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LETTERS FROM STOCKHOLM MR PRESIDENT, NIGERIA IS NOT YOUR PERSONAL POSSESSION An Open Letter to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu Mr President, On Sunday you stood inside the Holy Ka'abah and thanked Almighty Allah for the privilege of leading Nigeria. You called that privilege an extraordinary blessing that must be matched with dedicated service. I do not question your prayers. That is between you and your Creator. I question what you have done with the blessing. The Nigerians you left behind when you flew to Saudi Arabia have every right to ask: where is the service? I have studied your leadership closely, and the more I study it, the angrier I become. In your approach to power I see the opposite of everything I was raised to respect. I keep asking: what did Nigeria do to deserve this? When I misbehaved as a boy, my father gave me what his generation called "six of the best", or reprimanded me so firmly that I thought twice before repeating the offence. I resented it then. I understand it now. There is a difference between right and wrong, and a man is responsible for knowing it. Cleverness does not excuse dishonesty. Success does not erase misconduct. Money can buy comfort and influence, but it cannot buy a conscience. Mr President, where is that discipline in your public life? Where is the restraint? Where is the willingness to accept responsibility? Where is the recognition that other people's suffering matters more than your political survival? I will not explain your character through a childhood I did not witness, and I reject the lie that poverty makes people dishonest. Millions of poor Nigerians live honourably under pressures that powerful men could not endure for a week. It is your conduct in power that I challenge. So let us talk about your record. THE ARITHMETIC OF SUFFERING The World Bank says 63 per cent of Nigerians were living in poverty in 2025. That is about 140 million people. Your officials celebrated when inflation fell from 34.8 per cent to about 15 per cent. Poverty rose anyway. Prices rising more slowly does not mean prices have fallen. A mother cannot feed her children with a percentage. She cannot feed them with your reputation as a strategist either. An unemployed graduate cannot build a future from another speech praising your political machinery. A pensioner cannot buy medicine with the applause of your supporters. Nigerians are told, again and again, to be patient. Patient for what? Patient for whom? THE DEBT YOU ARE SIGNING IN OUR NAMES When you took office, Nigeria's public debt stood at about 87 trillion naira. By June this year it was nearly 167 trillion. You have almost doubled it in three years. Last year alone about 16 trillion naira went on servicing debt. That is money that did not go to hospitals, schools or roads. And on 27 October, with fewer than 110 days to the election, you asked the Senate for another 20.5 billion dollars and over a billion euros. Who will repay it? Not you. Not your family. The child in Kano who has never seen a functioning classroom will repay it. Nigeria is not a credit card for one man's ambition. THE DEAD WHO DESERVED BETTER Amnesty International counted at least 10,217 Nigerians killed in your first two years, more than 6,800 of them in Benue alone. On a single day in February this year, gunmen killed over 200 people in Kwara and Katsina. Last week, at least 62 more were killed in the northeast. These are not statistics. They were farmers, children, wives, grandfathers. Every one of them was promised security by a man who campaigned on his competence. What has that competence delivered to the graves of Benue and Zamfara? THE PRESIDENT WHO IS NOT THERE By May this year you had made 51 foreign trips and spent about 261 days outside Nigeria. Records compiled by GovSpend show the Presidency spent more than 37 billion naira on travel in under three years. Campaigning for the presidency opened on 19 August. Eleven days later you left for a three-week leave in London and Paris. Now you have gone to Saudi Arabia. Nigeria needs a president who is present. A captain who keeps leaving the ship cannot complain when the passengers stop trusting him. THE PROTESTERS YOU SILENCED In August 2024, young Nigerians marched against hunger. Amnesty International says police killed at least 24 of them, including children, and detained more than 1,200. The police denied it. A year later, Amnesty reported that not one victim had received justice. Journalists are still being detained under the Cybercrimes Act. Your own Vice-President claimed that no journalist has been harassed since you took office. The Committee to Protect Journalists has documented case after case proving otherwise. And this very week, police in Kaduna arrested a supporter of Nasir El-Rufai after he posted images of low turnout at your rally. Is that what Nigeria has become? Arrested for photographing empty chairs? You cannot arrest a country into loving you. You cannot intimidate citizens into believing their lives have improved. Fear may produce silence. It cannot produce legitimacy. Today, young people in Zamfara blocked a major road shouting "Tinubu Must Go." You should listen to them, not send men with guns after them. RIVERS STATE IS NOT A PLAYTHING In March 2025 you suspended an elected governor, his deputy and an entire House of Assembly. You handed the state to a retired admiral for six months. No elected state government had been removed like that since 1962. Nyesom Wike later said openly that he had wanted the governor impeached. My father helped to build Rivers State. Its people did not vote for a sole administrator. They voted for a government, and you took it away from them. YOUR CIRCLE IS NOT ABOVE THE LAW Your wife and your son must understand that public influence brings public scrutiny. The First Lady holds no elected office, yet she tours the country promising "fresh empowerment" in exchange for votes. With whose money? Records published by Daily Trust show more than half a million dollars in foreign exchange released for her foreign trips in 2023 and 2024. Nigerians have every right to question access, influence and the line between family interests and government business. Being related to the president does not place anyone above accountability. And Nyesom Wike, especially Wike, must understand that power does not cancel the obligation to answer for one's record. The same applies to David Umahi and every other influential member of your circle. Where credible evidence of wrongdoing exists, let independent investigators examine it. Where charges are justified, let prosecutors bring them. Let courts decide guilt. I want accountability strong enough to reach powerful people, including those who believe their usefulness to you will protect them forever. THE CHICAGO FILES In 1993, a United States court ordered the forfeiture of 460,000 dollars in a civil case connected to accounts linked to you. In April 2025, Judge Beryl Howell found that the FBI and DEA had officially confirmed investigations of you relating to a drug trafficking ring, and ordered them to process the records. Your lawyers have since fought to keep the redactions in place. On 30 October, the judge rejected some of Aaron Greenspan's requests, and your spokesman celebrated on social media. But the case is not over. Your Presidency says the files contain nothing new. Then release them. If there is nothing to hide, stop hiding it. Every month you spend fighting transparency in a Washington courtroom tells Nigerians more than any document could. THE SECURITY SERVICES BELONG TO NIGERIA The DSS, the police and the armed forces must understand their duty. They serve Nigeria and the law, not a man. They must never become instruments for keeping anyone in office against the freely expressed will of the people. History should give you pause. Samuel Doe's Liberia and Mobutu's Zaire are grim warnings about personal rule, repression and the belief that a ruler's survival matters more than his country's future. Those histories ended in suffering that Nigeria must never repeat. I want no such catastrophe. I want peaceful change, constitutional government and the protection of every human life, including yours and your family's. So I say plainly: do not let your ambition, or the ambition of those around you, endanger Nigeria's peace. Nigerians vote on 16 January 2027. Do not permit anyone to rig that election in your name. Do not let state institutions be turned against lawful opposition. Tell your supporters there is no justification for intimidation or violence. If Nigerians vote you out, pack your bags and leave peacefully. There is dignity in accepting the people's judgment. There is none in making a nation suffer because a leader cannot imagine life outside office. YOUR HEALTH AND YOUR DUTY I will not diagnose your health from photographs, speculate about medication, or pretend to know the purpose of a journey abroad. My question is simpler. Can you carry the full weight of this office every day? Nigerians deserve the truth about anything that affects your ability to govern. When you leave the country, transmit the Section 145 letter, as the Constitution requires. Your welfare matters. So does the country's. Neither should be hidden behind political theatre. THE KIO SOLUTION: FIVE DEMANDS One. Publish your Code of Conduct asset declaration, and require every minister and adviser to publish theirs. Two. Instruct your lawyers to stop opposing the release of the FBI and DEA records, and ask the United States government to release them in full. Three. No new foreign loans before the 16 January election without an independent public audit of every loan taken since May 2023. Four. Set up an independent judicial inquiry into the August 2024 protest killings. Free everyone detained for speech, and end the use of the Cybercrimes Act against journalists and critics. Five. Commit in writing to accept the result of the election. Order the DSS, police and military to remain strictly neutral. A NOTE ON FAIRNESS The 1993 Chicago matter was a civil forfeiture, not a criminal conviction, and President Tinubu has never been charged with a crime in the United States. The Presidency denies wrongdoing and says the records contain nothing new. Allegations referred to in this letter are allegations, not findings of guilt. Everyone named is entitled to the presumption of innocence. My father spent heavily on my education because he expected me to do something useful with my life. It took me a long time to wake up to the full weight of that responsibility. I can assure you that I am now wide awake. I have made mistakes. I have wasted opportunities. I claim no perfection. But I know that a life devoted only to money, influence and personal advancement leaves something essential undone. We owe something to our neighbours and to those less fortunate than ourselves. Those entrusted with public power owe more still. That is why I write, and why I will keep writing. Mr President, your leadership is doing grave damage to public trust. Repairing it will take far more than speeches, loyal crowds and prayers abroad. It will take accountability that reaches your own circle, and humility that begins with you. Listen to the people who have nothing to gain by flattering you. Fear the adviser who never disagrees with you. Answer the people. Respect them. Accept their right to reject you. You have had your chance to exercise power. You have no right to demand that Nigeria surrender its future to preserve it. This is nothing personal. It is politics. Nigeria belongs to Nigerians. Sincerely yours, Kio Amachree� President, Worldview International�Stockholm, Sweden #LettersFromStockholm #TheKioSolution #Nigeria #Accountability #RuleOfLaw #Democracy #Leadership #Nigeria2027 • On 2 November, Tinubu offered prayers of gratitude at the Ka'abah for the privilege of serving as president, saying becoming Nigeria's leader was an extraordinary blessing that must be matched with dedicated service. • Poverty and inflation: the World Bank's April 2026 Nigeria Development Update put the national poverty rate at 63 percent in 2025, about 140 million people, while NBS data showed inflation falling from 34.80 percent in December 2024 to 15.15 percent by December 2025. • Debt: public debt reached N166.79 trillion by 30 June 2026, against N87.38 trillion as of 30 June 2023. Total debt service rose to about N16 trillion in 2025. • New loans: Tinubu asked the Senate to approve a supplementary external borrowing plan of $20.52 billion and €1.05 billion for 2026–2027. SaharaReporters noted the request came less than 110 days before the election, with the presidential poll scheduled for January 16, 2027. • Killings: Amnesty counted at least 10,217 people killed in the government's first two years, over 6,896 in Benue and at least 2,630 in Plateau. Gunmen killed over 200 people in Kwara and Katsina on 3 February 2026. At least 62 people were killed in an attack in northeastern Nigeria, according to the emergency agency. • Travel: Daily Trust counted about 261 days abroad in 51 trips, and GovSpend records show N37.64 billion spent on presidential trips and related expenses from June 2023 to April 2026. Campaigning opened on 19 August 2026, eleven days before he flew out. GovSpend also shows $553,884 released for the First Lady's overseas trips between 2023 and 2024. • Protests: Amnesty found at least 24 protesters killed and over 1,200, including minors, detained; a year later it said authorities had failed to ensure justice for the victims. • Press: CPJ documented repeated arrests and harassment of journalists and objected to Vice President Shettima's suggestion that none had been harassed since Tinubu took office. • This week: Daily Nigerian reported police arrested El-Rufai's supporter Imran Wakili after he posted "low-turnout" images at Tinubu's rally in Kaduna, and a 'Tinubu Must Go' protest in Zamfara saw youths block a major road. • Rivers: on 18 March 2025 Tinubu suspended Fubara, his deputy and the House of Assembly; Wike later said he had wanted Fubara impeached. • First Lady: Remi Tinubu urged the South-East to back the President's re-election and promised fresh empowerment. • Chicago files: Judge Howell's April 2025 judgment stated that the FBI and DEA had both officially confirmed investigations of Tinubu relating to the drug trafficking ring. In the 30 October ruling, she denied Greenspan's summary judgment motion, granted the government's cross-motion only in part, and found the FBI's search adequate; the lawsuit did not end. Bayo Onanuga announced the decision on X.