The only thing I have to add to Nigeria’s internal political conversation concerning 2027 is this:
Whether the vehicle you people eventually agree on is Peter Obi or Atiku or coalition or whatever, you must prepare to carry out strategic violence. Because casting votes alone will not remove Jabba The Hutt from that office. Voting is only 35% of the job, and the ruling puppets have NO INTENTION of respecting your “votes.” I can tell you that for free.
You have my word.
Whatever melodrama they are staging is for the sole purpose of sucking you into doing a live-action repeat of 2023 when you won the election and lost the objective of the election – to remove cancer called APC from Aso Rock. The last election that this APC pestilence won in Nigeria was 10 years ago. They did not win in 2019, and they certaintly did not win in 2023. It made no difference. So if you want to reclaim Nigeria from these flesh-eating bacteria, you have to make the vote meaningful by adding strategic violence to back it up.
That’s what the Ghanaians did last year and I gained a new level of respect for them. No unnecessary social media cho cho cho, no Twitter spaces, no fiery newspaper columns, no noise whatsoever. I was in Addis Ababa during the Ghanaian election monitoring it closely, and I feared it would play out like 2023 in Nigeria – one result at the polling booth, a different result at the collation centre, a fraudulent announcement, and ultimately a fraudulent court judgment and then everybody grumbles and goes home.
Instead, these Ghanaians that you see smiling and bantering with you on the TL (very silent and deadly people by the way) had created offline networks and closed groups to carry out strategic enforcement of their electoral will on election night. They were prepared for everything – fake ballot papers that were pre-thumbprinted for the incumbents, incumbent party agents trying to bully collation centre operatives, even the incumbent party’s efforts to manipulate the media narratives – all of these things were shut down with real physical violence where necessary.
Men properly collected that night.
And this is my key takeaway: when it became clear to the uniformed men with guns that it was either they side with the ruling party and risk causing an uncontrollable nationwide riot, or allow the will of the people prevail and still have a country tomorrow, they did the reasonable thing – because ultimately they are rational humans too. That is actually the key to winning the colonial bullshit we call “elections” in Africa.
You have to give the uniformed gun-holders a reason to recognise your victory, and force them to make a decision.
Nobody in Nigeria gave them that decision to make in 2023, and that’s why Jabba The Hutt is your president. So if you actually want anything to change in 2027, be more like the Ghanaians. Less cho cho cho, fewer Twitter spaces about obvious things that everybody already knows, no public platforms to expose your plans to the whole world so they can neutralise them, less impotent fire breathing, less waiting aimlessly for Tinubu’s FBI files that you will not do anything with when they come out, and more silent, controlled, and methodical violence. No need for noise. Just action.
That is the only way you won’t waste your time and PVC in 2027. It’s not by going on the internet and using Peter Obi’s name as a talisman or engagement bait. My job is to tell you the truth.
Whether you choose to listen is up to you entirely.
