Truth Matters.

Dear Nigerians, If Tinubu Resigns, We'll Be In Deeper Trouble Before your argue, listen. There is something we must confront honestly as Nigerians, and that is the fact that our political memory is dangerously short, and our thinking is often driven more by emotion than by structure and evidence. Take the South-East, my own Igbo people. For years - not just years, but decades - the region aligned with the PDP. Even before PDP fully came into existence, the same people, same leadership structure and political direction were already being followed. Loyalty was not in question; it was consistent, it was deep, and it was sustained over time. But today, we must ask ourselves a simple and uncomfortable question: what exactly does the South-East have to show for that level of loyalty? Now shift your attention to the North. From military rule into civilian government, the North has held power in Nigeria for a very long time - either directly as Heads of State and Presidents or indirectly through control of key institutions and political influence. This is not an argument; it is historical fact. Yet, when you look at the present reality, the same question must be asked again: what does the North have to show for that prolonged control of power? Today, insecurity is highest there, poverty levels are alarming, and development gaps are evident. So we are faced with two realities at once - a South-East that followed with loyalty but has little to show for it, and a North that held power but has not translated that power into sustainable development. Now, while these two realities were playing out, something else was happening quietly, strategically, and consistently. One man was building. While others were holding power or following power, one man was focused on building Lagos - not just maintaining it, but transforming it, expanding its economic strength, and putting in place systems that could outlive him. And beyond Lagos, he was building people - mentees, protégés, successors - who would go on to drive development across the South-West. And this did not happen in a vacuum. At that same time, the federal government - controlled by the same political forces dominating the North and holding the South-East - was actively resisting him. Yet, despite that resistance, the structure he built held firm, expanded, and eventually evolved into a broader political force through alignment and realignment, culminating in the formation of the APC. So when you place everything side by side, the contrast becomes very clear. You have a system that held power and produced underdevelopment. You have a system that received loyalty and delivered very little. And then you have one individual who, even outside central power, built something measurable, scalable, and sustainable. Now fast forward to today, and you see the same actors who presided over years of stagnation - both in the North and in the South-East - positioning themselves again to take power. And the question we must ask is not emotional, it is strategic: on what basis? We all know that the major challenges Nigeria is facing today - insecurity, economic hardship, structural weakness - did not appear overnight. They are deeply rooted in years of decisions made by these same political structures. Yet, the one individual who has demonstrated, not by words but by results, that he can build and transform, is the one being most aggressively challenged. With this same man, in a relatively short period in office, we are already seeing difficult but necessary decisions being taken - economic restructuring, policy shifts, and attempts to reposition the system. It is not perfect, but it is movement. So the real question becomes unavoidable: how do we ignore proven capacity and return to unproven promises? How do we remove someone who has built something tangible and replace him with those who had the opportunity before and left little behind? How do we convince ourselves that going