{"id":93046,"date":"2025-02-20T17:02:26","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T17:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=93046"},"modified":"2025-02-20T17:02:26","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T17:02:26","slug":"in-benue-state-as-in-iraq-sycophancy-should-have-a-limit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=93046","title":{"rendered":"In Benue State, as in Iraq, sycophancy should have a limit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">THERE IS A LIMIT TO SYCOPHANCY AND PROPAGANDA<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">By <strong>Buti Sam<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf was an Iraqi former diplomat and politician. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs during Saddam Hussain&#8217;s rule. As the regime was going under during the American invasion of Iraq, he was busy giving\u00a0 press conferences reeling out the regime&#8217;s heroics in the battle. The regime got over thrown just a few days later. Was he a denialist, a narcissist or both.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Benue State has been\u00a0 witnessing a resurgence of terrorism and insurgency since last year, especially in the Ukum-Sankera-Turan axis. People are being killed, maimed and displaced. Those of us from there have been busy burying, treating or resettling our loved ones.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">In the\u00a0 meantime, the Alia government is living in denial and delusion, busy reeling out stories of security bliss and heroics? This must either be a government run by denialists or narcissists. *The &#8220;Alia&#8221; they quit, the better.* This is beyond politics, it is about survival.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">May the good Lord, who puts one down and raises another, arise on behalf of our people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u25cf <strong>Sam, a Benue State indigene, lives in South Africa and sent this via WhatsApp.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><!--\/data\/user\/0\/com.samsung.android.app.notes\/files\/clipdata\/clipdata_bodytext_250220_175930_059.sdocx--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THERE IS A LIMIT TO SYCOPHANCY AND PROPAGANDA By Buti Sam Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf was an Iraqi former diplomat and politician. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs during Saddam Hussain&#8217;s rule. As the regime was going under during the American invasion of Iraq, he was busy giving\u00a0 press conferences reeling out the regime&#8217;s heroics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":65869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5782],"tags":[1232,7003,7004],"class_list":["post-93046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-opinion","tag-benue","tag-iraq","tag-sycophancy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/65869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}