Bitch, you’re Black *and* Nigerian. Your president is a functional vegetable who will likely rule you for another four years. You have insurgents threatening your existence in your own backyard and you can’t do fuck all about it. You wake up every day knowing that one day you may have to pay a ransom praying that your body or that of someone you love is at least recovered in time for a proper funeral. You could be dispossessed of everything you own in one sweep. Your life expectancy is shit and there is no lifeline. You are one arrest away from becoming another forgotten sheep in a broken system, one medical emergency away from becoming a dead fly. Your offspring were already in danger before ever being born.
So wherever women’s rights are being taken away, you are still doomed. Doomed as a Nigerian. Doomed as a Black man. Because wherever you go, your rights are next. You too are standing on rights that were fought for, given legal protection, and can be taken away. And any machinery of oppression that comes for women’s rights will come for yours too. You will have no freedom and no dignity.
You are still under the feet and mercy of the white man, still doomed in every universe. Still a lame horse waiting to be put down. Worry about your fate and we’ll worry about ours.
Dear Lagosians,
If the last 27 years have taught you ANYTHING, anything at all, it should be this:
"Ojú bọ̀ọ̀rọ̀ ò gb'ọmọ l'ọ́wọ́ èkùrọ́".
The next elections really are about your future and that of your children.
I assure you, that in the competent, compassionate and capable hands of @GRVlagos and myself, Lagos State can be so much more than it is right now, and Lagosians should not be begging for their pension or anything else for that matter.
Lagos TRULY has no business with poverty, homelessness or hunger, and yet, here we are today.
We all want to take Lagos State to the next level, to even greater than the late great Alhaji Lateef Kayode Jakande took it.
To do that, we must resist the devils, and they shall surely flee before us, and together, we can Make Èkó Great Again. #MEGA2027
No more Mister Nice Guy.
Warmest Regards,
Babatunde O. Gbadamosi
The enemy would love to talk you out of God’s promises, so you let the facts determine your faith: the evidence, the time, how long it’s been. Keep doing the right thing. Keep believing. Keep thanking God. Just because He’s silent doesn’t mean He’s not working. Just because the evidence is not there doesn’t mean it’s not going to happen.
Months into my grieving journey, I came to the realization that this had been other people’s reality too, long before it was mine. All those days I was living richly and happily, someone’s world had ended, that day was just my turn.
You will never face a situation where you don’t have what you need. You’re not lacking. You’re not at a disadvantage. The odds may be against you, but God has already equipped you and empowered you for every season.