Tolu Ogunlesi, who works as Special Assistant on Digital/New Media for Presidential Buhari is taking hits on Twitter for saying that middle class Nigeria’s problem is lamenting over Mastercards and shopping and overseas vacations.
Twitter Nigeria has reacted to his tweets and here’s what they had to say:
'Stop talking about the past!' makes about as much sense as 'Forget the diagnosis, just focus on the treatment.'
S'oro niyen?
— tolu ogunlesi (@toluogunlesi) September 30, 2016
We can't be complaining History Teaching has stopped & then shutting up those who wish to remind us of our recent tragic economic History ?
— tolu ogunlesi (@toluogunlesi) September 30, 2016
Intriguing to see us middle class Nigerians lamenting all day abt our MasterCards/Grocery shopping/foreign vacations.Feels like giant bubble
— tolu ogunlesi (@toluogunlesi) September 30, 2016
& you get sense that middle-class Nigerians happy to let Nig remain as is as long as MasterCards work fine & we can buy our seedless grapes
— tolu ogunlesi (@toluogunlesi) September 30, 2016
So I'll get serious,unironical messages like Buhari is not allowing us to do summer vacation again.Seriously? That our problem as a country?
— tolu ogunlesi (@toluogunlesi) September 30, 2016
Then again wasn't it in this country that a President said one sign of our rising prosperity is in the private jets littering our airports?
— tolu ogunlesi (@toluogunlesi) September 30, 2016
You don't have to agree with me, of course. But you can leave the insults out as well, LOL.
— tolu ogunlesi (@toluogunlesi) September 30, 2016
By now it should be clear you can't get my attention by insulting me. Try coming with a sensible rebuttal or argument.
— tolu ogunlesi (@toluogunlesi) September 30, 2016
My name is Tolu Ogunlesi and I just want to take over the Common Sense conversation. LOL. #coupdetat
— tolu ogunlesi (@toluogunlesi) September 30, 2016
But how is being able to spend limitless MasterCard $$ (by a country dt earns 90% of $ from oil),a sign of progress? https://t.co/SIOof8zbwq
— tolu ogunlesi (@toluogunlesi) September 30, 2016
It's a sign of progress when citizens are FREE to trade locally and internationally not at the whim of the govt.
Tolu don drink the wata https://t.co/mU2xov8c5f
— Oo Nwoye (@OoTheNigerian) September 30, 2016
I'll hold my nose and argue, "at least the thieving were having it good" *pukes*
However, now, NOONE except you Aso dwellers dey see road https://t.co/Ha4dfP43Kk
— Oo Nwoye (@OoTheNigerian) September 30, 2016
.@OoTheNigerian Aso Rock people. Such a tired phrase. Lol. Come and see my collection of small generators abbl
— tolu ogunlesi (@toluogunlesi) September 30, 2016
.@toluogunlesi Is MasterCard the reason why no streetlight in Abuja works? or the reason for inconsistency in Forex policy?
Guy! Do well o!
— Oo Nwoye (@OoTheNigerian) September 30, 2016
that street light issue (and traffic light issue) is a huge problem.
— Chine Ezekwesili ? (@ChineEzeks) September 30, 2016
according to @toluogunlesi argument as a Mastercard user, I may be in a bubble. Afterall, 90% of Nigeria forex comes from oil.
— Oo Nwoye (@OoTheNigerian) September 30, 2016
hahahhaha you are going the Ojodu way? bros you get allowances for those generators. please.
— O. T. O (@Abduljermaine) September 30, 2016
Not sure why people think accusing me of being an 'Aso Rock person' works as a way to shut down convo. This my ordinary life?Aso Rock bawo?
— tolu ogunlesi (@toluogunlesi) September 30, 2016
So if your argument is that he's drinking Aso Rock water, try finding another one. A more serious one. Unless we're just doing bants ?
— tolu ogunlesi (@toluogunlesi) September 30, 2016
.@AyoNaledi Ayo,I haven't ever tried to downplay wht we're all going thru. I just wish we'd reflect a bit more on the whys,the route to here
— tolu ogunlesi (@toluogunlesi) September 30, 2016
.@AyoNaledi And it's not even unique to us. We built our lives on oil. Now the party is over. It's that simple.
— tolu ogunlesi (@toluogunlesi) September 30, 2016
.@AyoNaledi what did we really expect, for an economy that depends on oil for 90% of $, and for 70+% of government revenues?
— tolu ogunlesi (@toluogunlesi) September 30, 2016
We're (and again I'm including myself) behaving like we planted apples and are now being forced to harvest lemons.
— tolu ogunlesi (@toluogunlesi) September 30, 2016
Well aware of how Twitter distorts messaging, but hopefully that will never stop me from trying to make a (larger) point.
— tolu ogunlesi (@toluogunlesi) September 30, 2016
When we've all calmed down maybe we will think about it again – considering what we know about our economy, what did we really expect?
— tolu ogunlesi (@toluogunlesi) September 30, 2016
It's not fighting matter, LOL. All I'm saying is let us reason together. (Admittedly that's not my line, plagiarized from God)
— tolu ogunlesi (@toluogunlesi) September 30, 2016
And then when we spend some time talking about what went wrong and what inevitably followed, we WILL also talk about what's going right.
— tolu ogunlesi (@toluogunlesi) September 30, 2016
.@Damocleansword For ex. what are banks to do when they don't have the dollars to support limitless card transactions? Honest question.
— tolu ogunlesi (@toluogunlesi) September 30, 2016
— Dame Jayla Peperempe (@Miss_Jayla) September 30, 2016
@adeyanjudeji or maybe the luxury of aso rock has gotten you all confused. Stop tweeting crap!
— Paradox (@ritzcasmoi) September 30, 2016
@adeyanjudeji in your mind seedless grape is luxury or being able to use one's mastercard.
— Paradox (@ritzcasmoi) September 30, 2016
Did the falling naira stop President @MBuhari from treating his ear problem abroad? It stopped my friend with heart problem
— Aisha Yesufu (@AishaYesufu) September 30, 2016
and it equally hinders a sister's education in Egypt.
— Aliyu Adra (@Sultaanaliyu) September 30, 2016
Many have had to pull their children out of school and here we have insensitivity
— Aisha Yesufu (@AishaYesufu) September 30, 2016
Looking at £1 being 1000 and petrified what happens to my dyslexic son who can't get the education he needs in Nigeria
— Aisha Yesufu (@AishaYesufu) September 30, 2016
I worked hard for my money. No government contract nor per diem. No political allowances and it hurts to see naira falling
— Aisha Yesufu (@AishaYesufu) September 30, 2016
When they come to you with their appointment, tell the satan to get behind you, lest they do to you what they had done to @toluogunlesi.SAD!
— Akin Akingbesote (@shogbo1) September 30, 2016
@adeyanjudeji you are really drinking from the same kool aid as your feudal lords.
— Paradox (@ritzcasmoi) September 30, 2016
Abort thread… pic.twitter.com/PTl5hlCvWx
— Nneka O. ?? (@Playm8z) September 30, 2016
Sometimes you can keep quiet….
— MNO CHRONICLES (@MealdredO) September 30, 2016
Let this be a lesson to us all. A Tolu Ogunlesson.
— mogwai. (@TheVunderkind) September 30, 2016
Tolu the social critic is trying to state issues Tolu the public official cannot say frankly. So it all comes out vague and hypocritical. ?
— AYO SOGUNRO (@ayosogunro) September 30, 2016
Nigerian students abroad are in a quagmire because of the FX imbrioglo.Yet Tolu's problem is vacations&online shopping of the middle class.
— Charles the 1st (@9jaBloke) September 30, 2016
Buhari does not have a casual discussion with the fellow; he barely has access.
His job is to defend, defend, defend. https://t.co/evgmSEIEkg— Ndi Kato (@YarKafanchan) September 30, 2016
Reno was incompetent & had few redeeming qualities. The funny thing is that by 2019, it will be difficult to distinguish between Tolu & Reno
— Onye Nkuzi (@cchukudebelu) September 30, 2016
As a matter of fact I heard @toluogunlesi reports to 25yr old @BashirAhmaad. Tolu does not even have access to Buhari's footprints. https://t.co/McX8eUzElu
— Mr Stanley Nwabia (@MrStanleyNwabia) September 30, 2016
There are many Tolu Ogunlesis here.
Give most youths in politics a little mat somewhere in the corner near power & see misbehavior ?— Ndi Kato (@YarKafanchan) September 30, 2016
Hey God. Tolu Ogunlesi has lost it. ?
— Chidi Okereke (@Chydee) September 30, 2016
Rather, 'Tolu the social critic' became 'Tolu the public official' which quite frankly has now revealed the REAL Tolu ?Tolu the Hypocrite. https://t.co/UKTIrEqF9K
— Mr Stanley Nwabia (@MrStanleyNwabia) September 30, 2016
Tolu Ogunlesi has been indoctrinated by a good dose of Buhari’s socialist doctrine. Of MASTERCARD being an "enabler" of forex drain.
— Nnamdi Anekwe-Chive (@nnamdianekwe) September 30, 2016
.@Damocleansword You know hw easily tweets can gain or lose context on here.Larger point was about us not planting lemons & expecting apples
— tolu ogunlesi (@toluogunlesi) September 30, 2016
Sorry if that tweet read wrong. Wasn't the intention. I tried to make a larger point in subseq tweets. PS. Aso Rock water IS ordinary water
— tolu ogunlesi (@toluogunlesi) September 30, 2016
Having said that – we will need to deal with our reality. These MasterCard troubles & skyrocketing seedless grapes will be w/ us for a while
— tolu ogunlesi (@toluogunlesi) September 30, 2016
Every time you use a naira Card abroad your bank has to find the foreign currency to pay for it. Now insert oil price into equation.
— tolu ogunlesi (@toluogunlesi) September 30, 2016
Anything we can do to enlarge the perspectives around our troubles. Again I'm not mocking or intending to mock the middle-class.
— tolu ogunlesi (@toluogunlesi) September 30, 2016
Indeed, our MasterCards could very easily return to normal tomorrow and we'd still not be one inch out of our underlying wahala.
— tolu ogunlesi (@toluogunlesi) September 30, 2016
Again I apologize for how that tweet came across. My point wasn't to put down or disregard a middle-class I'm fully a part of. Sorry.
— tolu ogunlesi (@toluogunlesi) September 30, 2016
These streets are not playing.
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