His name is Chief Olusegun Matthew Okikiola Ogunboye Aremu Obasanjo (GCFR).

Nigeria has seen BETTER DAYS.

If you haven’t listened to Akinwumi Adesina’s interview with Rufai Oseni on Arise TV, please do so. I just streamed the full interview, & I’m speechless. Akin is such a force, he is a man of statistics as well. He regurgitated everything that Peter Obi has been saying; everything.

“1. Nigeria must invest in its people.
2. Africa cannot develop with aide.
3. We have the resources in the soil.

4. Trump says it’s AMERICA FIRST.
I don’t have a problem with that.

5. I don’t believe we should beg our way to development. We must develop with pride.

6. Africa has 65% of arable land to feed the world. It’s not in Asia, not in America, not in China. It’s not in any other part of the world.

7. When we have 477 million young people below the age of 35, why should I be worried?

8. The largest renewable sources of energy are in Africa, why should I be worried (when it has to do with energy transition globally)?

8. On electric vehicles: Take lithium batteries for example. Everything you need; from platinum, to cobalt, to graphite, copper & everything you need are in Africa.

9. DRC accounts for 90% of global platinum for mobile phones, lithium batteries. Electric car market will be worth $59 Trillion by 2050. Develop your own manufacturing capacity, so that you’re not selling the raw materials.

10. If I’m selling semi-conductors to you, if I’m something you need; it’s very difficult for you to just wake up, & wave me around like that. The lesson is for African nations to industrialize, & make its purchasing power very high.”

Akin is basically saying FROM CONSUMPTION TO PRODUCTION. That was a Pan Africanist speaking. He is pro-Africa through & through.

Akin is an advocate of purchasing power, AKA (HDI). He said so much, I can’t possibly remember everything now. You guys need to stop the relationship, soups, bigotry & gender wars, & begin to have these conversations.

Africa is on borrowed time, we are in the dying minutes of a unequal match. The world truly left Nigeria behind, we are now a laughing stock globally. Nigerians should be led by the likes of Akin, NOI, Obi; but hey, “let’s continue with the stupid tribalism & the reckless foolishness.”

Nigeria is a goldmine. We have all that we need inside the soil to be great. But we need the focused leadership, who are less corrupt, & people-centric. We need people of integrity (global icons) that will put Nigerians first.

Enough with the Politicking & the Government of Politicians only. Haven’t y’all had enough?

NIGERIANS WAKE UP!

There is the local & international dimension to the Boko Haram & the terrorism ravaging the continent of Africa (especially Nigeria).

The funding, the training & the logistics are coming mostly from the West & the Middle East; the foot soldiers are supplied from right there in my native Nigeria, & the wider Sahel.

It’s a foreign mission with local headquarters.

No Terrorism can carryon for almost two decades without a type of sophistication (a network of endless supply of weapons & funding). Someone must have routes to market to succeed with onboarding such a massive program on such a massive scale. Abacha understood some of these complexities.

The terrorism in Nigeria is nuclear, with many branches. Local champions in Nigeria are not that sophisticated to coordinate & sustain such transnational sabotage on that grand scale (without motivation from external sources).

Wars are expensive, & someone must fund it with hard currency. Foot soldiers must be fed, the war propaganda must be oiled as well.

Religious fanaticism & radicalization are the oxygen, poverty is the cannon fodder. Two peas in a pod; both married each other perfectly. Sabotage added salt to injury.

The multidimensional poverty ravaging Nigeria, alongside the ungoverned spaces up north, are enough motivation for anyone to want to join a group of ragtags. Downplaying the international dimension to an almost 2 decades of nonstop insurgency, is something that I will never do.

Simon Ekpa’s IPOB are not isolated either. The riff raff cannot possibly be the one funding the endless resources he had at his disposable.

A sovereign or conglomerate must have been the muscle directing the orchestra, & arranging the motifs. Simon is not that sophisticated.

Wars are expensive, & someone must fund it.

I have seen enough to know that wherever there is conflict, a whale is paying for it. There is whole economy built around wars & conflict.

Someone somewhere is the beneficiary (pushing their own agenda from behind the scene). It's a perfect collaboration. Nigeria supplies the foot soldiers, the West & the Arabs the funding. In simple language; the Boko Haram is local, the funding is international.

Canada High Commission is more wawulent than I thought. In line with standard practice; they will offer no explanation for denying Nigerian army chiefs entry visas. If they need further clarification, they should go to court

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