As you would expect, my last week’s article with the above title generated both commendation and condemnation. Read a sample below: ...
As you would expect, my last week’s article with the above title generated both commendation and condemnation. Read
a sample below:
I
read your columns both for the richness of your language and for the depth and
keenness of your observations. In today’s column, you nailed it as usual. I
really had never paid attention to Namadi Sambo. In fact, I had never heard him
speak. For some reason, I just assumed that he would be at least smarter than
Goodluck Jonathan. I didn’t think anyone can be dumber than our president. But
your column forced me to search Sambo’s speeches, and I found that the man is
just as dull-witted as his boss. I just concluded that this Jonathan/Sambo
presidency is a confederacy of dunces, as they say. What has Nigeria done to
deserve this punishment? These idiots can’t even articulate their own interest,
much less articulate the interest of the nation. I can’t wait for the day
Nigeria will have a president we can all be proud of. No true leader goes out
of his way to fan the embers of disunity in the country he governs.
Jide Oladosu
This
is to inform you that VP only tried to clarify about the insinuation and
campaign using Islamic religious leaders that PDP is a party of non-Muslim and
Muslims should not vote for their candidates. He explained that Nigeria is a
secular country in which if Muslim is the president his vice must be a
Christian and vice versa. He gave examples of previous administrations from the
First Republic to date of the leaders and their deputy.
Garba Idris
Up
north GMB is not a good Muslim (because he has Christians around him and he is
sympathetic to Christians). Down south (south-south south east), GMB is a
Muslim and he will Islamize Nigeria. What a way to solicit for votes from
innocent Nigerians. Shine your eyes my people PDP is using religious
difference/ethnicity in its campaigns, but we are all wiser now!
Aliyu Nasidi
While
I don't know his “Zarianess,” it is unbecoming and unconscionable for a
high-end leader to be making such infantile statements that deepen our fault
lines to hoodwink our people.
Erudition
littered with factual submissions and unhindered truth.
Bankole Sijuade Banjo
Sambo
should be ignored. He's spare to a clueless president. What do you expect?
Mustapha Zubairu
Prof.,
we've been benefiting immensely academically from your notes. In fact, you have
been copiously referred to, both in lectures and articles. I wish, you would
keep religion, and open politics out of your notes.
Orji Ekpezie
This
whole hype on Sambo's inability to read Qur'an's first chapter is becoming
obnoxious and his alleged use of religion against the main opposition party,
the APC, hypocritical. The APC has been and is playing the religion card
against the PDP all over the Muslim North and our sold-out columnists and
so-called public commentators have been looking away. These days, one wonders
if Daily Trust is now the media wing of the APC, betraying their moto, 'trust
is a burden'. In Kano, where I reside, once you voice your support for
President Goodluck Jonathan you are an infidel already, or at best, a
hypocrite. Last Friday, at the mosque I prayed, the whole KHUTBA- sermon was on
who to elect. After listing the qualities a person must have to be a leader and
what a voter should do before voting, the Imam came out open on the pulpit and
canvassed for votes for Muhammadu Buhari, APC's candidate, but remained silent
on who to elect at the state level. I understood the Imam's action as
emotion-driven. I spoke with the Imam immediately after the prayer and tried to
bring to his attention that he was still short of his obligation, that he
should have told us who to vote for at the state level as even among Muslims
the best should be favoured to lead.
Kwankwaso
is subtly urging Kanolites not to vote for the PDP but for their Muslim
candidate, Muhammadu Buhari. What are the columnists saying about such? Some
section of the media is partisan and it is glaringly obvious to even the
dullest of observers. As soon as something happen, they come out joyously and
write biased and partisan articles about it.
Our
media should be objective, truthful and impartial in their editorials and
reportage. Commentaries should be issue based. Personal attacks should never
take the place of objectivity. It all seem there is a coordinated campaign
against the PDP and its supporters in the Northern axis of the Nigerian media,
which is unethical and unprofessional. Those of us who saw what happened at the
recently held 12th Trust Dialogue know this.
Moukhtar Umar Kofa
Thank
you very much for the candid opinion expressed in this article. We join you in
calling VP Sambo do desist forthwith from playing the religious card in his electioneering
campaign. Nigeria is already polarized enough along religious lines. We agree
with you that this is probably the lowest level of immaturity displayed by our
political class. Unfortunately, it is coming from one of the highest office
holders in the land. Thank you once again.
Piima Intercessors
I
listened to the VP's speech for the first time with shocked disbelief. After a
few days when the PDP did not disown him or his utterance I concluded that the
party is comfortable with it.
A.i. Gambo
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