BRINGBACKIKEDIOHAKIM AND BRINGBACKGOODLUCK2015 CAMPAIGN SLOGANS: THE MOST INAPPROPRIATE HASHTAGS AND THE HEIGHT OF LEADERSHIP INSENSITIVITY
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The campaign team of President Goodluck Jonathan is currently under heavy attack over the campaign slogan #BringBackGoodluck2015.
Over the week, the campaigners released a banner with the inscription, #BringBackOurGoodluck2015, a slogan that is perceived to be a mockery of the #BringBackOurGirls campaign, which was birth months ago to champion the release of the 200+ missing Chibok girls believed to be kidnapped by the Boko Haram.
However, Washington Post in an article entitled: ‘This may be the most inappropriate political hashtag of the year’, condemned the insensitivity of the current administration towards the plight of the Chibok girls, saying the campaign slogan was inappropriate. (http://www.stelladimokokorkus.com/2014/09/news-on-wednesdaybring-back.html?showComment=1410347170241)

However, speculations point at the #BringBackIkediOhakim Initiative to be responsible for the sponsorship and promotion of the #BringBackGoodLuck campaign slogan. Whether these speculations are true or not, the fact remains that both campaign slogans of #BringBackIkediOhakim and #BringBackGoodLuck are nothing but mere political ridicule and caricature of the #BringBackOurGirls campaign calling for the release of over 200 kidnapped Chibok girls and must be frowned at by all. It is highly condemnable. Just as rightly reported by the Washington Post, the #BringBackIkediOhakim and #BringBackGoodLuck2015 campaign slogans are the most inappropriate political hashtags of the year that reveals the height of insensitivity of the initiators of those campaign slogans to the plight of the missing Chibok Girls. As political leaders, President Jonathan and Chief Ikedi Ohakim, whether in person or in proxy, ought to know the negative psychological implications of adopting such political campaign slogan on the Nigerian populace.

The pertinent to be raised are: Should our political leaders take pride and advantage of the fact that over 200 Nigerian children are missing and yet to be found and rescued? Should a slogan geared towards calling of the release of the kidnapped girls be adopted for political campaigns regardless of the plight of these children wherever they are and the psychological trauma their parents, families, friends and well-wishers are presently undergoing? When they say, “Bring Back GoodLuck” and “Bring Back IkediOhakim”, the pertinent questions I ask again are: Bring them back from Where? Are they Missing like the Chibok Girls? The answers to these questions simply points at the fact that not only the campaign for the release of the Chibok girls is being made mockery of but also amounts to a great disregard and disrespect for the emotions of the Nigerian masses who are pained by the fact that the Chibok girls are missing and yet to be rescued.

It is, therefore, in my candid opinion as a patriotic and concerned citizen of Nigeria who feels the pains and psychological trauma of the missing girls and their families that President Goodluck Jonathan and Chief Ikedi Ohakim should intervene swiftly and ensure the discontinuation in the use of the #BringBackIkediOhakim and #BringBackGoodLuck2015 campaign slogans because they send traumatic pains down the spines of Nigerians particularly the affected families and relations of the missing Chibok girls considering the fact that the missing girls are yet to be found, rescued and reunite with their families. The missing chibok slogan should not be adopted in anyway as a political campaign slogan by President Goodluck Jonathan or Chief Ikedi Ohakim or any group supporting them unless they have chosen to take Nigerians and Imolites respectively for granted, ridicule the missing and unrescued Chibok girls and also intensify the pains and psychological trauma of the masses over the unfound missing Chibok Girls.

God Bless Nigeria

When they say, “Bring Back GoodLuck” and “Bring Back IkediOhakim”, the pertinent questions I ask again are: Bring them back from Where? Are they Missing like the Chibok Girls?

They may be wandering in a political wilderness.

the name Ohakim irritates Imo people .if PDP wants to loose Imo State, let them choose the crook as their governorship candidate