If the central point of your impassioned argument against Niger's new geopolitical alignment is that "things are still bad despite the new government's promises," then are you not conceding that things were bad to begin with? Are you then saying that Niger should return to the old status quo so that things can go back to still being just as bad, but the more familiar type of bad that benefitted everyone except the Nigerien people?🤔 What precisely, are you driving at and why? If your grouse is with the non-democracy inherent in a military government, are you then suggesting that the government of Mohammed Bazoum - which disqualified his main rival Hama Amadou from contesting the 2021 election after he came 2nd in 2016, effectively allowing Bazoum to run unopposed - was "democratic"? It goes back to something I said in a recent video about how most of what we know as "journalism" in Sub Saharan Africa has been entirely shaped and defined for us by foreign governments, foreign intelligence agencies, and their NGO/CSO front organisations. These guys teach us how to do the functional 40% of journalism, which includes story structure, sourcing, research, 5Ws & H, attribution, grammar, style, etc. The remaining 60%, which is the ACTUAL purpose of journalism - strategic alignments, establishment of key interests, deduction, logical reasoning, critical thinking, geopolitical influencing, etc - is not taught to Africans by these actors. Thus, we end up with respected African practitioners with large professional egos who can only think and write within the parameters that white people have set for them. We get Nigerian reporters who write an entire 1,000-word polemic about how Niger is "worse off" than before the coup, without mentioning that the same Niger has become Africa's fastest-growing economy since the coup with 10.6% annual growth - numbers that Nigeria hasn't come close to since the 1970s. We get African reporters who do not stop and ask themselves WHY one random country of 21 million people in the Sahel is suddenly so important to French and US governments that they are funding news outlets worldwide to simultaneously push a single narrative about Niger exactly one year after its coup. These reporters do not ask WHY it is their names and faces that must be used on these propaganda pieces and not the actual names and faces who gave the instructions. These reporters are not capable of looking at available information and making deductions - Cameroon is one of the most poorly governed countries on earth, and Paul Biya has been president since George Weah played for Tonerre Yaoundé. He has seen George Weah go to PSG, AC Milan, Man City, birth Timothy Weah, retire, become an MP, become Liberian president, watch Timothy Weah play at a world cup, lose the next election and step down - and he is still Cameroon's president after unilaterally altering the country's constitution twice. Yet no impassioned polemic about that from AP or Carnegie Endowment. They are perfectly fine with familiar Cameroonian dictatorship, but not unfamiliar Nigerien dictatorship - WHY? That "WHY" and the ability to find answers to it, is the difference between an actual journalist who knows 100% of his job, and a media mouthpiece who knows the functional 40% of journalism that allows foreign interests to use him as a ventriloquist dummy. This is why BBC Media Action, RFI, AFP, VOA, etc will love to continue organising their "trainings" for African journalists forever and ever. So that they can continue to produce unthinking African dummy reporters that will use their education and training to write DGSE and CIA propaganda articles describing Africa's best performing economy of 2024 with double-digit economic growth as a hopeless basket case that needs to go back to Mohammed fucking Bazoum.

It has now been proven beyond any reasonable doubt in court that Obafemi Hamzat violated Nigeria's electoral law by running for Deputy Governor of Lagos after swearing an oath allegiance to the USA while naturalising, and renouncing all allegiance to Nigeria. Over to the court.