OPINION BY ADEBAYO ABUBAKAR: Nigerians appear to be failing to ask the necessary questions | TheCable
out to stakeholders, especially, the electorates whose votes they need so badly to realise their respective dreams of succeeding President Muhammadu Buhari. Ever since the electioneering started in October, it has been a festival of brickbats, mudslinging, and name-calling on radio, television, and pages of newspapers, both print and online rather than making it an issue-based affair. A war of rhetoric has been in full swing.
There are different fora considered ideal for the so-called “social media influencers” to aggregate and articulate all the critical questions that would help in the evaluation of the suitability and the level of preparedness of each of the candidates for the job. But No! What we see all over the place on a daily basis are both raw and edited videos of what candidate A or B said right or did not say right at a rally. I won’t blame them though.
What would they do to reverse all these ugly trends? Well, nobody seems to be bothered about asking. Rather, we are busy sharing photo-shopped photographs of which political party’s rally gets the highest crowd turn out, even though, any imbecile in Nigeria knows that, crowd is available for rent. As a matter of fact, the same set of crowd who attend Party A’s rally would be the ones attending those of parties B,C,D,E,F…., et al.
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