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Jun 9 5 tweets 4 min read
This map is from a presentation made after #NigeriaDecides2019. Note where state actors engaged in violence. Opposition strongholds.

Today's nonsense in Alaba is same just earlier in the process. Voter suppression. You can download the full report here: bit.ly/3O3j6l7
Present at that report were people from @inecnigeria @HQNigerianArmy @PoliceNG @official_NSCDC and a host of other actors in the election and security matrix.

The report was adopted, and INEC promised to do better. bit.ly/3aIxnp4
Having pointed out all of this, we must come to terms with the flaws in our system and figure out ways around them.

@inecnigeria has started CVR. There's really no reason why we should be doing lastminute.com voter reg and creating choke points politicians can exploit.
To put it simply, if the guys from Alaba hadn't spent so much time listening to charlatans such as Nnamdi Kanu, they could have mobilised to register in bits over the last two years, thus depriving thuggish would-be rulers the ability to (attempt to) prevent registration.
It's a lesson we all in #Nigeria have to learn. Rescuing this country, whatever that means, is a marathon, not a sprint.

#NigeriaDecides2023 will come and go. The time to start preparing for #NigeriaDecides2027 is immediately. No time to rest on oars at all.

As you were.

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Jun 10
This tweet, and the reply, are both hilarious and sad at the same time. I normally don't engage such nonsense, but herein lies a teachable moment, so let's go.

First, in a thread of 5 tweets, it's the single one that pointed out the flaw in the strategy of the victims you saw.
It says a lot about your ability to assess multiple streams of information at the same time, and as important, it speaks to your emotional state.

Basically, you're looking for affirmation, so anything that runs contrary to what you'd like to hear, can only be from an "enemy".
Which is fair at an individual level, but when an entire group begins to act in this manner and expects the results to be favourable, one can only wonder...
Read 14 tweets
May 30
This chart shows that you are actually more likely to be lynched in Southern #Nigeria.

It should be food for thought for Southern Nigerians.

It should be food for thought for someone like me, who is a parent.
Imagine sitting in your house, and your child goes out, then you hear that he has been killed because of ₦100 ($0.17)?

That is what happened to #DavidImoh's parents. bit.ly/3a0EtF7
Sadly, too low-income Nigerians have been socialised to see mob justice as normal.

When you add that most of us have no trust in the legal system in any event, we will see more lynchings in future.
Read 7 tweets
May 2
One of the best pieces written about #Nigeria's Igbo problem by a non-Igbo person was recently republished by @DavidHundeyin in his @BusinessDayNg column.

There are two parts to it: bit.ly/3ktNrga and bit.ly/3LHJDnp

I highly recommend it.
Reading both articles, no one should be surprised about the almost visceral reaction to my tweet from a few days ago in which I quoted something that Chinua Achebe wrote in 1983.
The interesting thing is that if all the people making noises about "victim mentality" and "bigotry" and "disunity" had bothered to look at the tweet just before that, they'd have realised that my tweet was actually addressed to my own people...
Read 18 tweets
Apr 24
One of my best friends offline is @ose_anenih, and for quite a few years he kept warning me about the error of my ways in my rather (at the time) stubborn stance in refusing to use my block button.

Thanks to Buhari's #TwitterBan, I saw how criminally naive I was in that stance.
Some people who come to one's mentions to chat shit do so with no measure of good faith. They aren't here to learn, they are here to worship their god, and derail your thoughts.

Flee from such demons of the twitterverse as they make your experience ugly.

I just blocked a few.
Considering the fact that I complained about our lack of tourism on this twitter before 2015 (the app has a search function), and complained about same theme back when I was active on @nairaland (pre 2010, again you can search), how the fuck was yesterday's thread about Buhari?
Read 12 tweets
Apr 23
I visited #Stonehenge today.

In researching before my visit, I learned that it attracts more than a million visitors a year.

Look at it this way: an adult ticket to Stonehenge is £22. You are encouraged to make a £5 donation as well, but let's stick with the lower figure... Image
By the time we finished the tour you can't leave the #Stonehenge ground without passing through the gift shop.

Unless you are an absolute Philistine, you are going to leave the gift shop probably £30 lighter.

So we're looking at £52.
As you're stepping out of the gift shop to head to the car park, the sweet smells of the kitchen assault your nose and remind you that you have been walking around for the last four hours.

Meal: £10.

So the whole excursion (minus travel and lodging) cost me £62.
Read 6 tweets
Mar 1
I just published What is our interest in #Ukraine? link.medium.com/wJJXJfBD2nb

I’d like to begin this by saying something important: the attack on Ukraine is immoral and wicked, and deserves all the uproar that has accompanied it from wherever.
Sadly, that is about where it will get.

The world of geopolitics is not a moral place, and to quote the Athenians when they sent an ultimatum to the Melians during the Siege of Melios, “the strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must.
Herein lies the meat of the matter from my POV: in the end, the world of international geopolitics is about might being right, not about anything else.

This is why @CondoleezzaRice could pontificate about what @KremlinRussia_E has done without irony despite her role in #Iraq.
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