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[E.P Aninze Esq. @EkeneAninze]

Sometimes the best way to silence aggressive critics is confrontation.

Have you all noticed that since that 10 billion naira suit was slammed against Kenneth Okonkwo by Peter Obi and Achike Udenwa, he has been unusually silent?

By now, Kenneth Okonkwo must have realized that the aggressive demarketing he did against Peter Obi while trying to promote Atiku Abubakar was not worth it after all.

If not for that suit, Kenneth Okonkwo would have probably been moving from one media house to another, heavily criticizing Peter Obi and keeping the attacks alive.

But that suit appears to have helped him retrace his steps.

Instead, he stylishly pulled out of Atiku's agenda under the guise that Atiku did not regard the South East because he failed to pick his vice-presidential candidate from the region.

Ironically, this is the same Kenneth Okonkwo who was criticizing those who frowned at the fact that Atiku does not respect the principles of zoning.

Sometimes, confrontation achieves what endless arguments never can.

Lol

I am Ekene Aninze Esq.

[E.P Aninze Esq. @EkeneAninze]

Anytime I see David Umahi campaigning for Tinubu in the South East, I usually remember the warrant chiefs of the precolonial era because he usually behaves like one.

David Umahi is that one political leader in the South East who gathers his people in Ebonyi State every Eke market day to remind them that they have endorsed President Tinubu as their sole candidate in the whole of Ebonyi and, by extension, the South East, to complete his 8-year tenure.

He usually tell them that its not proper to for anyone to one to talk about other candidates.

But most times, he seems to forget one thing that greatly weakened the influence and powers of warrant chiefs in the precolonial era:

The fact that the average Igbo man has a mind of his own.

An average Igbo man does not believe that he has a political leader who can simply tell him what to do across board and expect unquestioned obedience.

You can organize rallies and call him to political meetings.

You can even gather him every market day and remind him where you stand politically.

Yet, on election day, he will still walk into the polling unit and vote his mind.

That has always been one of the defining characteristics of the Igbo political culture.

I think David Umahi would make faster progress in selling his candidate if he channels this same energy into showcasing the things he has done for his people with his juicy position as Minister of Works over the past three years.

I am Ekene Aninze Esq.

[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

When I was Muslim, I knew the story in Surah 2.

King Saul leads his army out, God tests them at a river — don’t drink, or you’re not with me — and only a few pass. Then they fight, and David kills Goliath. Surah 2:249-251.

Clean story. Until you open the Bible and find that the river test isn’t Saul’s at all.

It’s Gideon’s. Judges 7.

God tells Gideon his army is too big. So he tests them at the water. The men who lap like a dog go one way, the men who kneel go another. God whittles 32,000 men down to 300, so Israel can’t brag that they won by their own strength.

That’s the test. And it belongs to GIDEON. A judge. About 150 years BEFORE Saul was ever king.

You know what shook me?

The Quran took Gideon’s water test, pinned it on Saul, and then stitched the David and Goliath battle onto the end of it.

Two separate stories, from two different centuries, fused into one.

It’s the exact same thing the Quran does with Moses and Jacob. Take a detail from one hero, glue it onto another, compress the timeline.

I used to say the Bible mixed things up.

But the Bible keeps Gideon and Saul as two distinct men, 150 years apart, with two distinct stories.

It’s the later book that merged them.
And here’s what I couldn’t ignore.

Gideon’s 300 won so that no one could boast. The whole point was: the victory is God’s, not yours.

That’s the Gospel in advance. You don’t win by your strength. You win by His.

“Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the Lord.” Zechariah 4:6.

The Bible kept the story straight because the story was going somewhere.

It was going to a cross, where God won the victory alone, so no one could ever boast they saved themselves.

[OKmovement @OK2027movement]

The OK Movement joins His Excellency. Peter Obi and Millions of Nigerians in calling for the resignation of President Tinubu. Our nation cannot continue to endure the consequences of ineffective leadership and poor governance.

Nigeria deserves competent, accountable leadership.

Nigeria must be OK.

[A.M TEMIDAYO @AnewNaija]

Bayo Onanuga ran to Arise Prime Time to perform damage control after Obi’s call for Tinubu’s resignation. I almost pitied him as he twisted, deflected, and struggled to dress anti-people policies in borrowed robes of logic. The more intelligent he tried to sound, the more ridiculous he became. Indeed, no one can defend the indefensible — because facts don’t need makeup.

[Mike Arnold @MikeArnoldTruth]

The UN just released a report from a twelve-day Nigeria "investigation" by its Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief. Finding: no evidence of religious persecution.

One detail sets the table: the Rapporteur was there at the invitation of the Nigerian government.

The Rapporteur's reasoning: she did not see a direct government order to kill Christians. No instruction from Abuja, up and down the chain of command, ordering one religious group destroyed. Therefore — not genocide. Not persecution. Move along.

The problem is, that is NOT the legal standard. That is a red herring. Disgusting.

In 1994, Hutu militias — not the Rwandan military, not a government chain of command — killed 800,000 Tutsi in 100 days. The International Criminal Tribunal ruled it genocide. The killers didn't have government memos in their pockets. They had machetes and a mission. Intent to destroy a group is the standard. Not a signed order.

The Rapporteur, Prof. Nazila Ghanea, holds a chair in international human rights law at Oxford University. She knows the legal standard for religious persecution and genocide. She chose intentionally to kick up dust with a false argument to justify her obviously pre-determined conclusion. That's not an investigation, it's a whitewash. This should be a crime.

Here's what her twelve-day investigation looked like. She went to Abuja, Jos, and Kano — cities. Not to Barkin Ladi, not Benue, not Taraba or Southern Kaduna, not Gwoza, where the massacres continue. Her own statement confirmed her activities were "limited to Kano and Plateau states." She met with government officials and "religious leaders." In Nigeria that means she sat with the apparatus running the cover-up and took notes.

In her own words, she acknowledged that "at the village and hamlet levels in particular concentrations of the country, scores of innocent people experience killings, mass violence and the total decimation of their livelihoods, time and again, witnessing little or no justice." She acknowledged the scale of killings "could qualify as genocide." Her own senior legal experts told her directly they "cannot say that genocide is not happening anywhere in Nigeria."

Then she issued a report saying there is no evidence of religious persecution.

Prior to her trip, the European Centre for Law and Justice, Genocide Watch, and 21Wilberforce each submitted documented evidence of anti-Christian massacres for her consideration. She came home and said there's nothing to see.

Lying to hide the genocide is nothing new for the UN. I build schools in displacement camps in Abuja. The UNHCR wrote a detailed report about those camps in 2015. When I contacted them in 2020, they officially denied the camps exist. But they do, and the victims are still there.

More than 185,000 Christians and non-jihadist Muslims have been killed since 2009. More than 20,000 churches burned. Twelve million driven from their homes.

And the UN just handed Nigeria a clean bill of health.

The only certain conclusion from the report is that the UN Rapporteur is either corrupt, complicit, or a complete ignoramus. And her Oxford position likely rules out ignoramus.

The United Nations is not a neutral observer in Nigeria's genocide. It is a participant in covering it up.

#EarthShaker

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@EkeneAninze That conclusion appears more like a personal opinion than a legal one. As a learned counsel, presenting the facts and allowing the public to draw their own conclusions may be a more neutral approach.

[tracesSQL @tracesSQL]

@EkeneAninze If political leaders are unwilling to consistently confront armed groups, then changing the structure from federal police to state police may not solve the problem. The problem is political will, not just policing structure.

[Obiasogu David @afrisagacity]

On May 21st, a month ago, President Tinubu appointed Professor Segun Aina, as the new Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB).

At the time of his appointment, his father, Emeritus Professor Olu Aina, was the Chairman of the National Universities Commission (NUC).

Barely a month after his son was appointed the Registrar of JAMB, Professor Olu Aina was made to resign his position, as the NUC Chairman. Reports suggest his resignation was to clear the tracks for his son.

Interestingly, President Tinubu had appointed Prof Olu Aina merely less than a year ago, in July 2025.

Oluwatoyin Temitayo Ogundipe, another Yoruba man, was appointed today to replace Prof Olu Aina, as the NUC Chairman.

Isn’t this classic nepotism?✍️

[tracesSQL @tracesSQL]

@Big_Mck African leader Model: Obiang (Equatorial Guinea, 1979–present), Biya (Cameroon, 1982–present), Museveni (Uganda, 1986–present), Isaias Afwerki (Eritrea, 1993–present), Sassou Nguesso (Congo-Brazzaville, 1997–present), Mugabe (Zimbabwe, 1980–2017), dos Santos (Angola, 1979–2017).

[tracesSQL @tracesSQL]

@Big_Mck Political stability is not measured by how long leaders remain in office, but by the consistency of policies over time.

[tracesSQL @tracesSQL]

@Big_Mck Have you heard about this: ‘The Winter Fuel Payment Backlash’? You may not even understand what it means. ‘This is me telling you.’ Who are you?

[Nigeria Stories @NigeriaStories]

“One day, we will have two big buildings in Abuja where we will put pictures of people—whether dead or alive—who have messed up this country so that their grandchildren will know their forefathers were part of Nigeria’s problems,���

~ Goodluck Jonathan says

[NDC War Room @NDCWarRoom]

@PeterObi Chief Tinubu, resign now or be humiliated out of office in 2027.

[Peter Obi @PeterObi]

Owning Up to Leadership Failures and Political Responsibility

This morning, I listened to the British Prime Minister’s speech announcing his planned resignation in July. As a keen observer of global politics, my primary interest lies in examining what successful nations do right and the structural factors that cause others to lag or struggle with governance and development.

The Prime Minister’s planned resignation comes amid mounting public frustration over a stagnant economy, a worsening cost-of-living crisis, and a perceived failure to honour key campaign pledges.

Looking inward in our dear country, we can recall our own situation. Before 2015, our President on several occasions championed the call for the then President Goodluck Jonathan to resign over economic hardship and insecurity affecting Nigerians. During the Chibok school kidnapping incident, he demanded the immediate resignation of President Jonathan, arguing that the government had failed in its most fundamental duty of protecting lives.

During the 2023 election campaign, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu made several promises, including improved electricity supply. He also challenged the electorate not to vote for him for a second term if he failed to deliver on those commitments—particularly in providing stable power, fighting corruption, and improving the welfare of Nigerians.

At present, however, these conditions have worsened. Electricity supply remains unreliable, insecurity has intensified in many areas, including kidnappings, and economic hardship has deepened rather than eased. Similar concerns are reflected across other critical sectors such as security, infrastructure, transportation, and anti-corruption efforts, all of which have regressed. We are in the worst possible condition.

I, therefore, join Nigerians of goodwill in calling for the resignation of the President over monumental failure in governance. Such a gesture would help enthrone a political culture rooted in accountability and responsibility, rather than further entrenching impunity. It would also send a powerful message that public office is a sacred trust, not an entitlement, and help build a society in which future leaders understand that failure carries consequences. Only by ending the culture of impunity can we secure a better future for the society our children will inherit in a New Nigeria that is possible. -PO

[tracesSQL @tracesSQL]

@RepRileyMoore I heard that you have taken a bribe from Tinubu, and now you are silent about the ongoing genocide.

[E.P Aninze Esq. @EkeneAninze]

Yakubu Mahmood is one of the luckiest Nigerians alive. I heard he has resumed his duty in Qatar.

His emergence as an Ambassador should tell you the kind of system we run in Nigeria and how it rewards waywardness.

This was a man whom the whole nation gave ₦314 billion to organize an election.

He spent the entire pre-election period touring round Nigeria and standing before the whole world, convincing people that their votes would count.

He assured Nigerians that the electoral process would be transparent, credible, and technologically driven.

But when the moment of truth came, after all was said and done, he failed to live up to the expectations created by his own promises.

The explanation that eventually came was that there was a "technical glitch," and those who were not satisfied were advised to go to court.

That was the end of the story.

Today, however, he has been handsomely rewarded with an Ambassadorial role because he delivered when he was beckoned upon to deliver.

If not, what justification can there be for making an outgoing Electoral Chairman an Ambassador by a President he brought to office?

In Nigeria, the reward for a wayward job done is more promotion.

I am Ekene Aninze Esq.

[J. C. Okechukwu @jcokechukwu]

Yea, this is how far the regime is willing to go to stop the narrative of "A CHRISTIAN GENOCIDE IN NIGERIA" even when this has been proved beyond the shadow of a doubt, by every statistical and historical metric in the book.

Imagine the amount of money they had to sink into this venture that has failed and will continue to fail.

[Onwa_Nnewi @Kene_Nnewi]

BREAKING: Former National Democratic Coalition (NADECO) activist, Chief Ralph Obioha, rejects the national honour conferred on him by President Tinubu, citing the continued detention of IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu and the worsening insecurity across the country as reasons for his decision.

[tracesSQL @tracesSQL]

@esegbonaluis Support is earned through solidarity. If people feel unwelcome, attacked, or discriminated against, they may be less willing to support you when you later ask for unity