Ojo Maduekwe writes that the proposed Hate Speech Bill may be used as a cover to attack Nigerians whose opinion or criticism of government officials and policies they find offensiveGod willing, by 2015, something will happen. They either conduct a free and fair election or they go a very disgraceful way. If what happened in 2011 should again happen in 2015, by the grace of God, the dog and the baboon would all be soaked in blood.
It was this unfortunate event that Buhari was referring to in the opening quote. His then party, the CPC would later merge with the Action Congress of Nigeria , the All Nigeria Peoples Party , a faction of the All Progressives Grand Alliance and the new PDP – a faction of then ruling PDP to form the All Progressives Congress . In what was seen as a historic event, the APC would go on to win the 2015 presidential election.
In a veiled reference to what observers worried was the joker the APC was scheming should the 2015 presidential election go in the way of the PDP, Obasanjo noted that after Gbagbo lost a run-off election by eight percent, “he rebuffed all reasonable persuasion and pleading, unleashing horror instead until nemesis caught up with him. I believe that we may be seeing the repeat of Gbabgo or what I call Gbagbo saga here in Nigeria, I hope not.
It would be difficult for the APC to argue that the use of hate speech was not a strategy or policy of the party when in November 2014, its then Publicity Secretary, and now Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, said, “If the 2015 elections are rigged, the party will not recognize the outcome and will go ahead and form a parallel government.”
It did not come as a surprise that the APC saw nothing wrong with the over-reporting, and in some instances, the misinformation of the activities of the terrorist group, because it favoured their projection of the Jonathan administration as incompetent and unfit to lead Nigerians.
In extreme instances, hate speech has led to the death of persons. Again, we make reference to the 2011 post election violence where 800 people were killed. Months and weeks leading up to the election, there were several recorded hate speeches that characterised campaigns. For example, Alhaji Lawan Kaita, was quoted in 2010 as saying, “The North would make the country ungovernable if President Goodluck Jonathan wins the 2011 polls”, and Dr.
Speaking in an interview with Arise TV, Mr. Arogundade said, “the fact that our senate wants to establish a national commission for the prohibition of whatever they call hate speech, and my first instinct would be to say that this will be an absolute waste of public resources,” asking that Nigeria’s national broadcasting policy be amended instead in such a way as to accommodate the regulation of the internet and social media use.
When purveyors of 'HateSpeech become lawmakers and law executors....
Na wétin we go get.. 🤷🏿♂️❗❓.. Animal wan dash us human right ⚖️⏳⌛🇳🇬🧔🏿✊🏿✨💥⚡🔥🌀🌪️
Then we are in trouble, because they think everyone else is like them and require Draconian laws to control...
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