Dear Arewa young people, you do not need to demean yourselves, antagonise your own people or act like political enforcers to prove loyalty to Tinubu.
If you want to justify your support for him publicly, make the argument with facts. Tell people what his policies have achieved and how they have improved their lives. At the very least, acknowledge peopleās grievances and explain what you believe the government is doing to address them.
You cannot win people over by showing contempt for them or deliberately annoying the very people you are trying to convince.
There are people currently holding positions in this government who are constantly dragged into conversations simply because they refuse to publicly criticise it over the hardship people are facing. Yet they know how to handle it intelligently without forcing any candidate down peopleās throats or rubbing their proximity to government in everyoneās face.
There is a difference between political support and performative loyalty.
Ku mutunta kanku.
Last but not the least,
TINUBU MUST GO
No matter how reasonable and responsible you're, wallahi supporting Tinubu alone can make you irresponsible and stupid in the eyes of people. Cus everyone knows you're doing it for your personal interest not for the masses..
You donāt know politics, you donāt understand politics.
If politics is what I see here in Nigeria the excessive praise, the constant worship of politicians, the personal attacks, the blind defence, and the way people lose their principles then honestly, I donāt want to know.
And I have no interest in understanding politics that requires me to abandon my values just to belong.
As an average Nigerian, I eat what I want, I sleep in a well-built house, I have a job, I have a business, I have people I love, and Iām surrounded by a beautiful family and friends.
If this administration has affected me personally, I can still afford a lot of things. But that doesnāt mean I should only care about my own comfort.
Itās not about me.
Itās about the people who can no longer afford the things I can. The families struggling to feed themselves. The people living with insecurity and uncertainty.
My dad is from Zamfara, and I have a sister married in Tsafe. There is hardly a time you hear about that area without another security incident. Even a chairman was kidnapped months ago.
So when I criticize this administration, it isnāt because Iām personally struggling to survive. Iām speaking about people whose realities are far worse than mine.
My comfort cannot make me blind to another personās suffering.
I thought Nigerian politicians would have learnt a lesson from the 2023 election. The obvious lesson was that the opposition needed to come together, put their personal ambitions aside and form a coalition strong enough to challenge the ruling party.
But here we are again. They are divided, each pursuing his own interest, while facing a stronger ruling party and a shrewd political operator as president.
If Tinubu wins, the opposition should not turn around and blame the masses for accepting incentives to vote. They should blame themselves first. You cannot keep the opposition divided, field several candidates, split the votes and then blame ordinary Nigerians for the outcome.
The hard truth is that many of these politicians are more interested in their own ambitions than in building a serious alternative. They had the opportunity to learn from 2023, but they seem determined to repeat the same mistake.
The Messenger of Allah ļ·ŗ said:
āWhoever covers the faults of a Muslim, Allah will cover his faults in this world and in the Hereafter.ā
Ibn MÄjah
Jumuāat Mufeedahš¤
Asbahtu uthniya alayka hamdan,
Wa ash-hadu an la ilaha illa Allah.
I have entered the morning praising You, and I bear witness that there is no god worthy of worship but Allah.
Ya man la yakfi minhu shayun, wa ya man yakfi min kulli shayin, ikfini ma ahammaniš¤²
O You who nothing is sufficient without Him, and O You who is sufficient from everything, suffice me in what worries me š¤²
Nigeria may not be facing a constitutional vacuum today, but there is a disturbing vacuum of political leadership.
I have travelled, lived and spent time abroad, and I have never pretended otherwise. But there is a fundamental difference between the travels of a private citizen and the responsibility of the sitting President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Consider what Bola Tinubu is leaving behind. Petrol priced beyond the reach of ordinary people. Families rationing food. Transport fares that have turned a journey to oneās own village into a luxury. Insecurity that buries Nigerians week after week. And in the middle of all this, President Tinubu has packed his bags for three weeks in Europe.
The Vice President is abroad on official duty. That makes the Presidentās decision even more difficult to understand. Leadership is not merely the constitutional right to occupy an office; it is the judgment to know when your country needs you at home.
A father may travel when all is well. But when his roof is burning and his family is trapped inside, he does not pick up his suitcase and head for the airport.
That is the issue here. It is not that a President must never rest or travel. It is that Nigeria is burning, and the President has chosen a boarding pass over the fire extinguisher.
Millions of Nigerians are being grounded by hardship while their President is airborne. The people can barely afford to move, but the President keeps moving.
A government that cannot feel the pain it inflicts will never summon the will to end it.
Tinubu made Nigeria expensive. I will make Nigeria affordable again. -AA
Nothing baffles me more than Tinubuās arrogance before the campaign started. This man was being fed lies by the governors, and he was living in his bubble, believing that nothing could stop him from winning the next election.
Now that he has realised he was only lying to himself, he has started making desperate last-minute fixes that wonāt work.
If thereās one thing I want Nigerians to do, itās to make sure politicians are rewarded appropriately for their performance.
This is a democracy. The only thing that makes politicians act right is knowing that the masses have the absolute power to send them packing.
I donāt even care whether Atiku will do anything significant or not. My focus is simple: once we send Tinubu packing, these guys will realise that we can send anyone packing, and theyāll start acting right.
Trust me, if we reward Tinubu with another tenure, it will send a clear message that there are no consequences for bad governance. And these politicians will continue taking us for fools.
I want Tinubu to lose so that whoever comes after him understands that Nigerians are capable of saying NO. If you make life harder for the people, we will remember. If you fail, we will vote you out. That is how democracy should work.