She wrote:

These Nigerian Americans won their elections in Georgia last night . A hearty congrats to them all #ProudlyNigerian ��

...and gave the names as

Solomon Adesanya , Tish Naghise, Phil Olaleye, Carol Kazeem, Oye Owolewa, Esther Agbaje, Segun Adeyina and Gabe Okoye.

https://twitter.com/abikedabiri/status/1590272501636268032?cxt=HHwWgIDQwcSa5JEsAAAA

Congrats

Remember: Say no to tribalism.

Why didn't you post some comments under her tweet? Fear dey catch you??

Acidosis:



Why didn't you post come comments under her tweet? Fear dey catch you??

comments from ipob miscreants?

Chai..

...but will those people have the interest to serve Nigeria?

...they might be corrupted very fast in view of our sociopolitical atmosphere which is riddled in the 'Other World's Transnational powers and Very Deadly Wickedness'.

Anyway, I strongly believe "Nigeria's Messiah Time is at Hand".

Perhaps, If these people were to be in Nigeria, the probability of them becoming ward Councilors would have been very slim.

Congratulations.

Awesome!

CONGRATULATIONS TO THEM ALL.

For the ones like these guys making Nigeria proud out there.
More blessings, upliftments and success to them,
For the animals (fraudsters, scammers, drugs) bringing the name of our darling nation to disrepute and making lives difficult for sane, honest and hardworking Nigerians out there, shame, prison terms and beheading will be their lot las las.
HushBingo and Obi invictus etc comes to mind

What you sow in life you will reap.
No two ways abourrit!!

BreakingNews21:
Congrats again. This news deserves two NL front page threads.
May we live long enough to see the first American-Nigerian president of the United States of America.
I would say Nigerian-American but you have to be born there to sit in that office like Mr. Obama.

Hmmmmm, this is deep!
Words of a wise man.
In America, , ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE!!
We Rise.

Walter90:
You all can see it yourselves.
Someone from Africa winning elections in America.
But in Nigeria common someone from imo state can’t contest election in Anambra state.
Who are we fooling?
I could remember when someone from Anambra state was to be bishop in imo state, there was a serious protest from imo state.
We are just confused in Nigeria.

Hmmmm, this is deeper and the deepest at the same time!!
Words of a wise man.

Corrinthians:
She wrote:

...and gave the names as

https://twitter.com/abikedabiri/status/1590272501636268032?cxt=HHwWgIDQwcSa5JEsAAAA

Did they win by claiming Emilokan turn by turn sharing of their national cake? Or by ideological principles?
How will this escapism get our own country to be filled with collectively prosperous people

David Hundeyin
May 4, 2022


I want to sell a script to a Hollywood studio. The story is about a guy who owns a farm that constantly runs at a loss but never quite shuts down.

The farm is massive and underutilised, and the protagonist has all the opportunities in the world to improve its output and get a bumper harvest.

He has access to credit, machinery, free irrigation and gifts from neighbouring farmers, but all he ever does with these things is drink and smoke them away while his family suffers.

Nigeria has refused to grow up and achieve something, but it somehow feels as if it is living vicariously through the achievements of its estranged children around the world

Apart from drinking, smoking and generally being utterly useless, his other pastime is to pump out children at an industrial rate. Needless to say, he takes no care of his children whatsoever, and many of them fail to survive childhood.

Those who do survive have to leave the farm and hire themselves out as hired labour to the neighbouring farmers, having picked up some survival skills from home.

With time, a number of them rise through the ranks and become senior managers, directors and even shareholders in these other farms while their father continues mismanaging his farm.

When good news about some of these successful children gets home, their father is filled with pride and joy, but when they end up on the wrong side of life, he acts as if he never knew them.

The successful ones make efforts to revamp their childhood home by sending back money and volunteering their skills and time, but all this guy ever wants to do is be a 62-year-old underachieving idiot carried through life by charity and luck.

Famzing” diaspora success is dishonest
I’m sure before the end of the second paragraph, you figured out whose story I was telling. The 62-year story of post-independence Nigeria — which the Hollywood studio would surely reject for being too sad with no redemption — is that of our fictional antihero.

Nigeria has refused to grow up and achieve something, but it somehow feels as if it is living vicariously through the achievements of its estranged children around the world.

Remember how everyone from corporate brands to Abike Dabiri made a big song and dance about supporting Anthony Joshua the “Nigerian,” whose only chance to become someone in life came when his parents emigrated from Nigeria?

Remember how things turned when he somehow lost against that chubby Mexican dude whose name I can’t remember? Remember when the Super Falcons won the female AFCON title and received a congratulatory tweet from the president, only for them to have to stage a protest before being paid their camp allowances?

That’s what we do in Nigeria. We try to live vicariously through the achievements of people who have achieved great things under their own steam, simply because said people happen to be called ‘Ifeoma,’ ‘Efe’ and ‘Ayotunde.’

Even when Nigeria had absolutely nothing to do with said success, or in fact happened in spite of Nigeria, as with Divine Oduduru, we bask in the reflected glory of their personal achievements.

Sometimes when those people wear a Nigerian flag or post something about Wizkid or Jollof Rice on Instagram, we go crazy with the Nigerian flag emojis because oh my god, they identify with us!

This is not about being a Killjoy
Somehow, the complete failure of Nigeria and our complicity in its failure is more bearable when we point at Nigerian immigrants doing great things in life and say “I knew Femi before he started calling himself Anthony.

His father and I were classmates in Aiyetoro.” It is unclear how exactly this helps our situation but hey, it’s also unclear how chugging the amount of alcohol we do helps either.

Escapism is a key part of our culture, and anyone who dissents must be a non-Jollof-eating, vegetarian heretic, and possibly also an atheist.

Now while all this is painfully cringey to my eyes, some will also point out that Nigeria is not the only country that has a weird obsession with its diaspora population.

Even ‘first-world’ countries like Ireland continue to have deep emotional and economic connections to their diaspora, and in any case Nigerians proudly supporting Anthony Joshua or the NBA’s Giannis Ante…African-sounding-name is basically harmless fun. They’re not hurting anyone. Why be such a killjoy, David?

The reason this matters can be found in a quote that has been dubiously attributed to Russian President Vladmir Putin, where he describes Africa as the place where its diaspora does not invest in, but returns to only to die and be buried with their ancestors.

While there is no concrete evidence that Mr. Putin ever actually made that comment, the truth in it is painfully poignant.

For diaspora success to be meaningful to Nigeria, it must correlate to on-ground results in Nigeria. The example of Somalia shows that having a well-educated, globally successful diaspora while being an absolute basket case are both possible at the same time.

I’d imagine we do not aspire to be Somalia.

Some children of hate, frustrations and perdition are already asking why she and our darling Daddy must CONGRATULATE these successful winners out there.

We reply them say if dem no CONGRATULATE them. Na una uncle and sisters doing drugs, cutting off people's heads, fraudsters dem suppose CONGRATULATE?!

Hatred has turned some people to animals and fools.
Awon werey 100%

(If you see yourself as one of the aforementioned,
Quote this post!)

hammerT:
THIS STUPID WOMAN SHOULD STOP POURING SAND INSIDE PEOPLE GARRI.

jubrilELsudan:
SINCE I WAS BORN AND NOW I AM OLD.....I HAVE NEVER SEEN A HUMAN AS STUPID AS THIS ABIKE DABIRI

You are calling someone the age of your mom or even older a stupid woman just for doing her job!?
Kontinue....................

*singing*
In this life,
You reap what you sow.
Our elderly advice.

We Rise.

Acidosis:

Why didn't you post come comments under her tweet? Fear dey catch you??

You mean like the comment (on the screenshot) of the below derange, cannibal and terrorists supporter calling her a mumu?
By their username on Twitter you will know them.....

INDOMIE9090:
comments from ipob miscreants?

Lol
Just seeing your comment.
You know dem so well.
Below is one of them.
Check out his username!
No respect for their elders whatsoever,
What manner of swines.

Success has many friends.
People famz you once you do the extraordinary.

Congratulations to them....
God bless Nigeria

They are doing well

Celebration mode activated

Congratulations, guys

So no northerners...

What is wrong with these over sabi South



Rubbish

Let’s sort Nigeria out.

They are first of all Americans and they represent America/ American interests. Their elections were devoid of rigging and violence. We also did not hear of voters inducements or bribe to election officials.

How can they be celebrating other democracies, when theirs is in ruins? Nigeria is on a precipice, well positioned by APC. Everything is upside down. Families are wondering how they can afford rice on December. Forex prices are out of control, yet they are celebrating Americans and the democracy.

Jagbajantis intete.

Yorubas doing well on and offshore the country..... Haters and children of h8 should not come and fill this place with abuses. lets celebrate this please

Ok cool..

I make dope Vexel arts..

See how young they are, but the same abike that shared the news is here in Nigeria campaigning for a grandpa to become president.

some people will still come and drag her

Okay

Less than 10% of Nigerians are proudly Nigerian like Abike Dabiri.
What's the pride in being a Nigerian?

Congrats to the NigerianUS election winners. If you had remained in Nigeria, herdsmen and Jihadists might have done their worst on you.

Ok

Nigerians are hypocrites. When Nigerians win elections elsewhere, you celebrate them.

But when a fellow Nigerian wants to contest for an elective position in another state, you tell him or her to return to their state of origin.

congrats to them. More coming.



Anyway, Agriculture is life.