We Will All Be Remembered By What We Did

I’ve tried to stay quiet. But silence in the face of injustice, hypocrisy, and manipulation has never been my strength.

I’ve watched, read, and listened. Since the news of the former Nigerian president’s death broke, a flood of think pieces has emerged, not to mourn, but to police how people feel. Suddenly, those who said nothing when Nigerians were bleeding now want to lecture the rest of us on empathy and grace.

I dislike hypocritical people, people who were nowhere to be found when innocent citizens cried out in pain, but now show up to sanitise legacies and ask for “respect” in death. Where was that same energy when the nation was on fire? When the economy crumbled? When the streets were unsafe, and young people were gunned down for asking to live?

Someone said, “You don’t know him personally to speak about him.”

Seriously?
We have over 200 million Nigerians who lived through his rule.
We know what we suffered.
We know what we endured.
We do know him.

His administration brought pain. His legacy is not kindness. It is:

• Fake Nigeria Air

• A broken economy

• Systemic bigotry and deep-rooted nepotism

• Millions of children out of school

• No functioning hospitals

• A collapsed education system

• Rising banditry, kidnapping, and terrorism

• Foreign-sponsored terrorists

• The Lekki Tollgate massacre

• Lives lost under a failed cashless policy

• The tragic death of Tolulope Arotile

• The haunting last tweet of Dr. Chinelo: “I have been shot.”

• Prison breaks by terrorists

• A security system reduced to a joke

• Bribery, corruption, and bloodshed

I forgot some and someone on X, listed the following:

💥 Zaria Massacre (2015): Over 300 Shia Muslims of the Islamic Movement killed by the army and buried in mass graves, with no justice to date.

💥 El-Zakzaky’s Illegal Detention: Detained for years alongside his wife, despite multiple court orders for his release.

💥 Nnamdi Kanu’s Abduction and Southeast Killings: Illegal rendition, prolonged detention, and brutal clampdowns on civilians.

💥 Sambo Dasuki’s Detention: Held for years, violating Nigerian and ECOWAS court rulings.

💥 Border Closure Policy (2019–2020): Ignored ECOWAS protocols, inflated food prices by over 300%, and left millions struggling.

💥 Lekki Tollgate Massacre (#EndSARS): Peaceful protesters shot in cold blood.

💥 Media Repression: Journalists jailed, media houses raided, licenses revoked.

💥 Twitter Ban: Blocked for seven months after Twitter deleted a threatening post from the president.

💥 Judiciary Manipulation: Suspension and removal of CJN Walter Onnoghen before the elections.

💥 Currency Redesign Crisis: Poorly managed naira redesign created national cash scarcity and wrecked livelihoods.

💥 RUGA Policy: Attempted forced land allocations nationwide for specific ethnic groups.

💥 Boko Haram and Terror Financing Allegations: Deep suspicions about collusion, never clarified nor denied convincingly.

Add to that the haunting tweet of Dr. Chinelo, "I have been shot", the untimely death of Tolulope Arotile, and a wave of prison breaks and national insecurity. These are not rumors;, they are written in the memory of a nation.

But now, some are trying to whitewash it. Some are even bold enough to say, “This is beyond politics; it’s about the heart.”

Ma, sir, were you not taught to read the room?

People lost fathers, mothers, uncles, aunties, sons, and daughters.
Some of us carry the trauma of what we witnessed.
Some of us are still in pain.

And yet, those who benefitted from the system now come out to gaslight the rest of us. Shame.

someone who I thought was a friend said to me, “People have been dying since Ahmadu Bello. Nothing is new.”

I was speechless.

Because I believed that education should make a person more empathetic, more human. But sadly, some hide behind religion, tribe, and privilege, believing certain lives matter more than others.

Let me say this clearly:
The memory of the just is blessed, but the name of the wicked shall rot.
I didn’t write it, Proverbs 10:7 did.

A former president died years ago, and till today, people still mourn him. You see, legacy isn’t just about holding office; it’s about what you did with the power you had.

So when some of us express pain, anger, or even relief at a leader’s passing, don’t gaslight us. We were there. We saw it. We lived it.

And to those trying to rewrite history, remember this:
We will all be remembered by what we did.

Maybe that’s the only lesson that matters.

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