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Dec 17, 2019 41 tweets 6 min read
Endless Borrowing Will Lead to Endless Sorrowing

By Atiku Abubakar

John Quincy Adams once said “there are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.” He may have very well been referring to Nigeria of the last three years. Barely two weeks ago, I warned during my Founder’s Day lecture at the American University of Nigeria, Yola, that Nigeria had taken almost as much foreign debt in the last three years, as she had taken in the thirty years before 2015 combined.
Oct 30, 2019 14 tweets 2 min read
On the Supreme Court Decision

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Segun Showunmi

“There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.” Shakespeare
Waziri Atiku Abubakar, GCON, embarked on the journey of Presidential Election 2019 mindful of the challenges that an election in our country poses under the circumstances of our limited capacity
May 10, 2019 20 tweets 3 min read
THE JUDICIARY ON TRIAL!

The Judiciary is on trial and the implications will have far reaching consequences into the future of how democracy and elections will evolve in our beloved Nigeria. If and when citizens lose faith in the ability of the judiciary, especially the courts of the land, to transparently adjudicate in matters of significant national interest, then we can better imagine what will follow.
Mar 6, 2019 41 tweets 6 min read
The Peoples Mandate 2019: Atiku’s Battle to save our Democracy - Segun Showunmi A time comes in the life of a nation when men of valour have to stand up and be counted at epochal moments to stop the ship of state from either drowning or derailing. The history of mankind is replete with the exploits of great men and women who rose to become something
Mar 1, 2019 62 tweets 9 min read
A pyrrhic victory built on quicksand-Segun Showunmi "No evil deed can go unpunished. Any evil done by man to man will be redressed, if not now, then certainly later, if not by man, then certainly by God, for the victory of evil over good can only be temporary."

- Dele Giwa (1947-1986)