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Ndu Chuks & Ngene Ukwendu Mention By Punch In An Article On Nairaland. by Akpan107(m): 3:09pm On Oct 06, 2015 |
A week-old message posted on Twitter by a
daughter of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar,
Rukaiya, triggered off a social media backlash on
Monday.
Rukaiya had described those who criticised the
Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi 11, for marrying
an 18-year old, named Sa’datu, as “commoners” in
her recent tweet.
The post was a reaction to the uproar that greeted
the marriage between the emir and Sa’datu, a
daughter of the Lamido of Adamawa, Alhaji
Mohammad Barkindo.
“Royals marrying royals and commoners actually
think their opinion matters,” she tweeted.
She went further to suggest that the emir was but
a “grand prince” until his marriage to the Lamido’s
daughter.
“All I see, one-time grand prince and now king
married a one-time a grand princess and princess.
Now a queen. All hail (sic),” he tweeted.
Perhaps, Rukaiya’s tweets were not immediately
noticed and she enjoyed a week of grace before she
was lambasted. On Monday the Twitter posts,
which many people described as disparaging,
resurfaced, generating an outage across different
online platforms.
Reacting to the tweets, which were circulated
online, bloggers on nairaland.com said the former
Vice President’s daughter’s outburst was an
unnecessary and expensive joke.
A contributor identified as Supogirl wondered what
informed Rukaiya’s conclusion when the only
visible factor that distinguished rich Nigerians from
others was privilege.
“Do those she referred to as royals have a different
colour of blood? Do they live longer than
commoners? Do they have supernatural abilities?
Don’t they also decay and turn to dust after death?
Do they have a separate place they will spend their
life after death?” she asked.
Supogirl also described the controversial remark as
the result of an unfair reward system created by
the country’s political system.
According to Ndu Chuks, also a blogger, the remark
raised a question about the inability of ordinary
Nigerians to take an independent position on
national issues involving the elite.
“What do you expect when the commoners fight
themselves over issues that concern public figures?
Why won’t Akitu’s daughter feel like every other
person except her family members and father’s
associates are commoners when people who
should have gone to jail are the ones we celebrate?
While she should not have tweeted that posts, the
truth is that there is some truth to her remark,”
Chuks said.
But one Ngene Ukwenu argued that Nigerians could
not rightly put the tweets into a proper perspective,
as there was no sufficient clue in the posts to
establish who Rukaiya referred to as commoners.
Ukwenu noted, “We have no idea of the context the
tweets were made. And she was right in a way.
When the Prince of Wales wanted to get married,
do you think the commoners in England had a
say?”
Rukaiya joined thousands of Nigerians who
subjected the emir’s marriage to an online scrutiny.
The marriage was welcomed with #ChildNotBride.
The hashtag started trended widely on Instagram,
Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp following a
divided opinion on the issue.
Users, however, were equally divided on the
appropriateness of the hashtag, which was coined
in 2013 to fight a bill aimed at legalising child
marriage. Some argued that the coinage was
abused in the case of Sanusi’s youngest wife.
They argued that she was no longer a minor and a
platform created to protect child brides should not
have been used for her.
Due to the divided opinions, counter hashtags, such
as # GoAndMarry, #BrideNotChild and
#CrushNotHusband , were created in defence of the
emir. The hashtag was promoted by those who
argued that Sa’datu took the right decision.
Atiku’s daughter was among social media users
who used their platforms to defend the former
governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria.
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