By Charles Ogb
The action of the Benue state-born music star, Tuface
Innocent Ujah Idibia in opting out of the proposed national protest just when
millions of Nigerians have made so much financial/emotional investment in it,
exposes the fundamental problems with Nigeria under Muhammadu Buhari and
Nigerians themselves.
Most Nigerians are consistently inconsistent.
Only a handful of us
are ready to die for what we believe in.
We must therefore raise 20 fingers in the air to Nnamdi Kanu
and his IPOB activists for being the only group in the country that has
continued to stand up to the tyranny of the death merchant that is Buhari even
at the cost of their lives.
Tuface was either threatened or paid off. Either way, he has
disappointed millions of young people who looked up to him. For raising our
hope so high only to crash it at this 'injury time', he has written his name in
the Hall Of Shame!
When he announced he was going to lead a protest against a
president who has a reputation for killing unarmed protesters with the army
trained and equipped with tax payers money while protecting fulani terrorists
with the same army, what was he expecting? A red carpet from the forces of
darkness ably represented by the same govt he planned on protesting against?
What I find more offensive is the reason he gave for
cancelling the protest:
"After due consultation, I have come to realise that
the protest is not worth the blood of any Nigerian........."
My frien, shatap ya mouth for that place!
That's bullshit!
Arant nonsense!
That emotional blackmail punchline has since gone into
extinction. It is now archaic.
Dear, Tuface Idibia, I Charles Ogbu, am putting it to you
that you chickened out for reasons that got absolutely nothing to do with
altruism. Shut the fuck up! And stop insulting our intelligence.
If you were threatened, so what? What were you expecting?
I can tell you for free that as insignificant as I seem, I
once unsettled the presidency with an essay I titled: "In Defence Of
Jonathan" which drew a rejoinder from the presidential media aide, Garba
Shehu with "In Defence Of Buhari" after which I got threatening calls
and messages, one of which was from an unknown caller who told me the exact
location I was answering his call from and assured me I would be dead already
if he wasn't being held back by my young age. The following day, I came back to
meet my room scattered even when my doorlock was intact. I abandoned the room
immediately with everything in it. This anonymous caller 'friend' of mine would
later tell me that scattering my room was just a little demonstration and that
if I kept 'running my mouth' against Buhari, I would meet with some sort of
"accident" right there in my room.
I ran. For my safety. I relocated immediately.
But,
I still carried on with my writing.
If a 'nobody' like myself could resist these barbarians, why
couldn't you? After all, you are an international figure and any attempt on
your life or that of your family will be met with serious consequences for this
govt in the international cycle. You are more protected than most Nigerians by
the virtue of your international status.
Frankly, I don't think you have any justifiable reason for
disgracing yourself this way.
If you (Tuface) were paid off, it makes your case even more
pathetic.
Either way, you have chosen your path with history. And that
path isn't an honourable one, I'm afraid.
Lesson 1 for Nigerians: stop looking for heroes anywhere.
There is no better hero than yourself.
We are over 180million people. Tuface is but one person. Out
of 180million, 'one' is such an insignificant number. Is Tuface the only music
star in the country? Must the protest be led by a celebrity?
Is the protest even about Tuface as an individual or is it
about the fact that millions of Nigerians are starving to death as a result of
the conscientious idiocy of this pathetic excuse for a govt?
Nigerians, put Tuface to shame and carry on with the
protest. Let his cowardice be a motivating factor for others to forge ahead
with the protest. This is a challenge. See it as such!
The stiff opposition put up to the ill-fated protest by the
presidency and the police proves that democracy followed Goodluck Jonathan to
Otueke on May 29, 2015. We are now back to 1984 and strangely, it is still the
same villain.
This country is becoming increasingly uninhabitable. It is
now beyond argument that Nnamdi Kanu was wrong in describing Nigeria as a Zoo.
I think he should apologise to the beautiful animal place called Zoo. Under
Buhari, Nigeria is an evil forest.
While we are bashing Tuface and rightly so, we mustn't loose
sight of the fact that our common enemy here remains this govt headed by Tyrant
Muhammadu Buhari.
Tuface shouldn't have started what he wasn't sure of
finishing.
This is a walking
shame!
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