, and should therefore pile on more of that ruinous dollar-denominated debt.

Now that they need someone to take the heat for their current puppet, they suddenly realise that Buhari was bad - but not because he did almost everything they asked him to do and slaughtered the world's 3rd fastest growing economy in the process. No, he was bad because he "didn't stick to the reforms."🤡

We are chopping the geopolitics.
https://t.co/9h7jIrU1k9

[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.

[Macdonald Emeka @saintsinnot]

@TundeOlade12220 @NigeriaStories Last I checked Nigerians were buying Dangote cement more expensive that other countries

[Macdonald Emeka @saintsinnot]

@bigwig_austin @Nwafresh Tinubu did protest against his southern brother with the Allie’s from the north
Let him dance the music now