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"Tony Okoroji
SATURDAY BREAKFAST with TONY OKOROJI
BUHARI IS NOT DEAD BUT THEY ARE KILLING HIM ON SOCIAL MEDIA!
You better believe it, Nigeria is at war. I am not talking about the Boko Haram war in the North. I am also not talking about the never-ending skirmishes in the Niger Delta that threaten to bring to a halt whatever little income we still generate from crude oil.
Nigeria is at war over the control of the minds of our young people and the millions of our vulnerable citizens. The war is fierce. There are no rules in this crazy war. The Geneva Convention does not apply. Religion is in play. Tribe has become a major weapon. Genocide soon will be okay. Torture will be allowed. Right now, every crude propaganda tactic is being deployed as tribal, religious and ethnic hatred is being incubated in our land.
My biggest worry is whether the government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria fully understands that our nation is at war and that if we do not do what we need to do and do it fast, Rwanda may once again be repeated in Africa.
I can hear a chorus of ‘God forbid!’. That is part of the problem. Somehow, we Nigerians have convinced ourselves that God loves us so much that we can do very stupid things and there will be no consequences Yea! We believe that what applies to the rest of God’s children do not apply to us. For some reason, we have begun to believe that we are such a special breed that we can consume all our seedlings, sow nothing and yet reap a bountiful harvest. Let me ask: did the Almighty step down from His throne while the horrific tragedy of Rwanda occurred? Was He not there while brothers and sisters butchered themselves in Sudan? Right now, in Syria and Iraq, unspeakable mayhem and suffering are taking place but God is still on His throne.
Let someone show me that chapter in the Bible or the Quran that says that God loves His children in Nigeria but hates his children in Rwanda, Sudan, Syria, Iraq and the other places where the incubation of hate has led to indescribable human suffering. Was God not on his thrown when Nigerians slaughtered each other during the Biafra war? Why is today different?
Everywhere in Nigeria people are praying from dusk to dawn. Everywhere you look, there are new churches and mosques being built. Pray, how can we love God so much, that we hate our brothers and sisters, children of the same God so much?
During the week, I accidentally ran into Femi Adesina, President Buhari’s chief spokesman, in Lagos. Femi probably would tell you that I was very upset with him, his team and their tactics in what has clearly become a war of attrition. I accused his team of leaving our president naked to be shot at and made fun of by all kinds of characters. Femi is clearly one of the finest journalists Nigeria has produced in recent years. He has grilled me in a memorable interview at the Sun. Practically, everyone who knows Femi will tell you that he is also a very decent gentleman. I like him. I am however asking myself whether Femi is not too decent to lead a critical part of the war that President Buhari must wage to prevent Nigeria from going the way of Rwanda or Sudan.
The war I speak of is not in Sambisa Forest or the creeks of the Delta. The war is on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat and all over the internet. At this point, millions of Nigerians are being recruited to despise their President, to despise their fellow countrymen and to despise their country. History tells us that the ongoing recruitment has huge consequences for every Nigerian, man woman and child. Times are hard for a lot of Nigerians and that makes it even easier.
As has been clear in other places where foot soldiers of hate have been unleashed, a lot of the people being recruited do not even know that they are being recruited. How did Al Qaeda begin? How did the Hutus and Tutsis of Rwanda who had existed together for hundreds of years wake up one morning and start butchering each other? How did Boko Haram grow under our eyes and become the terror machine that has traumatized the Nigerian people?
Let’s face it – Buhari has stepped on Big Toes. Big Toes are fighting back with vengeance. Big Toes are incredibly cunning. A hungry man is an angry man and the story being craftily told the millions of hungry Nigerians is that Buhari is responsible for the biting hunger in the land. Big Toes will not tell you that they stole Nigeria’s common wealth, bought mansions across the world with the money budgeted to fight Boko Haram and sent our young men without weapons to go and die in Sambisa Forest. They will not tell you that they are responsible for the hunger in the land.
Sadly, while they are telling their story in a very co-ordinated way, no one appears to be telling the true story of Nigeria in a manner that makes sense. While Big Toes have an army deployed on every social media platform tugging on the hearts of our young and vulnerable, the president’s men are sending press releases to NTA and Daily Times. Please, when was the last time you got your news from NTA or Daily Times? If anyone still believes that social media is a joke, he needs to be reminded that Donald Trump just became the most powerful man in the world using a smart phone.
Many of those who had supported our president and his determination to eliminate the virus at the heart of our nation’s sickness, have even become too scared to even be associated with him. They are badly outgunned on social media. The many crazy stories that went viral recently about the ‘death’ of our president is a new level of the war. Big Toes want to totally demystify, discredit and destroy Buhari so that they can regain control of the purse strings of Nigeria. They cant wait for 2019. That is why they are killing our democratically elected president on the social media. Where is the guy responsible for clothing the President?
Let me state here that I have never met Muhammadu Buhari. I have never spoken with him directly or indirectly. I have not benefited from him in any way. I am not even sure that he has ever heard of me. I do not belong to APC or any political party. But I remember what happened in Nigeria after Buhari was taken out of power the first time. 419 took root in Nigeria and our values collapsed. The War Against Indiscipline died and madness took over the land. Buhari’s medicine might be very bitter but Nigeria’s sickness is that severe. If for any reason we no longer want Buhari, please let us wait for 2019 and not kill him on Facebook.
The truth is that our nation is at war. It is time that those who truly love Nigeria and want a tomorrow for our children fought back."

Comments:

This clarion call is to avert a looming national disaster. A word they say is enough for the wise. Note please; the wise and the wise only. Let us all take positive actions to stop all these destructive FAKE NEWS BEING PEDDLED ON VARIOUS MEDIA & RELIGIOUS/ETHNIC PLATFORMS

Fellow Nigerians let's choose peace, let's choose not to shed innocent souls in retaliation of some misled ignorant minorities. Let us reject all calls asking us to kill any people who are of other tribes, who do not share our faith, etc. Stop inciting others, stop reposting inciting messages. If Nigeria gets into a war, think which of your neighboring countries will or can accept you. Stop now, before its too late for us all

GOD BLESS NIGERIA #Copied#

ddippset:
Buhari is showing no mercy on the heart conditions of the wailers. He just keeps dropping selfies on their biitch asss. Even on his best day Gej never looked this handsome.

Gbam

SalomonKane:
Where's your evidence that the woman is a witch? And is your bible the law in Nigeria?

See a well reasonable person here.
They cant answer your questions simply because of their ignorance.

because of technical issues on the bus they are now bad?

what if they are stranded on their way to sokoto.

must you sound insultive to every thing here, even if you have knowledge about something share without proving how good you are to abuse.

Curlieweed:
You should do some research before sounding off. In this Information Age, this type of ignorance is hardly acceptable. This is the same thing Fashole did, sounding off without adequate knowledge.

I will give you an example with South Africa. Her population is 56 million but she produces north of 52,000mw https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_power_stations_in_South_Africa . Despite this, she is still battling with power outages. Our population is apparently ca. 170 million. So what do you think?

Curlieweed:
I can remember at the height of Fashole's reign as the 'best' governor on the planet, he said (regarding the power issue), a serious government should be able to solve this in 6 months. It's almost 2 years now, Fash in the pan is still yapping about 7000 mw when we need a minimum of a 100,000 to have anything remotely resembling stability.

This is clearly a case of the saying, "monkey smart, na because him dey inside bush. Them done comot monkey Fash from bush now put an for big field, no tree in sight to swing from and we're are witnessing his "competence".

What do you want to do with 100,000mw?.
Our populations cannot withstand that.

the forehead though...

mmm is a scam

ThankYouGod:
Oluwa ma je ki omo araye pa kadara wa da.

Amin ooo

and what is the out come of the meeting

e pain am

See the babe looking like shekau

The hates from igbos brother to Yoruba's no get end.
They can never change.

Now they will do something about dangote trucks

I SAW THIS ON FB AND I LIKED TO SHARE IT HERE TOO!!
Merry Christmas: To say or not to say

By Aisha Umar Yusuf | Publish Date: Dec 24 2016 2:27AM

We, Nigerian Muslims, are used to wishing our Christian compatriots a merry Christmas and even partaking of their meals at such times, if offered. In the same way, our Christian neighbours and friends have been in the habit of wishing us happy Sallah during the two eids, as well as eating our meals at such celebrations also.

But lately one comes across some fatwas or religious rulings that say, it’s not permissible for a Muslim to say ‘Merry Christmas’ to Christian friends and neighbours for certain reasons. To someone like me, for whom these courtesies are second nature, it was disturbing to hear that there is something inherently wrong with this simple act of good neighbourliness.

Luckily, Shaykh Abdullah bin Bayyah, Mauritanian-born but Saudi-based Islamic scholar had been asked the true position of wishing non-Muslims happy celebrations during their religious occasions. His fatwa on this issue is very comforting. I decided to share it with readers of this column. Please read on and happy holidays.

“This issue is without a doubt a very important and sensitive one, especially for Muslims living in the West....

Sometimes a Muslim can feel the favors of the non-Muslim upon them, as in the teacher who assists Muslim students with sincerity, the doctor who treats Muslim patients also with sincerity, etc. As the saying goes, the human being is imprisoned by good treatment, and the poet said:

Do good to people and you will possess their hearts for doing good has always enslaved the human being

What is the position of Muslims in relation to non-Muslims who are peaceful with them, do not sow enmity against them, do not fight them in their religion, and have not driven them out of their homes nor have supported ones who tried to do so?

The Quran has established a basis for the relationship between Muslims and non-Muslims in two verses from the Book of God the Exalted, which were revealed in relation to polytheists:

“God does not forbid you to deal kindly and justly with anyone who has not fought you for your faith or driven you out of your homes: God loves the just. But God forbids you to take as allies those who have fought against you for your faith, driven you out of your homes, and helped others to drive you out: any of you who take them as allies will truly be wrongdoers.” [60:8-9]

So the two verses distinguished between those who are peaceful with Muslims and those who are not.

As for the first ones (those who are peaceful), the verse has legislated having kindness and just treatment with them. [But the Arabic words used in the verse imply more than this] because the word “qist” means justice, and the word “birr” means doing good with an extra measure of it, which is higher than justice. [The concept of] justice means you take what is rightfully yours, whereas “birr” means you concede some of your rights. In other words, justice, i.e., “qist”, is to give a person their due right without any diminishment, but kind treatment, i.e., “birr”, [mentioned in the verse] means you give a person more than their due right as an act of virtue.

As for the others mentioned in the second verse, they are those who have declared enmity with Muslims and fought them, and driven them out of their homes without the right to do so except for having declared:

Our Lord is God! This is what Quraysh and the polytheists in Mecca did with the Messenger (s) and his companions.

[Also, note here] that the Quran used the word for kind treatment, i.e., “birr”, for the relationship with those who are peaceful, which is the same word used for the greatest obligation upon the human being after fulfilling the right of God the Exalted; the right of “birr” towards parents.

Moreover, the permissibility of congratulating non-Muslims on their holidays is more confirmed in the case that they also congratulate Muslims on Islamic holidays. We have been commanded to return good with good, and to respond to a greeting with one that is better than it, or at least the same as it. The Exalted said:

“But [even in battle] when you [believers] are offered a greeting, respond with a better one, or at least return it.” [4:86]

So it is not befitting for a Muslim to be less generous or have a lower status of good character than others. A Muslim is supposed to be the one who is most kind and having the noblest character as it has been transmitted in the Hadith:

“The most complete in faith among the believers are those ones with the noblest character.”

As well as the other statement of the Messenger (s): “I was only sent to complete noble character traits.”

The Prophet (s) had a noble character and a generous in relationship with the polytheists of Quraysh despite their harm towards him and gathering against him and his companions.

[Lastly] the usual words used to congratulate during these occasions do not entail acceptance or adopting of non-Muslim creed. They are simply words of courtesy that are customary during these occasions. There is also no deterrent from accepting gifts from them and rewarding them with gifts in return, because the Prophet (s) accepted gifts from non-Muslims, with the condition that these gifts are not that which would be impermissible for a Muslim, such as alcohol or swine meat.

[It should be mentioned] that we are not for Muslims celebrating the religious holidays of polytheists or People of the Book. We see some heedless Muslims celebrating Christmas the same way they celebrate Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Ad’ha, or even more. This is not permissible because we have our religious holidays and they have their religious holidays. But we do not see harm in congratulating people on their religious holidays for those who have social relationships with them.

Merry Christmas to all my Christian Friends

YOU ARE RIGHT SEEMS YOU BE ONE OF THEIR STAFF TO SAY THIS.
they have great potentials but mismanage it due to selfish reasons.

Pesuzok:
Arik air mismanaged their success

NO SO YOUR OWN BEE

TINALETC3:
Geeeeeeeeeez , Wats dat?

Happy birthday to my honourable senator Bukola Saraki.

Them no fit do you anything.

Whyy including India among the countries os India different.

dewaskillz:
Kudos prof. We are getting there, if only they could give a conducive atmosphere to engage our abilities and intellectual capabilities the sky will only be our limit. I personally believe we are great people. Thank you God for making me a Nigerian.

And ,me too

Crazy man from ND

ojophilip:
end of the year bonus

Funny guy

Blessed the union with understanding almighty Amin.

john4reala:
Minister of Agriculture should not allow
this specie of Cucumber into this country.
Unless he want all Nigerian men to belong
to the Kitchen while Cucumber will belong
to the other room.

tithe is not permitted according to biblical right.

Weldon op, I felt hurts working with an expatriates here. And they are employed by black man like me. We do the same work and he was paid huge amounts,despite being put through the whole work by me.

Haha see gobeee

GEJ remains their hero

chubbyG:
keep the ball rolling Obanikoro
No rest for the wicked.

Amin

We are in trouble with stake holders and fayose of all.

Ipobs should seek for forgiveness from Yoruba's or else nnamdi go die in zoo.