Jamaica. Brazil. Indonesia. Bangladesh. Morocco. Egypt. Anything and everywhere but Anambra under your watch.
Eight years as governor. Eight years with the budget (period of oil boom), the authority and the platform to lay a marker for sports. Yet not one reference to a single thing he built. No models. No infrastructure. No reference team like Enyimba 2000s.
Even Orji Uzor Kalu can point to that Enyimba. Two CAF Champions League titles under his watch, a record no Nigerian club has matched since. That is a legacy you can name.
But when your mob does not care for receipts, you can quote every country on earth and never once account for your own years in office. The sectors he now claims to know how to fix better than anyone else were right there in his hands.
Dear sir, you governed for almost a decade. What model did you set up that Nigeria or any other state can learn from?
We have verified. None. Zilch. Nada.
Love Tinubu or loathe him, you are still within reach. Back Sowore or shrug at him, there is room for you. Whatever you feel about Atiku, affection or disregard, it is a normal Nigerian position.
The Obidient is a different case. There is no hope there. People may not say it to your face, but in rooms full of humans, they look at you and wonder.
Nigeria still has a chance. Not because the country is where it should be, but because there is no future in which your hatred and vitriol become the mainstream of our politics. That brand of politics will stay where it belongs: on the fringes, like the abandoned end of a city still waiting for sanitation day.
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Man. Watching this documentary is really putting into perspective how Jay became who he is.
He was WRITING raps & reading the dictionary before the 1st rap hit was on the radio.
From 9-14 years old he wrote raps nonstop. 5 years of just writing. No recording. Simply mastering the craft of writing.
At 14 he started selling drugs. At 15 he met Jaz-O, another brilliant lyricist. At 16 he left home to go to Trenton NJ to deepen his hustle. He went from NJ, to MD, & VA, selling drugs & becoming RIDICULOUSLY rich over the course of 10 years.
So at 26, the person/businessman/rapper we met in 1996 when Reasonable Doubt dropped, he had already been rich for a decade.
I donโt think people truly grasp the wealth of life experience that comes with that.
Most rappers are dead poor before receiving that advance check. Then they have the record execs telling them what to do & what type of music to make. Plus, theyโre โrichโ now, so they have a new persona. They never had money before, so theyโre overcompensating & are thirstier to make more/not lose it. Whereas, Jay was rich for a full decade+ before his 1st album. He could have flopped for 3 years straight & still be rich. If a normal artist flop just once at that time, their career was basically over.
Itโs not a coincidence his music feels so personal & strapped with self-awareness, nor is it a coincidence that heโs the richest musician to ever live. All the way from the projects btw.