Yes, our country can definitely use some diversion from the daily grind of the economic Tsunami, inflation and price volatility that is making life tough for our people. However, the level of obsession with this lady Kemi Badenoch who was a non-factor in our daily existence until through her political smarts, she reached the pinnacle as leader of the Tory opposition, has become so obscene and nauseating. Even our Vice President who should be focusing on the overflowing plate of his primary responsibility to assist the president in making life livable for Nigerians could not resist poking his nose into the hot potato.
Even our dear brother Sunday Igboho, after the blow-back from his recent misadventure to No. 10 Downing Street has found a new cause célèbre to get out of this his recent hibernation. He has taken on the VP for attacking a Yoruba woman. When are we going to hit the time-out button and say enough is enough? Let the Brits bury their own dead while we bury ours. Our Gbarunmi (help me carry load) cannot take the ownership of someone’s burden. Our load is so humongous its weight is turning us into the hunchback yet, we are asking others to pile theirs on top. No be juju be that?
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Many on social media are applying the old political playbook in assessing the impact of the Nigeria controversy on Kemi Badenoch political fortune. The lesson we just learned from Trump’s historic comeback electoral victory in the U.S. is that what the old media establishment regards as gaffe, cultural war and controversial no-go topics, resonate with the electorate if they sense the genuineness, consistency and straightforwardness from the politician. Trump broke all the rules of political convention, accused immigrants of eating pet dogs and cats, and said things that in the old political game book should have sunk his candidacy. Yet, he defied gravity and rode into a historic comeback victory. The old rule of politics of evasiveness, political correctness, pandering, slickness and playing it safe is out of the window.
Nigerians on social media including VP Shettima can shout themselves hoarse till they turn blue, they are of no consequence and have zero vote or say in Kemi’s political future. It is mere “ariwo lenu vendor” like Great Fela sang about the eons ago.
We are just wasting time, blowing hot air and hyperventilating for nothing. Sadly, that has become the stock in trade of Nigeria social media, people mindlessly sharing the same garbage content ad nasseum.
Frankly being anti-Nigeria might be good politics for Kemi. She wouldn’t have gotten to the position she is, being a black woman with a foreign name without being a shrewd astute politician. She knows exactly what she is doing which is why she is upping the ante and escalating the controversy. So let’s go at it, make as much noise on our WhatsApp fora all we want. It’s no skin off Kemi’s nose.
