There is nothing as honorable as being a man of his words and a doer of what he preaches. But for Ben Murray Bruce, honor lies at the tip of the tongue and at the ball of the pen. He is vocal, he is eloquent and his sugarcoated lips are capable of hypnotizing. He has won many to his side through his gainsaying and sheer public endearment slugan of ‘CommonSense’ which is more like his hypnotizing pendant.
But the legendary reggae musician, Bob Marley knew so well his type that he said to them: “You can fool some people sometimes. But you can’t fool all the people all the time”
Yesterday, Nigerians proved they were wiser to be fooled by the vain glory seeking politician closely when someone went on Twitter to ‘expose’ the Silverbird CEO for doing the exact opposite of what he has been advocating for weeks now: #BuyNaijatoGrowTheNaira.
At his 60th birthday party,which took place a few days ago in Abuja, Mr. Bruce launched his A CommonSense Revolution book and shared free copies to guests in attendance. One would naturally think the ‘common sense’ speaker would have published his book in Nigeria but it appears the Senator has more faith in the American printing press.
The observant Nigerian shared screenshots of the book on Twitter saying : So, #BuyNaijaToGrowTheNaira advocate made his book in the USA. Haba! Immediately Nigerians reacted and they took heavy shots at Mr.bruce calling him a ‘hypocrite’ and a ‘noise maker’. One person even went as far as calling him a ‘first class fool.’
