The lazy "CIA did it" argument currently being aggressively championed by David Hundeyin and his Spearhead team as the ultimate, all-encompassing framework to explain our present political decay and socio-economic woes is ultimately invalid, and completely breaks down in the face of even the most rudimentary, basic application of common sense. Of course, this is not to say that all our problems are completely localized, self-inflicted, or that there is no form of foreign interference, imperialist meddling, and covert sabotage in our politics and governance. In fact, I myself have written dozens of articles indicating, exposing, and directly implicating CIA interference in our academic institutions, our media houses, our civil society organizations, and our political space. I have also written extensively, and unapologetically about Western-backed assassinations, and the brutal economic structures such as predatory IMF debts, rigged World Trade Organization treaties, and suffocating structural adjustment programs that were deliberately put in place to facilitate the neocolonial extraction of African wealth, solid minerals, and human resources. However, these essays of mine should be viewed first and foremost as a vital historical lesson, because I firmly believe it is completely impossible to achieve genuine political consciousness, or strategic foresight without a solid grounding in history. Secondly, apart from serving as a historical record, I present them strictly as a materialist thesis to explain exactly how global capital interacts with the Global South, how multinational cartels operate, and the extreme, violent measures taken by global empires to preserve the political and economic configurations that facilitate the extraction of wealth from the bleeding interior to the wealthy periphery. I do not present them as an unquestionable religious dogma, neither do I pretend to showcase them as the one and only roadmap toward understanding the complex, multi-layered political climate of Nigeria in particular and Africa in general. Indeed, one simply cannot pretend that our local leaders are mindless, helpless puppets without cognitive agency who are merely acting on the direct, robotic orders and mandates of their masters in Western capitals. If a corrupt politician in Nigeria ruthlessly loots billions of dollars reserved for national electricity grids, public hospitals, and primary schools, and instead diverts that stolen money into purchasing luxury real estate portfolios in Dubai, buying private jets, acquiring offshore trust funds, and hoarding exotic cars under his family name, while at the exact same time signing away multi-billion-dollar mineral contracts to American defense contractors just to politically protect his regime, then that person has officially ceased to be a mere puppet. His status ultimately, undeniably upgrades to that of a ruthless colonial governor, a willing comprador elite, and a highly active participant in the exact same global capitalist system keeping his own people perpetually poor, starving, and subjugated. This is the exact same logic the Chinese ultimately used to survive the devastating Opium Wars and reclaim their sovereignty. The greedy Chinese merchants and local warlords who were actively smuggling toxic drugs from British ships into the inland provinces of China were not treated as mindless, innocent puppets without any form of agency. They were treated first and foremost as the primary targets, the domestic enemies, and the willing, blood-soaked collaborators of Western imperialism. Furthermore, even if we completely surrendered all forms of logical reasoning, abandoned our intellect, and succumbed to David Hundeyin's relentless online harassment and lazy insistence that the "CIA did it" every single time a pothole appears on the road, this argument still spectacularly breaks down. It fails because the narrative is being deceptively presented as if merely removing foreign interference, closing Western embassies, and kicking out foreign spies would suddenly, magically lead to our total economic liberation. In brutal reality, Nigeria is so deeply, structurally embedded into global capitalism that even if the IMF permanently shut down its Abuja office today, the greedy Black billionaires, local banking cartels, and corporate oligarchs in Africa would happily open a brand-new, indigenous exploitation office the very next morning to enslave their own people in predatory debt just to increase their own profit margins. With or without the direct, visible colonial structure of extraction, I do not see any serious, materialist analysis that can ever guarantee the economic freedom, human dignity, and survival of the poor working-class masses in Nigeria without a complete systemic overhaul, a radical psychological realignment, and a highly disciplined mass revolutionary campaign. Even the romanticized military coup that David Hundeyin is recklessly championing as the only viable solution is still a fundamentally extractive, oppressive, and capitalist system. The incoming military generals and the khaki-wearing dictators will ultimately, inevitably enrich their own inner circles, award bloated defense contracts to their cronies, and loot state resources with absolute impunity under the banner of "Pan-Africanism", exactly as the civilian political class is currently doing under this rotten, democratic political establishment. So, while I completely agree that we absolutely cannot over-localize our problems, ignore complex geopolitical dynamics, or dismiss the very real threat of foreign intelligence operations, we simply cannot continue to childishly pretend as if 100% of our structural problems, institutional decay, and economic misery can be lazily, conveniently attributed to the "white man." We cannot keep pointing fingers at invisible foreign ghosts while deliberately ignoring the brutal e reality of how global capitalism and local elite greed are actively destroying our local political space and ultimately pushing our people below the poverty line every single day.

Three full days after a catastrophic fire apocalypse completely burned down the entire Oluku Market and destroyed the daily livelihoods of thousands of struggling traders, the exact same deadly pothole that caused the fatal accident, triggered the massive inferno, and sparked this monumental tragedy remains completely and shamelessly unfixed. What exactly would it take for this government to fix a basic crater on the road? Why is it that the political class is incredibly active, highly efficient, and lightning-fast when it comes to padding their own budgets, approving their travel allowances, and securing their personal estates, but suddenly becomes completely paralyzed, financially bankrupt, and utterly incompetent the very second it comes to executing basic public projects that actually protect human lives, secure local businesses, and improve the material conditions of the tax-paying masses?