The current swing of our “mob” system of politics is quite both perplexing and heart-wrecking. It now seems that we have really arrived at that point in our political history when our choices and behaviour must be completely determined and satisfactory to the ruling class, and anything short of serving their self-aggrandising interests must be suppressed and if possible, obliterated.

The recessed, sickening economic system that has aggravated hunger, food draught, liquidations of companies, mass sack of employers, overwhelming rise in unemployment, crimes and currently, cases of suicides, has met huge public outcry and in selective cases, revolt.

More particularly, Nigerians have been hard-done by the seemingly lackadaisical attitude of the government in addressing these germane issues of concern and blanketing the issues with cheap propaganda and obnoxious policies that further deepen the situation in the country.

In a bid to channel their complaints and express their dissatisfaction of the present mis-governance and failure of the government, some people drew up the initiative of a nationwide protest which is a deserved means of expression of civil rights by the citizens in as much as the manner is peaceful and lawful.

But unfortunately, the government of the day has sworn to shut off their ears to the cries of the people. More worrying is its desperation to validate and exonerate itself in the face of the ever-increasing and ravaging consequences of its bad governance, poor economic policies and blatant disregard for rule of law, democratic and constitutional processes.

This desperation for validation has seen the government arrange series of protests and anti-protests with taxpayers’ money; the truth of which was partly exposed when the contracted protesters were caught sharing their monies publicly shortly after their protests. The government has also, very glaringly laboured so much to shut down voices of informed individuals who raise their voices against the injustices the citizens are faced with in this administration.

Here is a review of some of these orchestrated protests with incoherent story lines that did well to serve the purpose of distracting the public from the issues bothering them and unfortunately for the government, the actions tell of its desperation and propaganda.

Buhari Solidarity Rally By Ndi-Igbo Students in Abuja: How could one possibly understand that Igbo students, even students who are still dependent on their benefactors, would expend their precious academic-business time and hard sought monies to buy placards, create banners, customise T-shirts and caps, charter buses just to protest, much more for such a government as this, from whom Ndi-Igbo have suffered more marginalisation, deprivations and deaths, unprecedented in the history of civilian dispensations of Nigerian; a government of whom, the students would retire to their hostels amidst intense hunger with thirst and start cursing?

The 25, 000 Igbo Youths Protesting in Anambra: the Propaganda with a state as Anambra that has the most politically and culturally conservative but active Igbo people which is exemplified in their hold of native political institutions (party), e.g. APGA, elaborates the shamelessness and incompetence of this government. 25, 000 vibrant youths who loved Buhari so much that they could come out en masse to rally for him, one would wonder, should have won for Buhari some more votes than the paltry 17k he managed to hit in the past election.

Is it now that even the APC’s staunch supporters don't have a day pass-by without saying a curse word against the government for the hardship, economic hostilities and whatever one may consider bad governance this government has inflicted on the populace so far, that 25,000 youths would come out to rally for Buhari in an Igbo land; people whose mainstay is business and businesses are closing down for bad policies of the Buhari Administration? Can you beat that?

One may ponder, did the APC-led federal government readily organise these mob rallies to make the blind assertion that Buhari was active and that Nigerians who were beginning to see some instances of economic revival, some breeze of healthy policies, some steps of correction of the negative political trend set by the government as soon as Osibanjo took over, that Nigerians especially the Igbo, are happy to continue with the same inept and crippled government the President was and has again begun heading? Or, were they trying to distract the attention of Nigerians from the brouhaha that surrounded the London adventure of the president; from asking questions on how much of our national fund he expended in London in those 50 days of fanfare.

While the ill-conceived reasons of the government in staging the protests may be concealed, the public can not for sure, be totally ignorant of the fact that corruption is the centre-piece of the actions.

Tuface Championed #IStandWithNigeria Rally: all hell was let loose on the poor forerunner for damming consequences to speak up against the injustices we are all facing. It took off from propaganda from some deluded logic-deprived elements who had some coins pushed into their pockets just to desecrate the integrity of Tuface. They dug out outrageous and malicious claims from nowhere and unsuccessfully sort to distort the personality of Innocent Idibia. And as soon as Tuface backed out, they suddenly remembered they had starved their wives in the other room while they worked all night to deliver on the scripts of the government. No one heard their screams till today.

As soon as the vague rhetoric of the contracted lecturers began to wane, the script was shifted to the police. The Police would ensure they threatened Tuface to submission. They began with abhorrent threat that they would stop the protest because Tuface didn't have the capacity to manage the expected crowd expected to turn up. The public outcry that greeted the threat forced them to change tactics. This time, they concocted yet a more damning claim that Tuface had not obtained Police permit to protest. Did it not take the intervention of the perplexed populace to remind or better still, force the attention of the police to constitutional provisions that every citizen has the right to protest or rally in as much as such is peaceful and lawful and in fact, it is the duty of the Police to protect the protesters?

It was glaringly, a war against the music icon just to seize the voice of the populace he sought to lead. How well they managed to shift the focus of many from the fact that it was an organised body that called for the rally and Tuface was just a convener, was a serious concern on the gullibility of majority of Nigerians.

Threats to life Tuface received were just more for the defenseless musician to handle. Majority of Nigerians may not understand the seriousness of such threats probably because the empirical proof hardly comes public, but to outrightly discard such claims is unreasonable. Tuface feared for his life and backed off.

The Anti-#IstandwithNigeria Rally: they dubbed it pro-Buhari rally; how shallow and reason-deficient that was. In a bid to scuttle by all means possible, the #IstandwithNigeria Rally, a group of hunger-troubled individuals were called up and promised some stipends just to parade under the scorching sun and chant against the #IStandWithNigeria protesters. Again, the desperation of the government came unclad. One, the rally was readily called up as it appeared that even though Tuface had pulled out of the planned nationwide rally, the rally was still gathering momentum and clearly would hold. Just same day, some individuals were gathered together and promised to be paid just to distract the #IStandWithNigeria protesters. Albeit, they were abandoned by same people that contracted them to protest and they had no option but to beg the same #IStandWithNigeria protesters as little as N100 to buy water and quench their thirst and, some even begged for transportation fare to go home as they said they were left stranded after some government officials promised them they would be paid after the protest.

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[quote author=Youngadvocate post=55110210]The current swing of our “mob” system of politics is quite both perplexing and heart-wrecking. It now seems that we have really arrived at that point in our political history when our choices and behaviour must be completely determined and satisfactory to the ruling class, and anything short of serving their self-aggrandising interests must be suppressed and if possible, obliterated.

The recessed, sickening economic system that has aggravated hunger, food draught, liquidations of companies, mass sack of employers, overwhelming rise in unemployment, crimes and currently, cases of suicides, has met huge public outcry and in selective cases, revolt.

More particularly, Nigerians have been hard-done by the seemingly lackadaisical attitude of the government in addressing these germane issues of concern and blanketing the issues with cheap propaganda and obnoxious policies that further deepen the situation in the country.

In a bid to channel their complaints and express their dissatisfaction of the present mis-governance and failure of the government, some people drew up the initiative of a nationwide protest which is a deserved means of expression of civil rights by the citizens in as much as the manner is peaceful and lawful.

But unfortunately, the government of the day has sworn to shut off their ears to the cries of the people. More worrying is its desperation to validate and exonerate itself in the face of the ever-increasing and ravaging consequences of its bad governance, poor economic policies and blatant disregard for rule of law, democratic and constitutional processes.

This desperation for validation has seen the government arrange series of protests and anti-protests with taxpayers’ money; the truth of which was partly exposed when the contracted protesters were caught sharing their monies publicly shortly after their protests. The government has also, very glaringly laboured so much to shut down voices of informed individuals who raise their voices against the injustices the citizens are faced with in this administration.

Here is a review of some of these orchestrated protests with incoherent story lines that did well to serve the purpose of distracting the public from the issues bothering them and unfortunately for the government, the actions tell of its desperation and propaganda.

Buhari Solidarity Rally By Ndi-Igbo Students in Abuja: How could one possibly understand that Igbo students, even students who are still dependent on their benefactors, would expend their precious academic-business time and hard sought monies to buy placards, create banners, customise T-shirts and caps, charter buses just to protest, much more for such a government as this, from whom Ndi-Igbo have suffered more marginalisation, deprivations and deaths, unprecedented in the history of civilian dispensations of Nigerian; a government of whom, the students would retire to their hostels amidst intense hunger with thirst and start cursing?

The 25, 000 Igbo Youths Protesting in Anambra: the Propaganda with a state as Anambra that has the most politically and culturally conservative but active Igbo people which is exemplified in their hold of native political institutions (party), e.g. APGA, elaborates the shamelessness and incompetence of this government. 25, 000 vibrant youths who loved Buhari so much that they could come out en masse to rally for him, one would wonder, should have won for Buhari some more votes than the paltry 17k he managed to hit in the past election.

Is it now that even the APC’s staunch supporters don't have a day pass-by without saying a curse word against the government for the hardship, economic hostilities and whatever one may consider bad governance this government has inflicted on the populace so far, that 25,000 youths would come out to rally for Buhari in an Igbo land; people whose mainstay is business and businesses are closing down for bad policies of the Buhari Administration? Can you beat that?

One may ponder, did the APC-led federal government readily organise these mob rallies to make the blind assertion that Buhari was active and that Nigerians who were beginning to see some instances of economic revival, some breeze of healthy policies, some steps of correction of the negative political trend set by the government as soon as Osibanjo took over, that Nigerians especially the Igbo, are happy to continue with the same inept and crippled government the President was and has again begun heading? Or, were they trying to distract the attention of Nigerians from the brouhaha that surrounded the London adventure of the president; from asking questions on how much of our national fund he expended in London in those 50 days of fanfare.

While the ill-conceived reasons of the government in staging the protests may be concealed, the public can not for sure, be totally ignorant of the fact that corruption is the centre-piece of the actions.

Tuface Championed #IStandWithNigeria Rally: all hell was let loose on the poor forerunner for damming consequences to speak up against the injustices we are all facing. It took off from propaganda from some deluded logic-deprived elements who had some coins pushed into their pockets just to desecrate the integrity of Tuface. They dug out outrageous and malicious claims from nowhere and unsuccessfully sort to distort the personality of Innocent Idibia. And as soon as Tuface backed out, they suddenly remembered they had starved their wives in the other room while they worked all night to deliver on the scripts of the government. No one heard their screams till today.

As soon as the vague rhetoric of the contracted lecturers began to wane, the script was shifted to the police. The Police would ensure they threatened Tuface to submission. They began with abhorrent threat that they would stop the protest because Tuface didn't have the capacity to manage the expected crowd expected to turn up. The public outcry that greeted the threat forced them to change tactics. This time, they concocted yet a more damning claim that Tuface had not obtained Police permit to protest. Did it not take the intervention of the perplexed populace to remind or better still, force the attention of the police to constitutional provisions that every citizen has the right to protest or rally in as much as such is peaceful and lawful and in fact, it is the duty of the Police to protect the protesters?

It was glaringly a war against the music icon just to seize the voice of the populace he sought to lead. How well they managed to shift the focus of many from the fact that it was an organised body that called for the rally and Tuface was just a convener, was a serious concern on the gullibility of majority of Nigerians.

Threats to life Tuface received were just more for the defenseless musician to handle. Majority of Nigerians may not understand the seriousness of such threats probably because the empirical proof hardly comes public, but to outrightly discard such claims it unreasonable. Tuface feared for his life and backed off.

The Anti-#IstandwithNigeria Rally: they dubbed it pro-Buhari rally; how shallow and reason-deficient that was. In a bid to scuttle by all means possible, a group of hunger-troubled individuals were called up and promised some stipends just to parade under the scorching sun and chant against the #IStandWithNigeria protesters. Again, the desperation of the government came unclad. One, the rally was readily called up as it appeared that even though Tuface had pulled out of the planned nationwide rally, the rally was still gathering momentum and clearly would hold. Just same day some individuals were gathered together and promised to be paid just to distract the #IStandWithNigeria protesters. Albeit, they were abandoned by same people that contracted them to protest and they had no option but to beg the same #IStandWithNigeria protesters as little as N100 to buy water and quench their thirst and, some even begged for transportation fare to go home as they said they were left stranded after some government officials promised them they would be paid after the protest.

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Whoever wrote this deserves an award and I urge him/her to never stop writing, this article captured the real order of the day in using propaganda and paid protest to force the populace into seeing thick black as immaculate white.

Paid Protest and Paid Sycophants like that Benue Idiot are the headache we have to bear daily

Df

ha,,OP u no dey fear? BMC are coming oo.. run run run..
them dey come with their idiotic grammar to confuse their gullible followers.
with such idiots in 9ja our politicians will always behave cowardly because those who should be saying it as it is will defend them.
cows.

Honestly, Am yet to conceptualise the basis for fear.
Physical Death? That's what remains of many in Nigeria because the government has taken out whatever that makes us human.

These people just assume us to be some goats of sort they drag around with their rope (politics), they can control, subjugate, manipulate and pocket whenever, where ever and however.

They monopolise our monies, education, health and cage our freedom.

And the only thing left with us is our voice. If they succeed in seizing our voice, are we then better off than animals?

I have a life to live.

etebefia:
Whoever wrote this deserves an award and I urge him/her to never stop writing, this article captured the real order of the day in using propaganda and paid protest to force the populace into seeing thick black as immaculate white.

Thanks dear