#NextLevel: Follow Detached Leaders to Your Death--A THREAD
The creativity deficit in APC’s NextLevel campaign slogan & graphic is truly unnerving, but it powerfully encapsulates, without intending to, the frighteningly escalating sense of foreboding that a Buhari 2nd term... 1/7
The creativity deficit in APC’s NextLevel campaign slogan & graphic is truly unnerving, but it powerfully encapsulates, without intending to, the frighteningly escalating sense of foreboding that a Buhari 2nd term... 1/7
would mean for Nigeria. The photo shows Buhari & Osinbajo insouciantly detached from the people they're leading. Buhari appears as a clumsy, clueless leader who can’t even get his steps right: unlike Osinbajo, he skips a step on d staircase as he leads Nigerians to perdition. 2/7
Both the leaders and the led wear sheepish, vacuous grins as they head to their damnation like moths to a flame. The photo shows them climbing up the edge of a cliff from where they'd fall into the cruel, unforgiving blue ocean that surrounds them. 3/7
This is a depressing graphic, but I give it credit for its fidelity in capturing the ruination that Buhari is inexorably leading Nigeria to. The “NextLevel” slogan is also a powerful linguistic affirmation of the depressing future the graphic evokes. 4/7
There’s no question that Buhari’s record as president these past three years has been an unrelieved disaster. Nigeria now leads the world from the bottom in almost everything. Insecurity used to be limited to the northeast, but it has now become democratized nationally. 5/7
Prices of commodities have gone through the roof. Governance has ceased. Governing boards of several federal agencies are still not constituted, which means the nation is literally at a standstill. The economy has tanked and everyday folks are writhing in unspeakable agony,...6/7
but the president bragged about never being in “a hurry to do anything.” Imagine what the “next level” of this would be. That’s what the Buhari campaign is warning you about. 7/7
