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‘Use Plateau tragedy images to wish Tinubu happy birthday’ — Kunle Remi to Nigerians

The actor urged Nigerians to adopt a sombre tone in marking the President’s birthday, citing a recent deadly incident in Plateau State.

Nollywood actor Kunle Remi has urged Nigerians to mark President Bola Tinubu’s birthday by sharing images from the recent tragedy in Plateau State.

PREMIUM TIMES reported that an unconfirmed number of residents of Gari Ya Waye community in Angwan Rukuba were killed on Sunday night, the same day the president marked his 74th birthday.

Reacting to the incident, the 37-year-old, in a video posted on his Instagram page on Monday, strongly condemned the attack.

He criticised what he described as an insensitive response to the country’s worsening security situation, pointing in particular to a widely circulated video of a grieving mother clutching the lifeless body of her son while wailing in anguish.

He said: “Hey guys, today is the birthday of the President, His Excellency Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Please, let’s wish him a happy birthday. There is an image or a video of a in pain, crying from the loss of someone. That is the image we should use. If you want to wish him a happy birthday, which I suggest we should actually wish our President a happy birthday.

“[i]So, everyone seeing this video, if you feel you want to wish him a happy birthday, please use that video. There are images from it, there are videos, look online, you will see it. There was a woman in pain. 15 hours ago, a disaster occurred in Plateau. That is the celebratory message we should use, please[/I].”

Remi maintained that Nigerians needed no further justification to celebrate Mr Tinubu, insisting that the images and videos alone were sufficient.

Backstory

Remi’s criticism of Mr Tinubu’s handling of the country’s security challenges, particularly the killings in Plateau State, followed his earlier criticism of the administration over worsening economic conditions and the continued rise in petrol prices.

This newspaper reported that Remi condemned the government over the sharp increase in fuel costs and its ripple effects on businesses and ordinary Nigerians.

He also took issue with the country’s unreliable electricity supply, pointing out that many businesses now depend heavily on generators even as fuel prices soar.

The father of one further questioned why Nigeria, despite being an oil-producing nation, remains so exposed to global supply shocks.

meobizy:
Didn’t this man relocate to the US? Wetin concern am with Nigerian events? He should face his new environment.

meobizy:
Didn’t this man relocate to the US? Wetin concern am with Nigerian events? He should face his new environment.

SonOfWords:
Are you rehearsing m*dness?

princeade86:
That’s the best wishes for him

"I know of States that have received over 500 billion Naira from the Federal Government as palliative, but I have never received anything.

I think the reason I don't get it is because I'm not in APC.

-Dauda Lawal, Zamfara State Governor pic.twitter.com/QvfR8olibA

— Arewa Source (@Arewa_Source) February 17, 2026

meobizy:
Didn’t this man relocate to the US? Wetin concern am with Nigerian events? He should face his new environment.

CaseSensitive:
Rightly so, but no one is talking about the Blackwater ISIS mercenary who perpetuated the attack.

LagosOrigin:
Millions of Yorubas aren't in support of tinubu because he has turned out to be a disgrace to the Yoruba race .

Funke akindele yesterday snubbed Toyin Abraham at an event because of her support for tinubu..

Tinubu has failed
He's a disaster to this country

Let's kick him out in 2027

SonOfWords:
Are you rehearsing m*dness?

Holluwhakemmy:
stop bitter politics President Tinubu Jagaban till 2031, Your PO of Agulu Candidate doesn't have solutions to Nigeria problem, Tinubu is trying his best

SonOfWords:
Are you rehearsing m*dness?

MarkNsukkaBread:
The people who are organizing these killing in order to cause confusion in the country will die horrible deaths!

Jonathan Bares His Fangs, By Bola Ahmed Tinubu

May 15, 2013


It is now abundantly clear that President Jonathan has finally bared his fangs confirming what was widely speculated. By declaring a state of emergency in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa, he has intimidated and emasculated the governors of these States. We are witnessing a dangerous trend in the art of governance and a deliberate ploy to subvert constitutional democracy.

The body language of the Jonathan administration leads any keen watcher of events with unmistakable conclusion of the existence of a surreptitious but barely disguised intention to muzzle the elected governments of these states for what is clearly a display of unpardonable mediocrity and diabolic partisanship geared towards 2015.

Borno and Yobe states have been literally under armies of occupation with the attendant excruciating hardship experienced daily by the indigenes and residents of these areas. This government now wants to use the excuse of the security challenges faced by the Governors to remove them from the states considered hostile to the 2015 PDP/Jonathan project.

Let me be quick to say that this administration will be setting in motion a chain of events the end of which nobody can predict. Experience has shown clearly that actions, such as this one under consideration, often give root to radical ideologies and extremist tendencies, a direct opposite of the intended outcome of unwarranted and unintelligent meddlesomeness. The present scenario playing out in the country reminds one of the classical case of a mediocre craftsman who continually blames the tools of his trade for his serial failure but refuses to look at his pitiable state with a view to adjusting.

It has become crystal clear, even to the most incurable optimist, that the country is adrift. That the ship of the Nigerian state is rudderless is clearly evident in the consistent and continual attacks ferociously executed by elements often referred to as the insurgents in some northern states of the federation, particularly Borno and Yobe states respectively.

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http://premiumtimesng.com/opinion/134435-jonathan-goes-for-broke-by-bola-ahmed-tinubu.html

meobizy:
Didn’t this man relocate to the US? Wetin concern am with Nigerian events? He should face his new environment.