US-based Nigerian scholar, Professor Farooq Kperogi, on Saturday said Muslim Northern politicians “have uttered similar or worse sentiments than Peter Obi’s infamous “religious war” comments in the course of their campaigns.

POLITICS NIGERIA reports that Kperogi who said this in his weekly column, also stated that not many people ‘will come out smelling good if their private communications are made public’.

The Professor was reacting to a leaked telephone conversation (now dubbed “Yes Daddy”) between Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 election, and Bishop David Oyedepo of the Winners’ Chapel.

In the audio clip, Obi was heard asking Oyedepo to help spread his campaign message to Christians in the South-west and parts of North-central.

While repeatedly addressing the cleric as “daddy”, the Labour Party canddiate told Oyedepo that the just-concluded presidential election was a “religious war.”

Kperogi wrote: “I think Southern Nigerian Christian politicians suffer a linguistic disadvantage that their Hausaphone northern Muslim counterparts don’t when it comes to the exploitation of religion for politics. They discuss their strategies of religious mobilization in English, Nigeria’s national language that most people have access to, but Hausaphone northern politicians discuss theirs in the Hausa language, which isn’t accessible to most people in the South.

“Muslim Northern politicians have uttered similar or worse sentiments than Obi’s during political campaigns, but their verbal indiscretions often don’t leak out because of linguistic barriers. On the few occasions that they do (such as when Buhari exhorted Muslims to vote for only Muslim politicians who’re sympathetic to Sharia or when he said the dog and the baboon would be soaked in blood if the 2015 election was rigged), northern defenders muddy the waters by accusing southerners of mistranslation, of literalness, of incompetence in understanding interlingual equivalence between Hausa and English, etc.

“And, frankly, how many people will come out smelling good if their private communications are made public? We all have what scholars call a duality of scripts. We sometimes say different things for public and private spaces.”


https://politicsnigeria.com/religious-war-audio-muslim-northern-politicians-worse/

Very valid.
In the den of thieves, there's no saint. Obi is not a saint and never will be.
A man preaching a new Nigeria denied a conversation that was deduced to be true can't usher in a new Nigeria of our dreams.

The north is united … thanks to Hausa language .

The south …

They’re very different tribes .. without connections.. they either speak English or pidgin .. and we Dey hear all.

Except they go tribally… which Yoruba champions for the south.

Language is unity.

okoo

A random influencer or imam (these days anyone with good lighting a phone and Internet can pass for this) can make such comments and get away with it. But for a major politician seeking the highest office, this is scandalous.

Atiku only deleted a tweet about the Sokoto Blasphemy incident and it almost derailed his campaign in the south and the North (for different reasons)

PO goofed in that leaked audio big time. He has provided munitions to hardliners to further kill his credibility especially in the North- and you need the north in Nigeria's politics of today

The vultures are coming for this man, watch out!
Tinubu, buhari, lair Mohamed, oyegun, oshiomole etc have said worse things

Well, it's all a calculated attempt to suppress the voice of credible opposition, but they failed even before they started.

Odin13:


The north is united … thanks to Hausa language .

The south …

They’re very different tribes .. without connections.. they either speak English or pidgin .. and we Dey hear all.

Except they go tribally… which Yoruba
champions for the south.

Language is unity.

High illiteracy in the north sees them embrace Hausa but the south is very enlightened speaking English and in many cases French. The southerners will speak broken English as illitrates. The south is united in enlightenment.

There is nothing incriminating in that audio.
But Obidients have sown lies, hate and anger which they must reap

It's well known.
There was a widely-circulated video of a sitting governor accepting bribe live on camera and nothing happened.
There were also widely circulated pictures of bullion vans entering a certain politicians house on the eve of election and nothing happened.
Now this buffoons think that their fake audio call will do anything to Peter Obi. Bunch of fools!

Epistasis:
Very valid.
In the den of thieves, there's no saint. Obi is not a saint and never will be.
A man preaching a new Nigeria denied a conversation that was deduced to be true can't usher in a new Nigeria of our dreams.

It seems thinking is very difficult for you. Instead of facing what Kperogi said, you are here saying an unrelated trash.

zeuss:

High illiteracy in the north sees them embrace Hausa but the south is very enlightened speaking English and in many cases French. The southerners will speak broken English as illitrates. The south is united in enlightenment.

This colonial mentality of thinking civility starts and end with speaking English is why the south is where it is.
The north is skilled in the art of statecraft that is why they are the political beast they are today. The Europeans had to dend spies posing as explorers and traders to courts of Kanemis in Borno and Caliphate in Sokoto as a prelude to their invation (Read the letter from the Shehu's Court to Caliphate in Sokoto requesting free passage for the "foreign guests" in the Muslim lands.)
For your information the north still reads and write in Ajami scripts (a local writing form that predates colonialsm by centuries) one of the few in Africa that colonialsm has caused us to despise so much.

Power has a way of returning back to its traditional source that suppression, skewd rules and hypocrisy cannot sustain it. Like we see globally, traditional power blocks in the East (including Asia), Asia minor and Middle East are becoming more and more assertive.

For this to happen you need more than dressing or speaking like the powerful. You need Population and you need history.

Saifullah01:

This colonial mentality

No it is education.... On the other hand Hausa adoption has no explanation other than local undesirable colonization.

Bbb

One salient point that Prof made here, is this question, "how many people will come out smelling good if their private communications are made public?"
Will any of these politicians be half as clean as Obi if their private discussions are tapped as they have done to Obi?

SisterAnn:
The vultures are coming for this man, watch out!
Tinubu, buhari, lair Mohamed, oyegun, oshiomole etc have said worse things

Well, it's all a calculated attempt to suppress the voice of credible opposition, but they failed even before they started.

Truly, they said worst

Like, the dogs and baboons Will be sucked in blood

We will form a parallel government if the 2015 election is rigged

zeuss:


No it is education.... On the other hand Hausa adoption has no explanation other than local undesirable colonization.

It used to be the language of trade and education in these parts before your English. And it went beyond the borders of Nigerian.

They did, and even much worse. And it even includes a comment made, in public , without any retraction, by a serving leader.

But what annoys most people was that Obi claimed to be different. And yes, people believed he was different. That he was expressing similar sentiments to Muslims was very disheartening to many people, and provided fuel to the other side's anti-obi propaganda.

“They edited out the Muslim-Muslim ticket that led to the discussion, where Obi said that in a society like ours, religious balancing was a necessary consideration and that their recklessness had made Christians to assume it was a religious war.”

The All Progressives Congress, APC, fielded a Muslim-Muslim ticket, with Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his running mate, Kashim Shettima.

Tinubu denied Muslim muslim ticket only to uss taqqiya to imposed it while Islamic clerics have called the Muslim muslim ticket of the APC as a declaration of Jihad they said nothing. Yet Peter Obi is termed the bigot?

Farooq and Senator Shehu Sanni have told Festus Keyamo, Femi Fani-Kayode and all the evil mummified zombies of the drug baron criminal government the truth they don't always want to hear.Nigeria is a criminal enterprise being ruined by wicked men in high places but it must be dismantled.

The likes of helinues will never be seen here. He just utter rubbish every time like someone at enmity with reasoning.

In 2011, 11 corpers lost their lives in bauchi state alone, just because someone lost elections, nobody called anybody a fascist then but peaceful obidients who haven't killed anybody are labelled fascists by the founder of cultism in Nigeria. Do you see why we are where we are.

mrrandomguy:
There is nothing incriminating in that audio.
But Obidients have sown lies, hate and anger which they must reap

Who murdered youth corpers because he lost election in 2011, was it obidients?

Who threatened nigeria's unity ro form parallel government in 2015? Was it obidients?

Who unleashed murderous fulani herdsmen on Nigerians as president? Was it obidients?

Who hoarded covid 19 palliatives? Was it obidients?

The evil APC has done to Nigeria is worse than anything obidients have said.

APC shed people's blood. Can you mention those that obidients have shed their blood?

You are morally irresponsible!

Rapmoney:


It seems thinking is very difficult for you. Instead of facing what Kperogi said, you are here saying an unrelated trash.

From your comment, it's very obvious you are obidafts. You guys hardly comprehend anything these days. Wailing wailers!!!

Saifullah01:
A random influencer or imam (these days anyone with good lighting a phone and Internet can pass for this) can make such comments and get away with it. But for a major politician seeking the highest office, this is scandalous.

Atiku only deleted a tweet about the Sokoto Blasphemy incident and it almost derailed his campaign in the south and the North (for different reasons)

PO goofed in that leaked audio big time. He has provided munitions to hardliners to further kill his credibility especially in the North- and you need the north in Nigeria's politics of today

Can we hear all phone calls from all contestants?

Suprisingly both the East, SS and north are defending Obi while only Western party men are defending Tinubu

achiever12:
The likes of helinues will never be seen here. He just utter rubbish every time like someone at enmity with reasoning.

Never! Not in this kind of thread! The hypocrisy of their over drive gusto on Peter Obi alleged bigotry these days has been exposed.So shame will never allow him and his ilks to smell here.

This is a video of one bst cleric calling Peter Obi "a contestant of the infidels of Nigeria"

He didn't just insult him, but insulted his tribe and religion, till today he is still walking freely and muric or DSS didn't call him out

He told his supporters to vote a corrupt Muslim over Peter Obi because he is an "infidel"

These bsts hypocrites can't take half of what they give out

https://twitter.com/damianbriel/status/1619417375094226954?t=9jLXueOWb9FNq9aftVBxww&s=19

This a an Islamic cleric saying "it is a must for a Muslim to rule this nation, no matter how the Muslim is, he is better than an infidel"

https://twitter.com/StallionOdogwu/status/1607796831492411393?t=fNveYPrPXA4GTsOZa4xvmg&s=19



There are hundreds of them that were not recorded or caught on tape

mrrandomguy:
There is nothing incriminating in that audio.
But Obidients have sown lies, hate and anger which they must reap

Just imagine thiking, your angry with hiw few people act so they should be lied against, lol una you guys are so clueless, you think your doing the man??

nnachukz:
One salient point that Prof made here, is this question, "how many people will come out smelling good if their private communications are made public?"

Hmmmm

When Buhari lost the presidential elections in 2011, his supporters went on rampage in the north, which claimed the lives of hundreds of people, 350 churches were burned or destroyed by the Muslim rioters across 10 northern states.

It is ridiculous for someone to paint Peter Obi supporters BAD and Buhari's supporters as SAINTS.



Religious war? Doctored or authentic, there is religious war against Christians in Nigeria.

People's gazette that published the audio is acting like they leak something huge. It's like saying you leaked an audio tape where someone said good morning.. What's wrong in saying 'good morning'?

It's ironic that the very people who practice religious bigotry against Christians turn around to accuse PO if inciting religion. I remember that they said the same thing about GEJ even when Buhari was advising his people never to accept 'infidels "