The Nation Mourns, Our President Wears Aso Ebi Agbada And Dances Azonto–Nasir El-Rufai

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Is it for nothing that the photograph of the President, Adamu Mu’azu and the Olubadan in a celebratory mood cutting a cake at the latter’s birthday, on one hand sharply juxtaposed the picture of the UK High Commissioner to Nigeria, donating blood to the blast victims, went viral? The two incidents took place same day. While we mourned, the President was jocund and exultant.

Don’t you know what the President and his PDP did is a sad throwback to Emperor Nero fiddling away while Rome burnt? All we are saying is that the idea of a wild campaign less than a day after such bloody violence on the citizenry smacks of criminal indifference on the part of the President and his party chieftains. After all, receiving Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau into the PDP can be done any other day or month, especially as the battle of 2015 is almost a year away.


You are playing on semantics. What is the difference between the style and content of the so-called unity rally and full blast campaign? The political regalia, dance, songs, bands, razzmatazz, human mobilization, campaign promises etc. etc., are all taking place now. So what is the difference? Don’t forget that the President had in the first round of his campaigns gone round the country meeting monarchs of the land in their various domains. It was all preparatory for this campaign.
In fact, at the time the President was wearing Aso ebi agbada and dancing Azonto, most families were still searching for the corpses of their loved ones many of whom were shattered in the bomb blast.
Even when some innocent 129 girls were abducted in a Government Secondary School, Chibok, the PDP was yet in a campaign gear.
Haba! Be fair to Mr President. The Chibok girls were abducted Monday night and nobody knew about it until Tuesday and that was long after the Unity Rally had begun.

You are talking like a layman. You mean some 129 Nigerians were abducted by insurgents and 24 hours after Mr President was not aware? Is that what you are saying? Or you are saying that because the campaign gear of the presidency had been engaged, abduction or no abduction, the campaign train must roll all the same? Which one?
Well, if you ask me, we have come to our wit’s end on this issue. All we need do now is seek divine intervention.