Senator Ben Murray Bruce, the media mogul, philanthropist and lawmaker representing Bayelsa East in the upper chamber National Assembly is not for all the theatrics being dished out daily by the President Muhammadu Buhari administration, telling them clearly to shut up and work or prepare to be kicked out by increasingly frustrated Nigerians.
The Senator took to his social media account, Twitter to do exactly what his colleagues are conspiring to stop Nigerians from doing on social media.
He said in a series of tweets, “So, let me get this right: The fuel scarcity we are facing today is the fault of an administration that was voted out 9 months ago? Issorai!
If you know that the reason they are attacking me is because I am telling you the truth, please retweet this message loud for them to hear!
Fela was my friend. I was Chairman of the Fela Foundation. What type of person would I be if I am shmiling while my people are shuffering?
This same Jonathan wanted to remove subsidy, you resisted him, now you have guts to blame him, what’s more you now want to remove subsidy!
The man who doesn’t smile and whose followers are referring to as the “Common Sense Senator” retweeted this news headline where former APC spokesman turned Minister for Information, Lai Mohammed passed the buck to the Jonathan administration.
Jonathan created ongoing fuel scarcity —Lai Mohammedhttps://t.co/aY7Qd8lCIJ@FMICNigeria @PdpNigeria @APCNigeria pic.twitter.com/WQaRZZrpc9
— Vanguard Newspapers (@vanguardngrnews) December 21, 2015
How ridiculous! Are we going to be told Jonathan is responsible for harmattan and my neighbor’s wife’s miscarriage? #acceptresponsibility!
When electricity improved in June it wasn’t Jonathan’s fault but when there’s fuel scarcity in December it’s his fault #acceptresponsibility
Responding to attacks on his person and personality by APC supporters on Twitter, Bruce responded with this tweet, You dont know your own Senators name yet you choose to attack me who has written 5 Bills because I am here telling Nigerians truth! Issokay!
He also highlighted the well publicized fact of Obama’s policy of not blaming George W. Bush Jnr, despite his being arguably the most clueless American president ever who sank America to never before seen lows on several fronts, dragging the rest of the world along.
Bruce said in a series of Tweets, “Obama inherited the worst economy ever yet has succeeded in reducing unemployment and petrol prices without once blaming his predecessor! The reason Nigerians elected this administration is because our electorate wanted to hold them responsible for running Nigeria not Jonathan. Instead of blame game, swallow your pride and work towards political collaboration to get us out of this no fuel, no power, no FX situation! Imagine that Govt is a relay race, how can this Govt expect to win when it has spent the first relay of the race blaming instead of working? And to those youths who either support or attack my arguments, you owe no loyalty to me, APC or PDP. Your only loyalty should be to Nigeria!
His last tweet is this funny meme from the #letsblameGEJ trend on social media.
You mean I caused all these? pic.twitter.com/HD2nvs1eUp
— Ben Murray-Bruce (@benmurraybruce) December 22, 2015