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Not been myself since @SamuelOgundipe’s illegal detention - unable to articulate thoughts clearly enough without sentiments, unwilling to tweet much about anything else because the only thing on my mind is #FreeSamuelOgundipe - a sad hashtag we’ve trended for others in the past.
Some of us have never been under any illusion as to the capacity of this Buhari/Osinbajo regime for evil and the solution to it is simply to vote them out and hope that never again do we have to do #FreeSamuelOgundipe hashtag for anyone else in future.

This Govt is Tyranny.
My consolation here is that Samuel’s spirit is UNBREAKABLE.

I do not personally know any other journalist who is more ethically committed to his profession but also eager to write his name in The Golden Book where the names of the likes of Dele Giwa is etched in capital letters.
I recall a very heated conversation I had with Samuel about a year ago on the role of the media.

We managed not to exchange blows but we did not agree eventually. His writings since then became bolder and I smiled when I read them cos I knew I had made impact from that argument.
Let us be clear to the Forces of Tyranny and their lackeys in this space: Freedom Always Comes.

It might delay, but it always comes - an Enlightened Human Spirit can NEVER BE BROKEN, Never.

This Govt is the Unfortunate Vessel of Samuel’s Glorification - theirs is the shame.
If that boy dies in detention, his blood is on the head of @ProfOsinbajo - the silent enabler of evil who sometimes masquerades as an angel of light: pray he doesn’t die in detention sir; my spirit is heavy on this #FreeSamuelOgundipe matter.

Pray he doesn’t die sir.
Everyone who knows Samuel, please send thoughts of Life, Love and Light to him - say a prayer if you don’t know him so well.

His spirit is unbreakable but his body is frail.

#FreeSamuelOgundipe is a righteous cause and he will walk with his two legs to visit his mother soon.

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Oct 9, 2018
I should say this to all Igbos whom I feel have been forced by historical and recent events to take a position of “We don’t care about Power” in their own country:

If Power in any Nation is not something some parts of that Nation can aspire to, then it’s not a true Nation.
The office of VP is for Nigerians and if Igbos are indeed a part of Nigeria, then they should aspire to it boldly, openly and unapologetically.

If they cannot do it openly because some APC e-diots will come and say rubbish, some of us will do it for Nigeria - not just for Igbos.
If an Igbo isn’t in the highest power dynamics of Nigeria after 2019, then our claims to Nationhood will be sorely tested.

Nnamdi Kanu was active under PDP Govts but seeing Anyim as FG and the E in GEJ meaning Ebelechukwu helped PDP to hold Nation Nigeria.

This is about Nigeria
Read 4 tweets
Oct 9, 2018
So we just did this and my argument for an Igbo running mate for Atiku hinges on three things: Strategy, Reward to Achieve Higher Performance and Nationalism.

Let me start from the last: PDP cannot successfully claim to be a Nationalist party if SE doesn’t get VP - simple.
On strategy - we had 3 main thrusts from 2015 when PDP lost: a) Expose APC for failure b) Choose a Fulani Candidate to challenge Buhari in his base and c) Choose an Igbo running mate to turn out higher numbers than 2015 from the SE, like it did in 2011.

We’ve done a,b; now do c.
After Kano results came in and PDP lost woefully, I looked at 2011 figures and still felt confident that PDP would win.

If the SE had given us same figures in 2015 as it had in 2011, GEJ would have won in 2015.

PDP will win SE - I agree.
But will PDP win SE massively? Not sure.
Read 31 tweets
Oct 8, 2018
I think the current crop of political leaders across Nigeria have failed to learn one crucial lesson about Relevance, Influence and Rest - which many in our generation also don’t understand.

For me, it is what Uncle Bola Ige aptly described as the “Siddon Look Movement”.
Siddon Look basically is a posture of political inactivity or passive political participation rather than pushing yourself into the fray in order not to lose relevance.

Ige took this position in reaction to the IBB regime Third Republic and it was effective for his politics.
Many politicians, jittery of losing their political base participated in the Third Republic until it was scuttled.

Again during the ill-fated Abacha transition, Ige still didn’t participate until that also ended - yet by 1999, Ige and his party retained their power bases.
Read 17 tweets
Oct 7, 2018
As I was saying about the permutations that won the victory today...

Before Tambuwal came into the venue last night, an indistinguishable man was announced and I knew immediately that The Generals had decided and he was here to oversee.

His name, Ali Gusau. #PDPConventionPHC
In 1999, Atiku was presiding over a PDM meeting to endorse Ekwueme as PDP presidential flagbearer when Gusau came and informed him that Obasanjo was the preferred candidate of The Generals.

Atiku postponed that meeting for two days and when they reconvened, dynamics had changed.
A debt was paid last night with the change in permutations but Otta is not a power base that shifts easily.

It took a call from the West to shift the stand of Otta, where the god that resides there had as far back as 3 months ago vowed to support whoever emerged from PDP.
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Oct 7, 2018
Was mildly surprised last night to see that the APC was also holding a convention from which the only positive I see is that someone isn’t totally lifeless but merely sleeping at one of the most important events of his life.

But let’s talk a bit about #PDPConventionPHC.
The permutations involved the horse-trading between aspirants, the concessions made in delegates, political deals and also rumours from online about Cash - which I saw none of personally, know no one who saw but I am certain happened as always in politics.

#PDPConventionPHC
But first let me explain (as much as I can) a little about the PDP delegate system for the #PDPConventionPHC of 2018.

A National Delegate is one (s)elected from each of Nigeria’s 774 LGAs to vote at the National Convention/Presidential Primaries.

So you have 774 Elected.
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Oct 6, 2018
Datti Baba-Ahmed.

Pro-Chancellor, Baze University.
Former House of Reps member.
Erudite Scholar.

#AllFarBetterThanBuhari
#PDPConventionPHC
Ibrahim Dankwambo.

Former Accountant-General of the Federation.
Serving Governor. 
Political Performer.

#AllFarBetterThanBuhari
#PDPConventionPHC
Kabiru Tanimu Turaki.

Senior Advocate of Nigeria.
Former Minister of Special Duties.
Former supervising Minister, Ministry of Labour.

#AllFarBetterThanBuhari
#PDPConventionPHC
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