By Farooq Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi A northern Christian fanatic misappropriated my March 5, 2002 column titled "Tinubu, Dogara...
By Farooq Kperogi
Twitter: @farooqkperogi
A northern Christian fanatic misappropriated my March 5, 2002 column titled "Tinubu, Dogara, and the Prison and Poison of Religious Politics, " retitled it as "ARE YOU CHRISTIANS REALLY A MINORITY IN NIGERIA," proceeded to attribute to me things I didn't say in my original column, and circulated it on WhatsApp groups.
A friend called my attention to it on June 27.
Only a few paragraphs in the article came from my column. The paragraphs are:
"The two most disadvantaged groups in Nigeria’s representational politics are northern Christians and Southern Muslims. In Nigeria’s internal geopolitics, these two groups are structurally invisible, politically subjugated, and told to be content with their political and symbolic marginality."
"Bola Ahmed Tinubu, a Muslim from Osun/Lagos states, and Yakubu Dogara, a northern Christian from Bauchi State, embody this phenomenon eloquently...."
The rest was the invention of the writer, which is a farrago of wild inaccuracies and bigoted, Islamophobic claims that I won't repeat here. Please ignore it. Thanks.
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