By Farooq Kperogi
Twitter: @farooqkperogi
A man by the name of Dr. Bello Inua Anka, who is married
into the Muhammadu Buhari family, is threatening me over the PUBLICLY available video that I—and thousands of other Nigerians—shared on social media showing de
facto president Mamman Daura celebrating his 80th birthday with (more
than 30!) family members and government officials in a posh London hotel while
people starve to death in Nigeria. (See screenshots of his threats).
He asked me— and reached out to a valued friend of mine to
prevail upon me— to take down the video on the excuse that his children are in it
and that they’re being endangered. How? As I told him, I haven't seen anyone
say anything about any child in the video. Everyone's focus is on the hypocrisy
of closing the borders at home, insisting that traumatized, poverty-stricken
people live within their means, using security agencies to physically humiliate
and harass poor people for eating foreign rice, etc. while Buhari's family
members, and a few favored ones, live off the fat of the land at home and
abroad, even going so far as to celebrate the birthday of Buhari’s nephew in
London— with ministers and senators in tow. Not even Jonathan was this
insensitive and hypocritical.
I didn’t shoot the video. It isn’t exclusive to me. In fact,
it had already done the social media rounds before I shared it on my social
media handles. The video was shot, edited, and shared by a member of the Buhari
family. Why should I edit or take it down? He said, “Your page has more exposure
than most, there are security issues involved here. A lot of people with a
grudge or another will always pay a visit to your page to feed off what you
write.” Huh?
Anyway, if his threat is limited to suing me in US courts
where I live and work, I’m waiting for him. I’ve already notified my lawyers
here. But there’s something darker and more sinister in the threat “I promise
you won’t get away with this.” I’ve received countless threats from supporters
of Buhari’s fascist monocracy. Someone even called for my execution—along with Chidi
Odinkalu andAhmed Salkida— on Twitter last week. I dismissed it as the inconsequential
overzealousness of a faceless Buhari Media Center (BMC) troll.
But Dr. Bello Anka has a name, a face—and a place in the
Buhari family— that can be held to account if anything happens to any member of
my family in Nigeria because he knows he can’t do anything to me in the US.
Interestingly, this same witless, power-intoxicated buffoon used to fawn over
me when I held Goodluck Jonathan’s feet to the fire before 2015. Now that the “spoon”
is in his mouth, he wants me to let him and his parasitic family members to get
away with their unexampled corruption, nepotism, cronyism, and impunity. Ain’t
gonna happen!
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