I think it will be helpful if African heads of state can reduce their interest in foreign aid and unite toward transforming the raw materials within their geography into finished products so these foreign countries to see Africa as a market to spend their Dollar, Pounds, and  euros.

Africa has nothing to export but more to import. This makes them weak.

I am convinced that the candidate of PDP, Atiku Abubakar has an edge at the tribunal ahead of Peter Obi of the Labour Party. The disqualification of Tinubu will embolden Atiku more in the polls than it will Obi.

Even Obi can easily be disqualified should there be a rerun given that, he came third in the election and has some issues to clear up with INEC regarding his membership and subsequent presidential candidacy for LP.

European empires controlled the majority of African lands in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Africa has long been a puppet to the West. For Africa to emancipate from a third-rate continent, it needs to rally around its 54 countries with strong working policies.

There has been the use of the term United States of Africa in speeches by African leaders. Much as the coinage was mentioned first by Marcus Garvey in his poem “Hail, United States of Africa” in 1924, successive African leaders embraced it and Garvey’s ideas and formation systems deeply influenced the rebirth of the African Union.

In February 2009, upon being elected chairman of the 53-nation African Union in Ethiopia, Muammar Gaddafi told the assembled African leaders: “I shall continue to insist that our sovereign countries work to achieve the United States of Africa.” Consequently, Gaddafi proposed:
1. a single African military force.
2. a single currency.
3. a single passport for Africans to move freely around the continent. However other African leaders appealed they will study the proposal’s implications, and re-discuss it in May 2009.

Gaddafi had widened the scope of the proposed federation to accommodate the Caribbean: Haiti, Jamaica, the Dominican Republic, the Bahamas, and other islands featuring a large African diaspora.

It can be argued, Gaddafi also received more criticism for his proposed United States of Africa than the West. He didn’t get the needed support for that vision from other African leaders.

Take for instance the expressions of some of the African leaders, especially Jacob Zuma of South Africa who, a week before Gaddafi’s death during the Libyan Civil War, expressed relief at the regime’s downfall, siting that Gaddafi had been “intimidating” many African heads of state and government to gain influence throughout the continent and suggesting that the African Union will function better without Gaddafi and his repeated proposals for a unitary African government.

While some African leaders considered the African project to have died with Gaddafi, Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe expressed interest in reviving the project. But, with the 2017 Zimbabwean coup d’état, Mugabe resigned as President. He died on September 6, 2019.

Ultimately, African leaders are more opposed to Africa’s emancipation than the West. Much as the West benefits from Africa’s backwardness, African leaders are to decide the fate of their continent.

I think President Tinubu wanted to appeal to the wishes of Nigerians when he declared the removal of fuel subsidies in the early hours of his administration. That announcement, being hasty or not, was of public interest. It is true Nigerians are facing hard times following this decision, but it is gainful that a few populations are not taking the funds. Even with the subsidy, the petrol price was still high.