By Daniel Anejukwo Kemso
“If Nigerians Vote For Tinubu In The 2023 Presidential Election, NIGERIANS WILL SUFFER. At 94, I May Not Be Alive. While You Suffer From The Wrong Choice Of Voting For Tinubu, I’ll Be Resting Peacefully In My Grave.”
~ Pa Ayo Adebanjo (1928–2025)…
A nationalist whose warning now roars louder than the voices that mocked him.
Today, Nigeria walks inside the fire he foretold.
We are not just “feeling the heat” we are living in the furnace of a prophecy ignored.
The suffering is no longer abstract.
It is an everyday torment the empty markets, the hungry children, the mothers swallowed by despair, the fathers crushed under the weight of a country that has stopped breathing.
The insecurity he warned about now marches across the land without fear.
Blood decorates our soil.
Communities vanish in silence.
Fear has become a national anthem.
Pa Adebanjo spoke like an oracle, and Nigeria laughed.
He saw the storm gathering; we saw campaign slogans.
He saw darkness forming; we saw tribal attachments.
He warned that leadership chosen without conscience becomes a curse and now that curse sits upon the nation like a shadow that refuses to lift.
Even in death, his words burn with the intensity of truth.
He sleeps in peace, but Nigeria is awake in pain.
He rests in the quiet of the grave, but the living groan under the weight of decisions made in blindness.
He is gone, but his prophecy walks through our streets with violent accuracy.
This is not hardship by accident
this is suffering by choice.
A choice made against wisdom.
A choice made against truth.
A choice made against the voice of a man who loved Nigeria more than the politicians who pretend to save it.
And now, as the nation bleeds from every corner, Pa Adebanjo’s warning stands immortal
a grave-side prophecy fulfilled in the screams of a country that refused to listen.
