Nigeria is rotten from the leaders to the led.

[Abraham Madu]

This article is fair and balanced, maximum respect to the author (VC Aluko always signs his articles but he merely forwarded this one, so I am not sure if he is the author). However, I dispute this message:

"The real issue is strengthening governance at the subnational level — states, local governments, and the judiciary." 

The subnational level is made up of the same kleptocrats and incompetent buffoons found at the national level. There is arrant thievery, ineptitude, man's inhumanity to man, oppression, profligacy, and all manners of corruption at the subnational level. Just last week, a young lady videoed a rickety school in Ahaoda LGA in Rivers state, brining to the awareness of the powers that be that students sit on the floor, the roof is partially torn off, the foundation is wobbly and that a fatal catastrophe awaited the institution and its students if government did not intervene. Within 24 hours, the LGA chairman and his sycophants sought out the young lady and beat the hell out of her for projecting the LGA chairman as inco0mpetent -- she was bloodied and her mother manhandled.

A fellow called VeryDarkMan (VDM) intervened and promised to rehabilitate the school. Burnaboy called VDM and pledged $1,000,000.00 for rebuilding (not rehabilitating) the school. VDM flew to Rivers state but was stopped from carrying out the works for some silly reasons that eventually boiled down to extorting some of the money from him by the elders of the community. In a video of his meeting with the so-called king of the place, I heard one 0f the king's aides chastise VDM for coming to meeting the king without kola nut, for which VDM timidly asked one of his aides to dole out a big heap of cash. Bottom-line, the king decided when work will commence on the school and to run as per his dictates. As I write, no work has commenced as VDM flew back to Abuja.

My point is that Nigeria is rotten from the leaders to the led; some kind of revolution must occur in Nigeria before things will get better. Nigeria is a corrupt state that is almost failed, and will fail if nothing drastic occurs soon. The subnational levels are as corrupt, incompetent, abusive, and shameless as the center.

Nebukadineze Adiele

On Wednesday, March 11, 2026 at 01:34:15 AM EDT, Mobolaji Aluko <alu...@gmail.com> wrote:

The internet has been flooded with a trending video of Sunday Igboho wearing an APC cap when he attended a ceremony in Ibadan. 🎥

Some Yoruba groups have said that he has betrayed the agitation for a Yoruba nation. Others say he is only interested in peaceful coexistence with other tribes, especially the Fulanis.

Some very pedestrian people said it was an attribute of his tribal origin — that it is the nature of Yoruba people. Others opined that the government was instrumental in his release and pardon when he was arrested in the Republic of Benin on his way to Germany, where he has German citizenship, and that he was simply reciprocating.

It is wrong to use Sunday Igboho to cast aspersions on an entire tribe.

Others have compared him with Nnamdi Kanu, who has insisted on his struggle for the actualisation of Biafra, despite alle