Alexander Mukhtar Dan’Iyan, the editor-in-chief of the 15Past8 Media Group based in New York City who goes by the @MrAyeDee on Twitter is no stranger to controversies and today, June 9, 2015, he has taken on the violent gang of Buhari supporters on Twitter.
Dan’Iyan was made famous by his face-off with popular blogger Linda Ikeji in 2014. He became even more popular when he decided to take an unpopular stance on Twitter by endorsing President Goodluck Jonathan over General Muhammed Buhari during the 2015 election period. He had worked for Buhari in 2011.
Dan’Iyan exposed the fraudulent communications put out by the Buhari campaign concerning then candidate Buhari’s medical trip to London in the middle of the presidential campaigns and the phoney claims to have met with former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair whereas, Blair’s office said he was in Serbia at the time.
Since taking that stance, Dan’Iyan has become the target of the violent and angry Twitter bloc that supports President Buhari and the All Progressive Congress (APC).
Today, he decided to speak directly to them in his now-famous numbered tweets. He was specifically addressing the former Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) members of the All Progressives Congress (APC), the Tinubu loyalists. He began thus:
All those who don't understand politics is a long game and backed everyone Tinubu supported while abusing the rest of us, good luck..
— Mr. Aye Dee (@MrAyeDee) June 9, 2015
He followed up with 24 tweets that essentially told the APC Twitter thugs that their prospects of breaking-through in politics are bleak.
Dear ACN wing of APC's Social media squad. Let me be the first to offer my condolences.
You see, fact is, Politics is a long game, (1/24)— Mr. Aye Dee (@MrAyeDee) June 9, 2015
not a sprint. For many of who came into 'politics' as a means of livelihood, in your enthusiasm to show your capability for malice, (2/24)
— Mr. Aye Dee (@MrAyeDee) June 9, 2015
you not only attacked non APC candidates but also any and everybody who dared support the candidates your Lord at Bourdillon did (3/24)
— Mr. Aye Dee (@MrAyeDee) June 9, 2015
not endorse.
Maybe this was fine in the black and white days leading up to the Presidential election. However things changed (4/24)— Mr. Aye Dee (@MrAyeDee) June 9, 2015
afterwards, political waters became murky and merely being in APC or PDP no longer meant anything, relationships based on history (5/24)
— Mr. Aye Dee (@MrAyeDee) June 9, 2015
and mutual respect did.
You guys however did not realize this. Before your factions power was consolidated, you kept attacking (6/24)— Mr. Aye Dee (@MrAyeDee) June 9, 2015
those of us on the other team and even turned on your own non ACN faction APC party leaders who did not bow down to Tinubu's agenda, (7/24)
— Mr. Aye Dee (@MrAyeDee) June 9, 2015
in your excessiveness , you cast aspersions on them, denigrated and insulted them forgetting the had been your own comrades a mere (8/24)
— Mr. Aye Dee (@MrAyeDee) June 9, 2015
60 days ago.
In fact, in their hour of need, many of us on the other side became their most committed and dependable (9/24)— Mr. Aye Dee (@MrAyeDee) June 9, 2015
advocates.
We're not special, we merely understand the game. This alliance bore results, and today things changed, in the spirit (10/24)— Mr. Aye Dee (@MrAyeDee) June 9, 2015
of true bipartisanship, the working relationship of the non ACN faction of APC with the PDP delivered the Senate Presidency to (11/24)
— Mr. Aye Dee (@MrAyeDee) June 9, 2015
@bukolasaraki and the Speakership of the House to @DoYakubu.
Therein lies your problem.
You see, in the Presidential system, the (12/24)— Mr. Aye Dee (@MrAyeDee) June 9, 2015
Legislature has to approve Ministers, and Ministers are chosen and nominated via compromise.
Alas, with your Lord at Bourdillon (13/24)— Mr. Aye Dee (@MrAyeDee) June 9, 2015
having lost major influence with Aso Rock due to his blatant power play to acquire the Senate Presidency and House Speakership for (14/24)
— Mr. Aye Dee (@MrAyeDee) June 9, 2015
his acolytes, and the obvious lack of influence in the House and Senate after his scorched earth campaign which culminated with his (15/24)
— Mr. Aye Dee (@MrAyeDee) June 9, 2015
preferred candidates being defeated, it's unlikely he'll be calling the shots on much if anything on the Federal level any time (16/24)
— Mr. Aye Dee (@MrAyeDee) June 9, 2015
soon.
Why is this a problem?
Well, many of you lack skills which are marketable in the real world, and you've burnt more bridges (17/24)— Mr. Aye Dee (@MrAyeDee) June 9, 2015
than any human being should have. In fact, your antecedents show no sane person would employ you based on your mental state, and (18/24)
— Mr. Aye Dee (@MrAyeDee) June 9, 2015
no sane person would recommend you for anything lest you turn on them, in other words, your last hope at the big leauges was some (19/24)
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sort of appointment with the Federal Government where you might have some power, some influence and maybe make some money.
Alas, (20/24)— Mr. Aye Dee (@MrAyeDee) June 9, 2015
the man you aligned with, his only remaining beachhead at this time is the VPs office, and there are only so many SAs, PAs, and (21/24)
— Mr. Aye Dee (@MrAyeDee) June 9, 2015
SSAs that office can support. So what this means is most of you who were jobless prior to campaign season are simply going to stay (22/24)
— Mr. Aye Dee (@MrAyeDee) June 9, 2015
out of work, or do you think people you smiled with leading up to March 28th and then turned on post election trust you or want you (23/24)
— Mr. Aye Dee (@MrAyeDee) June 9, 2015
around?
Then again, there's always a place in Osun or maybe Lagos State, Good luck… (24/24)— Mr. Aye Dee (@MrAyeDee) June 9, 2015
