Pantami And His Citizen Right To Political Opinion, By Hashim Suleiman
Dr. Isa Ali Pantami has built himself to become more of an institution that is capable of attracting loyalty and understanding from all walks of life.
Such can only be seen by people who can first of all be fair to themselves before becoming fair to others and their virtues.
That is why we continue to preach for people to learn to develop critical thinking in order that we can appreciate the good things that happen to our society.
Lately, I have been stumbling over videos on the social space wherein Dr. Isa Ali Pantami’s political opinions of the past years are being brought up albeit with an intent of mischief and ridicule.
What the cheap blackmailers failed to recognise is that Dr. Isa Ali Pantami has an unalienable right as citizen to a political opinion at every point in time, and all of us also have same right.
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Furthermore, all of the videos I have seen are those of an opinion on a political party that the entirety of Nigerians have agreed were a failure at one point or another including those who are spreading the mischief, be it former governors, ministers or senators.
It is still fresh in our memories how the entire Nigerians rejected a sitting government that was seeking another term.
Why then would anyone have issues with someone who had an opinion that eventually culminated into everyone’s opinion in the nation.
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For how long are they going to allow themselves to be used as tools for sowing discord and spread of fake news?
Everyone deserves a good and decent life and that is only achievable through the emergence of critical leaders in the likes of Dr. Isa Ali Pantami; we should embrace him.
Perhaps, it was the absence of such that made him express his opinion in the past and he was later vindicated through the dismissal of that political entity during the 2015 elections.
Nations of the world are daily struggling to consolidate digitalisation; we cannot be struggling to daily be debating normal things like political opinions.
Any political party that wishes not be criticised should be above board in character and integrity if not some of their actions can be as annoying as anything to people who have genuine love for country at heart.
Hashim Suleiman ([email protected])
