#Nigeria:I hear our #Amotekun is already misbehaving in the SW and many people are already saying, 'we told you so!' Hm.

I thought we all agree that true federalism is the future for Nigeria. Why then are you mocking the initial steps towards this ultimate goal?
We cant be talking like people who don't know what they want. The 'true federalism' must of necessity include such things as giving more security responsibility & power to the states, fiscal federalism & constitutional reforms involving our concurrent/exclusive lists.
Nobody needs to laugh at #AMOTEKUN or any other state's independent security body recently established. We should rather laugh at our Governors who can not establish appropriate training for these new outfits.

We can also laugh at ourselves as a people for this new failure.
On the other hand we can choose to see these initial misbehaviour of AMOTEKUN as nothing more than the teething problems of any new entity even as we demand for improvements from the governmental structures in each state.

Our states & political leadership must be made to work.
I'm tired of having to always blame Abuja for crimes and insecurity issues in my local government. I'm sick of having a unitary/centralist government being called a federal government.

We can have a strong Federal government while still having responsible state governments.
The AMOTEKUN personnel who killed people in Ibadan must be made to account for their crimes.

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24 Dec
#ASUU : The members of this union will get full pay( and some) for 9months of work not done, in the year of #covid_19 and subsequent recession.

Everybody loves to profit from our dysfunctional system. We then hypocritically look up to God to 'come heal our land'!
Other university unions are already doing press-up for their own impending strike. Their strike will be followed by strikes in the healthsector and other unions in the civil service.

Then we will blame the executive arm of the government for not growing our economy!
I understand why it's so easy for some people to give up on Nigeria. Projections into the future do not give one much to hope upon. We keep self-sabotaging any developmental strides: pls keep praying for those train services.😆

Still we must keep believing.
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15 Dec
#Nigeria: Parents must bear the first responsibility for the children they bring into this world before we begin putting blames on the government of the day. Many of the bandits & terrorists in northern Nigeria were denied parental care too early in life.

SLS on my mind now.
Former Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi was trying to say something about developing a new approach to family structure in the North but somehow the baby was thrown away with the bathwater. I agree he veered too deeply into politics.

It is clear the issue must be revisited.
I have seen some pictures of some of the apprehended bandits, kidnappers and terrorist and I could only open my mouth in amazement at how small and young many of them are. They remain criminals to me but I wonder if we are going to line them up and shoot them now?
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24 Oct
#NigeriaPolitics: Once you see that fake-blood stained picture on anyones Twitter dp, just know that he or she is one of those who want to pull our country down through a multifaceted civil war.

Distance yourself from such people by unfollowing them.
Defacing the flag of a country in any way is a sign of disrespect to the country and is in fact a crime.

Hating a president or a party or a government should not equate to hating your country.

Many of those people are suffering from an incurable inferiority complex as Africans.
Rwandan was a country of about 10million people in 1994 with only 3 ethic groups; a civil war, essentially intertribal in nature, claimed up to 1 million lives over a period of 3 months.

Nigeria has more than 200million population & >250 tribes. We can't afford any form of war.
Read 4 tweets
23 Oct
#NigeriaPolitics: Advice to all those who vehemently hate Buhari and his government: there is still time to form your political party and vie for power at all levels in 2023. It's not far.

All these asinine schemes to unseat a government mid-tenure will only lead to bloodshed.
As you strategize,make sure you get people outside of Lagos involved, make sure you involve every geo-political zone.

All these grandiose talk of youth power based on primordial animal rage is rubbish.

Look at a map of Nigeria, Lagos is only a small part of Nigeria.
Citizens including the so-called youths must realize there are processes and procedures in policy-making and politics.

The right process to take over power is via the democratic process of party politics and elections.

Let's stop destroying our country by our own hands.
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20 Oct
#Nigeria:Shame on the conveners of the ENDSARS protest. Now,a curfew has been imposed in Lagos.

How you disguised your ignoble plot to unseat a government behind the call to 'EndSARS' is disingenuous & stands condemned.

There must be a day of reckoning. I hope it will be soon.
We warned all of you fellows who kept applauding these ignorant folks with large followings on social media but kept clapping nonetheless.

We shall see, how many of you are ready to join a militia when the time comes?

Please call 'Mochievous' et al. to come home now.
What I find most abhorrent is the pattern of lies whereby government is blamed for setting its own police station on fire, releasing thugs on protesters etc. Are these people and their followers these stupid?
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20 Oct
DO NOT GIVE UP NIGERIA TO ANARCHISTS AND NIHILISTS

Anarchists do not believe in authority while Nihilists believe in no morality or religion : perfect descriptions of the so-called youths who want to use the 'End SARS 'protest to terminate our democracy.

We must resist them!
Unfolding right now before us us is an insurrection against our government and way of life. Do not fall for their lies anymore.

How did a 5-point demand transmutate to 20 points ( and counting)? Why did the youth representative not show up at Lagos judicial panel inauguration?
Why do the favourite 'influencers' make imbecilic assertions without evidence? For instance, "it was the government that released prisoners in Benin in order to give the protests a bad name!"

Look very well, there is a co-ordination of the lies they tell.
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