Dr.Olola Kassim lied, in insinuating that Mike Arnold was using that office to buffing up his political personality.

[Abraham Madu]

Dr Kassim,

The types of lies and stereotypical utterances you made in this piece are beyond your caliber of intellect and egalitarianism. For a second, I thought I was reading from Afis Odidere, Kayode Adebammuọjọ, Femi Olajide, or Jorom Nyash (is he still alive? I heard a rumor that troubled me, if true, may he rip). I guess, the only thing you all have in common is Yoruba tribalism, to the specificity of supporting Bola Tinubu's inglorious presidency of Nigeria simply because he is your fellow Yoruba. This is disgraceful, especially for an Olola Kassim of all people. 

You can disagree with Mike Arnold and there is nothing wrong with that, but what is not intellectually and morally acceptable is your distorting what he said, fabricating things and attributing them to him, or stereotyping Americans baselessly and meaninglessly. Contrary to your willful distortion/fabrications, Mike Arnold has never claimed expertise on terrorism or on anything. He has always anchored his observations on religious killing in Nigeria on the fact that: (a) He has traveled to Nigeria 16 times since 2015 doing work for displaced persons as a result of these killing. (b) Has been an eyewitness to the aftermath of these killings through rehabilitating its survivors, and have had them detail their experiences to him and to other charitable organizations worldwide. (c) He runs multiple charities in Nigeria focused specifically to victims of religious killings in Nigeria; whenever he is in Nigeria, he is always in contact with victims and displace people from Christiana genocide. Assuming that Mr. Arnold has ever claimed expertise on terrorism based on the factors above, no objective and properly educated person would question or diminished such expertise. 

Contrary to your misrepresentation, Mike Arnold has never referenced his having been a mayor of a Texas town anywhere -- Americans, unlike you title maniac and power hungry Nigerians, do not view holding or having held public office as anything extraordinary or worthy of being bragged with. It was Reno Omokri, a Tinubu worshipper, who brought it out as a bragging venture when he stupidly assumed that Mike Arnold would join him in selling his lies about Christian genocide in Nigeria. It was Mr. Arnold who minimized his having been a mayor -- he said it was decades ago and was not representative of any political persuasion nor uplifted him to any position of significance as to knowing Senator Ted Cruz or POTUS Trump. So you lied, Olola, in insinuating that Mike Arnold was using that office to buffing up his political personality and experience.

It was wrong and unbecoming of you to have generalized/stereotyped Americans as ignorant people who only know their neighborhoods. For the record, the US has led the entire world in advancing human civilization in every of its facets in the last 200 years, and it still leads the world as I write, despite the strides being made by China and some other counties. An ignorant people cannot lead the world on anything and for so long too, so you lied even in your pejorative portrayal of Americans. Your adopted country of Canada is a First World country today because the US subsidizes its economy and security, which was why Trump, in reasoning like a typical New Yorker, wanted to stop those subsides (which are similar to what US states get from the US federal government) if Canada would not become the 51st state. Yes, Trump went about in the wrong way, but his reason for suggesting it is still valid and indisputably true. Your slurring Americans with ignoramus is not only fallacious, it is also unbecoming of your character -- it smacks of the arrogance from ignorance typically ascribed to Nigerians by folks of other countries. 

Mike Arnold did not carry "20 pages of notes as proof...", he carried 19 pages of references (citations), that is what properly educated people are expected to do when they speak on matters, especially controversial ones. Not only are you a scientist by virtue of being an MD, you are also a professor for teaching in the university, yet for Tinubu's sake you threw the core of scientific and academic integrity to the dogs by poo-pooing on Mike Arnold's upholding of scientific/academic requirement (of backing assertions/claims with references)? You sound like the other Tinubu defenders who shamelessly complain about the length of written works -- only Tinubu-ites take pride in impugning high intellectual/academic requirements. 

Mike Arnold never claimed that Tinubu is under indictment or is a convicted fugitive felon who ought to be arrested by law enforcement where seen, he only asserted the truth -- Tinubu forfeited over $400,000.00 to the US government in the 1990s. I am surprised that you do not know that presidents have immunity from arrest worldwide, unless there is an existing indictment/conviction on war crimes/crimes against humanity. Your wondering why Tinubu has not been arrested as he travels all over the world does not belittle Mr. Arnold, it tarnishes your objectivity and scholarship, especially since Mr. Arnold did not state the lie from which you built that question.  

Support Tinubu all you want, but don't lie, distort facts, or turn logic upside down in doing so, as is always done by 90% of Tinubu supporters. You risk impugning your integrity and legacy by writing in this pedestrian manner typical of Tinubu's worshippers.

I thank you.

Nebukadineze Adiele

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[Abraham Madu]