Who dey fool who?

Who Dey Fool Who? — A Mirror Before 2027

There is a kind of suffering that hides in plain sight. It does not announce itself. It walks beside us, eats from our plate, sleeps in our bed, and still finds energy to raise a banner for the very people who put it there. This song is not an accusation. It is a mirror. Stand in front of it honestly, and decide for yourself: who, really, is fooling who?

Check yourself by your own conduct. Not by your party. Not by your tribe. Not by your prayer. By your conduct.

1. The jobless person who still campaigns for the people behind the joblessness. You wake up with nothing to do, and you spend that nothing defending the ones who arranged the emptiness. That is not loyalty. That is hypnosis.

2. The student on strike who still raises a banner for those who shut the school. Your future is paused, your lecturers are owed, your hostel is dark — and your voice is busy praising the architects of the silence.

3. The father who can no longer feed his family, yet runs around under the sun for the people who brought the hunger into his house. The children are watching. The wife is watching. History is also watching.

4. Youths who support the killers that ordered the killing of their fellow youths. The blood of your generation is still wet, and you are dancing on the graves to a song composed by the gravediggers.

5. Homeless and jobless people defending the architects of the inflation that emptied their pockets and their roofs. Hunger is not a manifesto. Eviction is not a campaign promise.

6. People living without electricity who still raise banners begging others to support the men behind the darkness. You are charging your phone in someone else's shop, and using that same phone to defend the people who killed the light.

7. People who cannot travel home because the roads have become death traps — yet campaign loudly for those who looted the money meant for those very roads. Every pothole on that journey is a vote receipt.

8. People who cannot sleep because of killing, kidnapping, and banditry, yet still support the founders and financiers of that terror. Fear is not a flag. Insecurity is not a slogan.

9. People without clean water to drink, planning again to vote for the same people who diverted the water budget into private power. Thirst is a louder witness than any campaign jingle.

10. People buying fuel at ₦1,200 instead of ₦65 — and still defending the men stealing the crude and refusing to build refineries. Your tank is empty. Your pocket is empty. Your reasoning should not also be empty.

11. People supporting others because of ethnicity or tribe, forgetting competence, capacity, and track record. Tribe will not pay your hospital bill. Tribe will not fix the road to your village. Tribe will not refine your fuel.

12. People supporting others because of food on the table and stomach infrastructure, forgetting the future. A plate of rice today is not a school for your child tomorrow. A bag of garri is not a hospital for your mother.

Are you any of the twelve above?

If you are, this is not an insult. It is an invitation. There is still time to wash your eyes. There is still time to choose your children's future over the comfort of familiar lies.

If you are not in this group, do not keep the mirror to yourself. Pass it on. Educate the ones still being fooled. Send it to the family group. Send it to the village WhatsApp. Send it to the friend who shouts loudest for the people hurting him the most.

Vote wisely in 2027. Not with your stomach. Not with your tribe. Not with your fear. With your conscience.

Because in the end, the question will not be who won the election. The question will be — who dey fool who?