Nigeria has arrived at the moment where politics sheds ornament and speaks the plain language of numbers, pain, and conscience. This is not a chant. It is arithmetic with a soul.
On one side stands 8,794,726, the officially declared figure credited to incumbency, power, machinery, and insulation from consequence. On the other side stand 6,984,520 and 6,101,533, two verified, nationally distributed opposition tallies, now reinforced by the most decisive variable in Nigerian history: the suffering Nigerian masses.
This equation is not abstract. It is lived.
It speaks directly,
- To the poor.
- To the tired.
- To the angry.
- To the patient.
- To the unemployed.
- To the overtaxed.
- To the struggling workers.
This is your arithmetic.
This is your moment.
ARISE AND SHINE.
THE IRREFUTABLE COUNT.
The figures 6,984,520 and 6,101,533 are not opinions; they are officially recorded ballots cast across regions, religions, ages, and classes.
Together they total 13,086,053, already exceeding 8,794,726 before the full mobilisation of those battered by inflation, fuel shocks, food scarcity, joblessness, and shrinking wages.
What failed in 2023 was not acceptance.It was convergence.What was missing was not popularity.It was alignment.
Alignment is forming.
THE GEOGRAPHY OF THE VERDICT
This arithmetic was not produced in isolation; it was anchored in territory.
The 6,984,520 bloc prevailed across a wide national spread, cutting through the North, the Middle Belt, and the South-South, reflecting a coalition of experience, breadth, and institutional trust winning twelve (12)States.
The 6,101,533 bloc secured victory in eleven (11) states together with the Federal Capital Territory (FCT),namely Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu, Imo, Lagos, Delta, Edo, Plateau, Nasarawa, and Benue, in addition to Abuja (FCT), demonstrating South-East consolidation, decisive urban strength, and Middle-Belt penetration.
By contrast, the 8,794,726 bloc relied heavily on incumbency-controlled terrain, administrative advantage, and fragmented opposition structures rather than numerical superiority when the opposition votes are read as a single civic will.
THE MASSES: THE MISSING MULTIPLIER.
Inflation has turned salaries into insults. Fuel hikes have taxed survival. Food prices mock labour. Degrees sit idle. Security bleeds pockets and patience alike. These are not statistics; they are injuries.
Add the millions pushed to the margins by rising prices.
Add the workers whose wages no longer survive the month.
Add the unemployed graduates whose certificates became humiliation.
Add the overtaxed traders and artisans carrying the state on their backs.
When hunger matures into political consciousness, arithmetic becomes destiny. Mobilised, protected, and organised, the masses complete the equation.
ORDER AT THE CENTRE.
With David Mark providing steady national coordination, the opposition architecture now moves with discipline. Like Nehemiah, he rebuilds with resolve; like Joseph, he understands seasons and preparation; like Moses, he knows that unity precedes arrival.
No factional noise.No reckless ambition.No competing centres.
Just unity, order, and purpose.
ADC, THE SYMBOLIC HANDSHAKE, AND A HISTORIC REALIGNMENT.
The African Democratic Congress has become the meeting ground of memory and momentum, the symbolic handshake of North and South, youth and experience, pain and purpose. This handshake is no longer ceremonial; it is structural.
The en bloc movement of South-Eastern political forces, led by Peter Obi, into the ADC is a development of historic consequence that must not be taken for granted. It ends fragmentation, converts moral energy into organisational strength, and locks regional conviction into a disciplined national coalition.
Its call is instruction, not poetry:
ARISE AND SHINE.
Not later.
Not someday.
Now.
THE FINAL EQUATION
6,984,520 + 6,101,533 + the suffering Nigerian masses versus 8,794,726
This is not prophecy. It is preparation.
Power that ignores pain eventually meets arithmetic.And arithmetic does not negotiate.
A PRAYER FOR THE NEW YEAR.
May Nigeria arise from hardship into direction. May unity silence hunger.May discipline defeat disorder.
And may 2027 reward memory, courage, and truth.
Aare Amerijoye DOT.B
Director-General,
The Narrative Force
