Thread by @savndaniel

THE HYPOCRISY OF AREWA

Ordinarily, I would have 'ignored' this #ZabarmariMassacre, but the the humanity in me will not allow me look away. I would have also tagged it 'fake news', but because 43 human beings have been beheaded and, I feel too pale to play it down.

If Arewa does not kill hypocrisy, hypocrisy will kill Arewa. Prior to 2015 Arewa was most louder, firm and critical. They said all manner of things. I am quick to hold that they were that 'vociferous' because a @GEJonathan was involved. Today, Arewa blame everybody but @MBuhari."

Despite the abomination and barbarous cruelty that is ongoing in the north, Arewa has decided to keep a sealed lips. And whenever they speak, it is on non-issues: dressing, 'alcohol' and sinners' crusade. They dare not hold their leaders to account. Woe betide them.

In the pregnant morning of 2015, Buharists justified the removal of @GEJonathan. They had a scorecard for judging GEJ: premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines…. TODAY, the same situation has presented itself, and every Buharists, including Arewa has gone incommunicado.

The ongoing killings in the north by Bokoharam is enough to go round in the Arewa community. The potency of their hypocrisy is gradually weathering away. The world is seeing Arewa for what it is: a gutless, useless and timid set of hypocrites.

There is a joke about a morgue attendant who was so used to seeing dead bodies that one day, when a supposedly dead body started twitching, his response was, "this is the morgue, not the emergency room". He promptly smothered the twitching body until it was well and truly dead.

Both @MBuhari and Arewa see the incessant killing of Nigerians through the lens of Bokoharam, Fulani herdsmen and Banditry. Nigeria under @MBuhari has grown to become a vast, sprawling mortuary where deaths and dead bodies do not seem to matter at all. Hence the Arewa silence.

@MBuhari's soulless media warriors may sing his praises to high heavens and work hard to distort any discourse about the woeful failures of their paymaster, but they cannot hide the fact that, under @MBuhari, Nigeria has become a vast mortuary where death and tragedy are routine.

Bokoharam enjoys admiration from @MBuhari and Arewa. When @MBuhari Etunu Agbalumo granted 'amnesty' to these terrorists, Arewa lauded him. They rationalised it. Today, the same 'repentant' terrorists are out there, killing Nigerians. Yesterday, the slaughtered 43 human beings.

When @MBuhari said an attack against Bokoharam is an attack against the north, Arewa commended him. They upheld that satanic commentary as legendary and lifesaving. To be fair, the electoral process that brought MBuhari to 'power', was a big victory for Bokoharam.

The gross incompetence of @MBuhari and the hypocrisy of Arewa is seriously ruining Nigeria's reputation home and abroad. We have become the poverty and terrorism capital of the world. Yet, Arewa does not see anything wrong with the @OfficialAPCNg led administration.

It is in the character of Arewa to embrace and celebrate terrorism. See, even if Bokoharam wipeout the entire Nigeria, Arewa will still not say a word, because they see @MBuhari as an untouchable god. They dare not condemn the incompetent and clueless government of Buhari.

Arewa is most powerful and loudest when the subject matter is about sex, gang rape, dressing, the accuracy of Hisbah police, alcohol, and assumed morality. Outside these, Arewa is most useless, irrelevant and weak. Their most cherished treasure is their hypocrisy.

But it is this hypocrisy that will consume the Arewa going forward. The 43 beheaded citizens by Bokoharam in #Zabarmari means nothing to the Arewa community. Most of those reacting to this senseless massacre are mostly from the south. Give it two days, Arewa will move on.

For Arewa, you can criticise everything and anything, but never @MBuhari nor Bokoharam. When we came out to protest against @PoliceNG brutality and demand good governance under the umbrella of #EndSARS, Arewa (echelons) accused us attempting to unseat @MBuhari. So much hypocrisy.

The hypocrisy of Arewa will consume the entire north. Arewa can blame everybody but itself. When will Arewa take corrections for its mistake? When will Arewa call their hero and massa, @MBuhari out in the strongest of terms? But the hypocrisy of Arewa will never allow it.

43 human beings slaughtered yesterday in #Zabarmari, but it seems Arewa enjoy these killings all in the name of maintaining peace and love for @MBuhari. However, I think we should let this Arewa be: they obviously do not need our empathy. If they did, they would said so.