BBNaija Tacha defends Toyin Abraham, says everyone has the right to back their chosen election candidate
By Jeph Ajobaju, Chief Copy Editor
BBNaija alum Tacha (Natacha Akide) has stood up for actress Toyin Abraham who is in hot water boiled by online trolls for supporting Bola Tinubu’s run for President, as the man has turned out to be incapable of tackling problems because he diverts public funds into his political aspirations instead of ensuring at least stable electricity supply to enable Nigerians produce and sell things to cater for themselves.
Among other citizens’ grouses, lingering insecurity prevents farmers from cultivating crops. Purchasing power is drastically eroded by sky-high inflation, and lamentation about hunger is loud across the country.
But Tacha wondered why Abraham is still being bullied and criticised for her political decision, more than a year after the ballot, in a country where everyone has the right to support their candidate for election.
She also weighed in on the allegation Abraham influenced the police to arrest a troll, insisting that writing a petition is legitimate and does not necessarily involve using the police to silence critics.
“Personally, I don’t understand the constant bullying of someone for picking their candidate of choice. In the same way, you have picked your choice of candidate, everybody has the right to pick their choice of candidate,” Tacha explained.
“The same way you saw qualities in your candidate is the same way that other people saw them [in their candidate of choice].
“I really don’t understand the constant, steady bullying based on the candidate she chose to support. Let’s not act naïve … If you write a petition to the police and the person that you’ve written the petition against refuses to honour the police invitation, they will pick him up.
“This has nothing to do with whether Toyin Abraham is a public figure or not, or if you’re just a regular citizen.
“You people are the same people who dragged the Nigerian police for not taking Mohbad’s petition seriously; now they are taking it seriously and you are saying that they are using the Nigerian police.
“Now with everyone dragging Toyin Abraham, I want to know what her impact was on last year’s election. Would our president still be our president without Toyin Abraham? Yes!!”
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