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It took just one Christmas message tweet by Femi Adesina, President Buhari’s special adviser on Media and Publicity, to re-ignite what has been a brewing online war between the so-called “Jonathanians” or the latter day, “wailing wailers” and the “Buharists”, a band of combative, fiercely loyal post-2015 election supporters and defenders of the President. For those new to the ongoing “roforofo” fight, perhaps an introduction will suffice.

Former President Goodluck Jonathan, (the most criticised president in the world, in his own words) had in sympathy, gathered a crowd of virtual and street sympathisers who had coalesced under the name “Jonathanians”. For them, Jonathan was the best president Nigeria ever had. They became aggrieved after his defeat and were quickly labelled the “wailing wailers” by the “Buharists” who still taunt them for being sore losers. The battle line had been drawn. The online brawl between the “Jonathanians”, which also include former appointees of his government aggrieved that their “yam” had been rudely taken from them, have since been engaging in a seemingly open fight with the Buharists on social media. Observing the altercation, one gets the impression that the Jonathanians still feel hurt by his electoral defeat and strangely want him back for obvious reasons!

Then enter Adesina on Chrstmas Day.



The special adviser had to rouse a sleeping dog with one mocking tweet targeted at the Jonathanians. The tweet was like a single rocket fire launched at the enemy in a warfront. Expectedly, the “Jonathanians” returned fire. The ongoing social media war is another type of war. It is not your traditional type of war. There are no physical weapons. The guns are not booming and you won’t see casualties or bodies piling up as you would in a conventional war. Nobody is taken prisoner. While the war may not be physical, and the victims not be carrying physical scars, its effect is more deadly on the nation.

The impact of this war on our nation may take a long time to heal. By the time the protagonists are done, they may end up dragging the country down the path of perdition. Now, with this war, relationships that have taken years to build are being sacrificed on the altar of partisan bickering. The aftermath is capable of setting the country on fire. Over the years, the country has been driven to the edge many times. We have come to the brink of disintegration when our fault lines are used to cause to mass hysteria which is what is happening on social media. How long will take for the fight to spill to the streets?

In cases when our differences have led to violence, they have always been fuelled by hysteria. For example, an image of a large scale massacre of an ethnic group mischievously posted on social media can lead to actual reprisal of innocent people. That is the power of social media. We have come to that many times. On social media, Nigerian youths are the foot soldiers of this ongoing war. They are the social media warriors of politicians. Sometimes, one wonders where the loyalty should lie. Should the loyalty be with politicians or with country? Sadly, on social media war, their loyalty is with the politicians. Rather than demonstrate loyalty to Nigeria, they queue behind politicians to hurl insults at one another. They dredge up old grudges that have kept us from achieving unity. What is happening on social media is at best disgusting. There is so much hate and divisive rhetoric actively promoted by these social media warriors. And to think these are the youths who will soon get into leadership positions. Now all it takes is for one to have a social media account or hide behind the anonymity of comment platforms to launch some of the vilest hate speeches on fellow citizens. The amount of hate being peddled on social media is enough to destabilise a country and cause war. The fight on social media if taken to the streets will wreak enough havoc that will make the genocide in Rwanda seem like a child’s play in Nigeria. The proxy war is fought in support of Nigerian political gladiators. It is an epic battle that I pray will not define the future of Nigeria.

The future of Nigeria is doomed with these youths who engage in hate speeches on social media just because they find themselves as errand boys of politicians. During the widespread protests occasioned by the continued detention of Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, a leading social media “activist”, was accused of posting an image on his Twitter account that depicted Hausa people allegedly being attacked by some pro-Biafran protesters in Port Harcourt. It was later found to be a hoax and a deliberate attempt to escalate the protest. Now, that deliberate mischief could have led to a massacre of the Igbo in the north. The toxic nature of our politics has found its way into social media. Nigeria is so divided today than it was years ago. You can feel the pulse of division on social media.

On social media, wild allegations against individuals and groups will often go viral than the good news of a maternity home being inaugurated in a remote village. Social media pages are being created by foot soldiers on both sides of the divide to peddle falsehood. Lies are deliberately fabricated to set up one ethnic group against the other or to spread unsubstantial allegations against.

Again, I ask, when did our country come to this?

Prior to the emergence of President Jonathan following the death of President Umaru Yar’Adua died, there was a common front as Jonathan was actively supported by Nigerians to succeed Yar’Adua. Even in 2011, Nigerians still voted massively for him for a fresh term. Now at what point the Jonathanians began to claim ownership of the former president is what beats the imagination. Even now that he is long gone, they long for his return to power.

The same goes for the Buharists; they are ready to the dig deeper into their trenches to fight anyone who criticises Buhari as if the President can do no wrong. With all sense of modesty, I was one of those who wrote against the incompetence of the Jonathan government. Like all Nigerians, we welcome the change Buhari represents when he sought to lead us. But the loyalty to his candidacy should end there. Just as all lovers of Nigeria criticised Jonathan when his campaign slogan of a ‘breath of fresh air’ became business as usual in his six-year reign, our loyalty should be with Nigeria and not individuals. For the Jonathanians, pulling Nigeria down because they don’t like Buhari is cutting one’s nose to spite one’s face. For the Buharists’, the President is not beyond criticism. No human being is. Blind loyalty to a leader is destructive. Nigeria is greater than any individual. The insanity on social media must be tempered with reason.

Source www.Punchng.com/of-buharists-wailing-wailers-and-a-divided-nation/

GOD bless NIGERIA ARMY

As a NIGERIA u have choice, so do the voter's

GOD help NIGERIA

K

The APC has been consistent in saying that the PDP has ruled Nigeria for 16 disastrous years In which corruption ,impunity , insurgency , armed robbery and several ills of society held away.

But a very close look at the APC, I am seeing:
1. Rotimi Amechi - 8 yrs speaker & 7 yrs governor under PDP,
2. Atiku Abubakar - 8yrs Vice President under PDP,
3. George Akume - 8yrs governor & 2yrs Senator under PDP,
4. Bukola Saraki - 8yrs governor & 2yrs sanator under PDP,
5. Timipre sylver - 4yrs governor under PDP,
6. Audu Ogbe - 2yrs chairman of PDP,
7. Barnabas Gamade 3yrs Chairman of PDP & 3yrs Senator,
8. Kawu Baraje 4yrs Secreatry & Acting Chairman of PDP,
9. Ghali Na'abba 4yrs Speakership,
10. Aminu Masari - 4 yrs Reps speaker,
11. Aminu Tambuwal - 4yrs Hous of Rep and 3yrs Rep speaker,
12. Chris Ngige - 3yrs governor under PDP,
13. Rabi'u Kwankwaso - 7yrs governor & 3yrs Defence minister under PDP,
14. El-Rufai - 4yrs FCT minister & 2yrs BPE chairman under PDP,
15. Olagunsaye Oyinlola - 7yrs governor under PDP,
16. Aliyu Wamako 7yrs governor,
17. Adamu Aliero 1yr senator & 2yrs FCT,
18. Atiku Bagudu 6yrs Senator,
19. Danjuma Goje 8yrs governor & 3yrs Senator,
20. Oga Dino Malaye 4yrs house of Rep,
21. Aisha Jummai 3yrs Senator,

To cap it all, they all went to OBJ begging, a man who spent 8 of the disastrous 16 years as the maximum ruler of Nigeria to come and lead them on a rescue mission.

To me, APC is a waste basket of the PDP, where the people who created and perpetuated the "" 16 "" Disastrous years are now dumped.

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I keep wondering why Buhari keeps losing sleep over the past administration. One year is almost gone. It has been lamentation! He should wake up and begin to address the challenges ahead. Let us for once put Jonathan behind us and work towards building the broken walls of Nigeria.

President Muhammadu Buhari has accused the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan of deliberately provoking Nigerian soldiers into mutiny by its actions and turning round to arrest and prosecute the soldiers.

He said the past administration, while fighting terrorists, sent soldiers to the battlefield without arms and ammunition.

Buhari made the accusation in an interview he granted the Hausa Service of the British Broadcasting Corporation and monitored by The PUNCH.

He said his administration’s investigation into the activities of the immediate past government revealed that instead of procuring arms and ammunition for the soldiers, funds meant for the equipment were shared by government officials.

He said, “We investigated and discovered how funds that were pencilled down for arms procurement were diverted and shared by government officials who served the last administration.

“The government at that time sent the soldiers to the battlefield without arms and ammunition to prosecute the war. That was what led some of them to mutiny. They were arrested and detained because of this.”

Despite the December deadline he had earlier given the military to end terrorism in the affected part of the country, Buhari admitted that the country might not win the war completely by the end of the month.

He however said a lot of progress had been made by the military.

He said the terrorists themselves were aware that they could no longer take over communities and local governments like they were doing under the past administration.

“If people are going to be fair to us, they themselves know that the Army is winning the war. You can no longer find any huge number of Boko Haram members in Adamawa and Yobe; only may be, in about three local governments of Borno in the area around our borders with Chad Republic. They are no longer in position to threaten the country, so we have won,” he added.

Justifying the arrest and ongoing prosecution of arms scandal suspects, Buhari said the government would use documents that were already in its possession to prove to the courts that the suspects stole.

He added that their ill-gotten wealth would be confiscated and they would be jailed.

On the economy, the President said out of the nation’s N2.2tn debt, his administration inherited N1.5tn domestic debt while foreign debt accounted for N0.7tn.

He restated his position that Nigeria was not poor, but said the country was rich, lamenting that corruption remained the bane of development.

The President added that that was why his administration had been busy plugging the leakages in the revenue-generating agencies such as the Nigerian Customs Service and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation among others.

He explained that the money saved from the exercise would be properly utilised to run the country, especially in this era of dwindling oil price.

On the N5,000 monthly his administration promised to make available to the unemployed and the most vulnerable Nigerians, Buhari admitted that not all those who were in need of the money would get it.

He said governments at all levels would collaborate to identify those who would benefit.

In his reaction on Sunday, however, Jonathan said he didn’t plan to lose the Boko Haram war as being suggested by Buhari’s comments.

Rather, he said he tried to protect the constitution, which he said he sworn to defend when he assumed office.

The former President spoke through his Minister of National Planning, Dr. Abubakar Suleiman, in a text message sent to one of our correspondents.

The former minister said the ex-President did everything within his power to defend the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country.

He said, “No responsible government would strategise to loose a war. President Jonathan sworn to defend Nigeria sovereignty and territorial integrity and he did everything possible to achieve that height in the fight against the insurgents.

“It is unfair therefore for Mr President to perceive such efforts by his predecessor as criminal and treasonable.

“The President should, in an attempt to build this country, make such pronouncements that would further unite us as a people than that those that would divide us. Posterity will judge everybody.”

Source www.punchng.com/jonathans-govt-provoked-soldiers-into-mutiny-buhari/

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When a barrel of crude oil was sold above $125, a liter of petrol was sold for 97/liter. The same barrel of crude oil is currently been sold below $40. Common logic and sense dictates that a liter of petrol should NEVER BE sold above 60/liter even if all the so called 'fraud ' subsidies are removed. This is one the CHANGES will yearn for since May 29th 2015.

When a barrel of crude oil was sold above $125, a liter of petrol was sold for 97/liter. The same barrel of crude oil is currently been sold below $40. Common logic and sense dictates that a liter of petrol should NEVER BE sold above 60/liter even if all the so called 'fraud ' subsidies are removed. This is one the CHANGES will yearn for since May 29th 2015.

K

We need practical results in the oil sector. Nigeria with abundant resources should not be struggling.We need practical people, hands on deck to deliver expectation for the people of Nigeria. We want to see practical difference in this new administration. Long live the new president. Please keep your promises.

GOD BLESS NIGERIA.

For those fighting unjust war, they should by now realise that GOD is real and is ONLY GOD. Be you Christians or Moslems, we all worship ONE God. Let us be our brothers and Sisters keepers. Do unto others what you want them to do to you. Nigerians, please let us all embrace PEACE. May GOD bless our land and us all.