Am I mad, are you mad, or has Nigeria lost its mind?

By Kio Amachree

I grew up surrounded by great men — the best brains in Africa. Black men with education, style, character, and astonishing careers. These were men who helped drive the British out, who built a country, who were respected at home and abroad.

And now you expect me to bow to people we all know are cheap hustlers, criminals, fraudsters, and drug barons?

Am I mad? Or are you mad?

You expect me — a man who went to school with European royalty — to accept a Lebanese con man, a convicted criminal, a racist, as a friend of Nigeria? A man whose family has lived in and out of Nigeria for a hundred years and has not one Black member in it — Gilbert Chagoury.

Am I mad? Are we all mad?

I grew up in a very rich man’s house. Money does not impress me. It didn’t impress most Nigerians back then either, because during the oil boom anyone could become rich. What mattered was education, family background, discipline. You had to know who you were.

So why are people, surprised that I find Wike and Tinubu disreputable?

Why?

Why should I — from one of the oldest, well-documented royal houses — accept an upstart like Wike insulting my fellow royals, destroying my state, a state my father helped create?

Am I mad? Are you mad?

I have documented my life. Every part of it. From birth until today. My parents are known. My schools are known. My career is known. My failures and successes — all there.

But your president?

A man of secrets.

No answers.

Nothing.

You expect me — a senior citizen — to believe that that bumbling, incoherent man is 74 years old? A few years older than me?

Look at him.

Then look at me.

He is the same age as my late mother — 89. I have shown the photographs.

So why does he lie? About his age, his schooling, his identity?

Is he even who he claims to be?

I will never accept criminals running my country. I will never accept Gilbert Chagoury as the hidden hand behind what looks like one of the biggest scams in African history.

Let him sue me.

I will expose everything.

Tinubu has to go.

There is no credible opposition inside Nigeria today. None that can stand against a mafia structure like this.

So understand this clearly:

The opposition is now in the diaspora.
I am part of that opposition.

And let me warn them:

If I hear one more story about Seyi Tinubu using the DSS to arrest opposition voices, he will find himself unwelcome in Europe. Persona non grata — just like Isabel dos Santos.

We have seen this before.

From billions to nothing.

Power is temporary.

Accountability is not.

Today, a man in the North is arrested for calling the Vice President spineless.

So now Nigerians cannot speak?

Then let me say it clearly:

Shettima — spineless.
Wike — a drunkard and a national embarrassment.

Try and silence me.

Let’s see what happens.

They think power belongs to them.

They forget something very important: