It is part of the recurring ironies of Nigerian politics that Atiku Abubakar, the politician that has suffered most from false propaganda against him in Nigeria than any other, is now being redefined in public imagination as an ethnic bigot based on a comment he made at an interactive session for presidential candidates organized by the Arewa Joint Committee in Kaduna on Saturday, the 15th of October, 2022.
The objective of his opponents is to interpret and reinterpret the comment acontextually to paint a dramatic picture of an Atiku calling on his Northern brothers and sisters to vote for him because he’s a Northerner. What the propagandist are not saying in their retelling of the story is that Atiku was actually responding to a question by Hakeem Baba-Ahmed which had a specific context and which required Atiku to answer within the context.
The objective of his opponents is to interpret and reinterpret the comment acontextually to paint a dramatic picture of an Atiku calling on his Northern brothers and sisters to vote for him because he’s a Northerner. What the propagandist are not saying in their retelling of the story is that Atiku was actually responding to a question by Hakeem Baba-Ahmed which had a specific context and which required Atiku to answer within the context.
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