Moghalu: Shocking Tinubu’s critics accept ambassadorial ‘crumbs’ after years of insults
By Ishaya Ibrahim
Kingsley Moghalu, President of the African School of Governance and former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, has described as “shocking” and “staggering” the decision of some of President Bola Tinubu’s fiercest critics to now accept ambassadorial nominations from him.
President Tinubu last Saturday forwarded 32 names to the Senate for confirmation as ambassadors. Among the nominees is Reno Omokri, a prominent social media influencer who previously labelled the president a “drug baron” and used other highly derogatory terms against him during the 2023 election campaign.
In a strongly worded post on his X (formerly Twitter) account, Moghalu wrote: “I am chilled to the bones when I see what some of today’s @officialABAT ambassadorial nominees have written and said about him in the past.
“I am not a political partisan for or against President Tinubu. It’s quite OK to disagree with people politically and even on principle, and perhaps later have a change of mind. But the kind of EXTREME, personally abusive and invective-loaded language these people have used to describe a human being, and then turn around and accept crumbs from the subject of the abuse, is staggering! At least, if you feel that strongly not just about issues but about a person, then stay in your lane, for God’s sake!
“To go to such extremes just because of fleeting political opposition (or ‘crumbflakes’ dropping at the moment) and then eat your own vomit speaks far more, I think, about the speaker or the writer than about the person spoken or written of — without conferring sainthood on anyone!
“If some people say Nigeria is a ‘zoo’, we will say THEY are abusive in their use of language. My two pence.”
