By 6pm today, I will drag one person in this Ibadan X community, enough is enough, we cannot be leaving issues unaddressed.

It’s the moment the online tribal tension is dying down that one big account decided to stir up a new round of Yorùbá soup vs Igbo soup tribal debate, the same set of useless accounts will argue later that it’s the top top politicians sponsoring tribalism in Nigeria.

Tinubu's incompetence has the whole country on chokehold but we shouldn't complain because he speaks your language. You're all mad.

She’s a beautiful fool She’s saying articulate nonsense She’s intellectually and sophisticatedly dangerous You people need to say if it’s the beauty that is actually paining you. Because your hate comments are starting to look like compliments. Anyways, gbogbo ẹ ni mo fara mọ. Ẹ ṣé pupọ. 😘

A Yorùbá name on the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra list sent me down a rabbit hole I didn’t expect. Where I found the story of how Thomas Bángbálà became part and parcel of Manchester history.

NB: This post is not to support Tinubu, but to put things in their correct perspectives. Oloye wrote a solid character study about Tinubu, but he misdiagnoses what governing a place like Nigeria really demands. He framed Tinubu’s political grit as an emotional flaw, where he argued that extreme survival strips a leader of empathy. I beg to differ on this. Nigeria’s problem has never been a lack of well-meaning, soft-spoken leaders who feel bad for the poor. We had Buhari. The man whom many described as “Man of the Poor, “Mai Gaskiya”. Unfortunately, elite cabals chewed him up. Running Nigeria is not running a charity. It is managing a broken, chaotic system where powerful cartels fight every single change. In that kind of jungle, stoicism and political cunning are not crimes. They are basic requirements for survival. People who back Tinubu do not support him because they love suffering. They back him because they know real reforms take a hardened operator. You need someone heavy enough to absorb massive public anger without folding under pressure. The political steel it took him to grab power even when then power cabals do not want him is the same grit required to push tough national decisions. You can criticize the results so far, but confusing hard realism for an inability to lead misses the entire point of statecraft in our terrain.

Guy for God sake… stop echoing tribalism… talk about good governance

Made this one with some of my favourite producers, musicians and artists. Every song came from somewhere real, every detail meant something. Wherever you are, whatever you’re going through, it is my hope that when you hear it, this album finds you at the right time. 9️⃣ is coming.

A lot of people are waiting for me to say I support APC. So here it goes. As a human being, what Tinubu has achieved in his personal life coming from where he came from is the stuff of legends. An orphan boy who worked his way from relative obscurity and did everything that was necessary to ensure his own survival and freedom long enough to amass enough wealth and power to rule the most populous black country on earth. It takes grit, balls and intelligence. How I believe he's gone about doing this is exactly what disqualifies him as a role model. His role should have always been in the background. The conscience of a nation should not be weighed down by the alleged criminal past of its president. Somewhere in his journey, he lost the very thing that qualifies a leader from a ruler. His ability to care about the plight of anything that does not advance his personal goals and ambition. It's the kind of machiavellian nature that's useful in the criminal underworld as the boss of a crime family. That skill doesn't translate well when you're leading 100s of millions of people who can offer you nothing personally. A president needs to be someone who can bare the burdens of a suffering masses without breaking down or becoming too stoic that he cannot feel for his own people. I don't think you go from orphan to president by being soft at your core. Unfortunately we don't have any leadership schools that teaches people how to transform from the hard core person that grabs power to a soft core person with the ability to feel for other humans. Because you do need the ability to be empathetic to be a leader and in the world that raised Tinubu, empathy is a weakness. As for Lagos elections, I don't really have a dog in that fight. I think APC will win because they're too entrenched and the opposition is split. So if this reads as me being pro APC. Have at it.

A 4 hours trip is what you people can't drive? Una be butter San Antonio to Dallas road trip.