For several months, Jimi Agbaje, who fought hard to wrestle power from the All Progressives Congress in Lagos State, held the social media community spellbound. He was among the most active users of social media during the recent general elections.
But his fans seem to have carried on without his witty, philosophical posts.
His last tweets came on April 17. That was a few days after the result, which favoured the Governor-elect, Akinwunmi Ambode, was announced.
In the posts, Agbaje, a pharmacist who contested on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, appreciated Lagosians for standing by him.
The tweets, a few days earlier, appeared on his Facebook page, which had served as a rallying point during the campaign.
Agbaje had tweeted, “I believe in Lagos. I believe in the people of Lagos. Elections come and go – sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. But through it all, democracy teaches us that we can agree to disagree without necessarily compromising our stand or values and the very principles that make us unique.
“For Lagos, we must keep on pushing for a government that works not only for a few elite but also for the greater good of our people. We have an obligation to ensure that Lagos continues to be inclusive and that our development must have a human face. This is what I committed to when I decided to run, and this is still worth fighting for.
“Although this election is over, our work as citizens must go on. Each and every one of us has a duty to ensure that our government continues to be transparent and accountable.”
Agbaje also encouraged his fans to drop their messages via Facebook with a promise to attend to them as he continued to provide the needed leadership to achieve a Lagos of his dream.
The message, which was endorsed with his social media signature, received an overwhelming response from his fans. For instance, it was shared by over 1,200 Facebook subscribers while over 13,000 liked it – a testimony of his popularity on social networking sites.
But since publishing the message, which his followers commended as an indication of his selflessness, Agbaje has not been active on the social media.
During the campaign, he launched a dedicated portal, which had grown into a vital platform. As of Sunday, the blog was no longer accessible.
Meanwhile, the Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission, Dr. Chidi Odinkalu, has taken to Twitter to condemn the mass killing of indigenes of Plateau State last week.
An online media had put the number of people killed at 500.
Odinkalu said the manner people were being killed in the country was worrisome. He said concerted efforts should be made to stop the killing.
“The violence, mass killings and displacement in the North-Central is becoming chronic, in the scale of a war. It should get the kind of attention the North-East gets. No society should be used to killing people like the way we do in Nigeria,” he tweeted on Sunday.
The tweets caused a controversy on how to stop the protracted herdsmen/farmer faceoff in the North-Central and other parts of the country.
One Elnathan John, who joined the Twitter debate, ruled out a suggestion calling for the restriction on the Funlani herdsmen. Rather than restricting the herdsmen, he called for a broad study into the cause of the fracas.
“Sometimes, famers take laws into their hands and kill herdsmen or their cows. Sometimes, the herdsmen resort to self-help too. Both parties, at one time or the other, do things that instigate violence. We need a country that can guarantee justice and security before you can ask somebody to shun self-defence, which is the underlining issue,” he tweeted.
An online media reported that hundreds of persons are killed by gunmen who raided five communities in Plateau at the weekend. The raids were reportedly carried out between Friday night and Saturday morning.
The affected communities, according to the report, are Saku, Wadata Kasuwa, Wadata Mission, Kurmi and Kadarko in the Wase Local Government Area of the state.
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