Buhari to Tinubu is Jumping from Dementia to Drunkenness-THREAD
Tinubu is expending every imaginable financial, political, social, and symbolic resource at his disposal to become president. But after 8 years of Buhari's absent, dementia-plagued presidency, the last thing Nigeria
would need is even a single day of a drugged and drunken presidency. Tinubu, as most people know, is an unremittingly drugged and drunk man who is incapable of a basic presence of mind or a coherent thought-process for a sustained period. He obviously has excellent speech writers
and artful PR professionals around him, but he’s a narcotic and alcoholic disaster. If Nigeria is to have a chance at survival, it shouldn’t make the mistake of replacing a dementia-ravaged Buhari with a drunk and drugged Tinubu.
At the barest minimum, we need a sober, self-aware, cosmopolitan person who is likely to be sensitive to public opinion.

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The Nigerian Labor Congress has been the outpost of nakedly mercenary and treacherous intrigues at least since Adams Oshiomhole became its leader.I know for a fact that in the early 2000s, every petrol price hike used to be
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