A Thread.

As a Believer, one of the greatest tests of my life is granting real forgiveness to all those who because of Politics twisted my deep agony and agitation for rescue of ChibokGirls into all forms of wicked accusations I have had to bear since 2014. And yet I must.

In this 2018 tweet, I was recounting how the @BBCAfrica handle broke the news of the abduction of ChibokGirls on the 15th and my immediate reaction was to ask them if the news was “verified”.
I mean, it was hard to imagine hundreds of schoolchildren being abducted. It was hard. https://t.co/aWEw3W69P5
My follow-on tweet after asking @BBCAfrica if their breaking news on the abduction was verified is captured below. It sank in my mind that it was BBC News and that by the quality control standards, it was near impossible to break unverified news. Ah. My eyes rolled down tears. https://t.co/Sd0oUc6jXk
As I waited handle out in Borno replied my tweet affirming the @BBCAfrica report .

My family remembers up until today how I wailed reading that.

It pierced straight to my heart that hundreds of poor innocent children of my fellow human beings were in the grips of terrorists. https://t.co/ksJEFfqCs8
Those who by 2014 followed me here would remember that EVERYDAY from that April 15 afternoon, all I started tweeting about was a shout to the then FG and Military to ACT SWIFTLY and RESCUE the abducted ChibokGirls.

Sadly, the Presidency and FG pretended nothing had happened. https://t.co/Ogajj8Ywgo
There was a hashtag that preceded #BringBackOurGirls. It was #WhereAreOur85Daughters?
That was the number the @HQNigerianArmy stated were missing.
The @NGRPresident @NigeriaGov kept mute until May. When they finally spoke, it was to argue on the number of abducted girls. Tragic. https://t.co/7DG18i2aZp
If you wish, this link below is a whole thread that will make you wonder if 2020 is 2014.
Nothing of what parents of #KankaraBoys are experiencing in the hands of @NGRPresident @NigeriaGov at this time is any different from what #ChibokParents went through. We are never governed. https://t.co/4Epj2I3Vck
The outrage I feel about the tragedy of #KankaraBoys cannot be vocalized.

That 6 years after #ChibokGirls with 112 still unaccounted for?

That 2 years after #DapchiGirls with #LeahSharibu still unaccounted for?

Now 333 #KankaraBoys abducted?

The biggest shame on @MBuhari .
For those who see every tragedy that befalls others as an opportunity to throw useless political stones @ your fellow citizens for doing what all of us should have done when #ChibokGirls were abducted, may God heal your conscience to care about Victims. May God help you be human.
President @MBuhari should leave his cows for once in preference for the lives of his fellow human beings.

It is inhuman for a supposed leader of a country to be as incaring as you are to this latest cries of parents of 333 #KankaraBoys .

Why are you so inhuman, @MBuhari ??
But then again, until the citizens of Nigeria consider themselves worthy of Good Governance, a pattern of inhuman leadership will always be given by the likes of @MBuhari .

His abnormal actions in office have made clear that we should demand an independent medical evaluation.
When citizens are ready to collectively demand an independent medical evaluation of a President @MBuhari who clearly has lost touch with reality, people like him will get the signal that Nigerian people have decided :
No more ChibokGirls tragedy.
No more Dapchi
No more Kankara✍🏾

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How to get smarter very fast:

Interact with smart people here on Twitter who have different world-views than you do.

And let them change your mind on something.

Here are the 30 people you should follow (along with my favorite tweet from each)👇👇

Twitter can be terrible if you follow negative people.

It can also be more valuable than a college degree if you follow (and network with) the right people.

You get to look right into their brain and read a daily narrative of HOW they think.

Ok lets go:

#1: @ShaanVP

You know he's all about venture capital based entrepreneurship. I'm about small (non-sexy) business. We disagree on a lot of stuff.

But he's done it and he's won. Bonus follow: @theSamParr (@myfirstmilpod podcast


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He is where I want to be in 15 years. Has built a massive real estate private equity firm from the ground up. Super grounded with what the way he does business and his podcast @theFORTpodcast is top


#3: @Julian

I'm a scattered thinker and procrastinator.

Julian is a master of clear thinking and simple but effective writing. A world class example of content marketing and

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