Thread by @firstladyship

1. Forget the ₦5000, you won’t get it.

They know the people they are targeting. It’s almost always towards the general elections. They know election is in 2 years & Prof Yemi Osinbajo has to resume the TradeMoni (VOTE BUYING), only this time, it is ₦5000 no more ₦10,000.

2. A country that hid your palliatives in hidden warehouses, can NEVER get you out of poverty. Later they’ll increase petrol price, VAT & hike electricity tariff. Pls forget Osinbajo.

₦5000 to 20m Nigerian is ₦100 billion. How much is ASUU asking for?

3. How much will it cost to be build 36 Primary Health Care Centers in each state & the FCT?

If they truly mean well & they aren’t looking to embezzle or buy votes for 2023, isn’t it better they use the money for healthcare & education?

4. Who is fooling who?

If you do not see population as one of the major problem of Nigeria, a
12-year-old being married off & giving birth to 8 or more children, then I don’t know what to say. All I know is, “these men in power are callous & greedy.”

5. They will keep preserving & rotating power within their ranks. From precolonial & postcolonial Nigeria, its been all about “REGIME PRESERVATION” nothing more.

Britain & Northern oligarchy, did not create Nigeria for growth OR development.

6. They created Nigeria as a BUSINESS, A CRONY-CAPITALIST STATE for themselves & their cronies.

So any attempt(s) to explode the potentials latent within the four walls of Nigeria, will be met with stiff resistance in the the hands of these overlords.

7. That is the reason they killed Biafrans & #EndSARS peaceful protesters. Nigeria is their FIEFDOM, the citizens - their SUBJECTS. It serves their interest to see Nigerians remain poor & poorer.

The Qing Dynasty was presented with similar faith during the “First Opium War.”

8. The only difference was; “China wasn’t exactly as poor & primitive like most parts of Nigeria is today.”

The Daoguang Emperor & his ruling class were afraid of innovation & western influence. So they held on tight to the old systems & ethos.

9. It took the superior canon firepower of the English, France, USA & allies to bring the Chinese Empire to its knees.

Defeated & humiliated in the “First & Second Opium Wars,” the Chinese empire tautened. It came to its crossroads - “open up to the West or perish??”

10. China could not withstand the superiority of western intellect & ways of doing things. The Daoguang Emperor was afraid the West will corrupt China & its people.

China had been a closed empire rooted in traditions & respect for its revered dynastic cults.

11. But in the end, revolution in form of rebellion & upheavals will force the empire to finally open up to western influence.

You see; “China growth was deliberate, they knew Western education was the ONLY pathway to success.”

12. They needed sweet revenge, & how best were they going to achieve that??? WESTERN EDUCATION!!

So they sent the first of young Chinese students to the United States, to gain western education.

13. You see, Nigeria can only grow through Western Education, not Islamic education. Sadly, it is HARAM in some parts of Nigeria. At least the Boko Haram terrorists say so nowadays.

Education brings innovation. Nigeria can only grow through “Research, Innovation & Development.”

14. Nigerian students already lost a full calendar year. “Quick thinking” — those in power should have funded ASUU with the necessary tools for online learning.

Then again, a largely uneducated North will keep dragging Nigeria behind.

15. You cannot plan, how do you intend to feed such a humongous, largely uneducated population?

Northern oligarchs feared the South had educational advantage, pre-independence. The North were not ready for independence.

16. The system of “divide & rule” practiced by Britain, favored the North. So they negotiated a better deal with Britain.

The South in their desperation to gain independence, agreed to terms with the North.

17. The North gave its conditions that must be met, before they could accept independence. They wanted Nigeria the way Britain fashioned it, & left power with the Northern oligarchs (Emirs & Sultans). They wouldn’t accept a RESTRUCTURED Nigeria at independence.

18. Britain easily favored the North because they were quite amenable & easily persuaded. Governing the North was easy, everyone had to submit themselves to the more Autocratic Caliphates. The Caliphates reigned supreme, even now.

19. So post-independence, power was left in the hand of Tafawa Balewa & the North got more states, more landmass. The North understand the power of population & having more lands. They will never relinquish their right to “child marriage” nor conduct a proper census.

20. Status quo must remain. So Nigeria as you know it today, is not a NATION, at least not yet.

“Nigeria is all about the preservation of power, & patronage, nothing more.” I’ll stop here, I typed this in a hurry as usual. It is not an academic work. So forgive any error(s).