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Cyberbullying bigots are at it again. Buhari has failed woefully and it is doubtful he is intellectually capable of making the right decisions. He was backed by the powerful Tinubu and voted en masse by the SW who on Twitter comprise his main BMC squad. The hope held for him...
...was not just national, it was international. Diaspora was largely pro-Buhari and foreign leaders were queuing up to meet him and show their support. Over the past few days, I have seen countless pro-Buhari tweets from SW and diasporan Buhari supporters. Those from the SE and..
...other opposition strongholds also wanted to vote a Northern Fulani man in the last election. Yet bigots would tell you it is because Buhari is a Northerner, a young Northern boy who was pro-Buhari before but no longer is should be dragged through the mud for losing his brother
...and that because Buhari is a Northerner all Northerners are the ones to blame and deserve the pain they suffer. You bunch are among the reasons Nigeria cannot progress. Your insensitivity & hatred are not grounds for even developing a separate nation. Look at the Maga clowns..
...Extreme nationalism and ethno-chauvenism have done nothing to repair a country in crisis. Take pride in your people and region but do not be a bigot towards others, cherry picking only what you wish to see and ignoring the facts that counter it...
...The majority of Northerners I interact with (from the elite to the ordinary villager and poor trader or blue collar worker) do not hold any love for Buhari. The hope most had for him in the past as a man who stands up for the vulnerable and has integrity has vanished...
...That he is a Northern Fulani man is not the reason why he was voted in as the chief opposition candidate was also a Northern Fulani man. People believed in Buhari as a man of his word. Even the highly educated and accomplished in the SW believed in him. He is delivering...
...on infrastructure for the SE and the SW also appears to be benefitting. The Twitter BMC crowd has been singing his praises for the past week over the Lagos-Ibadan Line. Look at the names carefully to see what region the praise singers are from. We in the North have had our...
...eyes open this year that Buhari is clueless and content to let other people do his bidding. He will not lead from the front and Northern development and security are not priorities... Who is to blame? The ordinary Northern masses coming out of colonial control and military...
...rule handicapped and estranged from their former strengths as a commercial and scholarship hub for West Africa? The same masses who have lived under fear and forced exploitation by greedy politicians who were visionless and cared only about enlarging their pockets through...
...connivance with looters and vested interests across the country? In the past two decades, a Northern young person who isn't protected by a connected family who dares to speak out against a politician has been struck with a heavy punishment. Those who gather in large...
...numbers to protest have been shown whose lives matter with severe extra judicial killings. Disappearances have taken place and we are still waiting for Dadiyata to be returned. Yet you lot have the arrogance to think you are the only ones who stand for good governance....
...and are deluded to think activism is only what we see on Twitter. Who sold us these lies that only one or two regions want the country to prosper, and what prejudice makes us buy these lies so easily? Who whips up ethnic and religious sentiments to control and manipulate?...
...Population figures in the North means more people are controlled and repressed by fear and desperation than some others, but the same tactics are used by leaders in every region. Name one region where elders are not affected by Stockholm syndrome and youth are at the mercy...
...of political heavyweights and mafia men. Northern youth who are not rich do not have the luxury of American or European connections to promote their causes. But this does not mean there is no activism going on or that Twitter reflects Nigeria in totality. This is only a...
...a small microcosm of warped representation based on artificially constructed measures largely by those who can brand and market themselves. What gives me hope is that as the digital age expands coverage to all Nigerians, more robust discussions and transparency can...
...take place. Citizens can talk more freely about their challenges and solutions and more politicians will be forced to pay heed to citizen discourse. If you want to fix the problems in the North it is not by cyberbullying a small boy who is still maturing. It is to address...
...those who are responsible for the pain of ordinary citizens, to demand better of our leaders, to focus on holding them to account and not just the people stifled and repressed under them.
