**A Sorcerer's Apprentice** Viewing Nigerian Politics From My Cave** Student of Dark Personalities and Malignant Narcissists **
Aug 13 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Dr. Usman Bugaje narrated a story of how an opposition suya seller, a member of the old NEPU movement, used to taunt Sardauna Sir Ahmadu Bello every morning when Sardauna was going to the office. He will shout NEPU Sawaba slogan in opposition to Sardauna's NPC.
The man did this for nearly two years. Then, for some days, Sardauna noticed that the man wasn't at his suya at his spot. Sardauna asked his aides to inquire about the man. SAB was told that the man was in jail for a criminal breach of trust. Sardauna asked what the amount was?
Jan 2 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
"The year that Okonkwo took eight hundred seed of yams from Nwakibie was the worst year in living memory. Nothing happened at its proper time; it was either too early or too late. It seemed as if the world had gone mad...1/1
"The first rains were late and when they came, lasted only a brief moment. The drought continued for eight market weeks and the yams were killed. The year had gone mad. When the rains finally returned, they fell as it had never fallen before....1/2
Jul 25, 2024 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Death or destruction of public and private property is not the objective of the protest. The protest is a statement to our rapacious political class of all divides, whether APC, LP or PDP that they are not emperors who conquered us in war. Sovereignty belongs to us, the people.
Politicians in power constantly make peaceful change difficult by weaponizing poverty. They ensure that voters have barely enough to eat to take them to the next circle of voting when they will be given N1000, plus indomie or spaghetti and key soap to "vote" for the predators.
Jul 10, 2022 • 28 tweets • 7 min read
@daily_trust EDITORIAL: Nigeria: A Nation In Search Of Its Leader.
On his short tour of Kuje Correctional Centre, following an attack on the facility by members of ISWAP, during which hundreds of inmates escaped, President @MBuhari could not hide his disappointment....
President @MBuhari could not hide his disappointment with the whole system of security intelligence in the country.
And his words were appropriately probing. “How did the defences at the prison fail to prevent the attack? How many inmates were in the facility?
