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Angst and Visions of A New Nigeria

I have said it before and I will say it again if you are mad about Buhari, blame yourself for campaigning and voting for him in 2015 and celebrating and laughing at Igbo people for voting themselves out of the power game. I remember every last one of you writing epistles about the poor politics of ndigbo refusing to join your changi. You thought you were so smart. It was indeed kool and hip to be part of the CHANGE movement abi? To Southerners: Go back and check how you all were laughing at Orubebe and ready to tear Nigeria apart if Jonathan did not hand over and the fool that he was did, despite all the glaring technicalities including underage voting that he could have used to overturn the election with your vigilant support which you did not give, where is your PVC card now. I wonder how Nigerians especially the victim minorities of the north, south and middlebelt could not sense the anguish of Orubebe when it dawned on him and the over sensitized minorities of the delta that po...

El-Rufai - Perhaps The Most Dangerous Fulani Politician Yet

 The race for 2023 is on and one of the top contenders is El-Rufai either as a VP to Tinubu which he has publicly discountenanced or as the presidential candidate himself.  El-Rufai is of Fulani ancestry and a rare one at that as unlike many of his Fulani brethren he is a first-class graduate of ABU with advanced degrees from Universities in London and from Georgetown and Harvard Universities in the United States respectively.  However, all his education has not reduced his observed bigotry and tribalism or his penchant for viewing actions from parochial lenses.  During the height of Boko harem insurgency and during the many army deployments during the reign of Jonathan, he was quoted as saying that the Johnathanian army was being deployed to kill Muslims.  Another shocking revelation was his disclosure that he paid his relatives Fulani herdsmen aka the Fulani militia tribute to stop killing and he was able to justify his actions in a series of interviews. ...