Presidential aide Bashir Ahmad has attracted criticisms after he tweeted that the Niger Bridge is President Buhari’s gift to Nigerians.
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“When the Second Niger Bridge is completed, it will be a gift that will keep the President
@MBuhari’s administration in the minds of millions Nigerians for a very long time. #PMBAtWork”, he wrote at 11.44p.m on Sunday.Nigerians woke up to read the tweet today and some threw stones at him.
“Nigeria’s Money Not Buhari’s Gift. Nigeria is Bigger than one man”, said a Twitter user Nekka Smith.
“Public infrastructure from Govt is not a gift but the core responsibility of the Govt. That said, you are right that whoever completes the project will be leaving an indelible footprints on the mind of the Easteners and most users of that route”, another Nigerian Emmanuel Eze, replied.
“Does this bridge look(s) like something Buhari can complete and commission?”, wondered another contributor, a Dr. Elmo Atiku, a clear Atiku sympathiser.
Here are some other reactions:
Bashir Ahmad✔@BashirAhmaad
When the Second Niger Bridge is completed, it will be a gift that will keep the President @MBuhari’s administration in the minds of millions Nigerians for a very long time. #PMBAtWork
aronKing@Ezbaronkings
U pple shld encourage Buhari to complete/commission d bridge urgently.
His current result of 0/10 is very bad.Yardua didn’t build bridge but was a better president.
In addition to Buhari bridge he can also name d pillars after his friends
He will score 1/10 when d bridge is done!
Bashir Ahmad✔@BashirAhmaad
When the Second Niger Bridge is completed, it will be a gift that will keep the President @MBuhari’s administration in the minds of millions Nigerians for a very long time. #PMBAtWork
Gift indeed.. Because he constructed it with his personal money. Blue tick is not a sign of intelligence
Bashir Ahmad✔@BashirAhmaad
When the Second Niger Bridge is completed, it will be a gift that will keep the President @MBuhari’s administration in the minds of millions Nigerians for a very long time. #PMBAtWork
O L A Y E M I@yemmyseA gift? Is this how elected officials feel when they initiate projects funded with tax payers’ money?
One.acre says Free Dadiyata@NekkaSmithNigeria’s Money !!!!!!!! Not Buhari’s Gift.
Nigeria is Bigger than one man.
Amin Suleyman@aminman2008You can’t be ungrateful to a man who remembered you after decades of your abandonment by successive administration
Bashir Ahmad✔@BashirAhmaad
When the Second Niger Bridge is completed, it will be a gift that will keep the President @MBuhari’s administration in the minds of millions Nigerians for a very long time. #PMBAtWork
MSA MSA@kayi_allahIgbos are the most ingrate set of people on this earth .if Buhari likes let him transform igboland to London today they still will hate him.Can you imagine Goodluck Jonathan spent five years on the throne without doing anything for them and he is their hero over Buhari
Ikechukwu Onuoha@iddomega_onuohaDo you reason at all?, even if he is actually building the bridge, is he using his own resources ? This is the money generated from that region from their natural and ingenuity resources. And you open your mouth to call what is supposed to be their right a gift?, You are sick.
Despite the dust the tweet stirred, Ahmad’s tweet has attracted 5,300 likes and 1,300 retweets by 14:00 on Monday.
And it triggered two hashtags on Nigerian Twitter: #Niger Bridge and #Bashir.
Both trending topics had a combined tweet of over 15,000 by Monday afternoon.
AFRICA TODAY NEWS, NEW YORK