Oluwayemi

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Renewed Tragedy

I finished a TV analysis on the sack of the Ministers of Finance and Housing and a director in a federal ministry called me. It was one of the most emotional discussions I have had in recent time. This guy told me how many technocrats are destroyed by Tinubu’s government refusal to release money for projects. The budget goes to political funds as the World Bank reported. This director said he had never seen this level of state capture. He knew Doris would be downgraded the day she said the truth against official lie. And perhaps that is why a Squeler, an taxation evangelist without candor like Oyedele would replace Edu.

He wailed and prayed that somehow God would save Nigeria from Tinubu. His only consolation is that he is going on retirement so he does not continue to deal with hungry contractors and service providers whose bills are not paid because budgets have been tracked and trapped in political funds.

I was sobered by this conversation. I ask myself, “who really thinks this administration has done well? Well, only three class of people:

1. Social media influencers who are paid for gigs and are also monetizing,
2. Governors who are receiving windfalls and creating their own political funds,
3. Ethnic bigots who think “it is our turn to eat”, and
4. 1% business pirates whose businesses are part of the platforms for current Ponzi schemes of our economic casino and their accessories

I am yet to encounter any Nigerian outside this four categories who believes this government has done well. Let me know if you have.

[Oluwayemi @yemobolly]

@SammyOsaretin @SAMKLEF @AbdulmalikMuta4 ,

[Oluwayemi @yemobolly]

@ChinasaNworu @grok did she actually say this?

[Oluwayemi @yemobolly]

@KamogaMunawa @hoodfarquaad @grok kindly verify this claim

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Rice, air-conditioning, and fast internet access.

I won't join the pile-on, not because I disagree with it, but because this guy's tweet has given me a very valuable insight into the revolutionary potential that exists within the Nigerian population, and it is as follows:

Whenever revolutionary leadership emerges in Nigeria, the only real trick it needs to deploy to keep the population on its side despite the usual foreign influence and interference blitzkrieg, will be to deluge a critical mass of the people with a few cheap comforts. That's it.

The majority population in Nigeria as it currently exists is not configured to understand ideological revolutions of any kind. So an Ibrahim Traoré-style, eloquent, ideologically-driven revolutionary leader will be entirely lost on them and probably won't last 2 years.

What they do understand is creature comforts. Rice, cheap high-speed internet - for TikTok, movies, and porn - and an AC blowing at 18⁰C overhead to counteract the oppressive 40⁰C humidity outside. Give them these things, and you become indispensable to them - no amount of NED and State Department regime change shenanigans will ever successfully turn them against you as long as they have their WiFi blazing, AC blowing, and jollof steaming.

I've been thinking about the problem all wrong - Nigeria doesn't need and wouldn't understand an Ibrahim Traoré. What Nigeria needs is actually a Hugo Chávez - a leader who has similar ideas to Traoré, but doesn't bother trying to communicate them to people who fundamentally aren't equipped to grasp them. Someone who knows how to sell social development and national sovereignty using the language and tactics of populist simplicity.

Don't bother trying to explain to the Nigerian why the US State Department installing a drug dealer as his president is bad for him, or why Bill Gates buying off the entire Nigerian legislature so he can push his GMOs on Nigeria and end Nigeria's food sovereignty is dangerous. The Nigerian does not understand complexity and has been conditioned to be reflexively hostile toward anything remotely intellectual. Just give him hot, steaming jollof rice with 1 piece of meat, a cheap MTN 4G 30GB data package, and a 2nd hand 1.5HP split unit AC, and you're free to pursue your nationalist agenda. In fact if anyone then tries to get in your way, the Nigerian will see that as a threat to his continued supply of rice, porn, and cold air, and will sleep in the streets to defend you like the Venezuelans did to defend Chávez.

It now makes sense why so many random Nigerians are triggered by Ibrahim Traoré's existence and popularity. His intellectual speeches and eloquently-expressed ideas, with big words like "imperialism," and "sovereignty" must be the most irritating thing in the world to them. All they want to see and recognise as a "revolution" in Burkina Faso is Burkinabés celebrating cheap internet, air-conditioned houses and cars, and steaming rice. And since that hasn't been forthcoming (instead all you're hearing is stuff about dams and roads and tractors and hospitals and military hardware and geopolitical alignments and "Faso Mébo"), that must mean Ibrahim Traoré is a fraud.

This is what I love about Twitter - access to high-quality social data and population insights in real time.

This single tweet here - from someone who once voted for, and presumably agreed with a politician whose campaign slogan was "From Consumption To Production" - has given me the sort of political clarity that people spend years and pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to obtain.

Thank you🙏🏾

I blocked you years ago and you might not see this, but thank you🙏🏾

[Omoyele Sowore @sowore]

Vanguard newspaper @vanguardngrnews decided to cut off the part of the interview when I spoke about the Gbajue master!

One of Nigeria’s fiercest opposition voices, Omoyele Sowore, in this interview opens up on the Tinubu administration, the death of democratic ideals, the collapse of opposition politics, and why he doesn’t believe in elections.

Sowore also explains why he wouldn’t align with Labour Party or Peter Obi, and what Nigerians must do before 2027.
Excerpts:

What are your thoughts on the Tinubu-led government as we approach another Democracy Day?

My position on this government is not a thought—it’s a clear stance I’ve held long before the 2023 elections. Nigerians made a grave mistake voting Bola Tinubu into office. I said it before, and I’ll say it again: when Tinubu is done with this country, Nigerians will be begging to return to Buhari’s era. He has done irreparable damage—economically, socially, politically. He has crippled institutions, education, and democracy. Buhari killed Nigeria in eight years; Tinubu came, in two years he is burying it.

So, you don’t think there’s anything to celebrate on this Democracy Day?
Nothing. In fact, what Nigerians are whispering—dangerously—is that they no longer believe in democracy. The promises of democracy—free speech, credible elections, freedom to choose—have been destroyed. Today, people celebrate military dictators just to express their frustration. But to be clear, I don’t support military rules. What we have now is a shambolic democracy. We’ve been taken on a roller coaster ride by both military and civilian rulers.

The House of Representatives is proposing a law to make voting compulsory. Are you ready to stand against this law if it passes?
If you have to use threats to force people to vote, then democracy is dead. Democracy is about choice. You cannot force people to participate in a system they no longer believe in. That proposal is not about participation; it’s about forced legitimacy. They’re panicking because fewer people are voting, so they want to cook up numbers and call it turnout. The people making these laws already know I will stand against them. But they also know the law is not enforceable. You can’t force people to vote when you haven’t fixed the electoral process.

Some Nigerians describe you as too radical and uncompromising. What’s your response?

I don’t think I’m radical enough. People who say that haven’t studied history. Every meaningful change in this world came through so-called radicals. I will not water down my convictions to please those who want me to fit into a box. The louder voices online don’t represent the majority of Nigerians. Those who truly suffer in this country know what I stand for—and they agree.

Has the Revolution Now movement died down?
Not at all. Revolutions take time. The French Revolution took over 10 years. The American Revolution, Cuban, Chinese revolutions all took time. You don’t judge a revolution by how loud it is. You judge it by how persistent the message is.

And that message is still alive. More Nigerians are openly asking for change today than they did in 2019. That’s progress.

Your campaign against the IGP—how far have you gone with it?
It has achieved results. Over 1,000 illegally retained senior police officers have been forced out. Police officers who haven’t been promoted in 20 years are now getting promoted. It has created a shift. But the ultimate goal is to get the IGP to resign—he’s overstayed. We haven’t given up.

There’s concern that the opposition voice is dying. What’s your view?

That’s because what you call opposition isn’t opposition. Most of them are former APC or PDP members. They share the same ideology—or lack of one. Real opposition means clear ideological difference. What we have are political mercenaries looking for the best-paying camp.

Are you saying there’s no true opposition?
Exactly. Most of these defections are transactional.

[Senator Shehu Sani @ShehuSani]

Five things that rubbishes the wages of the average working class:
1.Withdrawal of subsidies.
2.Increase in tariffs on electricity and telecommunications.
3.Inflation.
4.Falling value of the Naira.
5.Increase in rents.
#MayDay

[Tunde Onakoya @Tunde_OD]

Extremely cruel to humiliate a mother in front of her daughter like this. Even worse that this was recorded and posted on social media.

My mother used to sweep people’s houses and gutters in 2016. It hurt too much that I could do nothing financially to stop her. I often insisted on going with her, just to help fetch the water she needed so we could finish quicker and get back home before daylight. I didn’t want anyone to see us. The poverty that pushes one to hide their labour in the dark is a painful one.

Yes, that child should not be working. But more than outrage, what she and her mother deserve is compassion. The only humane response is to help.

If no one has done this already, I would like to take full responsibility for the girl’s education through university. I hope this eases their burden in some way. These are incredibly hard times.

Our Privilege blinds us in ways we’ll never truly understand.

[Abolaji Rasaq Oluwapese @bolazeal]

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The Rise of Agbero (From Bus Conductors to a Cartel)

There was a time when being Yoruba meant something. It meant intellect, industry, and innovation. It meant producing great minds in all aspects of life. But today, we witness a slow, deliberate erosion of that legacy.

[Oluwayemi @yemobolly]

@teniikulturee .

[Ife Salako @ifesalakooffice]

Why APC/Tinubu will never be of good to Nigeria.

Ire o✌🏽

[Kalu Aja @FinPlanKaluAja1]

Mr. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

On July 8th 2024, you announced a 150-day duty-free import window for food commodities to ensure a reduction in food inflation in Nigeria. The food commodities include maize, husked brown rice, wheat, and cowpeas. As i type, This plan is yet to be implemented. Your own federal bureaucracy has denied Nigerians cheaper food.

You mention a commitment to fighting hunger and poverty in Nigeria, yet under your economic leadership, Nigerians have become more hungry and poorer

These beautiful words spoken in Brazil are hollow in intent and substance. Nigerians want you to implement policies to make their lives better, safer and more prosperous.

Thats all.

[Oluwayemi @yemobolly]

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[Vanguard Newspapers @vanguardngrnews]

Breaking: Minor faints in court before trial for participating in protest

Credit: Ikechukwu Nnochiri

[Nigeria Stories @NigeriaStories]

BREAKING NEWS: Suspects Brought For Arraignments for involvement in the #𝐄𝐧𝐝𝐁𝐚𝐝𝐆𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 Faint In Court

🎥: Punch newspaper

https://t.co/yHlNgixDbE

[Nonconformist @_nonconformist1]

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