Otunba Segun Showunmi
We are living in the age of stoning the pigeons a grotesque spectacle where those who cannot build, fly, or even navigate the terrain take pleasure in throwing stones at anything that dares to rise.
Only the wilfully blind or terminally unserious can deny what is being quietly, relentlessly constructed. Everyone else sees it. They may not like it, but they see it.
A dangerous class has emerged: people who confuse activity with ability, aggression with insight, and volume with value. They point endlessly at imperfections in systems they have never designed, condemn policies they could not execute in theory or practice, and demand miracles on timelines they themselves could not survive. This is not critique it is intellectual vandalism.
Stoning the pigeons is easy.
Flying is hard.
Building the runway is harder.
These people are not interested in solutions because solutions are disqualifying. If problems are solved, they become irrelevant. So they must keep shouting, keep distorting, keep throwing stones hoping noise can substitute for competence and chaos can interrupt momentum.
But while they scream, the country is being structurally loosened from decades of central suffocation. Power is being released downward. Subnational governments are being enabled slowly, deliberately to reflect the real preferences of their people. This is not theatre. It is re-engineering.
They are obsessed with Election Day.
He is obsessed with the day after.
They want applause.
He wants outcomes already locked in before ballots are printed.
They campaign in headlines.
He governs in policy sequences.
That asymmetry terrifies them.
Let us be honest: once the team is recalibrated once intent is fully matched with executional ruthlessness this contest ends. Not loudly. Not ceremoniously. It simply ends, because performance leaves no oxygen for hecklers.
On security, sentimentality must die.
Those who threaten violence must encounter the full, lawful, unapologetic authority of the state. Swift. Certain. Predictable. And those who instigate violence the sponsors, financiers, and moral cowards who outsource disorder must face consequences more severe than the expendable foot soldiers they manipulate. A society that punishes pawns and protects architects is deliberately cultivating disorder.
Let me say this plainly, without civility theatre:
Governance is not a group chat.
Criticism without alternatives is fraud.
Noise is not intelligence.
And stoning pigeons is the refuge of the incompetent.
History is merciless.
It does not reward outrage.
It does not archive tantrums.
It records who built, while others threw stones and mistook destruction for relevance.
And whether they like it or not
the work is proceeding.
Quietly.
Methodically.
Irreversibly.
Otunba Segun Showunmi
The Alternative.
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