HOW OPPRESSION BREEDS HEROES

HOW OPPRESSION BREEDS HEROES

Have you ever wondered how the oppressed suddenly become idolized?
How a man society once mocked turns into a movement?
How a voice the system tried to silence starts echoing louder than the system itself?

It happens everywhere,
In Africa, in America, in every nation where power mistakes FEAR for CONTROL.

Because oppression, whether dressed in agbada or a suit, NEVER kills rebellion; it FERTILIZES it.

Nigeria has a habit, a dangerous one, of creating heroes out of the very people it tries to destroy.

History proves it again and again: when those in power choose SUPPRESSION over SOLUTION, they plant the SEEDS of their own OPPOSITION.

When Mohammed Yusuf was killed in 2009 instead of being tried in open court, the state THOUGHT it had silenced a problem.

What it did instead was give birth to a monster. Boko Haram grew from a HANDFUL of followers into a FULL-BLOWN INSURGENCY because the system answered blood with blood instead of LAW with JUSTICE.

When Omoyele Sowore was arrested for demanding good governance, his image spread faster than his words ever could.

EACH DETENTION, each court drama, each clampdown turned him from a man with a megaphone into a MOVEMENT with memory.

Mazi Nnamdi Kanyé started with a microphone, a radio transmitter, a message, and a stubborn belief that his people deserved a VOICE.

He was just another agitator until Buhari’s government turned him into a MARTYR.

By ARRESTING him instead of ADDRESSING him, they gave his words wings.

What was once a fringe conversation about Biafra became a global movement about freedom, justice, and self-determination. In trying to silence him, the state amplified him.

When Nnamdi Kanu was abducted across borders and detained in defiance of both Nigerian and international courts, it wasn’t just a man they held.

It was a SYMBOL.

His continued detention became a mirror of everything WRONG with Nigeria’s justice system, and now, those who once MOCKED him are MARCHING for him.

If MNK had been told that what began as a regional agitation would one day unite the whole country in protest, he would have laughed. But that’s what happens when you plant INJUSTICE.

It doesn’t die, it MULTIPLIES.

Even Buhari’s rise followed this same pattern.

The PDP mocked him, ridiculed him, and fought him with ARROGANCE instead of REFORM.

While they wasted energy trying to EMBARRASS him, Nigerians were getting tired of FAILURE.

By the time they realized, Buhari had become the face of CHANGE.

He didn’t win because he was BETTER.
He won because the system made him look like THE ALTERNATIVE.

And this isn’t just a Nigerian story.
It’s the story of power everywhere.

When the Obama administration mocked and sidelined the right instead of addressing their fears, they BIRTHED Trump.

They dismissed half the country as DEPLORABLE, and those people came back ROARING.

Then came Biden,
Instead of HEALING, he REPEATED the same pattern of labeling, silencing, and moral posturing.

Now, America stands divided again, regretting the arrogance of power that MISTAKES dominance for leadership.

That’s the weakness of power.
It stops LISTENING when it starts WINNING.
And that’s how ORDINARY men become SYMBOLS of RESISTANCE.

Tinubu is falling into the same TRAP.

By trying to CONTROL rather than UNDERSTAND,
By IGNORING public anger instead of ADDRESSING it,
By DETAINING instead of DIALOGUING,

He’s turning sparks into fire.

If he wants to stop this from becoming a REVOLUTION, here’s what he must do urgently:

1. Free Nnamdi Kanu and respect court orders.

The rule of law is not WEAKNESS; it is STRENGTH. Every day MNK stays locked up, the government loses legitimacy before the people.

2. Open honest dialogue with the youth.

Not STAGED meetings or press statements, but real conversations with real people who have nothing left to lose.

3. Tame police brutality and reform the justice system.

You CAN’T silence a generation with FEAR; it only hardens them and will DEFINITELY break its elastic limit.

4. Fight corruption by example, not by headline.

Nigerians are tired of arrests that lead nowhere. Let justice speak in public, not in SELECTIVE WHISPERS.

5. Rebuild trust through TRANSPARENCY.

Before the elections,
Ignoring public debates was a strategy that worked for him. But leading in obscurity would break an already tensed polity.

More so,
Every lie from the government now adds fuel to a movement already on fire.

Oppression NEVER wins.
It only delays the truth.

EVERY TIME power crushes dissent, it writes another chapter for history to judge it by.

Every time a government CHOOSES pride over justice, it MANUFACTURES its own opposition.

Because every unjust system eventually becomes the villain in the story it was meant to lead.

And history, no matter how delayed, always writes the truth.

Now I ask,
How do we get The Presidency and its advisers to see these?

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