ifebosco: idio t.how was america build after 1945 second world war??go and read your history books

ogugua88:

An offensive remark was made in my country about my country of origin by a senator voted to public office. That could be why. He needs to be held accountable.

shymexx: If he doesn't apologise, then what?

Whatever happened to the petition about the "child marriage law?"

Nigerians and focusing on the most trivial things. He said whatever he said, so what? How about sign petitions against those who destroyed the past, present and future of those millions of Nigerians sending spam mails everywhere? Charity they say begins at home. Ted Cruz has never hurt any Nigerian, neither has he stolen from Nigerians. He was speaking metaphorically, or should I say, figuratively. And he owes no one an apology.

I guess I'll never understand the mentality/experience of Nigerians
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PS: Pls, leave my post alone, if you can't discuss the topic. "Diss me and I won't reply" - Drake.

Oga Carrot: Send me MTN 100 naira first..

lastpage:

I am going to "leave your post alone" but the bolded part of your post indicates that you know not, what you are yearning about.

...except you believe that ALL NIGERIANS are SCAMMERS?

...to associate "scam" with the "nation Nigeria" ... is an insult to ALL hardworking Nigerians (and it hurts!) and it is OFFENSIVE to our sensibilities.

"SOME" Nigerians are scammers, ... just like "some Americans" are scammers but would l be right to say or imply that "Americans are scammers"?

Dont think so.

If he wants to "speak figuratively", why not use "Americans" as his figure of speech?
Figurative koo, figurine nii.

Okay, l have left your post alone. No dissing.

Lastpage!

BTW: if you want to talk of "real scam", you need to try the East Europeans.... but since they are "white", l guess they are off the radar.
better to tarnish "black people" ....who dont actwhite senatorually value themselves anyway, ...than tarnish a white person.

1forall:
Now if we look deeper to what's being said by some Nigerians on this thread, we see a situation where someone has started a petition to protect a Nigerian interest, trivial or not, and it still gets criticized by some Nigerians. To those saying there are more important things for Nigerians to worry about, have you done anything about those things?

tensor777: However as someone has said Nigeria has far more pressing issues than this.

biafranqueen: Don't you get it this makes it harder for us to bring in investors that will create jobs in Nigeria. That is my biggest obstacle, the fear of fraud, I din't blame you people most of you are just looking for jobs and don't care how hard it is to create them!

ogugua88: A petition has been created on change.org to make Senator Cruz aware that he has offended the Nigerian community and needs to apologize for his distasteful remarks.

Nigeria may not be perfect, but neither is any nation. Our imperfection gives no one any right to mud sling us, most especially a US senator, egwho is supposedly esteemed.

Please sign!

Senator Ted Cruz, Apologize For Your Offensive Remarks to the Nigerian Community!

barcanista: Bros I've never heard a white man call himself American-Nigerian or British-Congolese, why is she attaching two nationalities to herself as if she's the first?

biafranqueen:

Prof Corruption: 1. It’s unfortunate that we’re living in a time where just about every joke can be misconstrued to cause offense to someone.
2. To the good people of Nigeria — a beautiful nation where my wife lived briefly as the child of missionaries — no offense was intended.
3. I am fully appreciative of the range of mutual economic and security interests that make Nigeria an important friend to the United States.
4. And even to those few unscrupulous email scammers who were the subject of the joke, I apologize to you for the unfair comparison to the utterly dysfunctional Obamacare website.
.........................Senator Ted Cruz

ifyalways:
Did he say all that for real

Prof Corruption:

Yeah.

kingoflag:

Because thats what she is. Shes American and Nigerian.

ifyalways: Good to know. This can pass as a genuine,heartfelt apology.

Oya Ogugua,send me recharge card for signing that petition fifty times.

ogugua88:

Sure! After Prof Corruption blesses us with a credible source lol.

Nigerian government not happy with Ted Cruz
Friday, October 25, 2013

A joke from Texas Sen. Ted Cruz comparing the failure of the Obamacare website to Nigerian email scams is not sitting well with the Nigerian government, who called it unfair to use a nation as the brunt of a joke.

Politico reported Thursday that the Nigerian ambassador to the United States, Ade Adefuye, is demanding an apology from Cruz for disappointing and offending Nigerians, and disparaging a country for political points.

Cruz made the remark on Monday during a welcome-home event in Houston, lambasting the Obamacare website for its failures upon roll-out.

“You may have noticed that all the Nigerian email scammers have become a lot less active lately,” he said. “They all have been hired to run the Obamacare website.”

The Nigerian ambassador said he understood Cruz’s attempt to rile up his support base, but was surprised when Cruz did not deny what he said.

“To allow him to ridicule a country and its citizens is completely over the top,” Adefuye said. “He should not denigrate Nigerians in order to appease these domestic constituents.”

Catherine Frazier, a spokesperson for Cruz, said the remark was meant to be a joke and referred to all email scams, not specifically those from Nigeria.

UPDATE, 4:30 p.m.: Cruz’s office issued a statement from the Senator saying no offense was intended by the remark.

“It’s unfortunate that we’re living in a time where just about every joke can be misconstrued to cause offense to someone. To the good people of Nigeria — a beautiful nation where my wife lived briefly as the child of missionaries — no offense was intended. I am fully appreciative of the range of mutual economic and security interests that make Nigeria an important friend to the United States. And even to those few unscrupulous email scammers who were the subject of the joke, I apologize to you for the unfair comparison to the utterly dysfunctional Obamacare website.”

ogugua88: I wonder why that's only being reported by a few Nigerian blogs and sites.