When you are President and your
enemies accidentally tell a lie
guaranteed to make you look
good, you own it and let them
rue their foolishness and
stupidity. That is political savvy.
You turn your enemies lies into a
wonderful goal for yourself.
While hoping that President Buhari, Vice
President Osinbajo, Lai Mohammed, and
all their media handlers have learnt a
thing or two about the impossibility of
denying things said, promised, and written
outright in the age of Google and social
media, here is another free lecture on
how and why not to deny some lies told
against you by your enemies.
Not all lies told by your enemies are
harmful. Some lies end up having
unintended positive consequences – if
you know how to own and exploit them
auspiciously.
The initial gesture of Jonahideens after
May 29 was to go into a frantic lying
mode. They told one thousand and one
lies per day. All Buharists will recall the
nightmare we went through coping with
the torrents of lies by Jonahideens. They
were very prolific. Very creative. Very
determined. Very shameless. They kept
producing and making lies viral in the
hope that something would stick.
Sometimes, the regular media would fall
for the social media lies of Jonahideens
and publish.
They told white lies.
They told black lies.
They told grey lies.
They told fat lies.
They told thin lies.
Some Jonahideens became instant
Facebook and Twitter celebrities based on
the genius of lies they told daily against
Buhari. They built followership and began
to take themselves seriously.
Then, one day, Jonahideens manufactured
the lie that Buhari had decided to reduce
the size of the Presidential fleet. As
usual, it went viral.
That nonsense and ever-expanding fleet
has, of course, always been one of the
lowest points of Aso Rock with the
Nigerian people. It is absolutely
irresponsible of any country, any
government, any presidency to maintain a
harem of 12 presidential jets.
Any President who reduced the fleet to
two or three was always going to gain
enormous traction with the Nigerian
people; was always going to increase his
stock and capital with the Nigerian
people. That is the one move guaranteed
to make you win with the Nigerian
people.
Of course it was a lie told by
Jonahideens. But you needed no
soothsayer to tell you that it was an
ownable lie. Some of us had in fact even
run to town to celebrate President Buhari
and add the sale of the jets to his column
of early positives. We had no idea it was
one of the malicious lies of the enemy.
When you are President and your
enemies accidentally tell a lie guaranteed
to make you look good, you own it and let
them rue their foolishness and stupidity.
That is political savvy. You turn your
enemies lies into a wonderful goal for
yourself. You go ahead and claim that
initiative and begin to discuss modalities
for transforming nine of the planes to the
initial fleet of the new Nigeria Airways.
You act on that lie. You can only win.
Going ahead to reduce the fleet would
have pulled the rug off the feet of the
liars. Buhari would have won a jackpot of
popular approval and the authors of the
lie would have had to contemplate the
unintended positive consequences of
their lies in pain and anguish.
What did the Presidency do? Smack in the
middle of celebration by Buharists, Femi
Adesina issues a yeye statement saying it
is not true.
I nearly died of embarrasment.
I desperately phoned some Buharists. I
needed them to explain to me just what
the Presidency stood to lose by denying
something guaranteed to make them win.
Or does the frugal and disciplined
President Buhari actually intend to keep
that Presidential harem of planes? We
expect him to reduce it anyway. He must
reduce it anyway. You cannot morally or
ethically keep the size of that Presidential
fleet. It is indefensible. Why not run
away with the lies of the enemy and turn
it against them?
We lost that fantastic moment because
the Presidency could not sniff opportunity
in the lies of the enemy.
Buhari Presidency – stop denying what
you should own even if it is invented by
the enemy.
Stop denying what you said, even if it has
become inconvenient.


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I receive the prayer in IJN....Amen

No mind them..dey say den deny

ladyF:
I receive the prayer in IJN....Amen

Stfu!!
If thry move it to FP, ur stupid slang will appear.

ladyF:
I receive the prayer in IJN....Amen

Stfu!!
If they move it to FP, ur stupid slang will appear.

Sahara nonsense!