#Pray4Nigeria

I once ccused GEJ of being so deaf to the sullen silence, sulky resentment and deafening tuneless funeral dirges all over the places (especially North-East, Nigeria), as a result of Boko Haram’s mindless butcheries. I once accused him of being so blind to the bland looks and eyes shaded by dark sunglasses. I called him names for doing striptease at the grave-site of the mowed innocent Nigerians. I even asked (rhetorically) if he was too thick and too daft, to comprehend the melancholia and sweaty frustration that have enveloped the land while he was celebrating Nigeria’s centenary existence? In short, I criticized his mediocre leadership and his spectator stance to Nigeria’s multitudinous issues, especially the BH challenge. 

But, what I am seeing in this present administration is even worse. It beggars belief. I can’t believe that a band of President Buhari’s fawning sycophants and internet trolls could stand on crooked crutches of rehearsed falsehood and take “PR” to a ridiculous extreme and to the height of impiety, at this time of our shared grief !! Denying that there was carnage in the North-Eastern part of Nigeria, so as to make your idealized symbol of change look good in the eyes of the world and to reinforce the sham that BH has been “technically” defeated is the worst evil that could ever happen to mankind. Such barefaced lies desecrate the sanctity of life and offend all humans with the most sense of decency. 

Can someone remind these sweat-drenched, battle-obsessed, so called “change agents” that, we are no more in campaign mood and, that they should stop elevating make-believe over reality and, that they should stop asserting the primacy of propaganda (and primitive crudeness)over facts and better judgment ?? Haa!!

Well, to the bereaved, we share your grief in this time of bereavement with deepest sympathy, even as we pray for the swiftest recovery of the injured.

May God be with our gallant soldiers who are not flinching from putting their lives in danger, daily, because of us and we pray for the quiet repose of the souls of the martyrs. 

And, may Baba Buhari find courage to utterly (and not technically) wipe out these enemies of our nation at record time. Amen.

Long live Nigeria.

#PrayforNigeria

adedayo g. fatoki