TwoCents | THE DEVIL CALLED APC

The Holy book says, "The thief comes only to steal, kill and destroy." It also says in another portion, "The devil is the father of lies." In yet another, it says "By their fruits you shall know them." The APC, under the leadership of Bola Ahmed Tinubu, since the day it was formed has lied to Nigerians about basically everything, painted what is not in the person of the current President Muhammadu Buhari who will be leaving office soon with virtually all his campaign promises unfulfilled. Buhari's almost 8 years in power has seen Nigerians killed and their properties destroyed as against better security they were promised during his campaign. It has also seen their livelihoods stolen from them by a dwindling economy and biting exchange rate as against the $1 to #1 campaign promise. This same APC with Tinubu as its flag bearer is without shame, again contesting for the office of the President. Despite all the failings of the APC, one would expect its presidential flagbearer, Tinubu, whose pedigree and integrity is in question to have some sense and genuinely appease the people by better actions and utterances and also appeal to their senses but that will seem a far-fetched tale as Tinubu keeps towing the line of a high-handed power drunk maniac who must get what he wants to the detriment of every other person involved. In a secular state as Nigeria, he would be expected to pick a running mate of the Christian faith, but typical power hungry Tinubu who thinks a Muslim running mate will ensure him more votes from the Muslim dominated North has probably shot himself in the foot as Christians all over the country have rejected his candidacy. Right thinking Muslims from both North and South have also rejected him. Following his very clear and massive rejection by the Nigerian Christian community for his disregard of their interests, he resorted to the old trick of crowd renting. Only that this time, he took it a step further by dressing up his rented crowd as Christian bishops who came to endorse his choice of former Borno state governor, Kashim Shettima as his running mate during the official unveiling of the APC vice presidential candidate. The same social media which was one of his major tools in white washing President Buhari and selling him to the Nigerian populace as an incorruptible Saint is what has been used to his great disadvantage as many Nigerians quickly identified Tinubu's collegiate of Bishops as their mechanics, meat sellers and others as ordinary motor park touts. Instead of an unveiling of the APC vice presidential candidate, it was rather an unveiling of a huge fraud and also the fraud that Tinubu is. The senile Tinubu who has lost touch with reality couldn't even convincingly stage his lie. Christian Bishops usually wear particular colors for different Christian seasons but Tinubu's Bishops wore the colors of every Christian calender in one outing. One even had a Boys Brigade cap on. I'm quite sure Tinubu's campaign team have the hardest job in the country right now, coming up with an explanation for the abysmal failure of this attempt at deception as well as his other very unintelligent campaign speeches. To come up with this poorly planned and executed fiasco, it's either, Tinubu felt Nigerians would be too dumb to see through his charade or he really does not care what the masses think which gives credence to my earlier description of him as power drunk maniac who would engage in the most obscene act to realise his unholy goal. Our elders say, it is only a mad man that does the same thing repeatedly and expects a different result. Tinubu has started with lies worse than those that brought Buhari to power which culminated into the present state of lawlessness and economic dearth. Those lies which have led to wanton stealing, killing and destruction. It seems the APC only propagates those with the virtues of the devil. It is then safe to say that the APC is the physical representation of the devil in Nigeria and as such the APC itself is a DEVIL.

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