Aare Amerijoye DOT.B
There comes a moment in the life of a nation when the people stop laughing. Not because humour vanishes, but because suffering becomes too loud to ignore. There is a season when citizens no longer possess the luxury of being entertained by politics, because survival itself has become a full-time responsibility. Nigeria has entered that season.
Our hardship is not an exaggeration. Our frustration is not a metaphor. Our insecurity is not a partisan slogan. The despair seen daily on the faces of ordinary Nigerians is not a script written by opposition commentators. It is real, it is visible, and it is steadily suffocating the nation’s spirit. When a country is this bruised, it becomes impossible to win its loyalty with noise, packaging, and public relations tricks.
That is why I state, with calm certainty and political clarity: nothing can stop Atiku Abubakar from becoming President in 2027. Not propaganda, not insults, not sponsored entertainment, not the daily carnival of distractions being sold as “political relevance.” When hunger becomes the background music of national life, entertainment becomes a provocation.
Nigeria has outgrown political comedy, because pain has become far too expensive.
The real crisis is governance, not politics.
Let us speak plainly. Nigeria’s tragedy is not merely that leaders emerge, it is that governance vanishes the moment they emerge. We have watched a routine where promises are celebrated before elections, and citizens are forgotten after victory. We have watched slogans shouted louder than solutions, and leadership reduced to performance rather than responsibility.
A country of over two hundred million people cannot be managed like a private diary. A complex federation cannot be governed like a personal estate. A nation bleeding from inflation, unemployment, currency instability, food scarcity, and insecurity cannot be healed with public appearances alone. Nigeria does not need more “confidence,” Nigeria needs competence. Nigeria does not need more “media shows,” Nigeria needs policies that can genuinely touch human lives.
This is why 2027 will become a rebellion of reality. Politics is not a stage where the loudest performer wins. It is not a talent competition where viral moments substitute for value. Politics is the solemn duty of rescuing a people, and any system that forgets this truth will eventually be confronted by the electorate.
Nigerians are not foolish, they have been patient.
There is a dangerous misunderstanding among the political elite: that Nigerians are gullible. They are not. Nigerians have simply endured for longer than many societies would. Yet when endurance becomes humiliation, the response is always decisive.
Today, that patience is wearing thin. Citizens who once defended policies they did not understand now question them openly. Traders who formerly ignored politics now discuss it with sharp frustration. Young people who once had hope now speak with urgent anger. Even many traditional supporters of the establishment whisper dissatisfaction, because hardship does not recognise party membership.
When a population begins to speak this way, you cannot solve it with propaganda. You solve it with competence. You do not silence hunger with hashtags, you silence it with food on the table. You do not cure insecurity with speeches, you cure it with reforms, discipline, and decisive governance. The 2027 election will not be settled by political noise, it will be settled by national need.
Entertainment politics is the last refuge of failure.
Every failing system eventually develops a defence mechanism. When it can no longer solve problems, it attempts to distract citizens from those problems. It turns governance into theatre so that people become spectators rather than stakeholders. It floods the public space with confusion, hoping citizens stop asking serious questions.
It encourages insult culture. It amplifies needless controversies. It manufactures personality clashes. It makes governance resemble a wrestling contest so the public focuses on who “won the argument,” instead of who solved the problem. When the distraction begins to lose its strength, the system often grows desperate. It sponsors division within the opposition. It demonises credible alternatives. It treats competence as though it were a crime.
But reality has a way of collapsing theatre. You may distract a comfortable people, but you cannot distract a hungry people forever. You may confuse a satisfied nation, but you cannot permanently confuse a desperate nation. The Nigerian crisis has become too tangible for propaganda to erase.
Atiku rises above the noise because he represents seriousness.In this season of national exhaustion, one name continues to stand with uncommon weight: Atiku Abubakar.
Atiku is not a political accident. He is not a candidate manufactured by fleeting emotion. He is not a product of online excitement. He is a tested political leader, a national bridge-builder, and a strategic mind with a deep understanding of Nigeria’s economic and structural realities.
His advantage is not merely recognition, but preparedness. Not merely ambition, but capacity. Not merely familiarity, but the ability to build alliances and convert political consensus into national direction. Atiku represents what Nigeria desperately needs: a credible alternative founded on seriousness, not noise.
In modern political reality, structure wins elections. Beyond elections, structure sustains governance. A leader who cannot build a functional political coalition cannot build a functional national system. Atiku has demonstrated an understanding of both the demands of politics and the burden of national administration.
Nigeria needs experience, not national experiments.
A common lie in desperate times is that experience is a weakness, that competence is overvalued, that leadership is simply about being “different.” But when a nation is burning, you do not hand the fire extinguisher to someone who has never fought a fire. When a nation is bleeding, you do not hand the operating tools to someone who has never mastered surgery.
Leadership is not comedy. Leadership is not motivational speaking. Leadership is not emotional branding. Leadership is the ability to understand a system, correct it, reform it, and deliver results through it. Atiku’s experience is not decorative, it is essential. Nigeria is too bruised for experimentation.
The truth is simple: we have tried noise, and noise has failed. We have tried propaganda, and propaganda has failed. We have tried pride, and pride has failed. Now Nigeria must attempt competence.
2027 will be decided by bread, security, and dignity.
Anyone who thinks 2027 will be won by entertainers has not touched the streets. They have not priced food in the market. They have not seen public hospitals. They have not listened to unemployed graduates. They have not watched families reduce meals. They have not heard small business owners speak of collapse.
This election will be about bread and dignity. It will be about an economy that rewards productivity rather than punishing it. It will be about a currency that does not destroy savings overnight. It will be about a government that understands the suffering of the people. It will be about a security architecture that restores confidence nationwide. It will be about a nation where the youth can dream again.
Nigeria is not demanding perfection, Nigeria is demanding seriousness.
Coalition is not weakness, it is strategy.Nigeria’s rescue will not be built on pride, it will be built on disciplined coalition. The opposition cannot afford ego wars in 2027. The ruling establishment survives on opposition disunity, and it knows it.
Atiku represents the mature political truth that national recovery requires unity of purpose, strategic alignment, and a credible coalition capable of replacing failure with competence. Coalition is not betrayal, it is wisdom. Coalition is the organisation of purpose.
Nigeria has chosen reality over theatre.Let those who prefer theatre continue performing. Nigeria is moving beyond theatre. The pain is too heavy for comedy. The hunger is too widespread for distractions. The insecurity is too frightening for propaganda.
2027 will be about rescue.In every generation, a moment arrives when a nation either continues sinking or insists on rising. That moment is approaching Nigeria quickly. And what citizens whisper today will become thunder at the ballot box.
So I say it again, not with arrogance, but with certainty: nothing can stop Atiku Abubakar from becoming President in 2027. Noise is temporary. Reality is permanent. Entertainment will fade. Hunger will vote. Pain will vote. Hope will vote.
Nigeria is ready for serious leadership.
Atiku is coming.
Aare Amerijoye DOT.B
Director-General,
The Narrative Force
