The abduction of the young and innocent Chibok girls from their secondary school and the way they literally vamoosed from the surface of the earth was like the last straw that broke the camel’s back and it obviously helped to quicken the downfall of that government at the polls. Just as much as the allegations of massive corruption levelled against the Jonathan government, the other major reason he was sacked as President was the spate of rising insecurity, insurgency and banditry in most parts of the country. By the time I’m done, I’m sure you will understand my predicament and appreciate my acute frustration. These particular theories have risen above the realm of mere conjecture to attain the level of first faction and then reality, because of the many times they have been avowed and disavowed and the blurring of falsehood, fake news and truth that has thus been occasioned.
Please, forgive me because I’m about to indulge in some high-level conspiracy theories myself. Nigeria is a country where all tales are believable, no matter how improbable! Indeed, rumour mongering is a national pastime at which Nigerians excel and shine in all their glory. The rumour-mill is one of the most vibrant, and sometimes lucrative, pastimes in our clime. It is almost impossible not to engage in all manner of guesswork, speculation and conjecture in Nigeria. They consider them to be true, even though they know they are stranger than fiction. They are not capable of any logical, rational, scientific analysis or basis yet people have wholesale beliefs in them. He wrote:įellow Nigerians let me start by saying that I hate conspiracy theories generally. In his Pendulum column on the back page of This Day Newspapers entitled: Trust me, something fishy is going on. Search Author_LiLhyz on IG & FB.Chief Dele Momodu has described the 2014 kidnap of the chibok girls as Tales By Moonlight. Note each story can be read as a standalone.įollow me on social media.
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Raising her own children, Samantha strived and overcame. Samantha Davis fell pregnant and she knew nothing about the man she slept with.Īfter being disowned by her father, she left the city to start anew.