Surajo Saidu once said even if insecurity will lead to their death in the north, they will never leave Buhari
By Ishaya Ibrahim, News Editor
A popular supporter of President Muhammadu Buhari on Facebook, Surajo Saidu, has regretted being a praise singer of President Muhammadu Buhari after five of his brothers were abducted by bandits in Sokoto.
Surajo Saidu had announced on December 12 that five of his brothers were among the over 20 people abducted by bandits in separate attacks on communities in the Wurno Local Government Area of Sokoto State.
He asked his 5,000 friends and 4,000 followers on Facebook to pray for the quick release of his siblings.
“All the five men taken in our house are my brothers. The bandits didn’t kill anyone in our community but they took many people in that operation alone. We are waiting for them (bandits) to call for the ransom. Please include my brothers and other victims in your prayers,” he had posted.
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Two days after the abduction, Surajo Saidu returned to Facebook to tell fellow Buhari supporters that the kidnappers had asked for ransom. He, however, did not state the amount requested.
But to Surajo Saidu surprise, after helping to attack critics of the President and the All Progressives Congress (APC), the President and the party were not available to help him at his moment of need.
On December 29, he told his Facebook friends: “Today, being Wednesday, 29 of December 2021, I, Surajo Saidu Sokoto have dumped the Buhariyya (a Hausa coinage for Buhari supporters) team and have now joined the Kwankwasiya (a coinage for Kwankwaso supporters) team. Because bandits abducted my five siblings and I posted it several times but we paid the ransom money and none of them helped me.”
According to Premium Times, on his Facebook profile where Buhari’s picture used to be, Surajo Saidu has now replaced it with that of Kwakwanso.
The online newspaper said Surajo Saidu had in the past, accused ‘enemies of Arewa’, Nigerian journalists and many others of trying to sabotage Buhari’s administration.
He once wrote that he would lead the State Security Service (also known as DSS) to launch a house to house arrest of critics of Buhari in Sokoto for distracting the President.
His most recent post praising Buhari was on Monday, December 27. He posted a picture of the President and wrote: “I feel happy whenever I see the picture of Baba Buhari smiling.
“Even if insecurity will lead to our death in the north, we’ll never leave Buhari. We’ll continue to follow him and be patient until when God bring and end to the issue. We know that a responsible person like Buhari can never cheat us his kinsmen.
“In history, I’m the most maligned Buhari’s supporter whose parents are carelessly insulted on social media by Buhari’s critics,” he said in another post, which had 175 comments and was shared four times.