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It is most unfortunate that we are busy discussing National Anthem rather than more important issues. This is the very height of cluelessness. We may soon end up as a nation with two National Anthems.

Those who claim that Tinubu’s National Anthem is a profound act, and an achievement of great national importance should cease and desist forthwith from sounding so ridiculous. One of the very easy tactics that a government adopts when it sees that it is unpopular with the publics that it governs is to create a diversion, fly a kite or invent a subject of controversy to keep the people busy and draw them away from what exactly they should be talking about. The media gets easily sucked into the sensational subject because that sells the news, and in the midst of the frenzy that follows, with the commentariat and civil society beating their chests and staging a drama of their own, and government fuelling the narrative, the big issues of the day are glossed over and government heaves a sigh of relief.



This is precisely the diversionary tactic that has been adopted by the Tinubu administration by making the reversion to Nigeria’s old National Anthem the big issue of the day, as the administration marked its one year in office. One week to 29 May, the government sent an Executive Bill to the National Assembly, which worked expeditiously on it, taking the bill through the necessary readings and passing it promptly. On 29 May, Nigerians were further confused as to whether the Presid.

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