This, as Steve Clemons says in his Al Jazeera programme of the same name: "And this is the bottom line!"

When army personnel (i.e. those who are already there) are resigning from the military due to poor pay & low morale?… Come, Mr Olusegun Adeniyi, pray, why would you yourself not come to join the military yourself?

You know, right? Nigeria must be secured – but it was the North that brought Nigeria here, right? It was also the North that for 8 years, supervised insecurity metastasize across Nigeria, right? And, on assuming power, PBAT rightly or wrongly handed back vital aspects of Nigeria’s security architecture to the North, right? If yes, why has the North failed to seek to secure every inch of our country….? So, why should the presidency revert to the North before the Awalokans have had their fill of Oil and Gas money? And for your information, if you don’t already know, Mr. Tinubu has already locked down 2027 – its a matter of cash which he’s raking-in in stupendous abundance. See why the wise man advised that you, Sarah, in particular, you be careful what you pray for, that you might get it – which you’ve gotten in PBAT – remember – ”even if he was to be wheeled into Aso Villa”, right?

Presidency should revert to the North in 2027.
All of TOFF have the same ideology, only age difference. Nigeria needs a leader that will recruit enough (i.e minimum 1million) fully armed personnel to permanently secure every inch of our country and will NEVER dehumanise our people for sake of policy orthodoxy.

Presidency should revert to the North in 2027.
All of TOFF have the same ideology, only age difference. Nigeria needs a leader that will recruit enough (i.e minimum 1million) fully armed personnel to permanently secure every inch of our country and will NEVER dehumanise our people for sake of policy orthodoxy.

Presidency should revert to the North in 2027.
Nigeria needs a leader that will recruit enough fully armed personnel to permanently secure every inch of our country and will NEVER dehumanise our people for sake of policy orthodoxy.

Incredible Sarah – so Tinubu is not anywhere near the messiah you and your gang foisted on a limping Nigeria? Now that he's at the cusp of finally putting it to eternal rest, to whom would you wish he hands over the cadaver – Osinbajo perhaps?

And what CREDIBLE ALTERNATIVE have you? Among the TOFF? Trial and error?

My take is, Tinubu MUST preside beyond 2027. That is the ONLY CREDIBLE ALTERNATIVE for a PEACEFUL rebirth of independent nations out of this failed entity. Anything other than this is courting anarchy.

See photo attached to comment for 2 unforced errors upon which Team Sarah now assert that President Tinubu has failed and MUST NOT preside beyond 2027.

"Tinubu should NOT continue after 2027. APC should pressure him to step down"???

What a wicked irony! A man described as the "fittest" to be president should be "pressured" to forgo a second tenure after just 15 months in office?
It is either someone is not fair to his judgement or an admission of intellectual dishonesty. A case of poor diagnosis and prognosis!
One had thought the TOFF prescription was borne out of deep thinking and intellectual rigour?
Well, it is too late in day to cry. The head is off, already. Tinubu should rather be "pressured" to go for a second tenure in other to finish the destruction of this "geographical expression" for the phoenisces within the entity to emerge. This is how new nations are birthed!

Presuring Tinubu to step down (or step aside) and forego a second tenure is treasonable felony! So, you are stuck, dude!

Nigeria's progress was set back irrevocably by our Army's Coups D'etat starting in 1966 and Civil War 1967/70. Unfortunately our Army abolished Regionalism and created 36 States. Most of which are financially unviable.
It will require significant cost to revert back to 3 regions.
Our best option is to now persist on the longer road to incremental progress.
Any attempt to resort to Coup D'etat or Secession will unleash another round of unpredictable outcomes, like 1966 killings and Civil War.
Q.E.D

"nigeria is work in progress"

Why should only nigeria be a work in progress? Countries poorer than nigeria in 1970 are already nuclear powers. But you are still a work in progress! As a matter of fact nigeria has gotten worse!

Your obsession for long grammar would not allow you to do some good thinking.

Your continuous deployment of British English in a simple matter just to create a semblance of intellectual overhang, is an imputation of your love for anything colonialism.

Stop heaping the blame of the Nigerian failure of leadership on the Luggardian amalgamation of 1914. Stop blaming Oyibo for the Nigerian inherent propensity for corruption. Failure of leadership in Nigeria can be sincerely attributed to two factors: SEEING NIGERIA AS NOBODY'S BUSINESS and LAYING FOUNDATION FOR WRONG EDUCATION. The two factors are legacies of our post-independence leaders. Remember that merit ends the moment the British left us.

You are saying Buhari is the champion of Nepotism. What of your tribesman, Tinubu? Of course there is a consensus that TINUBU outperform Buhari only in Nepotism. Intellectuals of your ilk would share 70% of the Nigerian problem. The trouble with Nigeria lies with failure of educated people to live above primordial social criminality.

I started my counting from 1970. As at then nigeria was still better than most countries. In fact, Vietnamese war ended in 1975! By 1970, nigeria had 12 states, not 36.

"Incremental progress" will NOT happen! Not with a retrogressive political structure, diminishing resources, instability, lack of social cohesion, & tripling population growth! THINGS WILL GET MUCH WORSE! The cost of not reverting to regionalism will be much higher than reverting!

nigeria should never have been created. And the colonial masters did not amalgamate all the provinces because of lack of personnel. It was a deliberate act to sow crises & instability. And they did not apply this strategy peculiarly to nigeria. It was applied differently elsewhere, for instance in Rwanda & Burundi. The reason for "Seeing nigeria as nobody's business" is what he explained here… Ultimately nigeria will also NEVER achieve stability or make progress withOUT regional autonomy… But you are on point about the unprecedented nepotism of Tinubu!

The challenge of this is that no status quo power, including the incumbent president, would want to work for the diminution of the awesome powers of the Nigerian President.

This is an "insincere" argument usually "deliberately" deployed to make "excuses" for incumbents not to embark on restructuring. (It is not peculiar to you!). In what way does devolution of powers reduce the powers of the nigerian president? How does the American federal system diminish the power of American presidents both at home & abroad? Pray, what does he need all powers to himself except for performance? So how does devolution diminish his powers except if he needs exercising them for their own sake? If he needs all powers then he won't need to appoint ministers, at least.

By the same logic, the constituency with the strongest vested interest in the status quo would oppose such a political reform. All this looks like committing class suicide.

This is true to the extent that the constituency in question includes the north & southwest nigeria! Like they also do with the rest of the south on other issues (like in bargaining for power), Y0robas always use the north to oppose change; they front the north as the obstacle to change while being no less opposed themselves, which is why Haruna Mohammed calls them those who run with the hare during the day & hunt with the hounds at night. Is the north the reason Olusegun Adeniyi issues editorials opposing restructuring? Or why Simon Kolawole, Kaode Komolafe, Femi Falana, Kayode Fayemi, etc etc oppose restructuring? Does the north account for why southwest delegates opposed 25% derivation for oil producing states in 2005? Or why they mobilized & sabotaged the 2014 National Conference? Let's not even go back to Aburi (As far as I am aware, only two Y0robas support restructuring: Akin Osuntokun & late Yinka Odumakin!). The idea that the Yoroba supports restructuring owes to the days of the June 12 struggle when they advocated for a Sovereign National Conference. The criminal that is now incumbent were among the leaders. Yet it is the same man that we are now being told cannot possibly restructure

1) Rotational Presidency: President Tinubu should NOT continue after 2027. APC should pressure him to step down. As a strategist he will not go without a fight. Already Tinubu has created a survival route to side-flank Governors by using fiscal means. He (Federal Government) can now pay Local Governments directly without intervention of Governors.

2) Economy/Petrol Debacle: NNPCL has been subsidising low Petrol cost since May 2023 resulting in US$6billion external debt. NNPCL now needs to recover that amount from their monopoly offtake arrangement with Dang0t3 Refinery. US$6billion international debt will NOT disappear. Refusing to pay may result in seizure of Nigeria's assets overseas.

3) Corruption: Please refer to Singapore model. Public Servants are paid very handsomely, but they face Death Penalty for corruption.

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