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A Tribute To A Fallen Leader by Divija(op): 5:41pm On Jul 13, 2025

Today, we say goodbye to a man who once carried the hopes of a nation on his shoulders. A president, a father figure to many, a symbol of change whose journey began with promise and passion.

In his early years, he was a beacon of hope. He spoke with fire in his bones and dreams in his heart. Streets once chanted his name, not out of fear, but of faith. He walked into power with the blessings of the people and for a moment we believed again. We believed in justice. In growth. In peace.

But history, as it often does, unfolded with its own script.

In his final days, weakened by time and circumstance, he made a choice that will haunt generations. He handed over the soul of our nation to a tyrant one who rules not with love or law, but with fear and fire. Since then, we have watched our people drown in silence, our freedoms strangled, our dignity auctioned to the highest bidder.

Was it weakness? Was it blindness? Was it betrayal?
We may never know.

But even in the pain of the present, we cannot erase the man he once was. The leader who once gave children books instead of bullets. Who once built bridges where walls stood. We honor that man today not to rewrite history, but to remember the full picture.

To mourn him is to mourn what could have been.

May his soul find the peace he couldn’t give his people.
And may we, the living, rise stronger wiser knowing that legacy is not just in what you build, but in who you leave the keys with when you are gone.

Rest well, Mr. President.
History will speak your name with both hope and caution.

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Re: A Tribute To A Fallen Leader by helinues: 5:43pm On Jul 13, 2025*

The news is still shocking. I feel somehow weak sha

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Re: A Tribute To A Fallen Leader by socialmediaman: 5:51pm On Jul 13, 2025

No matter how much I oppose the APC today, I was a Buharist until 6 months or so after he was elected President. I realized I was wrong, he didn’t have it in him, GEJ was the best choice to continue.

I created this account to support his Presidential ambition, but ended up parting ways and being very opposed to his presidency.

I wasn’t a fan of GEJ but he was the best choice to be president over Buhari, and Peter Obi today is the best choice to be President so I remain Obidient

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Re: A Tribute To A Fallen Leader by nifemi25(m): 5:53pm On Jul 13, 2025

Rest in peace sai baba

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Re: A Tribute To A Fallen Leader by Softmirror: 5:59pm On Jul 13, 2025*

Divija:
Today, we say goodbye to a man who once carried the hopes of a nation on his shoulders. A president, a father figure to many, a symbol of change whose journey began with promise and passion.

In his early years, he was a beacon of hope. He spoke with fire in his bones and dreams in his heart. Streets once chanted his name, not out of fear, but of faith. He walked into power with the blessings of the people and for a moment we believed again. We believed in justice. In growth. In peace.

But history, as it often does, unfolded with its own script.

In his final days, weakened by time and circumstance, he made a choice that will haunt generations. He handed over the soul of our nation to a tyrant one who rules not with love or law, but with fear and fire. Since then, we have watched our people drown in silence, our freedoms strangled, our dignity auctioned to the highest bidder.

Was it weakness? Was it blindness? Was it betrayal?
We may never know.

But even in the pain of the present, we cannot erase the man he once was. The leader who once gave children books instead of bullets. Who once built bridges where walls stood. We honor that man today not to rewrite history, but to remember the full picture.

To mourn him is to mourn what could have been.

May his soul find the peace he couldn’t give his people.
And may we, the living, rise stronger wiser knowing that legacy is not just in what you build, but in who you leave the keys with when you are gone.

Rest well, Mr. President.
History will speak your name with both hope and caution.

This is not a tribute but a political lamentation.

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Re: A Tribute To A Fallen Leader by englishmart(m): 6:04pm On Jul 13, 2025

I won't pretend he was a good man. The man was horrible. Very horrible.

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Re: A Tribute To A Fallen Leader by AIlife25: 6:05pm On Jul 13, 2025*

May his soul find the peace. We are all immortal, everyone will surely die.
Don't forget to always enjoy yourself.

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Re: A Tribute To A Fallen Leader by Robnectar(m): 6:05pm On Jul 13, 2025

socialmediaman:
No matter how much I oppose the APC today, I was a Buharist until 6 months or so after he was elected President. I realized I was wrong, he didn’t have it in him, GEJ was the best choice to continue.

I created this account to support his Presidential ambition, but ended up parting ways and being very opposed to his presidency.

I wasn’t a fan of GEJ but he was the best choice to be president over Buhari, and Peter Obi today is the best choice to be President so I remain Obidient

Just dey shalaye like who lost 1single pen1ssss grin

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Re: A Tribute To A Fallen Leader by SoftSport(m): 6:05pm On Jul 13, 2025

We thank him for his dedication and service in striving to make Nigeria a better and stronger nation.

President Tinubu has continued in his footsteps, bringing progress and transformation to the country.

May Allah grant President Tinubu long life, wisdom, and strength to lead Nigeria to even greater heights.

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Re: A Tribute To A Fallen Leader by StormpyBee: 6:05pm On Jul 13, 2025

Life is truly fickle, no body, I repeat, no body will leave this world alive.

We will all give account to our creator.

RIP.

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Re: A Tribute To A Fallen Leader by Rich4god(m): 6:05pm On Jul 13, 2025

If only buhari didn't contest and allowed GEJ to continue, by now our nation would have gone far.

He came in and terminated the machineries who were fighting and clearing boko haram. Also he was part of those who brought bandits to wreck on the nation should he lose election.

Without him, our nation would have been a little bit better than what it is today.

Nothing like hero.

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Re: A Tribute To A Fallen Leader by othermen: 6:05pm On Jul 13, 2025*

Elegy for the Tired Men

He said he was not corrupt. 
He said his hands were clean,
 only weary
 Too old, too tired
 to hold the men beneath him
 gorging on the country’s marrow.

Too tired to stop the looting,
too worn to question the men
who drained the country dry
while saluting him.

He said he meant well. 
But meaning is a thin roof
 when rain falls through every rafter. 
Meaning never saved a child 
in a gutted clinic, 
or the doctor killed by bandits
or kept a surgeon from packing up her books, 
and leaving forever.

He grew tired
while lecturers died in dim rooms
their salaries months behind them,
while the classrooms emptied,
and the students drifted home
to wait for a year
that never came back.

He grew tired
of the young men demanding to be seen,
While he rested behind guarded gates, 
his soldiers raised their rifles 
and fired into a crowd 
of unarmed voices— 
young faces demanding to be seen, 
to be heard, 
to be safe.
The bullets found them. 
And the country learned
 that a tired man 
can be more dangerous 
than a wicked one.

He said he was not corrupt, 
only old, 
only unable. 
But not having the will or strength
 to stop the rot 
is a form of rot itself. 

When sickness came for him,
he flew across the sea,
seeking mercy in a place he did not build,
a clean bed he never offered his own.
And there, beneath foreign lights,
the tired man closed his eyes
under the white lights of a hospital, 
he never built for his own people.
 And no one was surprised.

This is how it ends for the tired man, 
the body laid out in foreign soil, 
the headlines politely phrased, 
the country left with nothing but bats.

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Re: A Tribute To A Fallen Leader by jojothaiv(m): 6:05pm On Jul 13, 2025

He's gone and that's all.

Others coming after him wouldn't learn a lesson or two. Instead of them to fix up things they'd rather let it rot.

I'll not mock him in death because I'll taste death too.

Godspeed.

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Re: A Tribute To A Fallen Leader by Rocktation(f): 6:06pm On Jul 13, 2025

No matter what transpired between him and Nigeria, may he find rest.

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Re: A Tribute To A Fallen Leader by coolcharm(m): 6:06pm On Jul 13, 2025

I didn’t like him. But that doesn’t matter now.
May God forgive him his shortcomings and Grant him rest.

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Re: A Tribute To A Fallen Leader by englishmart(m): 6:06pm On Jul 13, 2025

AIlife25:
Please don't make racist and tribalistic comments on this section

Okay, sir.
33 more characters needed. Where I wan get am from?

Re: A Tribute To A Fallen Leader by Arostar2023: 6:06pm On Jul 13, 2025*

Buhari really disappointed many of us. We thought PDP and GEJ were corrupt until Buhari and APC came along.

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Re: A Tribute To A Fallen Leader by MartinCorridon: 6:06pm On Jul 13, 2025

Sai Baba.

RIP to Obidients Leader. The 2 time President

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Re: A Tribute To A Fallen Leader by AJSfan: 6:06pm On Jul 13, 2025

Everything no be agenda. Must you politicize his demise? Na the mod wey push this to Frontpage i blame

Re: A Tribute To A Fallen Leader by capricornlady: 6:06pm On Jul 13, 2025

Heard it's the 2nd official death tho..

It's well . It's well

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Re: A Tribute To A Fallen Leader by FunnyDude(m): 6:06pm On Jul 13, 2025*

The man was terrible. A tribalistic and bad leader. He doesn't believe in Nigeria, he can't even build a functional hospital always traveling to London for medical care. The death he was afraid of, that's making him traveling abroad eventually happens.

Then I ask, why an old man is still afraid of death, why can't he build a good health system in Nigeria and patronize it, and be a role model to other politicians in Nigeria - this would have be his biggest legacy.

He had the opportunity but messed it up.

Can't forget ENDSARS lekki tollgate
Can't even forget the cashless policy with emefiele

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Re: A Tribute To A Fallen Leader by dettolgel: 6:07pm On Jul 13, 2025

In MNK voice Tinubu has officially retired Jibrin from public service. grin

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Re: A Tribute To A Fallen Leader by dontai(m): 6:07pm On Jul 13, 2025

Softmirror:
This is not a tribute but a lamentation.

yes of course, lamentation is the real form of Tribute.

Re: A Tribute To A Fallen Leader by Freshtruth(m): 6:07pm On Jul 13, 2025

Good luck for president. If PDP get Sense they should do this now

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Re: A Tribute To A Fallen Leader by madridguy(m): 6:07pm On Jul 13, 2025

Thank you Sai Baba for your great sacrifice for our darling country.

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