6-2-2025.

But for his tribal people, and a very insignificant number of the over 230 million peopled Nigeria, the rest in the country are definitely not being served at all. The government of President Bola Ahmed is engaged with introducing and bringing more hardship to the majority of the compatriots, so much so that it does not have the time to serve them anything positive. There is absolutely nothing edifying about the government’s performance so far.

Except for the few non Yoruba’s in the wicked, fumbling, clueless and deceitfully CORRUPT present regime, only the self claimed ‘Almajiris’ (beggars), ‘elected’ members of the National Assembly (NASS), the even fewer extremely rich people, praise singers and other sycophants enjoy and live in the present Nigeria. The rest of the people barely manage to exist in the very harsh environment, deliberately created and manufactured by the regime of President Tinubu, with the assistance of his most rabid tribalist supporters. Such insidious, jingoistic, nihilistic and false compatriots, are very well known to many Nigerians.

Whatever one may say or do, it is beyond doubt that President Tinubu is the most corrupt, divisive and tribalistic leader the country has ever the misfortune to have in its 64+ years of existence as a united entity. He is also an agent who reports to his Western World masters at regular intervals.

But the utterly useless bigot of a leader Nigeria is saddled with, thinks only about himself and his tribe, as he clearly said in his infamous EMILOKAN statement to an exclusive group of his tribe people, who however, refused to vote for him in the 2023 presidential election, in his state of origin, Lagos, where he served as governor for two terms.

He is clearly ruling the country on behalf of himself and his people whom he has gave over 75% of the appointments he has made so far. At the moment, about 90 appointments have gone to them, including ALL the key ministries, federal government agencies and parastatals. The places are considered as  ‘lucrative’ because of the huge money generated by them, most of which always ends up in the insatiable pockets of the country’s leader and the heads of the places.

A one time die hard supporter of the President, Mr. Onopasa once aggressively told the Arise Television that, “Are we pretending as if hunger came to Nigeria today, did hunger come to Nigeria because of Bola Tinubu? Bola Tinubu did not remove fuel subsidy. You are practicing a sectional journalism, what is the matter with you?”

Mr. Onopasa was so egregious and self opinionated that he would not even allow the television interviewers to ask their questions. He kept on insulting, and telling them that whatever negative things were happening in the country, were not caused by President Tinubu. He even called one of the interviewers the four letter word, and claimed that the man was not his equal.

 But Mr. Onopasa has done an about turn, becoming a virulent opposer of President Tinubu, saying, “Prices keep on skyrocketing out of control. I don’t know what is happening to Asiwaju, seriously. In fact, I have taken to visiting Catholic Churches to be booking Masses for him. Whatever is his problem, let God deliver him from it. 

“Honestly I can’t understand it, you are the president and prices keep skyrocketing. If you can’t reduce the fuel price, can’t we feed people? People are HUNGRY. And it is a shame, A VERY BIG SHAME that Asiwaju seems DETACHED from the reality of the majority of Nigerians”. He concluded by EMPHATICALLY saying “NOT AT ALL”, to the question whether he would vote for Tinubu in 2027.

Still, a self acclaimed ‘nobody’, from the North, who rose up to become a ‘somebody’, was readily available and able to sponsor the ‘Koranic Festival’ in the Federal Capital of the country, Abuja. Such selfish and unpatriotic ‘voluntary’ sponsors, felt Nigeria was doing well for everyone, since the country is doing well for them, to need the ulama and traditional leaders’s to converge in one place in the federal capital and offer extra prayer for peace to continue to prevail in the country.

Talking about begging, the menace appears to be increasing with the exponential increase in the number of out-of-school children and grown up women in the northern part of Nigeria. Many of the women are married people in the rural areas, but come to the urban centres, especially state capitals, to beg, or to do other ‘things’ for money. They come to the rural centres mostly for the money, without minding how they make it since majority of them are stark illiterates with neither Islamic knowledge nor Western education.

A preponderant of the child beggars are anything but, as many of them go to houses to either beg, steal or spy for bandits or other outlaws, of which there are many in the Northern part of Nigeria. Even many of the women ‘beggars’, fare no better when they go to the houses.

I have written many articles on this non dignifying ‘profession’ that is most commonly identified with the Hausa/Fulani people all over the world, that I once expressed the fear of being thought as ‘anti beggars’, who has nothing to write on apart from beggars. The truth is that, many of them are not the innocent ‘beggars’ they pretend to be. They are, in the main, thieves or spies. When and they have the chance to steal, they steal, which is why they most often do not take ‘no’ for an answer when they start begging in houses, or when they can not physically see the person talking to them.

That they do that in the hope, and event, that the house is empty of people, so that they get the opportunity to STEAL metal and plastic materials for sale to the buyers who ask no question. The buyer would in turn dismantle it into parts for transportation to the south as ‘scraps’.

Those who see my constant write ups against the bigotry, pervasive CORRUPTION, poverty and hunger that define the President Tinubu regime, as TOO many, are perhaps comfortable with the situation, otherwise, they should see it as an addition to the raging war against the injustice being perpetrated by one man in the name of making Nigeria “a better country”.

May God, in His infinite mercy, bring an end to the suffering being inflicted on majority of Nigerians. There is nothing like being an ‘Oliver Twist’ in begging constantly for His inexhaustible favours. We are therefore also praying for Him to bring the people who have His fear as our leaders.

Malumfashi wrote from Katsina.