We have covered Adedayo Agarau many times on this platform, as a poet, as an editor, as one of the most restless and committed literary minds of his generation. He holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of Iowa and has been a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. His debut collection, The Years of Blood, won a Poetic Justice Institute Editor’s Prize for BIPOC Writers and is published by Fordham University Press. He is currently Poetry Book Reviews Editor at The Rumpus and Editor-in-Chief of Agbowo Magazine. In other words, the man has a lot going on, and yet, he found time to do something else entirely.

Agarau woke up and chose civic disruption. He tweeted: “I put together 1000 Reasons Why You should not Vote for Tinubu in the next election. Good morning Nigerians.” The project, hosted at 1000reasons.vote, is exactly what it says: a documented, scrollable, sourced catalogue of reasons why Nigerians should not return Bola Tinubu to the presidency in 2027. It is part archive, part public service, part provocation, and it lands with the same precision and intentionality that defines everything Agarau puts his name on.

This is not entirely out of character. His chapbook For Boys Who Went signaled early that his social consciousness has always run alongside his literary craft. What makes the 1000 Reasons project striking is the form: a simple structured, publicly accessible database in English, Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa and Pidgin. In other words, no excuses.

Whether you are undecided, already convinced, or simply curious about what a poet-archivist does with his rage about governance, the project is worth your time. Head over to 1000reasons.vote and see for yourself.