₦airaland Forum

The recent article written by Farouq Kperogi on Osinbajo's alleged religious bigotry has taken serious momentum in the North.

Prior to the release of the article by Kperogi, most Northerners have so much faith in Prof. Osinbajo and they see him as a perfect candidate in APC to succeed President Buhari.
On our return to democracy in 1999, it is obvious that Northern votes played vital role in making Obasanjo becoming President who was Yoruba and a Christian.

However, a lot of things started changing when some religious leaders perceived unbalanced religious treatment from Obasanjo which paved way for religious interference in Nigeria's polity.
The pressure heightened after the death of Yar'adua and many Muslims leaders pushed for Muslim candidate but the emergence of Jonathan in 2011 put more pressure in the polity coupled with Boko Haram insurgency which many Muslims were made to believe that PDP was Boko Haram especially when the then National Security Adviser of Jonathan and former Chief of Army staff of Obasanjo, Gen. Andrew Azazi publicly confessed it and later died in helicopter crash which was perceived as an alleged assassination and further fueled the doubts people had about the Boko Haram conspiracy.

In 2015, Northerners came out all for Muslim candidate from North thinking that it will bring an end to the Boko Haram insurgency which eventually brought former Major General Muhammadu Buhari into power hoping that his military experience will help restore normalcy in the Boko Haram ravaged region.

Unfortunately, the poor performance of Buhari especially in the area of insecurity changed the perception of most Northerners on voting based on religious backgrounds to the extent that it's difficult to sell a candidate for a Northerner based on religious reason rather than competence, that is why Vice President Osinbajo is widely accepted in the North. A Christian Osinbajo is more accepted among ordinary Northerners than Muslim Tinubu.

However, the popularity of Osinbajo is being seriously jeopardised by the recent article released by Farouq Kperogi who aspersed and thrown all sort of religious bigotry and fanaticism on the good image of the Vice President. The article is being interpreted in Hausa and is widely in circulation and I suspect that it is now difficult to restore the degree of damage done on PYO.

The degree of damage the so called freedom of expression has done on Nigeria and reputable Nigerians is immeasurable. Kperogi and other news media owners like Sowore has done lots of damage to people that no amount of compensation can restitute!

It has done no damages

I didn't see the Kperogi article.

Any chance you can add a link to it in your thread?

I thought they said

smh....Lol

Thank you bro.

ArewaNorth:
https://www.farooqkperogi.com/2022/03/10-reasons-osinbajo-will-ignite.html?m=1

https://www.farooqkperogi.com/2022/03/rccgs-dangerous-foray-into-politics-for.html?m=1

The U.S.-based Bariba-born Kperogi writes a lot of nonsense and lies
based on guess work and hearsay.
I think he has a lot of mental problems and is not fit to be a Journalist! He has said lies and
nasty things about other folks, PMB and APC in the past.

RCCG only established the
Directorate so that their members can be politically aware of their rights as citizens of Nigeria so that they can vote for any political
party of their choice.

I can't even understand this Kperogi of a person self, is politics not preached in mosques?
Islam is politics and hardly a religion, as far as I am concerned!