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Why do bad things happen to bad people?
Was grilling meat, totally forgot that metal fork on the grill.... Let's just say my thumb is seared!
I sha done chop meat and nursing my thumb.
I can't do hell, fire hurts.
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Election day, advice him to crucify himself, broadcast it & keep muttering my every APC slogan, might actually work better..... They won't have to rig.
Wait, what motivates the son of a sitting President to do this?
In all my four decades of existence I've never seen such a ‘disgraceful act’ such as this 🤣
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I've multiple Suya guys, each with something distinct!
Looking for how to get all but in one place tasting like one!
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This is almost what APC under this one man is trying to force but make it second term....... Cuz explain why you impoverish people & you're still forcing yourself on them!
He killed my ma, he killed my pa, but I will vote for him. That was the slogan on the street that won Charles Taylor the election in 1997.
I know this story well because back then, I had a few Liberian pals who lived in Festac. We spoke a lot. They told me what really happened. They lived it.
Taylor did not win because Liberians loved him. He won because Liberians were scared of him.
Let me explain.
Taylor was the leader of the National Patriotic Front of Liberia, the NPFL. That was the rebel group that fought in the First Liberian Civil War.
After the war ended, he dissolved the NPFL and formed a political party. That party was the National Patriotic Party, the NPP.
The official slogan of the NPP was Liberty, Justice, Discipline, Work.
That was the clean one on paper.
But on the street, the real slogan was different. The real slogan was: He killed my ma, he killed my pa, but I will vote for him.
Think about what that means.
People were saying, you killed my mother, you killed my father, but I will still vote for you.
Why? Because they believed that if Taylor lost, he would go back to the bush and start the war again.
After seven years of war, people were tired. They were traumatised. They just wanted peace, even if it meant voting for the man who caused the war.
So they voted for him, not out of love, out of fear.
On 19 July 1997, Taylor won with 75 percent of the vote. His party also won 49 of 64 seats in the House, and 21 of 26 seats in the Senate.
His main opponent, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, got only about 9 percent.
He was inaugurated as President on 2 August 1997.
My Liberian pals in Festac told me, people did not vote for Taylor to make him President. They voted for him to make him stop fighting.
That is one of the darkest election slogans in African history, because it was not a promise. It was a threat. And the voters heard it clearly.
Tell me in the replies, have you ever heard an election slogan this scary anywhere else in Africa?
Now You Know
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Hi @Nigeria
Nayib Bukele: “There is no State that cannot defeat criminals. If a State does not defeat criminality, it is because the State is complicit.” @nayibbukele
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