Thread by @DefenseNigeria

Responding to the HATE messages in my DMs for the crime of sensitizing the public on the strides being made by the Nigerian military.

But one question, why do some people hate Nigeria so much? They hate Nigeria with religious fervour.

Nigeria is a massive refutation of their utopian fantasy, eldorado, perfect. They compare Nigeria with their vision of a perfect country which has never existed. Rather than change their false theories, they lash out at Nigeria and those daring to espouse hope for Nigeria.

If we consider a “perfect” country, it is not hard to find problems in Nigeria..u know, ethnic prejudice, massive corruption, senseless nepotism, economic exploitation, greed, etc. However, countries do not exist in fantasyland. They exist in the real world.

Besides, the world that surrounds us is not too idyllic. If we compare Nigeria to others with similar problems, Nigeria's resilience is the one ingredients those country's lack. Look at Mali, a military outpost of Paris, terrorists overunning half the country, two violent

..coup'd etat in 12 months, a country under foreign occupation. Look at Libya, the country that once boasted Africa" best living standard now a failed state. How about security plagued Niger, Chad, Cameroon or economically desperate nations that represents 80% of ECOWAS

In comparison you realize Nigeria and its resilience is the one African country that begins to resemble a nation that can weather what anybody throws at it, survive and live up to its potential and carry the rest of the continent with it. If Nigeria wins Africa wins big.

These are countries with very small and a less ethically divserse population yet they cannot even manage themselves. Nigeria is a huge. A nation of 200 + million people with a very ethically diverse population and culture. People expect Nigeria to be like Quatar

..or the UAE or Kuwait or Norway because Nigeria is an oil rich nation. That may well be the case, but when you compare, for example Angola with a daily oil output of 1.4 million bpd and a population of 32 million,and Nigeria with a daily oil output of 2.4 million bpd

and a population of 200+ million, you realize Nigeria is not in the same league as Qatar or Norway or Angola. It is almost a resource poor country in this regard. After 40 wasted years of dictatorship and a decade of insurgency Nigeria is just now beginning

..to diversify its economy, rebuild its infrastructure and boost our manufacturing sector, our service industry, IT sector, music and movie industry etc. Yet this is the time Nigerians have decided they must cry to the UN for help in burning down this country.

Common sense about the horrors that ensues when a country becomes ungovernable, like Libya or Syria seems to be lacking among a cross section of Nigerians. We have defied two CIA predictions, avoided another civil war, endured years of covert sabotage by external players and

..their local accomplice, reduce the world's deadliest terrorist group to the level of criminality, rebuild our armed forces and force the surrender of over 15,000 terrorists, built Africa's biggest economy with oil accounting for less than 18% of Nigeria's overall GDP

.built and continue to build the greatest infrastructure the region has ever seen, built the biggest music and film industry in the modern history of Africa, creating a soft power that cannot be rivalled, manage to contain the insurgency to a few northern states alone

...so economic development can continue in other parts of the country, something Libya, Iraq, Syria, Mali, Mozambique, failed to accomplish.

Sweeping all this under the carpet ignoring progress made and portraying Nigeria as a nation ripe for foreign intervention goes to show the blind hatred some Nigerian can’t take away from the common good.

It took Nigeria a decade to get to where we are today. Wasting a decade of progress at such a critical time in our nations history and selfishly devouring the hopes and aspirations of future generations to satisfy their hatred will cost us dearly.

The "Nigeria must burn"gang should understand that all these powerful figures pushing them on are all getting filthy rich off them. All these match for freedom is all BS. Its not real. They dont care. Look at what happens when faced with real life situations,

they crumble. I never thought I would see the day when a large section of Nigerians will be this gullible. All this petty whining when troops record gains,the constant accusations of Abuja trying to divide Nigeria, when the very accusation itself is promoting a divisive agenda.

I keep thinking with time these people will be smart enough to see what will happen if you keep poking the bear with a stick and the state of anarchy and foreign intervention they are clamouring for happens. But they aren't.

Look at Libya. They lost everything. EVERYTHING. 50 years of Libya's development wiped out. Not by a foreign power, but by the libyan people themselves.

..and hundreds of thousands of people died because of their eagerness to show the world they are "WOKE" too and protest against the very man that held Libya together and gave them a Libya that had less percentage of people living in absolute poverty than the Netherlands.

Not long ago Nigerians decried the lack of adequate equipment for the military. Today we have a government that has precided over the largest expansion of the Nigerian military ever, with a level of sophistication not seen in the history of this nation. The results dont lie.

All the major commanders of the myriad of terrorist groups killed. Their deputies killed. There follow on commanders killed. 15,000 fighters surrender to Nigerian troops, triggering a fracture so great they now fight against each other.

Why should any sane Nigerian who have never experienced the horrors of war and carnage people in the affected areas have endured for a decade have a problem with this Nigeria winning?.

The very prospect of the Nigerian military having the initiative and WINNING (Yes winning)

..the war sends these people into a state of panic so intense they expend their precious energy on social media hunting down accounts senitizing the public on the great strides of the military and issuing silly threats and protests.