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As a rule of thumb, if you hear oyibo consistently people praising an African leader (Ian Khama, Nelson Mandela, Blaise Campaore), that leader was working for them and not for his people.

And vice-versa, if you hear them ritually blacken an African leader's name (Sani Abacha, Robert Mugabe, Idi Amin), go and carefully examine everything you think you know about that leader.

Because while selling "Abacha is a murderous, oppressive devil" to you, the same people were bombing innocent Nigerians, and giving weapons training to Nigerians in exile so they could start an insurgency that would also kill innocent Nigerians, just to get rid of the same Abacha.

Kayode Fayemi and Wole Soyinka know all about this because they were being handled by the CIA during that period. If Nigeria was a remotely sovereign country, those 2 old bastards would have been beheaded for high treason.

Instead it's me who is in exile and the people who completely betrayed their country in the name of "we fought Abacha" are now in power. Nigeria's heroes are dead and their killers are in power.

MrEar:
Source: https://x.com/DavidHundeyin/status/2057861281537736778

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Mynd44

PulaPower:
This one is getting frustrated..

Since he knows them, he should mention names nah..

favor914:
How many years has Ogu been in exile now?

Refinedbeing:
This dude is the biggest clown and conspiracist I’ve ever known my whole life. I mean who told this clown the so called whites even care about his black a$$. Same Abacha he claimed was working for his people against the whites wishes died and there was jubilation all across his own country. I wonder how bad it can get to constantly delude oneself and still take pride in it. Like dude WTF.

Hundeyin need to seek help really. I know someday his conspiracist a$$ will still claim Seun, Mynd44, fergie001, and others are all CIA assets. Everyone on earth is a CIA asset except the modafvck3r. WTH

Refinedbeing:
This dude is the biggest clown and conspiracist I’ve ever known my whole life. I mean who told this clown the so called whites even care about his black a$$. Same Abacha he claimed was working for his people against the whites wishes died and there was jubilation all across his own country. I wonder how bad it can get to constantly delude oneself and still take pride in it. Like dude WTF.

Hundeyin need to seek help really. I know someday his conspiracist a$$ will still claim Seun, Mynd44, fergie001, and others are all CIA assets. Everyone on earth is a CIA asset except the modafvck3r. WTH

Forkthiefnubu:
STFU he is saying the truth

Refinedbeing:
This dude is the biggest clown and conspiracist I’ve ever known my whole life. I mean who told this clown the so called whites even care about his black a$$. Same Abacha he claimed was working for his people against the whites wishes died and there was jubilation all across his own country. I wonder how bad it can get to constantly delude oneself and still take pride in it. Like dude WTF.

Hundeyin need to seek help really. I know someday his conspiracist a$$ will still claim Seun, Mynd44, fergie001, and others are all CIA assets. Everyone on earth is a CIA asset except the modafvck3r. WTH

anonimi:
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.

PulaPower:
This one is getting frustrated..

Since he knows them, he should mention names nah..

favor914:
How many years has Oguy been in exile now?

CharlotteFlair:
There were names mentioned, still same suspects.

Refinedbeing:
This dude is the biggest clown and conspiracist I’ve ever known my whole life. I mean who told this clown the so called whites even care about his black a$$. Same Abacha he claimed was working for his people against the whites wishes died and there was jubilation all across his own country. I wonder how bad it can get to constantly delude oneself and still take pride in it. Like dude WTF.

Hundeyin need to seek help really. I know someday his conspiracist a$$ will still claim Seun, Mynd44, fergie001, and others are all CIA assets. Everyone on earth is a CIA asset except the modafvck3r. WTH

Mynd44:
I don't know about the other gentle men you mentioned but I am certainly a CIA agent. No need to claim.

On Hundeyin, dude wrote that Nasco was paying terrorism and based his report on a UN report but in the same UN document, Nasco was cleared.

Guy should be a fiction writer like Clancy and Ludlum, he will sell

MrEar:
Nigeria's Heroes Are Dead And Their Killers Are In Power - David Hundeyin




Source:

Refinedbeing:
This dude is the biggest clown and conspiracist I’ve ever known my whole life. I mean who told this clown the so called whites even care about his black a$$. Same Abacha he claimed was working for his people against the whites wishes died and there was jubilation all across his own country. I wonder how bad it can get to constantly delude oneself and still take pride in it. Like dude WTF.

Hundeyin need to seek help really. I know someday his conspiracist a$$ will still claim Seun, Mynd44, fergie001, and others are all CIA assets. Everyone on earth is a CIA asset except the modafvck3r. WTH

SonOfWords:
For someone who reads books enough to know Robert Ludlum, your perspectives on domestic politics can be terribly disappointing.

atiku4President:
Noted. Next story. So we can sleep

PulaPower:
This one is getting frustrated. I remember when he was codedly begging for money.

Since he knows them, he should mention names nah..

OredoPikin:
The day tinubu go die
There will be jubilation and throwing of parties