1/ An incendiary presidential remark, the country making an EU blacklist, a political gesture posturing as a fuel price cut, and the politicisation of a mass killing fed into a week where political uncertainty reigned supreme.

2/ While there have been attempts by @OfficialAPCNg supporters to justify and defend @MBuhari’s statement, the reaction of the party’s National Leader, @AsiwajuTinubu, where he attempted to declare it a misunderstanding and an impossibility,

3/ is a take that reflects the real gravity of such a statement coming from a sitting President. Military chiefs taking a cue and insisting they will shoot alleged ballot box snatchers is disheartening.

4/ @Buratai_COAS later acknowledged that a Court of Appeal judgement precludes @HQNigerianArmy from electoral duty.

5/ @MBuhari’s statement, coming the day after @CustomsNG failed to apologise for its officer shooting a man in cold blood, indicates that we are set up for a violence-strewn #NigeriaDecides2019.

6/ #Nigeria likes to put forward the appearance of being a nation governed by laws. The law is clear on how ballot box incidents - which have been on a steady decline since 2007 - should be handled and @MBuhari and his supporters will be well advised to take note.

7/ In #Kajuru, as independent sources have verified the killings in the area, it is becoming increasingly clearer that first there was an attack in which 11 members of the Adara ethnic group were killed, followed by a reprisal.

8/ Unfortunately, the initial attack was not reported by @elrufai and this neglect has ended up further politicising the situation.

9/ It is disheartening that the unfortunate deaths of Nigerians to wanton violence, violence @AsoRock has done incompetently little to resolve, is now being used as a political tool.

10/ The life of a single Nigerian is too precious to lose, and government at all levels should be ashamed that killings like this continue to happen not just in #Kaduna but across large swathes of the country.

11/ #Zamfara has become a killing field; there are routine tit-for-tat attacks in #Taraba; an army unit engaged cattle rearers in Makurdi, #Benue on Wednesday; and in the Ndokwa area of #Delta, there have been regular killings blamed on herdsmen, followed by protests.

12/ This security crisis is the biggest failure of this government.

13/ The IPMAN announcement for a petrol price reduction met with criticism and scepticism as a video polling the reaction of Nigerians to the announcement suggests. This was expected.

14/ Nigerian voters have shown themselves to be more discerning, and measures like this are recognised as nothing more than political gimmickry.

15/ In addition, IPMAN announcing a unilateral price drop as a political gesture is perhaps the clearest expression that petrol prices have been artificially kept low.

16/ This is far from the only effort at political tokenism voters have witnessed during this election cycle - on Wednesday, @MBuhari ordered the payment of February public sector wages, a week early; while @AsoRock declared tomorrow a public holiday.

17/ This is not what most citizens desire. Rather they want a real, better life. The candidate who wins tomorrow will do well to take note.

18/ The action blacklisting #Nigeria along with other countries for money laundering by @EU_Commission is a blow to @MBuhari's stated anti-corruption stance.

19/ Whilst his actions have been praised by some other African leaders, many within and outside the continent have pointed out that these actions were not yielding results - no high profile convictions is the most commonly cited example.

20/ What seems to have happened is that corrupt practices have simply been driven underground rather than eradicated. #Nigeria's corruption problems require the attendant political will to tackle issues at an institutional level, which @MBuhari does not appear to have.