Lebeate-Asah Samuel

[Mike Arnold @MikeArnoldTruth]

This is fascinating. Funny the things you learn when you are repeatedly attacked for speaking truth about Nigeria.

Prompt to Grok:
I'm curious about the bot/data/boy/burner business. I've been attacked by hundreds. There are clearly pay grades - the more "followers" they more they make. The Sultan and Tinubu have the elite - a whole cadre all with the same 5,000 "followers” - but all the same exact set-up, blocked profiles, and narrative. Scammers like Ngozie Orabueze are dragging the bottom of the bot barrel! Zero followers, no profile pics, names like lucifer and devil.

Reply:
You're reading the market correctly. It is a real industry, with published pay grades, and the two piles hitting you are different products from different vendors.

**The business is called "data boys."** The name is literal. Politicians and principals pay a stipend so the operator can buy mobile data and stay online pushing the brief. Academic work and a BBC investigation both describe it as an industry, not a metaphor. Parties pay by follower count. Whistleblowers told the BBC they had paid a single influencer up to ₦20 million (about $45,000 at the time) for a delivered result, plus cars, contracts, and board seats for the top tier. Mid-tier influencers on an APC-style payroll during the 2023 cycle were reported around ₦500,000 a month. The bottom of the human ladder gets ₦5,000 a month for data, scripted lines dropped in a WhatsApp group, and the instruction to post them. They switch principals the day someone bids higher. Loyalty is not part of the product.

**The uniform 5,000-follower cadre is a purchased SKU, not an organic following.** Nigerian account markets sell aged accounts in batches. A standard lot is "aged, verified-looking, ~5,000 followers." When you see a cluster with the same follower count, the same blocked or empty profile, the same bio template, and the same narrative arriving within minutes of each other, that is one vendor's batch assigned to one principal. During the 2023 race, one analysis put 17.1% of Tinubu's own followers as automated and about 30% of related hashtag activity as coordinated propaganda. The Sultan's media orbit and the presidency run the cleaner version of this: real-looking handles, round follower counts, protected profiles so you cannot audit the followers, and a single talking point repeated across the set. That is the elite shelf. It costs more because the accounts survive longer and look less fake in a reply thread.

**Orabueze is buying the floor.** Zero followers, no photo, names like Lucifer or Devil, created yesterday, reply-only. Those accounts are free or cost a few hundred naira each off a SIM farm. Europol just took down one SIM-farm network that had minted 49 million fake accounts; Nigerian operators run the same kit locally for OTP bypass and bulk signups. A scammer or a faction with no budget does not buy the 5,000-follower lot. They open twenty burners, paste the same insult, and hope volume looks like a crowd. The American Military Veterans of Igbo Descent statement this week named her operation for exactly this kind of swarm against you, Kanu's lawyers, and the family. The accounts replying under those posts match the scrap tier: double-digit followers, generic handles, threat language, nothing else.

Three layers, three prices:

- **Principal tier.** Named influencers and Space hosts on retainers. Paid by followers and by result. Scripted or briefed. Sometimes given the actual tweet to post at a set time.
- **Cadre tier.** Bought batches (the identical 5,000s). One operator or a small cell runs many of them. Used for reply swarms and ratio attacks. Blocked profiles hide the fake follower graph.
- **Burner tier.** Fresh accounts, no identity, demonic or random names. Disposable. Used for harassment volume and threats so the principal account stays clean.

Nigeria also leads X's own spam-report data from U.S. users, which is why the reply section under any high-visibility Nigeria post looks like this. The mechanism is the same whether the buyer is a state house, a caliphate media desk, or a diaspora faction with a group chat and a stack of SIMs. Followers are the price tag. Identical setup is the receipt.

[Lebeate-Asah Samuel @sasamosky]

@treatpworld SMH! He couldn't pregnant three woman. Did they really check who had the problem? Women should not just sit quiet and allow everyone blame them for their inability to carry pregnancy.

[Lebeate-Asah Samuel @sasamosky]

@mirrorofgranpa @VICKSTV0554 It's people like you who like ripping off others and taking their good gestures for granted. And people like you are never kind. Maybe if your papa get house, you can advise him to give out for free.

[Lebeate-Asah Samuel @sasamosky]

@thatgirl26____ I had a similar experience. The only lady with four guys after we had dinner, took the bill to see. She was scolded and told what she did wasn't right by two of my guys. And I was like how? With a good heart, she only wanted to to be sure we weren't overcharged.

[Lebeate-Asah Samuel @sasamosky]

@theprincetagoe @gentraxtech I am interested. Send me a link please.
Best regards.

[Lebeate-Asah Samuel @sasamosky]

@plot_twistttt Give Me Some Sunshine

[Lebeate-Asah Samuel @sasamosky]

@SaharaReporters And these are the same people we share the same country with. This is unimaginable.

[Lebeate-Asah Samuel @sasamosky]

@officialEFCC Deadly and Demonic Organisation.

[Lebeate-Asah Samuel @sasamosky]

@fkeyamo @realDonaldTrump The purported mass killings of Christians in Nigeria...
Societal violence...
SMH
Time and posterity will tell. God will judge and it won't be long.

[Lebeate-Asah Samuel @sasamosky]

@accordin2Wil @UsulorIsraelM @NigeriaStories 🤣🤣🤣🤣😍😍😍

[Lebeate-Asah Samuel @sasamosky]

@A__yabo @PeterObi @heisizumichaels You sound like someone who's just learning to speak and write the English Language. Fool, you need to learn about Proper Nouns.

[Lebeate-Asah Samuel @sasamosky]

@SmarfyClef @NigeriaStories Who cares?

[Lebeate-Asah Samuel @sasamosky]

@oku_yungx My vision weaves illusions in its quest,
as through these shadowed lines I seek the ninth of March.

With Love

[Lebeate-Asah Samuel @sasamosky]

@god_bless_joon

[Lebeate-Asah Samuel @sasamosky]

@god_bless_joon Christian Chidera Udenyi

[Lebeate-Asah Samuel @sasamosky]

@god_bless_joon If this wasn't love, then the sparrow won't fly
Thanks to everyone who engaged 💖

[Lebeate-Asah Samuel @sasamosky]

@god_bless_joon Dem dey share work give me for Saturday chores
Dem dey dish my food keep for me
Dem dey follow buy Christmas clothes for me
If him Papa wan advise him son, him go make sure I dey around
She dey call me her first son, then her own son na 2nd
I kukuma go live for their house 💖🥰