By Gideon Inyom
Since 2015, Nigerians have been promised Change, Renewed Hope, and now Rescue. But behind every campaign, it’s been the same recycled elite playing musical chairs with our future, while poverty deepens, insecurity spreads, and national frustration grows.
In 2015, El-Rufai and others positioned Buhari as Nigeria’s savior. They sold us “Mr. Integrity.” But under Buhari:
• The naira crashed from ₦192/$ to ₦700+
• Power remained unstable despite billions
• 133 million Nigerians became multidimensionally poor
• Insecurity became a national nightmare
• Unemployment soared while hope disappeared
By 2023, El-Rufai again helped engineer Tinubu’s emergence. Now, in 2025, he’s aligning with Atiku in a new “coalition” now selling yet another dream, while asking Nigerians to forget history.
“Any coalition that has El-Rufai and Atiku together, I’d rather vote for Tinubu. That’s not a coalition for Nigeria — it’s a coalition for revenge.” Facebook user.
Nigerians want change but not recycled leadership.
What this nation truly needs is:
1. A change in systems, not just slogans
2. A change in mindset — from power-grabbing to servant-leadership
3. A change in outcomes, electricity, jobs, security, and justice. Are we not ashamed that we fall for same lies disguised as hope? We are still in darkness after billions of dollars gine to private pockets.
4. According to NBS sources, 614,937 Nigerians were killed in one year. Over 2m people abducted, For context, we are not in a war situation. If this doesnt make scare you, i am scared already.
The image below says it all.
“The Corridor of Power”:
Three open doors — 2015: Change, 2023: Renewed Hope, 2027: Rescue — all lead to the same silent strategist from Kaduna drumming same rhetoric but in reality recycling old ambitions.
But “The People’s Future?” Still locked.
“How long do we keep allowing our collective destinies to be sacrificed on the altar of recycled personal ambitions which, once they fail to get what they wanted, create another door with a new slogan, in the same old building, without a new vision — just a repackaged slogan?”
This vicious cycle won’t break until young Nigerians wake up to their power, not as voters alone, but as visionaries, organizers, candidates, and builders of new systems.
We must:
• Stop worshipping political ancestors with expired ideas
• Organize beyond hashtags and outrage
• Back credible leaders with proven ideas, not recycled slogans
• Run for office. Fund our own. Protect our votes.
The future doesn’t belong to those who shout the loudest, it belongs to those who build, innovate and create.
Let this post be more than awareness, let it be the spark of a new citizen movement. The door labeled “The People’s Future” won’t open on its own.
