Thread by @Jarushub

There was actually BMC before and shortly after 2015 elections where a number of guys were camped, equipped with computers to do online PR for APC/Buhari for some allowance (may not be N30k). I think it ceased to exist few months after the 2015 elections. Most of the people who..

https://twitter.com/kayodebakre8/status/1380864158602645514

...defend Buhari/APC one-way today are actually not BMC. Most don't gain anything other than party loyalty, choice to stand with their 2015 choices, and love for APC leaders like PMB, Tinubu etc.

BTW, camping people online for PR for political personality did not really start

with BMC. If you were on Nairaland in 2010/2011, you would hear of GEJ's 40 lapdogs - a group of young guys contracted and given laptops to defend GEJ online. SR reported it then as "40 Laptop boys" and there were activities were well noticed online before

Nairalanders changed it to 40 Lapdogs

In most cases, the political personality himself (GEJ & PMB) don't have much knowledge about the existence of these setups. They are usually the initiatives of their PR handlers

A lot of other political personalities also use this PR style

of planting people online to do the job.

Bukola Saraki is arguably the earliest adopter of that. See this Nairaland thread I did 11 years ago calling attention to it.

So yes, there was BMC in 2015/2016, but there is no BMC today, although there is a BMO which is a relatively structured political group unlike BMC - an ad hoc camp of guys provided laptop etc to do PR online.

Oh, I just did a thread on politics. Thought I had retired from political commentating.

Disclosure: I strongly supported Buhari in 2015 (I no be BMC o) and there were attempts by some GEJ people to "sign" me. I wrote about the encounter in 2014: naija.yafri.ca/suraj-oyewale-…