It’s almost unimaginable that you could find those two words
in the same sentence. Actually, its not so unimaginable, really. You could have
a sentence saying, “Atiku exposed in recent blog post” or you could find a find
a headline screaming, “Atiku may sue blogger for defamation”.
Those are the kind of sentences that people may expect that
will include Atiku’s name and the word ‘blog’.
That is not the case as it is. Apparently, Nigeria’s former
number 2, former PDP chieftain and politician extraordinaire has joined the
growing list of Nigerian bloggers and has set up his own blog. Yup! If memory
serves me right, his first post was sometime in July.
According to him, it’s an attempt to engage the youths of
the country via Social Media. Well play Mr. Former VP. The question is, what
informed the change of heart? When Mr. Atiku was Vice President for a total of
eight years what did he do for the youths? What policy can he refer to today
that is helping the youths that he championed? Can’t think of any.
People like Atiku don’t have the time to sit down to write
blog posts. He would employ a ghost writer to do that for him. Sikena!
Please don’t get me started on the comments! All of them
self serving, carefully selected comments with each commentator praising him to
high heavens. Evidence of rent-a-crowd or what?
Mr former VP must have hired some crafty thousand-dollar-an-hour
political strategists from the US who must have told him that the secret behind
Obama’s double election victory in the US was Social Media engagement. So off
he goes to start a blog in preparation for 2015. Social Media becomes magic
bullet to win elections. No sir! As long as elections remain free and fair in
this country (and there’s no guarantee that they are, anyway) any future
electoral campaign will be contested on the strength of your past performance
and not your ability to find the best ghost writers to write good blog posts.
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