In church on Sunday, the preacher in the course of his sermon, talked about a research which concluded that 'christians' are the ones who fall the most for fake news and conspiracy theories. He thereafter quoted Is 8:12 "Do not call conspiracy everything these people call a conspiracy; do not fear what they fear and do not dread it."
The year is 2024 and the volume of information available surpasses every age yet far too many remain arrogant in their ignorance. Artificial intelligence is all over the place; apocalyptic movies are now about how a future generation could be wiped out by AI created by man. This is how dynamic everything is today but we have ignorance prevailing, at a level arguably greater than anytime in history.
PMB ran for office with a pastor yet it was church leaders who were at the forefront of accusing him of having an Islamization agenda. Supposed Christians shared stock images of armed herdsmen from other countries to back their agenda. This was a norm throughout his time as president. We don't get to see those images and stories as much these days.
Every statement made by the man got twisted and agitators sprung up even before he took office. Secessionists met after their preferred candidate lost and threats were sent to the incoming president before his inauguration. The excuse given was that the PMB was going to cancel the deal organized by GEJ and trust the people to side with those who repeatedly sabotaged oil installations for many months.
Nigeria lost revenue, there was a global economic problem and many governors couldn't pay salaries. All these got ignored and the government was expected to perform magic. PMB got attacked from every angle, one fellow on Twitter even prayed for his plane to drop from the skies. A group of men gathered on Facebook to fantasize about what they would have done if they were the first responders to the scene of Yusuf's bike accident. Preachers gave homilies about how he was cloned and how his people were 'born to rule.' I wonder what portions of Nigeria have been overrun by Islam because of the Sukuk bond.
They joined forces with Atiku in 2019 but he didn't win so they went full force in 2023 behind the one who told the church to wake up and take back their country. The people despite all their education continued to believe that PBAT did not attend Chicago State University. Nothing could convince them otherwise. They held on to the Muslim-Muslim ticket to try to outmaneuver the front runner but they failed.
They had tried to use the EndSARS protest of 2020 to cancel PBAT because they knew he would most likely declare to run. They accused him of ordering soldiers to shoot at the toll gate; they tried to convince us to see what was not evident on the Instagram live videos they continue to still hold on to. They accused him of wielding power in Lagos yet their candidate who was the governor of Anambra when some of the worst cases of SARS atrocities happened was given a pass. They said he didn't control the police as a governor but a man who had been out of office for about 13 years was accused of giving the order in October 2020.
We have a group of supposed adults who have allowed infantile influencers to think for them. They tell them what to do, what to believe and who to cancel and they don't ask questions. They told me to look at soldiers firing at people draped in the Nigerian flag and singing the anthem on their live videos. I watched every video I could find but I didn't see what they claimed was there. One girl said she crawled as soldiers were shooting picking up bullets and shell casings to use as evidence. Another said she was dodging bullets as the soldiers were firing and as soldiers were about to get her, one unknown male jumped on her back and took the bullet. They all had phones but could not capture how they carried the bodies of the fallen to the feet of the soldiers. How did educated people take all these in without asking serious questions?
I asked questions and what did I get? Emotional blackmail, curses and insults. Those who were supposed to have discerning spirits helped to push various obituaries that week. Many opted for wokeness that season until they fell out with those who eventually differentiated into the obidient movement.
Atiku knows he's just about done so his people are giving it a final push after their Illinois expedition went bust. They decided to go after the Samoa agreement; they pushed their propaganda to northern Nigeria as they are convinced that they can cut off whatever northern backing he got in 2023. They played the religious sentimental card and claimed the Samoa agreement was to yield the country over to the EU gender agenda. Even 'Christians' believed this even when they didn't bother to read the document for themselves.
Those in the pitobi camp just went with the flow; on one hand, they held the gender claim as true and on the other hand, they mocked the northern propagandists for backing a Muslim-Muslim ticket. Hungary is part of the EU and that nation has some of the most intense opposition to gender rights and all associated modern day liberties. Hungary did not agree to sign the Samoa agreement until they got assurances that their sovereignty and laws would not be undermined by signing. Stuff like this get pointed out but far too many people are not bothered about searching things out for themselves. It is whatever fits their prejudices they run with. One newspaper reported a story in a certain way, at least two others countered the report but they get accused of being paid by government to defend the indefensible.
One fellow who's offended by the administration described it as a devilish agreement. No explanations went through his ears. If we refuse such deals from the EU or the US because of a morbid religious fear of alphabets, who will we be able to meet for assistance? If we go to 'Christian' or Jewish nations, won't Muslims be offended and vice versa. If we go to Russia or China; others within and without will be offended so why don't we just go everywhere possible. It's not as if these negotiations are rushed and take place under duress. 
The propagandists have done what they think will work for them; same tactics used very recently which didn't quite work out. Let's see how things will go. The exchanges that have followed the Samoa agreement propaganda on social media has unfortunately caused an ethno-religious schism with threats and counter-threats flying around. The kind of falling out that happened in the early months of PMB's reign when German slaps were threatened and those offended because they didn't reap despite their support for the winner boasted that they would remove the one they installed.
There's nothing new under the sun; how some people continue to miss the obvious still baffles me.
To those who genuinely want to be on the side of truth; don't yield to fear, judge right judgements and admit to what really is your source of pain instead of hiding behind a surgical mask of pseudo-objectivity.
07/12/24
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