Oby Ezekwesili
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A passionate believer in the public good of nations. CEO @HumanCapAfrica Founder @fixpoliticsnig @TheSPPG Co-Founder @anticorruption S. Fellow @yale💡✍🏾
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No greater Joy than being a person of Truth. It is the ultimate Ace for Peace. Whatever your traducers may do, they will come back someday and meet you where you were and always will be- calmly sitting with the Solid Rock known as The Truth which never falters.
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Hello World, . Our @NigeriaGov of @MBuhari is killing our young citizens on the street on Lagos now. Join us to #StopNigeriaGovernment . Now!!!.
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The Youth have tasted their Power. There’s no going back. Welcome to our #NewNormal. #EndSARS ✍🏾.
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My tears 😭 flowed freely last night as I watched our young citizens @ their #FestivalOfLights held to mourn their peers that @PoliceNG killed. In one night of a symbolic act, #EndSARS protesters restored Dignity to the Life of Nigerians. My tears were a mix of pain and Joy💡.
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I understand why the young #EndSARS protesters say they have no Leaders. I get it. The point however is that #TheyAreAllLeaders. Really. You folks have expressed seamless Collective Leadership and given Nigerians hope Now and for the Future! 💡. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👸🏾🤴🏿👍🏾👍🏾.
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This hashtag #StopNigeriaGovernment is to alert the world thro United Nations @un that @NigeriaGov is using the @DefenceInfoNG @HQNigerianArmy to kill unarmed young citizens of #EndSARS who are protesting #PoliceBrutalityInNigeria. Let the world SPEAK for our young people NOW!.
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Ndi Igbo did NOTHING to @officialABAT nor @jidesanwoolu but you orchestrated a rage against a people who have dwelt peaceably in Lagos ever before you both became politicians. Today, you even disenfranchised Yorubas that your supporters said “looked Igbo”. You will account.✍🏾✍🏾.
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Who else is grateful that we have @ruffydfire Rufai Oseni on @ARISEtv holding the feet of politicians and public officials to the fire? 🙋🏾♀️. 🙋🏾♀️🙋🏾♂️? . God bless Rufai for Citizens.😊✍🏾.
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Can someone please create a Twitter handle to track all videos of arrests and brutality against #SARSMUSTEND protesters by officers of @PoliceNG which are tragically going on in a number of cities across the country?. Please tag me if you happen to set this up. Thanks!.
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I want to co-lead a class-action suit asking the courts to compel all the front-runner Presidential candidates to show up for Debates that will better inform the choices of the Nigerian people in the 2023 elections. Would you like to join in this class-action suit? Show by 🙋🏾♀️🙋🏾♂️.
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Here is the letter I submitted to the IG of @PoliceNG to direct his officers to immediately stop harassing, assaulting, terrorizing and brutalizing citizens out on the Streets for #EndSARSProtests. #EndPoliceBrutality.#EndSARSNOW .We wait to see what happens next.
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I advise @officialABAT the Presidential Candidate of @OfficialAPCNg and his Campaign Team to quit trying to intimidate @ruffydfire of @ARISEtv for his objective analyses as a journalist. Stop it!. You have the ones singing your praise, so leave Rufai for Citizens. Be wise.✍🏾✍🏾.
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If I were @MBuhari @NGRPresident , I’d warn IG @PoliceNG to tender his Letter of Resignation should even ONE of the #EndSarsNow #EndPoliceBrutalitynow #Protesters is killed anywhere in the country by his officers. Our Constitutional Democracy guarantees citizens to protest.✍🏾.
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Peter Obi’s campaigns really do feel organically and refreshingly interesting. Kudos to their Campaign Team.🦾👍🏾✍🏾.
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Let it be known that I have done as we do within the international community when a Government unleashes terror on their citizens. The @un and key countries should not now fail to speak up to save the lives of #EndSARS peaceful young protesters of #PoliceBrutalityInNigeria .
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👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾. Thanks for signaling on the possibility of Good Governance. ✍🏾✍🏾✍🏾
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*Public Service Announcement* . Let it be known to all and sundry that I, Obiageli “Oby” Ezekwesili shall whenever asked to sing the Nigerian National Anthem sing: . 1. Arise, O compatriots, Nigeria’s call obey.To serve our fatherland.With love and strength and faith.The.
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There’s one phrase young Nigerians use that exemplifies irrepressible Energy. “We move!” . Yes, “You move!” .This is really the mindset you all must have today, tomorrow, next and forever. It is time to adjust your strategy but do not give up on your Vision to #EndSARS ✍🏾.
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How many of you on this @Twitter remember Ese Oruru, young woman who was impregnated and abducted to Kano? .I stayed on the matter beyond our collective success in getting her back to her parents. Ese had a baby girl, I supported her to continue with her JSS. She’s in University.
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*PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT ON #LekkiGenocide #LekkiMassacre *. Please ALL, . Help us massively tweet these 2 hashtags for Nigerian Women. #RatherUsThanOurChildren. #NigerianWomenArise . Tweet them as often as you can and tell all women on your Networks to post them. Thanks.
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A very analytical way to decide which Party candidate to vote for as President: . If you like the current state of the country and wish it to remain or worsen more, vote APC. If you like the identical twins of APC, vote PDP. If you believe Nigeria can be better, vote Labor.✍🏾✍🏾.
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I really must give a shoutout to our Nigerians abroad who have shown that away-from-home must not mean a lack of interest in what goes on here. Am I the only grateful for the massive support our citizens living in other countries have persistently given to #EndSARS ?.💪🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🇳🇬.
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The. Office. Of. The. Citizen. has finally begun to come of age. Aha! ✍🏾.
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Be reminded, President @MBuhari that those young citizens being brutalized and killed for stepping up to demand #EndSARSImmediately have parents. I need Mr. President and the @PoliceNG to know that no parent watches endlessly on while their children are being killed. #EndSARS.
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Any of #EndSARS Protesters who senses that the goons of @MBuhari are trailing them for arrest should please raise an alarm. The @NigeriaGov , @HQNigerianArmy @PoliceNG has no right in a Democracy to arrest any citizen for expressing their freedoms and rights. Back off! Now. ✍🏾.
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The mayhem @officialABAT and his criminal enterprise gang unleashed in Lagos today against innocent citizens is what he wants to assume the Office of President and scale to the rest of Nigeria in the name of “controlling the Center?” . Tufia! The God Justice forbids.✍🏾✍🏾.
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Dear former Vice President Atiku, please ask the handlers of your @Twitter account to stop misleading the public. You were never the Head of the Economic Management Team. This absurd Lie does you no good at all. Please ask your Team to stop it. Happy New Year. Wish you well.✍🏾.
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I heard our innovative young ones of the #EndSARS protests have just launched an online radio station? . Wow! . These ones na real 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Generation! .#GenerationIncredibles. Now I can relate to the kind of Joy that made Baby John leap in the womb of Elizabeth in Luke1v41😁.
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It is the height of sophistry, thoughtless talk and abuse of power for the Minister of Information and Culture @FMICNigeria to throw accusation of Treason on Political Opponents who have taken the right Judicial Processes in contesting the result of an election. Stop it!✍🏾✍🏾.
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I saw a ludicrous piece of nonsense by a Minister in the @NigeriaGov of @NGRPresident @MBuhari , stoking the embers of destabilization of Nigeria by goading and inciting @OfficialDSSNG to arrest the @NgLabour Presidential Candidate and his VP. Is Nigeria a Comedy to you folks?🤦🏾♀️.
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You are the ❤️of my Life. It is 30 Years of making me LAUGH. It is 30 Years of telling me, “Baby, raise your hands and take down that roof!” .The times I say, “But I can’t”, you jokingly rebuke me and say, “Baby, YOU CAN DO ALL THINGS THROUGH CHRIST!”. You gave MEANING to ME!
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It was never a waste of Time. It was never a waste of Energy.
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A fair win does not produce tension for you and others, therefore always do everything in Life to secure a just victory. That way, you’ll beautifully rejoice in victory and others will join you.✍🏾✍🏾.
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Dear young compatriots of #EndSARS ,. I feel compelled to let you know that NOTHING in that out-of-touch speech of our @NGRPresident , @MBuhari invalidates the great progress you helped our Democracy make in the 12 days you conducted a most effective peaceful protest in Nigeria/1.
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It was delightsome for me in Washington DC on Tuesday, to meet up with two relentless, inspiring and awesome #OccupiersOfOfficeOfTheCitizen👸🏾👸🏾@AishaYesufu and @SavvyRinu ! I love both of these irrepressible younger women with all my heart!!❤️❤️🫂🫂😁😁✍🏾✍🏾
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Packing up and relocating to Canada et al is a legitimate response to poor governance. Staying put to keep fighting until Good Governance happens at home is an even more legitimate response. It is all about individual choice. Make yours and be at peace with it. ✍🏾.
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There are 2 “Curfews” the @NigeriaGov @NGRPresident @MBuhari @ProfOsinbajo and their allies like @jidesanwoolu and Obaseki cannot engineer:. 1. Digital Curfew - No. the internet is not within their repressive reach. 2. Diaspora Curfew. So, #EndSARS goes blast Online & Abroad✍🏾.
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This saga between Mmesoma Ejikeme and @JAMBHQ requires an Independent Tech investigation to unearth all facts. Listening to her in this video, it is reasonable to request a forensic-investigation to help reveal what really happened. I have reached out to the Registrar of.
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Hello Nigerians in the Diaspora all over the world! . Thanks for all you’ve done to support our young #EndSARS protesters so far. Time to up the tempo as @NigeriaGov of @MBuhari is killing them here at home on their protest grounds. #StopPresidentBuhari.#StopNigeriaGovernment!.
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How many fellow Nigerians presently on @Twitter are happy to be prosecuted by @NigeriaGov for exercising your constitutionally guaranteed right to speech and association? . Please join me and joyfully 🙋🏾♀️🙋🏾♂️your hands so @MalamiSan can find us quickly and take to court. #KeepitOn.
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Do you think @Mochievous Modupe Chizoba Odele deserves repression of her constitutional right by our government?. If your answer is No, then let her know we all stand with her at this time. Send a tweet to encourage her with. #IStandWithModupeOdele. #YouAreNotAloneMo. Thanks.👍🏾.
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You never grow old in the eyes of your parents; not even when you celebrate 60! 😁. Such a beautiful birthday message from my beloved Daddy @PastorEAAdeboye and Mommy @PastorFAAdeboye . I am blessed and deeply grateful.✍🏾✍🏾
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A Digital Billboard is so much cheaper than one that an obviously misguided regulator demolished. So here’s my message to our Nigerian Judiciary that constitutionally owes Citizens absolute judicial independence, transparency and integrity:.
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.@OfficialDSSNG can you please confirm news that Pastor @TomiArayomi Tomi Arayomi and his wife were arrested by your officials earlier today at the Abuja airport? . If so, and for public accountability, what offense? . Also, when will their lawyers be allowed access to them?✍🏾✍🏾.
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My mother of inestimable value is 77 years today❤️🤗. My icon for the 5 Realities of a woman- a Unique individual, a daughter, sister, mom & wife. Can’t believe you are now just 3 years to 80!👸🏾.God shall surely fulfill all His promises to you. Love you deep deep Nnem!.🎂🎊❤️🙏🏾
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Chizobam Ugboaja who scored a perfect WASCE result is simply a 👸🏾! I am immensely proud of this young woman who is a role model and an inspiration for educating the #GirlChild. Her light shall surely shine brighter throughout her journey of life. Rooting for you all the way🚀🚀🙏🏾
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This is the summary of the HOPELESS Budget @MBuhari signed into Law yesterday:. Total Expenditure is N21.83 Trillion. Total Revenue N9.73 Trillion!. The Budget has a Deficit larger than Revenue by almost N12.00 Trillion!.Tragic. You all better get your PVCs ready because….✍🏾.
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We’re 35!😍😍.God loves me so much and gave me the wisdom to say “I do” to the rarest Gold of a man He ever created. I am thankful unto eternity for my #EndlessLove. Our purposeful union will forever glorify our Lord in whose Love we’ve grown ours. Loving you all the way! ❤️❤️
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This is a DJ Switch @dj_switchaholic huge appreciation tweet.👏🏾 Without her Insta Live that 1000s were watching on #BloodyNight201020 , we would never know that @MBuhari @NigeriaGov sent @HQNigerianArmy @PoliceNG to shoot and kill unarmed peaceful #EndSARS protesters in #Lekki.
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Once again, @MBuhari @ProfOsinbajo @jidesanwoolu , who ordered the @HQNigerianArmy to shoot unarmed young protesters at the #LekkiTollGateProtest? . #EndSARS.
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Nigerian Women! . Sisters!! . The gallant #EndSARS fight our children put up for 12 days in nationwide peaceful protests, CHANGED last night when they were killed in cold-blood in #LekkiMassacre by @HQNigerianArmy . Are you ready? .#RatherUsThanOurChildren.#NigerianWomenArise.
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See that strange @HouseNGR Bill?.We were all too foolish to have ignored Politics for as long as we did in Africa. We are the ones Plato was speaking to: . One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.-Plato ✍🏾.
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So Governor @jidesanwoolu of @followlasg has worked to the sum by imposing a Curfew in Lagos? .This government End-Game was obvious shaa. How is it that hired thugs have succeeded in overwhelming the same @PoliceNG that has plenty energy to maim and kill #EndSARS protesters?👎🏾.
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How so much easier it would have been for Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu to have saved the country and people the embarrassment of this Chicago State University -CSU court case by instantly and voluntarily asking the institution to publish his academic credentials!. How difficult.
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Hmmm, just read all those collateral insults from global media for our country and people, just because of one individual; and you’ll fully understand why we should set a mandatory standard of Character, Competence and Capacity for anyone Parties present for elective office.✍🏾✍🏾.
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I am totally loving the energy of our Citizens despite all odds. Focus is Everything. #AllEyesOnTheJudiciary is truly a thing.✍🏾✍🏾✍🏾.
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Youth is a Currency that quickly fades. Spend yours wisely.
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“The Governor Sanwo-Olu-led @followlasg on Friday started the process of removing what it described as distressed buildings in the Alaba International Market in the Ojo Local Government Area”. I have a Policy advice for .@jidesanwoolu that would be helpful for all sides and the
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Now we all know the true definition of a Criminal Enterprise Gang. Some would ask, “Where’s now the hope?” because, what else can Citizens who seek a Good Society now do in the light of judicial enthronement of Criminality as an official Norm? . Well, take heart in this fact.
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It does feel like it was just yesterday I celebrated my 60th but here we are, now turned 61!💪🏾🤩. And so I sing that famous song of gratitude to “my very Big God”. I have a very Big God.A very Big God oh.He no dey fall my hand.He’s always on my side.A very Big God!
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A fellow on AriseTV just said- .“I urge all citizens to flush APC and PDP down the drain. They are the same thing.”. Well. Well. Well. It sure took time but it seems my message of many years has finally begun to sink in. Thank God o😊✍🏾.
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Your @NigeriaGov @MBuhari conducted a fatally flawed election and instead of circumspection, you want to cower the citizens and your opponents who are aggrieved?. What happened to Wisdom in knowing that this is the wrong moment to abuse your power of incumbency?. Get wisdom now✍🏾.
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I will repeat it yet again. Citizens of Nigeria are not yet ready for Good Governance. They absolutely enjoy and believe they deserve to be poorly governed. The Politicians know this and dish Bad Governance in large doses to them. When citizens are ready, it will end.
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👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 Awesome! This is an exemplary demonstration of what #AllEyesOnTheJudiciary actually means by @ChimamandaReal . All our 👀 are definitely watching our Judiciary intensely. #OfficeOfTheCitizen is the highest Office in a Democracy. ✍🏾✍🏾✍🏾
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I will repeat it yet again. Citizens of Nigeria are not yet ready for Good Governance. They absolutely enjoy and believe they deserve to be poorly governed. The Politicians know this and dish Bad Governance in large doses to them. When citizens are ready, it will end.✍🏾.
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It appears they have once again conferred on me the Constitutional Duties of the @NGRPresident , Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces. They do so without handing the office to me so I can urgently, decisively and effectively tackle the degenerate state of insecurity in the.
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I absolutely have my eyes on the Nigerian Judiciary and delighted to see many other citizens do too. #AllEyesOnTheJudiciary is one of the best things that has happened to our Judiciary, the 3rd Arm of Government, in recent times. Just like the other 2 Arms- Executive and.
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To every young Nigerian member of the #EndSARS movement, I beg of you, please do not be intimidated by these oppressive and repressive acts of the @nigeriagov @MBuhari . Every sensible Nigerian is standing with you. You can never walk alone. You have the country Hope. 💡🙏🏾.
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For 12 days, our young kept peacefully and intelligently asking @MBuhari to #EndSARS . The best response he could give was ask the @HQNigerianArmy to kill as many of them as possible in #LekkiGenocide. We, Women of Nigeria now arise and say #RatherUsThanOurChildren #EndSARS.
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A @NGRPresident that controls trillions of Naira annually was totally beaten hands-down by young citizens who had nothing but their resoluteness, competence and capacity to organize #EndSARS protests nationwide. Lacking competence to engage our young, @MBuhari unleashed violence.
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Here’s an interesting idea by a fellow citizen in our conversation on this weekend’s Gubernatorial election:. How about Citizens in each State agree and set up a Citizens-IReV portal where each voter captures the image of their PU result and transmits instantly?. Tech folks?🤔🤔.
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I have decided to withdraw my Speaking commitment to @NigBarAssoc for its event holding in Sokoto. I was billed to speak from abroad via Zoom but even now will no longer do so. NBA should seize this moment to reflect on how relevant its actions are in a troubled democracy.✍🏾.
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He paid the debt He did not owe and saved a wretch like me! .Amazing Grace. Amazing Love. ❤️
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I cannot think of what amounts to a greatest mark of failure of a Leader than an abiding inability to know when their Citizens have truly had enough on an issue. I think @NGRPresident @MBuhari is fatally underestimating the seriousness of young citizens on #EndSARSImmediately.
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Friends, can you all stop being distracted? Your push for overhaul of #SARS has not even begun &you folks are already fighting for who gets the “Credit”. Come on, folks! That’s childish. Who cares? 🤷🏾♀️🤷🏾♂️. First thing First. Get the Presidency, FG & Police MOVING!!.
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I am quite puzzled at the contradiction of the IG’s announcement of “dissolution of #SARS” and yet the Abuja #EndSARSImmediately Protesters are right this moment being brutalized in the city. President @MBuhari , reign in the @PoliceNG . You are their C-in-C. They must stop!🛑.
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Abia State. Dr Alex Otti.👏🏾. When Citizens arise and say “Enough is simply now Enough” and an election umpire like Professor Nnenna Oti shows up, Unfettered Democracy happens.🦾. Congratulations, Ndi Abia! .Praying your journey delivers exemplary governance outcomes to you all.✍🏾
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Legitimacy cannot be bought. Legitimacy is priceless and freely given. Legitimacy cannot be forced… because it also cannot be bought. @inecnigeria may have made a declaration but our Citizens who hold the soul of our Democracy have withheld Legitimacy. That’s the reality.✍🏾.
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