The Dumb Trump Supporters in Nigeria.

It’s been a strange phenomenon, seeing and hearing some Nigerians rallying supports for the now President-elect Donald Trump during the last American presidential election. Initially, it started as a mere curiosity for those of us Nigerian-Americans. Then, it graduated into some sort of amusement. Finally, their actions rose to the level of irritation. Those Nigerians did not only flood the social media on behalf of Trump, they also campaigned, argued and fought with those who refused to support Trump. And this was a presidential campaign taking place in a far-flung foreign nation.

The situation became really critical because those Trump supporters were not resident in the United States. They are over ten thousands miles away. In fact, a whole lot of them have never set foot on the soils of the United States. And when Donald Trump was declared the winner, they all jubilated as if the man was a family member. Even Trump must be baffled. However, from all indications, those Trump supporters in Nigeria can easily be divided into three categories: 

1. There are some "alakatakiti" (religious fanatics) who support Trump because he is a "Christian". Unwittingly though, these people are indicating that their own Jesus Christ is racist, discriminatory, misogynistic and disrespectful to other people that are different by way of race, nationality and religion. The Christian fanatics are inadvertently telling the rest of us that they don't even know the real Jesus Christ!

2. There are supporters of the erstwhile president of Nigeria (Jonathan) that are sore losers and blaming the man's loss at the last Nigerian election on Obama and Hillary Clinton. Yet, rationale people all over the world may want to ask them where the correlation or relationship is between the current Nigerian president (Buhari) and Hillary Clinton. What sheer stupidity!

3. And, finally, there are those in the third category. They are the closet haters. They have always hated the guts of their family members, friends and all the Nigerians in the diasporas. Many of these Nigerians have done all they could to migrate abroad but failed. So, their collective wish is for someone like Trump to deport all Nigerians in God's own country. Someone needs to tell our dear envious folks back home that it's not our fault that they don't appreciate their situations in life. And they need to STOP stressing themselves over such a dumb wish!