Some Nigerians on
social media when it comes to politics and matters of state have serious
problem.
Many hate the man in
power so much so that they describe themselves when they make attempts to
describe him. When you point this out to them, they will turn the table and
plaster insults and curses on your generation unborn.
It's an ethno-religious
tussle for these ones. They can't relate
outside of these parameters.
They are those
confused by intellectualism. Most are unstable and easily swayed by anyone with
a vocabulary of high sounding nonsense.
They think the people in government are stupid so when you come from a
sharp corner of 'pseudo-stuff' claiming to know more than the 'illiterate'
president, you get hailed and idolized.
Some just lap up any junk dumped in their laps by any Tom, Dick and
Harry with an academic or political prefix. They are afraid to tell their idols
"but.. Exkiss sir, you are wrong sir."
You are primitive
minded if you still think the president didn't get a certificate after
secondary school.
There are those who
are simply overt political opponents. They will do whatever it takes to become
relevant again. It is those who have
internal conflicts I don't understand. Today they'll remember how badly the
former government performed; tomorrow they'll be shouting from the rooftop
about one fabricated story or the other just to discredit the president.
The current one is
one with origin from a meeting between the Nigerian delegation and the World
Bank delegation on 21st July 2015 i.e. about 2 years 2 months ago. The World
Bank chief who was leader of that meeting reacted to a question recently about
the activities of the WB in the northeast of Nigeria. He perhaps thought he was making sense to
Nigerians by emphasizing the immense role played by President Buhari in
advocating for the direction of the WB's loan to the NE which has been ravaged
by terror and uncertainty over the past few years.
Trust Nigerians to
convulse over a non-issue. They became overnight experts on World Bank policy
and reinforced their deep seated views that the president is a sectional
leader. Like when he secured the non
interest loan from the Islamic bank to fix roads across the six geopolitical
zones of the country. They asked why he
didn't ask the WB to do same for the South.
I wonder if they asked former president Jonathan to request for an
additional $1bn loan to purchase weapons to fight terrorists in the South just
as it was happening in the North.
Some clowns
continued with their 97%- 5% rhetoric to explain the lopsided WB loan. If
Buhari favored the North i.e. the 97% based on their logic, that means he has
favored one out of two regions. The
second unfavored region is obviously the South which only gave him 5%. The flaw
with this logic is actually obvious. It holds no water since the Southwest gave
the majority of votes to the president.
It was actually 7.4% a certain region gave in 2015 which was a massive
improvement from the less than 1% from 4 years earlier but somehow the entire
Southern Nigeria gets bundled into a '5% pity party truck.'
Some have edited their
folly to reflect 95%-5% so that it adds up to 100% but this clearly isn't the
context in which that reference was made by the president in 2015. It had
nothing to do with how he divided Nigeria in his mind; ethnic bigots only
latched on to provide feed for their acolytes to ruminate on like giraffes. I
will not go into what 97-5% meant because many Nigerians are calcified and
impervious, they won't get it.
The matter was
discussed in 2015, it's on the World Bank website and just about every media
outfit in Nigeria carried the story: $2.1bn loan from WB to rebuild NE. There was no secrecy to it but suddenly it is
an indication of the president's marginalization agenda. So if there's a loan to rebuild and clean up
the Niger Delta, I'll accuse the president who got it even if he's from the
region of nepotism or some other big grammar we like to throw around? What is
wrong with us sef?
Obi Ezekwesili who
doesn't shy away from speaking her mind on national issues took to twitter to
defuse the situation based on her experience of the operations of the World
Bank. In summary, those biting their
tongues accusing the president of whatever vice have no ground to stand upon.
One professor like that has spent the whole day writing back to back posts to
justify his erroneous stance. It's your
luck if you chose to allow his views drug you for whatever reason.
Channels TV aired an
episode of a tourism show they produce yesterday. The host was in Bauchi state touring the
Yankari games reserve and the Wikki facility.
Zebras, giraffes, blue wildebeests, boars, deers, antelopes and other
wildlife adorned the area but business is very slow there. The other day, one
man bought all the tomatoes in the country and wahala happened, yam is now
exported large scale and we are in trouble.
Do we still not get why we need to help stabilize the North especially
with the uncertainty surrounding crude oil?
Let's get serious
Nigerians.
For those who don't
or cannot read.
To those wallowing
in hatred and bigotry.
To those caught in
multiple minds craving the cucumbers on the Titanic.
Hope this helps
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