When we're done celebrating Nnamdi Kanu's arrest, the reasons for his following are still waiting for us.
The Darfur-style Fulani-led genocide on Nigeria's middle belt and Southern periphery are not figments of his imagination.
Whenever we're ready sha.
I have no affinity for the man because he is clearly a demagogue who would turn into what he is fighting if he ever gets power.
But that is beside the point here. The point is that the issues he has weaponised are very, very real.
Stringing him up won't fix anything.
Was on Clubhouse yesterday and people sounded so upbeat as if his arrest is somehow good news.
Newflash: It is TERRIBLE news. It makes him a martyr because Buhari's goons are too dumb to help themselves, and his armed guys are STILL out there.
The situation is *worse* now.
Yesterday we had an armed and angry but mostly nonviolent secessionist group led by a single individual.
Today we have the same armed group with a martyr prophet, an insurgent ideology and a brewing internal power tussle.
Best of luck sha🤷🏿♂️
Anyway it's always fun when a poor and incompetent state tries to play at being the big-stick authoritarian.
Can't sort out electricity supply 120 years after most of the world already did, but wants to fight a new counter-insurgency military campaign🙂
Best in "butterfly that thinks it's an Eagle."
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