TDNigeria is burning. Not metaphorically. Literally. Children are in the hands of bandits. Teachers are being beheaded.
And the man elected to be Commander-in-Chief of Africa’s most populous nation is deploying his security services — the DSS, the Police, the full apparatus of state coercion — to prosecute a beef with a social media critic.
Let that sink in.
On May 15, 2026, armed attackers stormed Community High School, Ahoro-Esinele, in Oyo State, abducting a school principal, teachers, and dozens of pupils. One teacher was shot dead. Another abducted teacher was beheaded.
On the same day, in Borno State, pupils were abducted from Mussa Primary School and Junior Day Secondary School in Askira-Uba Local Government Area. Two attacks. One day. Children gone. Teachers murdered.
And what has consumed the Tinubu Presidency this week? A vow by presidential spokesman Bayo Onanuga to prosecute social media activist Martins Vincent Otse — popularly known as VeryDarkMan — for allegedly sharing a fake audio clip of President Tinubu.
But here is what the Presidency conveniently omitted. An independent Premium Times investigation established that the viral clip did not originate from VeryDarkMan’s verified account.
An unidentified actor had repurposed his footage, added synthetic audio, and walked away. The state moved against the visible messenger — not the invisible originator.
This is not governance. This is the behaviour of a man who is more afraid of ridicule than he is of terrorists.
Tinubu, on Children’s Day, issued a personally signed statement assuring abducted schoolchildren and teachers in Oyo and Borno that they have not been forgotten. Words. Just words.
Meanwhile the security architecture that should be hunting down the men who took those children is being redirected to silence critics on X and Instagram.
Tinubu himself, in a short video, declared: “My enemies want to use insecurity in the country to get rid of me. But I’m a stubborn politician who refuses to go, and I will campaign for my second term.”
Mr. President, with the greatest respect your enemies could manage, no one needs to weaponise insecurity against you. The bandits are doing that themselves. Every abducted child is a billboard of your failure.
On his inauguration day, Tinubu told Nigerians: “Security shall be the top priority of our administration because neither prosperity nor justice can prevail amidst insecurity and violence.”
Three years on, the North-West bleeds. The North-East bleeds. Now the South-West bleeds too. And the Presidency is preoccupied with AI-generated audio clips.
Then there is Seyi.
Nobel Laureate Professor Wole Soyinka personally counted at least 15 heavily armed security personnel accompanying Seyi Tinubu to a hotel in Ikoyi, Lagos — a private individual, unelected, holding no constitutional office, yet deploying the state’s armed muscle as though Nigeria is his personal estate.
I am not a violent man, and I choose my words with the precision of someone who has watched Nigeria’s history closely. But when I think of what Seyi Tinubu has been doing — using the DSS and the Police as his personal Gestapo, intimidating activists, having critics arrested — my fist curls.
He should look up what happened to Abacha’s son. He should look up what happened to Abacha. This life is unpredictable, and too much power has a way of blinding a man to reality until it is far too late.
I will say plainly what the paid cheerleaders and Yoruba trolls refuse to say: Tinubu is hated. Not disliked. Not unpopular. Hated.
With the kind of cold, settled, irreversible hatred that once surrounded the last Tsar of Nicholas II before the Russian Revolution consumed him.
There is no Rasputin in this court. Instead, there is a son who mistakes the trappings of power for its substance.
Seventeen former members of the National Assembly publicly disassociated themselves from a so-called endorsement summit for Tinubu’s second term, calling it “a cash and carry political carnival — a rented crowd of handpicked individuals assembled to manufacture artificial legitimacy.”
You cannot buy credibility. You can only rent it. And the rent is already overdue.
This Presidency has achieved one thing with consistency: installing family in Aso Rock and attempting to make one man king of a republic that has never and will never accept a king.
Whoever told Bola Ahmed Tinubu this was possible owes him the truth.
The truth is this: the Ancestors that have always protected Nigeria — through civil war, through Abacha, through every season of darkness — are watching.
And Nigeria will be rid of this particular rubbish on their timetable, not his.
Stop arresting bloggers. Stop threatening critics. Stop weaponising the DSS against your own people.
Bring those children home.
Do the job you were elected to do.
Or go.
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Kio Amachree | Stockholm, Sweden | President, Worldview International
