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Attacks On Buhari: How Pathetic They've Become! By Frisky Larr... Premium Times by MaleoPearls(m): 10:18am On Mar 18, 2016
It’s been quite amusing since the inception of the Buhari administration barely one year ago, observing self-styled critics of the new government, who are driven by diverse motivations. I have identified them in three different categories. The first group comprises those who have set out to criticise the government from the very beginning, no matter what the regime does. This group has now become popularly christened as “The Wailing Wailers” very much in disrespect of “Bob Marley and The Wailers” of the classical Reggae fame! The second group includes those who believe that they are being objective by being seen as criticising the government after throwing their full weight behind Buhari’s watershed election in a juicy grand style. The third and final group comprises those who are genuinely angry that things are not proceeding the way they had hoped would uplift the common man in a very short time.

I have issues with all three groups with varying degrees of understanding. I tend to show the least understanding of the position and attitude of the first group, which set out from the very beginning, to attack and disparage the government at all costs no matter what it does. It is the group that exemplifies the “ideal” form of despicable attacks and criticisms like it should never be practiced in a healthy democratic culture. Confronted with the levity of their actions and illogicality of their utterances, their most commonly advanced argument is “What does it now feel like getting back a taste of what you dished out to Jonathan?”

This extremely infantile and pubescent approach to important matters of state and the destiny of a nation can hardly be qualified by any discerning mind, with any flattering or polite adjective for the sake of decency. The actors are aware of the sense of immaturity that their actions reflect but they are very well driven by the impact of group dynamics. What an individual would never do, left to himself, he will now do very easily with a sense of justification and righteousness, feeling not alone in the company of like-minds. Educated minds that would ordinarily weigh the pros and cons in words and deeds simply metamorphose into cyber touts and rabble-rousers, spewing hate and mischief for the simple sake of angering the state because they feel secure in the comfort of a mob. Their most popular stock in trade, so far, has been the habit of jumping on every issue perceived as negative in relation to the government of Muhammadu Buhari and ripping all facts apart and out of context if need be, as long as it serves the purpose of boosting a negative perception of the government in public view.

They celebrate, in ecstatic fascination, the shortage of cash in the state’s treasury as incompetence in the management of financial and economic affairs, knowing too well what the impact of dwindling prices can be when it affects the mainstay of the economy. They celebrate the padding of a budget as incompetence and hypocrisy, conveniently ignoring the criminal dimension to the despicable act perpetrated by remnants of decadence and the preparatory environment under which the habit thrived. They celebrate the emergence of buyers’ queues at filling stations as an opportunity that can never be missed to cut a pound of flesh, willfully negating the reality that the folks also suffered same in the reign of their hero. They suddenly find the mega-phones to announce the random criminal killings perpetrated by Northern cattle rearers as the new crime-in-town introduced by the hated Northern President. The truth that they know so well, however, is that the problems have existed in varying degrees in several governments. They know so well too, that it is one thing to point out the urgent need for a solution and another thing, entirely, to label a problem as the poster-problem of a hated regime.
Then they are led by people who should have known better with an intimidating background of academic experience and financial resources, lending credence to pettiness and idiosyncrasies. They tweet half-truths and sponsor ads for political ambitions and clearly overlook the consequences of the political tradition they are breeding for future generations within and outside the senate.

The tweeting senator with a not-so-covert presidential ambition simply ends up spearheading a movement of half-truths and willful manipulation with recklessness and reminds me of the foul seeds of journalistic analyses that were sown by the likes of Reuben Abati, Okey Ndibe and Simon Kolawole at the peak of their activism against Olusegun Obasanjo. Today, the behaviour of the so-called Wailers is a partial manifestation of this academically misplaced tradition that I strongly condemned in vain at that crucial point in time.


The tweeting senator who saw all the ills of the preceding government and made no commonsense to challenge the fundamental spread of decay has now suddenly re-discovered and redefined the word “common sense”. In all his tweets and rants, he cleverly forgets to make commonsense on Dasukigate or Badehgate. He makes no common sense of the financial recklessness of the red chamber. Femi Fani-Kayode has long gone silent under the yoke of a corruption cover-up that went awfully wrong and no tweeting senator saw a commonsense factor to tweet about.

Then it dawned on me that the folks are trapped in a state of mind from which they have failed to free themselves. They are yet to grow past the problem of the North-South dichotomy that has plagued Nigeria for several decades past. To them, Buhari is always a Northerner before being Nigerian and they themselves remain Southerners before being Nigerians. Its “Us” versus “Them”! It does not matter to them that even President Muhammadu Buhari, who in the past, was a personification of sectionalism with reckless pro-Northern utterances, has now grown past that stage and continued on the footpath of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, embracing the Federal Character mandated by the constitution for the good of the country. No.

The second group of critics for which I show a limited understanding of seeks to wear the cloak of objectivity by being seen to be criticising the administration having staked a lot of energy backing the same regime. I am sometimes irked by this group for the simplicity to which it reduces itself to be loved and adored as everybody’s darling.

In their perception, a Southerner who embraces the anti-corruption project of the president (which, in their view, is nothing but hypocrisy because Buhari is also a thief) is nothing else but a traitor and a sellout. The fight against corruption has sud-denly become a misplaced priority of governance as long as the thieves may end up being predominantly Southerners. Never mind though that the hated government has, so far, focused far more disproportionately on its Northern kindred.

This is the point in time in which we recognise the pitiable state of mind that the critics have long degenerated into.

The second group of critics for which I show a limited understanding of seeks to wear the cloak of objectivity by being seen to be criticising the administration having staked a lot of energy backing the same regime. I am sometimes irked by this group for the simplicity to which it reduces itself to be loved and adored as everybody’s darling. For want of subjects to criticise, its members hop aboard the bandwagon of trivialities and irrelevance. With a vast and radiant array of positive mental and rational energy, they unwittingly obscure their hard-earned reputation needlessly flip-flopping in the murky stream of dirty water lilies. They suddenly find favour in unleashing attacks on a president’s honesty that promises foreign partners the resolve to rein in the rampant culture of crime and dishonesty, for which a section of Nigerians is known all over the world. They dance upon the carnival wagon showcasing budgetary irregularities to be seen as fair and square. Then they fail to make amends when news unfolds of the criminal syndicate underlying the embarrassing plot. They suddenly begin to hinge on the president’s distinctive slow pace in prosecuting his signature policy of War Against Corruption. They occasionally stray into the Wailers’ terrain, illogically asking if this was the Change they sought with their votes, only to provide the relevant answer when they start defending the president again.

This is a group that basically means no harm to the national interest, but seems to crave the notion of advancing their personal image with a simplistic approach to popular appeal.

…I must not fail to pay tribute to all these men and women in this last category of involuntary critics, who live in Nigeria and bear the brunt of hardship that daily life demands and still remain level-headed enough to separate the wheat from the wasteful chaff. I doff my hat for all courageous men and women who go through hours and days of power failure, weeks and months of fuel shortage, unpredictable days of armed robbery, and the uncertain days of kidnapping.

The last group, with which I sympathise and empathise, is the group that is simply reacting authentically to the persistence of pain against all expectations. My grudge with this group, however, is bedded in its involuntary supply of needless ammunition to the camp of the grumbling wailers. This is the group that heaved the most sigh of relief when power supply suddenly surged upon the assumption of the presidency by Muhammadu Buhari. It enjoyed every bit of the moment, in which our comatose refineries swung into action and did outlandish magic. We called it all the body-language impact. Deep within though, we all knew, it was a transient knee-jerk reaction. After all, the fear of the unknown was leaving a livid track on the comportment of those who had axes to grind. With revenues dwindling, however, and culprits compelled to spit out the “yam” that they have eaten, the fear of who may be the next person in line, now seems to drive the panic reaction of overnight saboteurs.

Yet, I must not fail to pay tribute to all these men and women in this last category of involuntary critics, who live in Nigeria and bear the brunt of hardship that daily life demands and still remain level-headed enough to separate the wheat from the wasteful chaff. I doff my hat for all courageous men and women who go through hours and days of power failure, weeks and months of fuel shortage, unpredictable days of armed robbery, and the uncertain days of kidnapping. I adore their resilience and doggedness for making ends meet in extremely challenging conditions. Yet, they keep their cool and know where to lay the blame and help to craft a blueprint.

The missing link of added patience that is required in the face of mounting pressure signals the weight of the burden that they bear. Yet, it will all get worse before it becomes better.


Little wonder then that the group of the Wailers, in its isolation and desperation, seeks to capitalise on the pains of the vulnerable third group in the hope that it will bring it relief. But the nagging and wailing of the third group is as transient as the pains that it endures. It simply requires a heightened dose of reality check.

By the way, if I were a tweeting senator, I’d imagine myself saying right away, “My name is Frisky Larr, I’m just trying to do some reality check”.

Frisky Larr is a German-based Radio/Television Journalist and author of Africa’s Diabolical Entrapment.

http://blogs.premiumtimesng.com/2016/03/18/attacks-buhari-pathetic-theyve-become-frisky-larr/

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Re: Attacks On Buhari: How Pathetic They've Become! By Frisky Larr... Premium Times by SeverusSnape(m): 10:19am On Mar 18, 2016
Eiyaa... So they are now feeling the heat of the attacks on Bubu. I love karma, She's a sexy #bitch

What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. APC, Buhari and supporters should learn to live with it, The office of the president is no more respected, APC set that precedent.

Buhari remains a confused dullard though.

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Re: Attacks On Buhari: How Pathetic They've Become! By Frisky Larr... Premium Times by MaleoPearls(m): 10:24am On Mar 18, 2016
SeverusSnape:
Eiyaa... So they are now feeling the heat of the attacks on the Bubu. I love karma, She's a sexy bitch.
Buhari remains a confused dullard though.



Category 1 Spotted

#WAILER

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Re: Attacks On Buhari: How Pathetic They've Become! By Frisky Larr... Premium Times by Phame: 10:27am On Mar 18, 2016
Don't mind them.
Re: Attacks On Buhari: How Pathetic They've Become! By Frisky Larr... Premium Times by SeverusSnape(m): 10:28am On Mar 18, 2016
MaleoPearls:



Category 1 Spotted
#WAILER
Category 2 spotted.
#ZOMBIE.

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Re: Attacks On Buhari: How Pathetic They've Become! By Frisky Larr... Premium Times by Nobody: 10:28am On Mar 18, 2016
Interesting article with a lot of food for thought.

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Re: Attacks On Buhari: How Pathetic They've Become! By Frisky Larr... Premium Times by Phame: 10:29am On Mar 18, 2016
MaleoPearls:




Category 1 Spotted

#WAILER
that one is a kid- allow him to misbehave. D guy de wait for him waec result.

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Re: Attacks On Buhari: How Pathetic They've Become! By Frisky Larr... Premium Times by SeverusSnape(m): 10:32am On Mar 18, 2016
Phame:
that one is a kid- allow him to misbehave. D guy de wait for him waec result.
You dey wait for common entrance result. tongue

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Re: Attacks On Buhari: How Pathetic They've Become! By Frisky Larr... Premium Times by MaleoPearls(m): 10:32am On Mar 18, 2016
SeverusSnape:

Category 2 spotted.

#ZOMBIE.


Shhhhhhh lipsrsealed
Re: Attacks On Buhari: How Pathetic They've Become! By Frisky Larr... Premium Times by MaleoPearls(m): 10:38am On Mar 18, 2016
Phame:
that one is a kid- allow him to misbehave. D guy de wait for him waec result.


I didn't know. Thanks






#ISTANDWITHBUHARI
Re: Attacks On Buhari: How Pathetic They've Become! By Frisky Larr... Premium Times by Iykopee(m): 10:40am On Mar 18, 2016
He's in Germany where life has a definition writing rubbish while i have been sleeping in darkness for 3 wks. He shud come back home and have a taste of maladministration currently churn out by Buhari. Just so he wud understand what twitter senator has been saying.

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Re: Attacks On Buhari: How Pathetic They've Become! By Frisky Larr... Premium Times by vedaxcool(m): 10:40am On Mar 18, 2016
MaleoPearls:




Category 1 Spotted

#WAILER

Gbam the man has diagnosed the disease of wailing appropriately.

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Re: Attacks On Buhari: How Pathetic They've Become! By Frisky Larr... Premium Times by sunnyeinstein(m): 10:45am On Mar 18, 2016
FP loading cool....

Make i buy my land here first...

































And park my bus join grin
Re: Attacks On Buhari: How Pathetic They've Become! By Frisky Larr... Premium Times by MaleoPearls(m): 10:46am On Mar 18, 2016
Iykopee:
He's in Germany where life has a definition writing rubbish while i have been sleeping in darkness for 3 wks. He shud come back home and have a taste of maladministration currently churn out by Buhari. Just so he wud understand what twitter senator has been saying.

And Buhari has been the President of Nigeria since 1960 abi? The sooner we realize that Buhari has been President for a little under a year, the better for us.




NIGERIA SHALL BE GREAT AGAIN

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Re: Attacks On Buhari: How Pathetic They've Become! By Frisky Larr... Premium Times by ndcide(m): 10:51am On Mar 18, 2016
I just read a daft attempt to avoid holding the president accountable for anything.

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Re: Attacks On Buhari: How Pathetic They've Become! By Frisky Larr... Premium Times by SleekMallam: 10:53am On Mar 18, 2016
larr works on Africa’s Diabolical Entrapment I will order and digest. but, it's easy to see his motivation regardless of how intelligent he tries to cloak it. His 30 years guess work projection of Africa is fast collapsing before his very eyes cos Nigeria was meant to play a key role in it.

He failed to capture the spirit of times,ecstasy and sustained propaganda that midwife this change thereby failing to appreciate all the categories of critics he listed. As a result, went emotional and personal on Ben Bruce and totally lost it.

All in all, Good premise, nice build-up but invalid conclusion. In the words of Hegel, Africa is a dead end cos the absolute spirit responsible for development has abandoned the continent.

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Re: Attacks On Buhari: How Pathetic They've Become! By Frisky Larr... Premium Times by Phame: 10:56am On Mar 18, 2016
SeverusSnape:

You dey wait for common entrance result. tongue
you can't be serious!
Re: Attacks On Buhari: How Pathetic They've Become! By Frisky Larr... Premium Times by kuuljay(m): 11:03am On Mar 18, 2016
People who have been living in misery all their years suddenly expect magic in just a year.
I believe good times are ahead
Even if you assassinate the man jonah cannot come and take over,let election hangover be gone with


Pray for your country and it's leaders

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Re: Attacks On Buhari: How Pathetic They've Become! By Frisky Larr... Premium Times by Yyeske(m): 11:06am On Mar 18, 2016
The author aptly described the wailers, nothing more to add.

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Re: Attacks On Buhari: How Pathetic They've Become! By Frisky Larr... Premium Times by MaleoPearls(m): 11:18am On Mar 18, 2016
kuuljay:
People who have been living in misery all their years suddenly expect magic in just a year.
I believe good times are ahead
Even if you assassinate the man jonah cannot come and take over,let election hangover be gone with


Pray for your country and it's leaders


Word!!!

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Re: Attacks On Buhari: How Pathetic They've Become! By Frisky Larr... Premium Times by beejayodus(m): 11:19am On Mar 18, 2016
The truth in all of this is that then candidate Buhari raised people's expectations. The then spokesperson for the APC, Alhaji Lai Mohammed came on TV and spoke as if all would be well once the APC was voted into office. People are only venting their pent up anger at being misled into voting for the APC. The acerbic criticism people, especially the youth, daily hurl at the Buhari administration has little to do with Jonathan's electoral loss. Can one accuse Japheth Omojuwa of being a wailer too? He has been quite vociferous against the glaring ineptitude of this administration. I quite agree with the writer that some Nigerians have been utterly too critical of the president. But when a man rode into power on the promise of 'CHANGE' and has almost spent 25% of his allotted time, yet there is no change in sight. Can one blame the youth for being the alarm clock trying to wake him up to his duties?

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Re: Attacks On Buhari: How Pathetic They've Become! By Frisky Larr... Premium Times by Pavarottii(m): 11:26am On Mar 18, 2016
kuuljay:
People who have been living in misery all their years suddenly expect magic in just a year.
I believe good times are ahead
Even if you assassinate the man jonah cannot come and take over,let election hangover be gone with


Pray for your country and it's leaders

Which misery are u talking about under GEJ?

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Re: Attacks On Buhari: How Pathetic They've Become! By Frisky Larr... Premium Times by MaleoPearls(m): 11:26am On Mar 18, 2016
beejayodus:
The truth in all of this is that then candidate Buhari raised people's expectations. The then spokesperson for the APC, Alhaji Lai Mohammed came on TV and spoke as if all would be well once the APC was voted into office. People are only venting their pent up anger at being misled into voting for the APC. The acerbic criticism people, especially the youth, daily hurl at the Buhari administration has little to do with Jonathan's electoral loss. Can one accuse Japheth Omojuwa of being a wailer too? He has been quite vociferous against the glaring ineptitude of this administration. I quite agree with the writer that some Nigerians have been utterly too critical of the president. But when a man rode into power on the promise of 'CHANGE' and has almost spent 25% of his allotted time, yet there is no change in sight. Can one blame the youth for being the alarm clock trying to wake him up to his duties?


I cannot disagree with you on the points you have raised.

Let's give them time. If they disappoint us, we vote them out.





But,


For all our sakes, I hope and pray they succeed.

#NIGERIAMUSTBEGREATAGAIN


WHERE ARE THE MODS OF THIS SECTION? Please move this to the front page. NA BEG I DEY BEG
Re: Attacks On Buhari: How Pathetic They've Become! By Frisky Larr... Premium Times by Nobody: 11:27am On Mar 18, 2016
Op I totally agree wit u......criticise d govt wen their is logical reason to do so, and also having indept knowledge of wat u are talking abt not just by reading subject and start commenting just for likes and FTC. *somepple comment will begin to make sense only wen LIKE, SHARE is removed frm NL

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Re: Attacks On Buhari: How Pathetic They've Become! By Frisky Larr... Premium Times by Aufbauh(m): 11:32am On Mar 18, 2016
"What a man see depends on what a man is looking for" - Mike Murdock
Life is all about perception. The difference between a layman and an expert is the privileged information available to the later which form his perceptions for decisions.

We are different from the WAILERS because we see differently.
Where we see blessing they saw curse
Where we see the truth they claim propaganda
Where we see victory they saw lost and death
Where we see corrupt men they saw their brothers and sisters.
Where we see rule of law and firmness they cry of dictatorship and persecution.
Where we see impunity they saw orderliness
Where we tend to preach patience they call for fire fighters.
Where we concur by virtue of conviction they wail and call us 'zombie'

What else can we do for our wailing brethren when they lack the capacity to see what we saw?

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Re: Attacks On Buhari: How Pathetic They've Become! By Frisky Larr... Premium Times by Montaque(m): 11:56am On Mar 18, 2016
He is German based.
So I won't take him serious.

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Re: Attacks On Buhari: How Pathetic They've Become! By Frisky Larr... Premium Times by tuniski: 12:13pm On Mar 18, 2016
MaleoPearls:
It’s been quite amusing since the inception of the Buhari administration barely one year ago, observing self-styled critics of the new government, who are driven by diverse motivations. I have identified them in three different categories. The first group comprises those who have set out to criticise the government from the very beginning, no matter what the regime does. This group has now become popularly christened as “The Wailing Wailers” very much in disrespect of “Bob Marley and The Wailers” of the classical Reggae fame! The second group includes those who believe that they are being objective by being seen as criticising the government after throwing their full weight behind Buhari’s watershed election in a juicy grand style. The third and final group comprises those who are genuinely angry that things are not proceeding the way they had hoped would uplift the common man in a very short time.

I have issues with all three groups with varying degrees of understanding. I tend to show the least understanding of the position and attitude of the first group, which set out from the very beginning, to attack and disparage the government at all costs no matter what it does. It is the group that exemplifies the “ideal” form of despicable attacks and criticisms like it should never be practiced in a healthy democratic culture. Confronted with the levity of their actions and illogicality of their utterances, their most commonly advanced argument is “What does it now feel like getting back a taste of what you dished out to Jonathan?”

This extremely infantile and pubescent approach to important matters of state and the destiny of a nation can hardly be qualified by any discerning mind, with any flattering or polite adjective for the sake of decency. The actors are aware of the sense of immaturity that their actions reflect but they are very well driven by the impact of group dynamics. What an individual would never do, left to himself, he will now do very easily with a sense of justification and righteousness, feeling not alone in the company of like-minds. Educated minds that would ordinarily weigh the pros and cons in words and deeds simply metamorphose into cyber touts and rabble-rousers, spewing hate and mischief for the simple sake of angering the state because they feel secure in the comfort of a mob. Their most popular stock in trade, so far, has been the habit of jumping on every issue perceived as negative in relation to the government of Muhammadu Buhari and ripping all facts apart and out of context if need be, as long as it serves the purpose of boosting a negative perception of the government in public view.

They celebrate, in ecstatic fascination, the shortage of cash in the state’s treasury as incompetence in the management of financial and economic affairs, knowing too well what the impact of dwindling prices can be when it affects the mainstay of the economy. They celebrate the padding of a budget as incompetence and hypocrisy, conveniently ignoring the criminal dimension to the despicable act perpetrated by remnants of decadence and the preparatory environment under which the habit thrived. They celebrate the emergence of buyers’ queues at filling stations as an opportunity that can never be missed to cut a pound of flesh, willfully negating the reality that the folks also suffered same in the reign of their hero. They suddenly find the mega-phones to announce the random criminal killings perpetrated by Northern cattle rearers as the new crime-in-town introduced by the hated Northern President. The truth that they know so well, however, is that the problems have existed in varying degrees in several governments. They know so well too, that it is one thing to point out the urgent need for a solution and another thing, entirely, to label a problem as the poster-problem of a hated regime.
Then they are led by people who should have known better with an intimidating background of academic experience and financial resources, lending credence to pettiness and idiosyncrasies. They tweet half-truths and sponsor ads for political ambitions and clearly overlook the consequences of the political tradition they are breeding for future generations within and outside the senate.

The tweeting senator with a not-so-covert presidential ambition simply ends up spearheading a movement of half-truths and willful manipulation with recklessness and reminds me of the foul seeds of journalistic analyses that were sown by the likes of Reuben Abati, Okey Ndibe and Simon Kolawole at the peak of their activism against Olusegun Obasanjo. Today, the behaviour of the so-called Wailers is a partial manifestation of this academically misplaced tradition that I strongly condemned in vain at that crucial point in time.


The tweeting senator who saw all the ills of the preceding government and made no commonsense to challenge the fundamental spread of decay has now suddenly re-discovered and redefined the word “common sense”. In all his tweets and rants, he cleverly forgets to make commonsense on Dasukigate or Badehgate. He makes no common sense of the financial recklessness of the red chamber. Femi Fani-Kayode has long gone silent under the yoke of a corruption cover-up that went awfully wrong and no tweeting senator saw a commonsense factor to tweet about.

Then it dawned on me that the folks are trapped in a state of mind from which they have failed to free themselves. They are yet to grow past the problem of the North-South dichotomy that has plagued Nigeria for several decades past. To them, Buhari is always a Northerner before being Nigerian and they themselves remain Southerners before being Nigerians. Its “Us” versus “Them”! It does not matter to them that even President Muhammadu Buhari, who in the past, was a personification of sectionalism with reckless pro-Northern utterances, has now grown past that stage and continued on the footpath of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, embracing the Federal Character mandated by the constitution for the good of the country. No.

The second group of critics for which I show a limited understanding of seeks to wear the cloak of objectivity by being seen to be criticising the administration having staked a lot of energy backing the same regime. I am sometimes irked by this group for the simplicity to which it reduces itself to be loved and adored as everybody’s darling.

In their perception, a Southerner who embraces the anti-corruption project of the president (which, in their view, is nothing but hypocrisy because Buhari is also a thief) is nothing else but a traitor and a sellout. The fight against corruption has sud-denly become a misplaced priority of governance as long as the thieves may end up being predominantly Southerners. Never mind though that the hated government has, so far, focused far more disproportionately on its Northern kindred.

This is the point in time in which we recognise the pitiable state of mind that the critics have long degenerated into.

The second group of critics for which I show a limited understanding of seeks to wear the cloak of objectivity by being seen to be criticising the administration having staked a lot of energy backing the same regime. I am sometimes irked by this group for the simplicity to which it reduces itself to be loved and adored as everybody’s darling. For want of subjects to criticise, its members hop aboard the bandwagon of trivialities and irrelevance. With a vast and radiant array of positive mental and rational energy, they unwittingly obscure their hard-earned reputation needlessly flip-flopping in the murky stream of dirty water lilies. They suddenly find favour in unleashing attacks on a president’s honesty that promises foreign partners the resolve to rein in the rampant culture of crime and dishonesty, for which a section of Nigerians is known all over the world. They dance upon the carnival wagon showcasing budgetary irregularities to be seen as fair and square. Then they fail to make amends when news unfolds of the criminal syndicate underlying the embarrassing plot. They suddenly begin to hinge on the president’s distinctive slow pace in prosecuting his signature policy of War Against Corruption. They occasionally stray into the Wailers’ terrain, illogically asking if this was the Change they sought with their votes, only to provide the relevant answer when they start defending the president again.

This is a group that basically means no harm to the national interest, but seems to crave the notion of advancing their personal image with a simplistic approach to popular appeal.

…I must not fail to pay tribute to all these men and women in this last category of involuntary critics, who live in Nigeria and bear the brunt of hardship that daily life demands and still remain level-headed enough to separate the wheat from the wasteful chaff. I doff my hat for all courageous men and women who go through hours and days of power failure, weeks and months of fuel shortage, unpredictable days of armed robbery, and the uncertain days of kidnapping.

The last group, with which I sympathise and empathise, is the group that is simply reacting authentically to the persistence of pain against all expectations. My grudge with this group, however, is bedded in its involuntary supply of needless ammunition to the camp of the grumbling wailers. This is the group that heaved the most sigh of relief when power supply suddenly surged upon the assumption of the presidency by Muhammadu Buhari. It enjoyed every bit of the moment, in which our comatose refineries swung into action and did outlandish magic. We called it all the body-language impact. Deep within though, we all knew, it was a transient knee-jerk reaction. After all, the fear of the unknown was leaving a livid track on the comportment of those who had axes to grind. With revenues dwindling, however, and culprits compelled to spit out the “yam” that they have eaten, the fear of who may be the next person in line, now seems to drive the panic reaction of overnight saboteurs.

Yet, I must not fail to pay tribute to all these men and women in this last category of involuntary critics, who live in Nigeria and bear the brunt of hardship that daily life demands and still remain level-headed enough to separate the wheat from the wasteful chaff. I doff my hat for all courageous men and women who go through hours and days of power failure, weeks and months of fuel shortage, unpredictable days of armed robbery, and the uncertain days of kidnapping. I adore their resilience and doggedness for making ends meet in extremely challenging conditions. Yet, they keep their cool and know where to lay the blame and help to craft a blueprint.

The missing link of added patience that is required in the face of mounting pressure signals the weight of the burden that they bear. Yet, it will all get worse before it becomes better.


Little wonder then that the group of the Wailers, in its isolation and desperation, seeks to capitalise on the pains of the vulnerable third group in the hope that it will bring it relief. But the nagging and wailing of the third group is as transient as the pains that it endures. It simply requires a heightened dose of reality check.

By the way, if I were a tweeting senator, I’d imagine myself saying right away, “My name is Frisky Larr, I’m just trying to do some reality check”.

Frisky Larr is a German-based Radio/Television Journalist and author of Africa’s Diabolical Entrapment.

http://blogs.premiumtimesng.com/2016/03/18/attacks-buhari-pathetic-theyve-become-frisky-larr/
All categories are wailers including the op! Nigerians are all wailing today openly or in closet. Chanji is a scam

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Re: Attacks On Buhari: How Pathetic They've Become! By Frisky Larr... Premium Times by alcmene: 12:28pm On Mar 18, 2016
Buhari is a disaster in the making.

His first year in office has been spent inside the private jet.

The second year will be the passing of budget.

Third year(then under pressure) campaign and fire brigade approach to awarding of projects.

Buhari is a seasoned nomadic skunk

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Re: Attacks On Buhari: How Pathetic They've Become! By Frisky Larr... Premium Times by MaleoPearls(m): 12:43pm On Mar 18, 2016
tuniski:

All categories are wailers including the op! Nigerians are all wailing today openly or in closet. Chanji is a scam
To show the level of your WAILING, you quoted everything


#WAILERINCHIEF

alcmene:
Buhari is a disaster in the making.
His first year in office has been spent inside the private jet.
The second year will be the passing of budget.
Third year(then under pressure) campaign and fire brigade approach to awarding of projects.
Buhari is a seasoned nomadic skunk

WAIL on.
By their comments, we shall identify them
Re: Attacks On Buhari: How Pathetic They've Become! By Frisky Larr... Premium Times by BiafraBushBoy(m): 1:15pm On Mar 18, 2016
In all his tweets and rants, he cleverly forgets to make commonsense on Dasukigate or Badehgate. He makes no common sense of the financial recklessness of the red chamber. Femi Fani-Kayode has long gone silent under the yoke of a corruption cover-up that went awfully wrong and no tweeting senator saw a commonsense factor to tweet about.

Then it dawned on me that the folks are trapped in a state of mind from which they have failed to free themselves.

Ben-Burce, FFK, Fayose(Animals of this Generation)

Even though I am in Grade 3, I still believe Nigeria will be great for Its citizens. Maybe then, they will grant us independence!!

#ibelieve

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Re: Attacks On Buhari: How Pathetic They've Become! By Frisky Larr... Premium Times by landinfo: 11:13pm On Mar 19, 2016
@topic;

He is having fun in Germany like most of my friends in the Western world so forgive him for his lil fish brain


What is Foolishness + Hypocrisy


After the elections, some APC zombies with a Lawyer on twitter were happily lambasting Ben Bruce that "he is not patrotic, reason being his son "then" graduated in American uni & (not 9JA) & then I asked the so-called Abuja Lawyer;


Is Boo+hari also patrotic since none of his children are schooling in Nigeria (they are all in England) & the Zombie replied "No we are not talking about Boo+hari but Ben Bruce
.....& I waz like "what da fvvvvvvck

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Re: Attacks On Buhari: How Pathetic They've Become! By Frisky Larr... Premium Times by Nobody: 11:22pm On Mar 19, 2016
The German goat is looking for attention but ive gat no time for him

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