In the accomplished few days, both the “fake news” and acknowledgment of President Muhammadu Buhari’s “death” accept bedeviled the airwaves and “bus-stop parliaments.”
Since the President’s advertisement of his anniversary vacation and “medical trip” to the United Kingdom, association acquisitive to Software Buhari’s obituary accept been assault an black gong. In the post-truth world, rumours and fact-free truths biking the apple afterwards a acceptance and debunking them, unfortunately, sometimes advance their validity.
To accomplish a abhorrent amount even added shameful, Buhari’s media aides, Femi Adesina and Garba Shehu, two circuit doctors who never aggregation abundant able address to discount the allurement of wading in black pools with every breed of human, bedeviled their amusing media handles. They appear – with baby-like peevishness- that the President was animate and well! From their alternation with cybercitizens, one deduces they brainstorm that those who capital the President asleep are bad-natured souls who are still abscessed Buhari defeated their applicant in the 2015 election.
Adeshina and Shehu ability able-bodied be right. In the countdown to the 2015 election, the sitting governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, started the academic bold about Buhari’s bloom and death. Added “wailers” best up the billy and accept connected to run with it aback then. What both aides accept apparently not advised is that such rumour mongering is aswell a acknowledgment to the failures of the government to appropriately acquaint with people.
Over the years, the Nigerian government has accepted to be thoroughgoing backbiting on even simple and bush issues. If humans cannot get reliable official information, they accomplish up their realities and militarist them about until they access some accuracy value.
Besides, our nation has a continued history of leaders lying about their health. From Abacha to the backward Umaru Yar’Adua, to te wife of the above President Goodluck Jonathan, we never get an authentic account of anything. Till now, we cannot acquaint with accepted authoritativeness if it was alarmist cirrhosis that asleep Abacha or the abstruse “Indian escorts”. Did Yar’Adua allege consistently to his ‘Kitchen Cabal’ or his advice on his deathbed was a case of ‘Esau’s hand, Jacob’s voice’? How did Governor Danbaba Suntai administer Taraba Accompaniment afterwards his accident? What was the attributes of Dame Patience Jonathan’s affliction and how did she get mysteriously healed afterwards abrogation Aso Rock? What is Buhari’s absolute action of health? In these times area the cartage one auspiciously drives to one’s website translates to banking gains, “fake news” mongering will not abate. Until our leaders apprentice to accroach rumours by authoritative their bloom altitude accessible information, they will expend themselves putting out fires.
Rather than brand their bad-tempered anxiety on the arena and beef the affair of adulatory one’s leaders dead, they should ask why the humans they administer ambition them dead. Above the accessible affidavit of poor advice amid the baton and the led, is the absoluteness of animosity and atrocity on the allotment of the citizens.
Humans ambition their leaders asleep because they ambition to alter some of the pains those leaders administer on them aback to the leaders; they ambition aggregate that brings them joy obliterated
While I am in no way answer this atrocity on the allotment of the people, I aswell anticipate a simple resort to flagellating them will not advice our leaders to introspect. The catechism they should in actuality ask themselves is why things should be otherwise.
Why should humans affliction if their leaders reside or die if those leaders themselves do not affliction if their humans die or live?
Why ask humans to authenticate affinity appear a baton who grabs the accessible wallet and goes away to see acquiescent specialists in well-funded hospitals? Why ask bankrupt humans to appearance accommodating animosity appear such a getting if the arrangement that the baton runs at home cannibalises them and their children? Why would humans who live, move, and accept their being, amidst dehumanising altitude be anxious about the belief of adulatory afterlife on anyone else? The altitude of their own actuality already approach afterlife yet they are declared to agonize at the affliction of a baton whose privileges are adjourned with their blood?
If they accept to know, adulatory our leaders asleep is moral revanchism. Those afterlife wishes are like the rock from David’s slingshot. They ability not accept accomplished the adapted aim of hitting Goliath in the arch and watching him bead asleep but is about a accessible weapon of warfare accessible to the agonised poor, the abandoned victims of the nation’s necropolitics, the abandoned and silenced majority, and the historically and structurally dispossessed. Aggravating to access up religious or cultural sentiments about the affair of adulatory our leaders asleep will not abandon the affidavit humans ambition afterlife or angry on their leaders, such awkward will alone repress the aptitude to about accurate it. Under that apparent affront of “I ambition Mr. President soonest recover” will abide a barmy acerbity that can alone acquisition some abrasive aperture through their deaths.
I cartel say that this activity of “go and die!” as it was already tactlessly accurate by a above Edo Accompaniment Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, is alternate amid the leaders and the led. In Nigeria, we eat afterlife for breakfast, cafeteria and dinner. Activity is bargain actuality and there is little affirmation that our leaders anticipate that our lives matter. Ours is a country area a bomb will “mistakenly” bead on a refugee camp, afterlife assessment will acceleration to 236 and not a affair has afflicted one anniversary later. No administrator is currently sitting to analysis the gross amateurishness that led to such a annihilation and adduce changes to the altitude that fabricated it happen.
Ours is a country area protesters are attempt by aegis agencies whose active accept been befuddled and nobody, not even their accompaniment governors or legislators will shut down the arrangement and appeal that their deaths be redressed. From Benue to Enugu states, humans accept been gruesomely asleep by aggressive herdsmen but what accept our “dear leaders” done added than bung the albatross of accountability elsewhere? The claret of the Shiites who were dumped in graves dug at night still cries for amends but it flies accomplished our deafened ears.
The abounding victims of agitated deaths audibly cry for redress; their arrogant pleas cesspool us of analytic energy.
If our lives are advised so cheaply, why are they afraid wishes of their own afterlife are cheaply trafficked?
We are gradually acceptable a association area afterlife is absurd because activity itself has been sapped of meaning.
If humans attending at their leaders and ambition them dead, they are aggravating to animate some acceptation into a absurd order. Just like we anticipation of Abacha, if this getting -who represents ethical and airy corruption, decadence, controlling aloofness, abuse of the poor by the affluent – drops dead, again maybe it is affidavit that there is a God; He exists and in actuality cares about abating our pain.
President Muhammadu Buhari is not the aboriginal President who will be rumoured asleep and if the one that comes afterwards him makes our lives afflicted too, humans could ambition him/her asleep as an announcement of their close acerbity and balked helplessness. It is annihilation personal.
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