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Please my fellow Nigerians, don't listen to people who are paid to push agendas and propaganda for foreign interests even to our own detriment.

No matter how bad a democracy is, it is still far better than a dictatorship.
No matter how Buhari or Tinubu bleeps up, we still enjoy the freedoms enshrined in democracy. The freedom of information, freedom of press, freedom of movement. You can move in and out of the country as you please without any government illegally holding you.

You can visit any website you want and criticize your government and its officials as much as you want. These might seem as a common and easy thing but know that these are not privileges afforded to citizens under a dictatorship.

A dictatorship is ruled by decrees and junta. One where only one man has the final say and does as he says.

Please don't let Russian implanted agents present across the internet to let you see anything good in a military dictatorship. Worse, one that is a puppet of Russia.

Please don't be fooled my fellow Nigerians. Don't fall for Russian propaganda. You may hate the west all you want but Russia is definitely not the answer to our African problems. Military dictatorship is definitely not the answer. We have had Babangida, Abacha, Buhari, Gowon etc and these dictators were all worse than the problem they had claimed to want to solve

OasisX:
I am most humbled and honoured by H.E. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's recognition of the need for more hard work ahead as I have been appointed as his Official Spokesperson & Special Adviser to the President on Media & Publicity.

I will give 🇳🇬 my best as always. I love you all.

- Ajuri Obari Ngelale

Another lying propagandist who continuously and consistently papered over the disastrous Buhari policies and terrible administration rewarded for his loyalty to party over country.

This dude kept churning out lies after lies for Buhari's failed government and deceiving people, now he's been awarded to continue from where he stopped and foolish Nigerians are smiling and saying nice. SMH.

Radical propagandists at work as usual!!

Make I hear say Tinubu understand even 3 points from what he said. Normal speechwriters stuff.

This is a man who throughout campaigning was basically hiding from the public. Couldn't care less about engaging journalists. Refused appearing on the debate stage to compare and contrast ideas with opposition.

Now he's basically being stage managed with carefully audited speeches.
While people who are not here to see this shege laugh and mock us to our faces.

At the end of the day, no be propaganda we go chop. The reality still bites hard.

OasisX:


.....relax, drink some water and list out who you think shouldn't be a nomimee(s)

WIKE WIKE WIKE WIKE WIKE WIKE WIKE WIKE!!!

Wike is a corrupt murderous barbarian!

This is a man personally responsible for the deaths of lots of people but somehow you guys want to just skim over this very serious issue. This guy has blood on his hands for God's sake.

This is before we talk about how he is one of the most corrupt political entities we have in the country today.

It should fill anyone with dread seeing Wike being given any government parastatal to handle. The man is a well known looter of public funds. Do you really believe that as a minister where he doesn't even need to appease the masses but only Tinubu, you think he will do anything reasonable if not just to acquire more wealth and influence for himself.

dvkot:
.... Lol 😂
I been one answer am before but as I see your post, I was just like nah let him suffer... 😂,
he ignored my post about the west having bases in Africa while he was going about complaint about Wagner presence in Africa

I ignored it because I didn't know where to start from in letting you know that the majority of bases the US has especially around Africa has been one used for extraction of troops and barely for invading another country especially their bases in Africa, US has not in living memory, invaded any single African country bar Libya (which was in actuality a people led revolution).

Their bases are purely for logistics purposes, but then I realised you will start talking diverting to other issues and we'll make no progress.

But the fact is that the US hasn't used it's bases in Africa for invasion. Rather for extracting personnel in any foreseeable emergency. Like the one happening in Niger. But of course you will argue blindly because it's all agenda for you guys everytime.

Now we're seeing terrible politicians and\or their stooges. In other words, maintenance of the status quo.
We warned!

Donjazet2:
I can't keep repeating this enough! A presidency is beyond just one man. An Obi presidency, especially one led and fuelled by the masses and has a lack of establishment support means he has an autonomy and freer room to be his own person and make his own personal choices and appointments.

An Obi presidency appoints better ambassadors, better judges, better ministers.
An Obi presidency has better motivation to work for the people.

Not voting is playing the ostrich. And unfortunately your choice affects me, it affects all of us so go sit down and make better rational decisions.

This was me a year ago today!
Take a look at the bolded most especially.

Donjazet2:
Imagine a world where a reason for not voting a politician is because he tries to project an image of simplicity and humility.
Mr man when it comes to Obi, his number one selling point is his prudence with public funds.

Your whole point is now rendered almost foolish when you declare that the person you want is an acclaimed chronic thief, corrupt entity, cheif embezzler and enabler of corruption.
You support wike because of his dictatorial tendencies, you don't support Obi because some people have said negative things about him, meanwhile you're overlooking the millions saying positive things about him and worse still, you've refused to use your own hand to research on the candidate himself very well rather than rely on what people say.

You're just not serious. People like you are the reason I'm intensifying my effort to make people vote.
Bro, this is politics, not a divine race, to be at the top of politics means you've dined with a devil at some point, you will never see a candidate that ticks all your boxes because what you seek is different from what others seek.
What you must do is choose the candidate that ticks the most for you and is the best among the options presented.

I can't keep repeating this enough! A presidency is beyond just one man. An Obi presidency, especially one led and fuelled by the masses and has a lack of establishment support means he has an autonomy and freer room to be his own person and make his own personal choices and appointments.

An Obi presidency appoints better ambassadors, better judges, better ministers.
An Obi presidency has better motivation to work for the people.

Meanwhile NOT VOTING is antithetical to whatever ideal or wish you have for the country. Not voting is a complete surrender to the evil forces that have darkened the nation to what it is today.
Not voting is infact VOTING. Not voting is ensuring that terrible leaders capture the state. The state of which you are under their whims and caprices. Not voting is playing the ostrich. And unfortunately your choice affects me, it affects all of us so go sit down and make better rational decisions.

We saw this coming a long time ago, APC moles and some opportunists who decided to pitch the wagon with a blossoming LP which the masses backed.

This doesn't surprise one bit.

OasisX:


....you're damn late to the party bro. We don move pass this stage.

But have we??

You wanted to build a house, there were 2 models Presented. A house built majorly with wood or a house built with blocks and cement.
You were advised that wooden structures don't last very long and will be prone to fire while cemented blocks will guarantee a longer lasting house. You said, wood can indeed lasts longer than some cement buildings in many cases, that wooden buildings unfairly get a bad rap. Now you've built the wooden house and indeed there are already structural weaknesses visible and present, now you've suddenly turned to a realist, you say, "well, we always knew that wood can catch fire easily, it's the reality, but doesn't mean it won't work but everyone around can already predict how wood always ends. The collapse of the building soon

Postdigger I need your help. Dig out the posts of those who kept saying bat will select only the best when we were saying he would recycle the current corrupt political elite.

Please help me dig it out let's see those who have suddenly realised that yeah "this is a political reality". "That it happens everywhere", even when we told them that with Obi, it was different, because the ordinary Nigerians were indeed his backers. Please dig these out for me abeg.

Theflint1:
Yea, I get it, I just wish we didn't have a president with too many politicians to settle. Tinubu's ascent to the presidency was driven mostly by the influence of politicians, and that many persons to settle is too much of a drag on his decision-making and eventual performance as president .

Gbam!!
It's not like we didn't shout this point aloud from the rooftops!!

"Voting Tinubu is consolidating on the current corrupt ruling elite class because his campaign was powered by these same wicked corrupt people" we said.

Voting an obi whose movement was powered by the youths around the hitherto largely unknown people would be a revolution as good as any. We said. But these people kept drumming the single line, "bat will select the best people in his government". He doesn't care whose ox is gored. He is no one's puppet.

Today the story has changed now that we're seeing a very terrible list of same corrupt and murderous politicians like Wike, Ibori, and the Stooges of the main players. It is now "accept it, it's the reality, it's how politics is".

These people are evil by nature.

Ministerial nomination is mostly to settle people who helped you there. Those who sacrificed to get you there

Ohh I see!!!

It's no longer about "BAT will select the best heads, regardless of whose ox is gored".

When we were saying the exact same thing that Tinubu will simply recycle the current corrupt political class, for selfish games, these same people countered it with "Tinubu will select the best technocrats". That he did it in Lagos.

Now it has now become, "hey, that's the reality of politics, he will employ those that will help his election bid, It's the same in many countries ".

Such a shameless bunch.

What I've just observed right now is that it's the agbado supporters here that has just introduced this narrative of tribe.

This people see every single thing through the lens of tribe. It's always about tribe tribe tribe even though we've not seen anything related to that from the news in Niger.

I suspect that the APC propaganda channels introduced this notion of tribe in continuation of consolidation of support for bat just incase some Nigerians are thinking of ever doing the same.
Divide and rule by tribe is all these people know.

Trading in dollar has nothing to do with the fact that Russia today is sponsoring military coups against African democracies and installing puppets as leaders..

Oya see now, the coupist military government in Niger just blocked its Citizens, access to social media. In order to control the flow of information within the country.

This is what you people are supporting!!

Russian puppets across Africa that will set the continent up for proxy wars.

You guys should search your consciences, especially those of you who are indeed not paid Russian propagandists here.

Know that Wagner has a vast propaganda network across African country that aims to manipulate and shape opinions. Be very aware so that you don't fall victim to this manipulation.

Ibime:
Each atrocity should be condemned. Check my records. I am against Iraq war

I don't know why these propagandists don't understand this, that we're against Russia's military incursions into sovereign nations doesn't mean that we're in support of the incursions of the west in other countries hitherto now.

We're saying that all countries must respect the sovereignty of other nations, be it US, France or Russia. One becomes a hypocrite when you rail against the incursions of the west in the past decades and now defend the very same act by another right now. It makes no sense.

Guys please come together and reject foreign powers in Africa!

Russia is not your friend simple!

Africa has been largely peaceful even with our fledgling democracies but a proxy war is being set up and that benefits no one.

Russia is arming rebel groups in Africa now. Things that we used to hate the west for.
You cannot e angry at the west for arming groups illegally and look away at what Putin is now doing in Africa!!

A word is enough for the wise.

What Russia's Wagner is doing across Africa.

Absolutely NO ONE is comparing the Burkina Faso military dictator to Thomas Sankara.

No one loves a military coupist! We stand for democracy. We have tried military rule and it ALWAYS turned out to be far worse than what they claimed to fight against.

Abacha, Babangida, Gowon, Buhari. All military dictatorships that sent Nigeria far backwards!

All claiming upon assumption of leadership to remove corruption and detach themselves from the west, only to steal humongous sums of money and still send them to the same west.

Now today, we have military puppets of Putin rising up in Africa and you guys who claim to have Africa's best intentions at heart embrace this.

My fellow Nigerians here, and I mean the average users here like you and I not those paid per posts whose day job it is to spread propaganda, please fight back against this.

This is not a US vs Russia issue happening thousands of kilometres away in Ukraine or Syria, this is our own motherland, if you care about the African continent, YOU WILL NEVER SUPPORT MILITARY DICTATORSHIPS who are puppets to dethrone out democracies no matter how weak they are.

These people have to be paid Russian propagandists.

That's the only explanation for this.

You cannot say you want to be free from imperialism and then jump right into the arms of another (even worse) imperial power.

You can't genuinely complain about France's influence and then embrace Russian backed military coup and truncation of democracy.

That's basically cutting your nose to spite your face.

You guys would wail and wail and rant about what the west did in Africa some 60 to 70 years ago but you guys will not see what Russia is doing in several African countries and sponsoring military coups in order to have puppets.

So now we're going from frying pan into the fire.

You guys are celebrating the military coups around Africa, pray that this doesn't happen to Nigeria. We are now basically encircled by countries that have now usurped their fledgling democracies.

I am currently hating with passion the hypocrisy of you Putin supporters.

How can you all be silent to what Putin's Wagner is doing across Africa??

Do you Putin supporters really want Africa sliding back into military dictatorships??

Do you guys really seek to see us go back to the 70's and 80's where iron fisted abachas ruled with military decrees and junta's??

Putin's Wagner group is creating chaos across Africa and you guys are silent about this.

This is completely sickening! Absolutely sickening from you guys.

Havertz10 I don't see you criticizing what Putin's Wagner is doing across Africa.

If it was the west, you would make the loudest noise. Russia is provoking instability across the African continent and it is highly destabilising.

OasisX:
Grow up Kid, ask yourself why almighty US couldn't defeat Taliban, rather handover the Nation to them with Armament as jara in the end.

You can't be giant just on paper, prove it to the world. You may hate PBAT, but at least love and respect your country and the government in power [for now].

UN, US, France and even Russia are backing Nigeria to restore democracy in Niger cos they believe we have the capabilities to do so, but here is a Toddler thinking otherwise cos of Kekerenke Ish.

I do agree with you on this. Democracy has to be restored. Although my ideal scenario would be for them to pound their current politicians shege, remove them all and usher in new democratic leaders via credible elections, and not just revert to status quo.

But military dictatorships must be avoided at all costs and I hope Tinubu leads Nigeria right in this.

Imagine being such a traitor to your country and continent that you wish Russia continues to interfere in African issues but the same you would cry to the highest heavens of the west did that.

What exactly do you people stand for?

Do you want continued interference from foreign powers or not. Because substituting the US for Russia doesn't seem like a winning plan to me.

This is the Russia you all support.

You guys hypocrisy just stinks too much.

I think the main issue is that you guys are just rabidly "ANTI-WEST". So you you will basically support anything and anyone no matter how terrible they are l, just so far as they are also ANTI-WEST.

That is how you see yourselves suddenly rooting for North Korea whose leaders are basically the worst any country can ever wish to have and have led that society completely backwards, and then Iran where many of you can see how they put down their women who are fighting for their lives and freedom away from gender slavery, and then China and Russia where criticism of government is essentially a crime that sees you severely punished and all opposition silenced with a watertight lock on freedom on information.

All these are countries with terrible human rights records OF THEIR OWN CITIZENS! But you guys who enjoy the associated freedom of democracy, that can come online, criticize the government as much as you want without any consequence would see yourselves supporting the government that does those rubbishes. Simply because of "enemy of my enemy" stuffs.

Please you guys should ask yourselves questions.

And whenever you guys keep rambling on about how the US has invaded countries for years, don't ever forget to mention that in the cold war, there were 2 sides doing the very same thing.

I don't understand the act of criticizing the US for its foreign interventions in other countries but not doing the same thing to the Soviet and subsequent Russia that has also done the very same thing. Interfering in various democratic foreign governments.

You can't voice outrage at the US and then smile at Russia for doing the exact same things. That's classic double standard and hypocrisy.

The funny thing about you Putin retarded hypocrites is how you guys manage to skim over the numerous atrocities of the Soviet Union and Russia.

We only hear about the misdeeds of the US because of how critical they are of themselves. From Vietnam war to Iraq war to drone killings and the rest. The United States themselves are the ones that criticize and evaluate their own selves because of their rotating democracy that frequently change hands amongst themselves. Unlike Soviet era where a single man and the Politburo tightly controlled the flow of information and negation to the government was met with death and many of their leaders essentially being venerated to cult like god status like is happening with Putin and some you brainwashed hypnotized fools.

Read below and see how your beloved Russia also previously murdered its own citizens and also changed regimes of foreign countries like Afghanistan, Vietnam and the rest and murdered democratically elected leaders in their quest to spread communism.

WrriterNig:
⚡️🇷🇺 Putin: “Russian companies will get more profit thanks to our withdrawal from Black Sea grain deal as grain prices have increased”

Only a foolish African who doesn't know how this is a bad deal for him will think this is good.

I've said it before, you definitely are a paid Russian propagandist. No 2 ways about being this dedicated to spread Russian propaganda and talking points.
This is indeed your job and career. Being a Russian troll. Fortunately it makes no significant impact as Russia itself is still seen as an international pariah.

dermmy:
Russia stood behind Africa in the liberation struggle against colonialism and Western Imperialism. Russia funded, armed and trained the ANC in their struggle against apartheid South African regime while America and its western counterparts gave their full support to the apartheid regime. When Patrice Lumumba was killed Soviet Russia denounced the West and honored him by introducing a postage stamp with Lumumba's picture on it. Go and look into Russia and Africa's relations from the cold War era.

But wait a minute, WHY CAN'T WE MOVE PAST THIS HISTORY?

Yes, in the past, all many countries knew was war and bloodshed. For instance, even within African countries, we slaughtered ourselves and still do (Ethiopia and Sudan) and these wars have nothing to do with foreign powers today but we ourselves.

Our countries today are wretched because our own leaders are foolish. Will you blame the west for Buhari and Tinubu? What of Biafra war which killed millions, was it not purely tribal and internal geopolitical issues that caused us to shed our own bloods. Did these countries make us fight ourselves?
Even today, is it the west that is responsible for Igbos and Yorubas having the most intense tribal battles and name calling today?
What about Rwanda? Is it the west responsible for the 2 biggest tribes there slaughtering their selves like animals?

Please stop talking about things that happened 60 to 80 years ago when our collective humanity alone knew nothing but wars and blood. America itself was colonized before, Britain itself was defeated by Nordic countries of today. Dutch were once the biggest colonizers. Do we still need to talk about things that happened 100 to 500 years ago?

Nooo. Let's talk about TODAY!! let's talk about how the US is no longer the oil seeking, blood thirsty country it was many years ago. Even the most recent US wars of 10-15 years ago were a war of ideology, not even about oil.

And on that me and you actually have the US to thank for Muslim terrorist groups not being more powerful than they are. We ourselves already know the negative and dreadful impact of such. The war on terror has been largely won.

The west no longer seeks to enlarge their territory. They are now a country of liberal ideology not the neocon war hawks of the bush and chiney era.

Russia is the one who still seeks to go back to the days of the past.

Let's stop all these nonsense of 50 to 100 years ago. Let's move forward please.

I see you hypocrites are silent about what Russia's military via Wagner is now doing in African countries.
If it were the west, sending militaries across the region, you guys will be up in arms but funny to see you are not applying the same standards to Russia.

The Wagner group is carrying out sophisticated terrorist activities across Africa and all of you who claim to hate the west or anything imperial are silent about this and even foolishly support this.

You cannot say you want Africa to be independent and suckle on the teats of another foreign power. One far worse than the one you are complaining about.

I see the Putin retards are still high on Putin's cum after the excess dickriding.

I need you guys to get into your thick skulls! Russia will NEVER match up to the United States of America. IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN! Not in this world not in the next.

Neither will China! China is everything it is today because of the west. The moment western countries withdraw and close down all their facilities from China. Their economy falls instantly!! Look around you, what does China really produce that is theirs in terms of global products?

The top 3 phone brands in the world are Apple, Samsung, Microsoft, nokia etc. Their Huawei has been cut to size when they wanted raise shoulders.

Cars nko, you have Toyota, ford, Honda, BMW, GM etc. Which Chinese car do you know?

Electronics nko, televisions, fridges, AC, iron etc. For that you have Samsung, LG, Sony, Panasonic etc.
Airplanes nko, Boeing, airbus, Bombardier, Gulfstream, Embraer, Dassault etc not to talk of food and retail, nestle, universal, hvnm, fashion companies.

And guess what, each and every single one of the company mentioned above has its biggest factories in China.

If all these companies pulled out, China would immediately collapse. Yes, these would be a heavy thing for these companies but their economies can absorb the impact. China however will be toast.

Think of this last statement I'm about to make.

The economies of China, Russia, India, Brazil, north Korea, south Africa, Iran combined is still not up to the economy of the United States alone!

I need you to think about that again. The economies of those 7 countries combined is not up to the USA economy alone. Make of that what you will. The United States of America is not going anywhere! You must live with it!