Fabusuyi tobi lucas

A Nigerian, A business man, A pharmacist by profession, A sport lover, A politician and finally a lover of God

[Akin Akinwale @mrlurvy]

I banter a lot, and I genuinely don’t take things to heart because I don’t expect too much from people. At the end of the day, we are all human.

During the Osun elections, months before the election, I bantered about Adeleke joining APC and eventually becoming the leader of Osun APC. I even dragged some of my friends into the banter. The same way they bantered with us in Oyo during the G5 saga.

But there is one thing I will never do: I will not betray my friends, for free or for a token. Nah. I won’t.

Some of my Osun APC friends said Adeleke had paid Akin, hence my supposed interest in seeing him win. Even if I had a personal thought about Adeleke winning before, the moment my close friends became invested in AMBO, there was no way I was going to betray that trust. No way.

That may not be the standard for everyone, and I don't expect everyone to think like me. But when it comes to my close guys, I value the bond and the trust we share too much to sell it for anything.

I have seen some of my close guys run anti-NRS gigs, and I don't get worked up about it. I am not in a position to dictate to anyone what they should or shouldn't tweet. We all have our convictions and professional choices.

But I do expect a certain level of decency from people we call friends.Not once, not twice, Letter to Jack has called me to reject a gig because of my interests, and I have reciprocated in the same manner. That, to me, is what mutual respect should look like.

You can disagree with me. You can support someone I don't support. You can even attack a position I hold. But I will not betray you and still expect to wine and dine with you afterwards.

Not in this world.

[Bola Ahmed Tinubu @officialABAT]

Dear Nigerians,

For many years, Nigeria has possessed some of the most promising deep offshore oil and gas resources in the world, yet several major developments have remained stalled. Oil lies beneath our waters. We have the engineers, businesses and young people capable of doing increasingly sophisticated work in the sector. What has often been missing is the certainty required for investors to commit billions of dollars, over many years, at the scale needed to turn that potential into production, jobs and opportunity for Nigerians.

We cannot afford to leave that opportunity beneath our waters for another decade.

I have therefore signed the Deep Offshore Oil and Gas Projects Incentives (Tax Remission) Order, 2026, to provide clear and predictable terms for a new generation of deep offshore investment in Nigeria.

The framework has the potential to unlock up to $50 billion in investment, beginning with the approximately $10 billion Bonga South West project. For existing deep offshore leases, there is a clear window to reach Final Investment Decision by 31 December 2029 and receive the full standard incentive available under the Order.

There is urgency to this work. Capital moves, and countries compete for it every day. The countries that attract long-term investment are not necessarily those with the greatest natural resources. They are the ones that provide the greatest certainty.

Nigeria must be one of those countries.

This Order marks the tenth major policy directive of my administration targeted specifically at the oil and gas sector. Each has dealt with a constraint holding back investment, production or value creation. Taken together, they represent a deliberate effort to make our oil and gas industry more competitive, attract capital back to Nigeria and ensure that more of the value created from our resources remains here at home.

But attracting investment is only half of my purpose.

I want the work that comes with these projects to come home to Nigeria. I want our engineers involved, our fabrication yards working, our marine and technical service companies securing contracts, and our young people acquiring skills that will remain valuable long after the first barrel is produced.

The Order reflects this priority. For projects accessing its supplementary incentives, activities are to be performed in Nigeria, subject to clearly defined exceptions and Nigerian Content requirements.

My ambition is that we use this new investment cycle to build Nigeria into Africa’s regional hub for deep offshore project execution. We should not only possess the resources. We should increasingly possess the skills, businesses and industrial capacity required to develop them.

When I engaged the Chief Executive Officer of Shell plc, Mr Wael Sawan, I directed my team to look beyond a solution for one company or one project. We needed a framework that could unlock a wider pipeline of investment while protecting Nigeria’s long-term interests.

That framework is now in place.

Ultimately, I will judge its success by what Nigerians see from it in terms of good jobs, stronger Nigerian businesses, greater production, increased revenues for the Federation and new capabilities built here at home.

Our natural resources must work harder for our people.

That is the purpose of this decision, and we will pursue it with urgency.

Nigeria First.

Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR
President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces
Federal Republic of Nigeria

[The Godfather JP @AyoOyalowo]

@HighChiefOkoro @OyesileJohn And God will bless you for sharing our joy. I am from Ogbomoso and I never for once posted about those children because I understand that making genuine difference is not by helping terrorists achieve their aim. I shed tears of joy yesterday, my wife cried too. Thank you Okoro.

[LEGENDARY J.O.E @LegendaryJoe]

THE ACCIDENTAL PUBLIC SERVANT – AN ACCIDENT IN PUBLIC SERVICE 02

"What struck me when we first met was his austere, untidy appearance, and the debilitating skin disease - some kind of eczema that gave him a botched, discolored aspect. I got to know him, I concluded that he was very untidy, dirty even, rarely bathing and never caring to ever dress neatly."

Nasir El-Rufai’s description of Mallam Umaru Musa Yar’Adua (pg. 369, Chapter 15, Accidental Public Servant).

Lā tasubbū al-amwāta fa’innahum qad afḍaw ilā mā qaddamū, wa lā tasubbū al-amwāta fatu’dhū al-aḥyā’a – Sahih al-Bukhari (1393)

"Do not speak ill of the dead… they have reached the reward or punishment for what they did… cursing the dead hurts the living."

Now here is the irony that could make even a stone statue raise its eyebrow. Nasir El-Rufai - a devout Muslim (I presume) - thought the most appropriate manner to eulogize Mallam Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, a fellow Muslim, a man he once called friend and brother, a two-term Governor, a one-term President, a respected Northerner of the prestigious Yar’Adua political dynasty… was to immortalize him in print as a filthy, stinking, and sickly appendage.

Does this paint a dishonorable stain on Mallam Umaru’s character, or does it instead cast a shadow on El-Rufai’s own decency - the lack of restraint in speaking ill of one who can no longer rise to defend himself? I will leave that to the discerning palate of you, my dear readers.

Now, unto the matter -

Asiwaju was not the first man to promise Mallam Nasir El-Rufai a seat at the table only to pull away the chair at the moment of fulfillment. I have mentioned before that Yar’Adua - who shared closer ties with El-Rufai - did the exact same thing, only this was two decades earlier.

Bismillāh ir-Raḥmān ir-Raḥīm

Shall I begin?

When the curtains were drawing to a close on Obasanjo’s regime - especially after the failed constitutional amendment that would have smuggled in the infamous third-term clause - OBJ found himself cornered, compelled to finally name a successor.

Mallam El-Rufai, by his own account, was then shouldering a mountain of responsibilities:

"Indeed, in the final year of Obasanjo’s presidency, I was not just running the FCT but involved in an array of activities. I was required to handle the portfolios of the Minister of commerce and industry, minister of interior... Public service reforms, etc... in the eyes of many, including some of my cabinet colleagues I had by default become a de facto vice-president..." (pg. 366, APS).

At that point, whispers in the corridors of power grew into a chorus - cabinet members, and perhaps El-Rufai himself, believed he was being groomed for the anointing. But the General thought different, and slid the crown not onto El-Rufai’s head, but onto Mallam Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s.

In El-Rufai’s mind, Umaru was chosen not for competence, but because OBJ saw him as clay easy to mold.

"The truth is OBJ would never even in his widest dreams think of supporting me to be President... because he knows he would not be able to control me... unlike others who led him to believe he could control them..." (pg. 367, APS).

To El-Rufai, there was no candidate better suited for the throne than himself - and anyone else selected was chosen for the wrong reasons. Talk about self-righteousness; speak of vain pride. Superiority is the perfume some wear to mask the stench of insecurity. Perhaps that explains why today, he labels some in government as “urban bandits” - because in his world, no team is credible without his presence, and no man can be of higher pedigree unless his name spells El-Rufai.

When Yar’Adua was anointed, a new chapter of political theater began. One of his first acts was to seek out El-Rufai.

"Umaru came over to my house that evening, looking like a man who had just had the weight of the world thrust upon him. He told me OBJ had called and asked him to submit a nomination form to run for president...

'August 2025'

[LEGENDARY J.O.E @LegendaryJoe]

The beauty of the government is, they always give you a long enough rope to pull. The government is patient enough to wait for you to exhaust your nuisance capital. And when you begin to see yourself as invincible, that is when it strikes.

Ask Nnamdi Kanu - The one who had an entire ethnic nation under his spell and even received the worship of Ndigbo people like a deity - who then dared the Nigerian State under the illusion of self-induced immunity is today cooling off in Maximum.

The Igbo Nation moved on as though their one-time messiah has not been withdrawn from circulation like counterfeit notes.

How about the Northwest Midget? He and his ego-bloated offsprings thought themselves omnipotent and threatened the Nigerian State. Today, we have almost forgotten a 2 term governor is still languishing in custody. Not even his local government declared a day holiday in honour of their reckless leader.

Even this one too, as insignificant as he is poses almost equal danger as the aforementioned but his rope yet remains - He should keep pulling.

The government always have enough room to wait, hoping you will recover from your madness - For when the State finally moves, his pack of rabid dogs will not be shield enough. They will not be wall enough. They will not be enough to survive its wrath.

The rope is long. But it is not infinite.

Good Morning Severally...

[Thεό Abu @TheoAbuAgada]

I will be Nigerian President before Peter Obi.

[Akin Akinwale @mrlurvy]

My boy, Theo Abu Agada, is a PhD candidate in Election Administration. Fcvk you all OBIdients

God will punish you Theo Abu Agada if you pander to these nonentities. You represent the NDC, the day they joined, you were hanging around one pillar like that.

Let them know!!

[Olu_NiYi @Olu_Niyi56789]

Good old days 🥺❤️🫂

[Bola Ahmed Tinubu @officialABAT]

At my direction, following the visit of a high-level Federal Government delegation that I sent to the Esiele and Yawota communities in Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo State, I have approved the recruitment of 1,000 forest guards in collaboration with the Oyo State Government.

[LEGENDARY J.O.E @LegendaryJoe]

APC PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARIES - I AM NOT SATISFIED

2026

APC Presidential Primary results

Bola Tinubu = 10,999,162 votes

Stanley Osifo = 16,503 votes

2018

Muhammadu Buhari - 14,842,072

General Elections - 15,191,847.

So before the opposition begins to open its mouth and cry rigging - let it first sit down and learn. APC is a party seasoned in the furnace of democratic contest. Our culture of robust internal democracy has never been in doubt. That is a doctrine the opposition, fractured and fumbling, has yet to learn.

But let the celebration be brief. For a man who knows where he is going does not sit down to admire the road.

If 2018 is the pattern - and patterns, like proverbs, do not lie - then the votes attracted at a general election tend to mirror, with eerie faithfulness, what was gathered at the primaries. Buhari pulled 14.8 million in the primaries. He pulled 15.1 million at the poll. The margin of difference was negligible.

Now Asiwaju has 10,999,162 from the primaries. And while none of the heavily fragmented, ideologically homeless, and perpetually bickering opposition parties can dream of fifty percent of that number in the general elections - there is still work to be done.

I do not seek a mere victory. I crave a rout - overwhelming, incontestable, undebatable. The kind that silences the room before the last ballot is counted.

11 million votes in a general election is enough. Enough to win. But "enough to win" is not enough for me. I want a minimum of 15 million votes - so that the combined arithmetic of every baby politician on that ballot will not be sufficient to close the margin, scratch the lead, or feed the narrative..

Let there be no argument. Let there be no court case. Let the numbers speak so loudly that even the deaf concede.

We must not give the opposition even the consolation of a close count.

I will play my part.

Will you?

Good Evening, Severally.

[LEGENDARY J.O.E @LegendaryJoe]

If you wait patiently and live long enough, there is a very high likelihood that your fav will disappoint you eventually.

Just like a former minister. A two-term governor. A man we once celebrated as intelligent, as visionary - went on national television, unprovoked, and confessed to treason.

No prosecutor summoned him. No leak forced his hand. He simply... spoke. Because somewhere between the applause and the impunity, he had begun to believe he was untouchable. And the untouchable, as history has shown us repeatedly, always overreach.

Nothing ruins a man faster than the quiet, poisonous belief that consequences are reserved for other people.

Wisdom is profitable to direct.

[Dr. HM Okpanachi🇳🇬(MBBS) @Dr_statesman]

Progressives, can we please have 50 retweet for our president? They said we are not plenty here.

[Averroes @d_Advocate1]

I'm actually annoyed that I even have to make this tweet because I no send Tinubu at all. But it’s a huge insult to his pedigree for anyone to think Peter Obi can lace this man’s shoes. Have you ever seen Peter Obi attempt to discuss any economic issues at this level before?

It’s perfectly fine if you don’t want to vote for him. That’s the whole point of democracy. Freedom of choice is sacrosanct. But if I ever hear anyone put Peter Obi in the same bracket as this man in terms of intelligence, capacity, and leadership, I will take you to the cleaners. I promise.

[Africa CEO Forum @africaceoforum]

💬 "A citizen that pays taxes is a citizen. If you are not a taxpayer, and not exempted, then you are not a citizen."

🇳🇬 With that uncompromising definition, His Excellency Bola Ahmed Tinubu, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, redefined the social contract from the main stage of the Africa CEO Forum Annual Summit in Kigali.

⚖️ The President spoke as a man who knows the file intimately. He had personally driven tax reform as Governor of Lagos State, transforming what was then a fiscally fragile sub-national into Nigeria's most autonomous fiscal jurisdiction. The architect of his current federal tax reform, Finance Minister Wale Edun, was sitting in the front row, the very person whose work has reshaped Nigeria's revenue architecture over the past three years.

🎯 Tinubu's argument was disarmingly direct. Nobody, anywhere in the world, wakes up wanting to pay taxes. Taxation is not friendly to the wealthy, to the middle class, or to the poor. And yet every citizen expects roads, hospitals, schools, pharmaceutical research, protection of the vulnerable and the country's children. The question that demanding citizens almost never answer, he noted with sharp irony, is the most basic one: who pays for it? You want a fine highway, but not through your land. You want a well-equipped hospital, but no taxes. The maths does not work, anywhere on earth.

📜 The historical wink was telling. His American interlocutor's ancestors, he reminded the room, famously threw the tea into the sea when they were taxed without representation. The lesson, in Tinubu's reading, is not that taxation is dangerous, it is that taxation creates demanding citizens. And demanding citizens, far from being a problem, are precisely what builds accountable states. The Covid-19 pandemic underscored just how strategic domestic fiscal capacity becomes when the world stops being predictable.

🌍 The deeper message lands squarely on the African Ownership agenda Kigali has been amplifying all week. Pan-African capitalism cannot be financed indefinitely from external loans, declining aid, or volatile commodity rents. It will be financed by African citizens, African corporations and African tax systems that have the political legitimacy to function. The unlock is fiscal sovereignty, and fiscal sovereignty starts with taxation.

🇷🇼 The question Kigali is putting on the table this week is no longer whether African states need to raise more revenue domestically. It is whether they will dare to ask their citizens to fund the future they say they want.

#ACF2026 #AfricaCEOForum

[Imran Muhammad @Imranmuhdz]

"Removing all the bottlenecks gives you the necessary incentives for direct foreign investment into the country. This year alone, I can beat my chest that Nigeria is attracting close to $20 billion in foreign direct investments."

- President Tinubu

[David Offor @DavidsOffor]

Yusuf Datti dn scatter the table way remain oo

He said that the North won’t back Peter Obi/Kwakansko ticket, lists some criteria that the former Kano state governor is higher than Obi, says Obi let him down by decamping from Labour Party

Infact, take a listen o

[LEGENDARY J.O.E @LegendaryJoe]

I love Amuneke.

I love the tribal bias.
I adore the ethnic sentiment, worn so proudly, so unashamedly, like gele disguised as ichafu.

I admire the parochialism - that magnificent, self-defeating smallness of mind that mistakes the boundary of one's village for the edge of the universe.

I appreciate the bigotry. Truly. There is an art to it, if you look closely enough.

I love how they condemn the father who slaughtered a cow for the family feast - "imagine the small portion he served" - while with the same breath, they praise their own father who offered a goat, declaring with the full force of their conviction that it is the preferred meat of the gods. Do not attempt to locate the logic therein.

The frog in the well does not know the ocean - and resents those who have seen it.

It is the kind of theatre I sometimes crave to witness. Not because it is edifying - it is not - but because it is clarifying. It shows you exactly who you are dealing with before they fully show you themselves.

But understand this: I love Amuneke, for he is not the one who compelled you to denigrate your own - those who stand miles above their very best, on their worst days. That particular shame belongs to you alone.

Wear it accordingly.

Good Morning, Severally.

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[LEGENDARY J.O.E @LegendaryJoe]

SEYI MAKINDE'S ERROR OF COMPARISON

Seyi Makinde: "What has Bola Ahmed Tinubu done that I haven’t done?"

Well, because His Excellency, Gov. Seyi Makinde is our yoruba brother, I will attend to that error of judgment with mercy in mind.

Dear Seyi Makinde, before you sit in the shade and compare yourself to the man who planted the tree, consider the following:

1. Build a political party first. Not inherit one. Not defect into one. Build one - from concrete and conviction, from ridicule and rejection.

Then have the stomach to remain in opposition for fifteen years - without hopping, jumping, galloping, or tossing yourself from platform to platform like a market woman searching for a better price

2. While building that party, raise a generation. Not followers - leaders. Councillors. Chairmen. Lawmakers. Governors. Ministers. A Vice President. A President. All from one root, one platform, one vision.

The tree that would pierce the heavens first deepens its roots in the earth. Jagaban did not just grow tall; he grew roots wide enough to lift others with him.

3. Use that same platform - the one you built with your own hands and your own sacrifice - to confront a sitting incumbent. Not a weak one. A fortified one. And win.

4. As it is clear you also nurse Presidential aspirations, sponsor your Presidential ambition on that same platform, without borrowing another man's structure or riding another man's momentum, and watch the nation answer yes.

Seyi Makinde is a competent Governor. Oyo is better for his presence. But competence in one room does not make a man the landlord of the whole house.

Talk is cheap - What the mouth says is never equal to what the hands have done.

It is in the doing that men are separated from boys.

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[LEGENDARY J.O.E @LegendaryJoe]

YOUR CHANTS OF GRATITUDE MUST BE LOUDER THAN YOUR CRY FOR HELP - THE EGI NUPE SITUATION

As we have all witnessed only recently, on this particular Elon's street, man's villainous capacity for ingratitude. The kind that does not merely disappoint but disturbs and one that has left every right thinking individual marvel at the raw darkness of man's heart.

The bit I could scavenge from the story suggest a good samaritan pulled the might of his goodwill and depth of his professional stature to rescue a hopeless a fellow from the twin dungeons of physical incarceration and economic ruin.

He invested. He sacrificed. He restored.

And when the very funds deployed in this man's resurrection became the ammunition of vile accusations and wild allegations against the benefactor - guess where the rescued man chose to sit? Oya guess!

ON THE FENCE... Subḥānallāh

Yorubas - The forces bestowed upon your ancestors eternal wisdom, one that is not trapped by time or rendered extinct by season. They had warned in time before remembering that:

He who receives our good and repays us with grief has stolen more than any thief in the night. For the thief takes your goods. The ingrate takes your faith in humanity.

How is your benefactor being questioned over the favour he rendered to you and you chose the silence as gratitude and the fence as appreciation.

Why?

Because he silently wishes to one day benefit from the accuser too. Such is the ways of chronic parasites. It is a spiritual poverty deeper than the one he was rescued from.

Dear Man, extract your lesson from this theatre of shame. The world will test you with benefactors. It will test you with moments when silence is easy, when the fence feels safe, when neutrality seems wise.

Reject the fence. Burn it if you must. Don't be unfortunate to keep mute when your benefactor demands noise.

Let your chants of gratitude be louder - measurably, demonstrably, publicly louder - than your cry for help ever was.

Good Afternoon Severally...

[Esawo @YemacEsawo]

@LegendaryJoe 😂I can only laugh. Y'all take people too serious on social media. Why was he remanded in prison in the first place?

That alone should tell you such a person doesn't deserve empathy. People have figured out the power of social media/ beauty of crowd funding so they'll misbehave