When images of Peter Obi’s son were recently circulated online, twisted into a grotesque smear campaign by APC social media influencers, it sent a chilling message: morality, dignity, and even family are no longer sacred in Nigeria’s political battlefield. What should have remained private — and off-limits in any civilized democracy — has now been weaponized in the most destructive manner. It was not politics as usual, but politics thrown to the dogs — a ruthless descent into sadism, mockery, and digital savagery.
This orchestrated attack was not an isolated episode. It fits into a broader pattern — a carefully coordinated assault on opposition figures, designed to poison public perception and silence dissent before the 2027 elections. Weeks before this fresh wave of digital vitriol, I had written an exposé titled Digital Ambush: Inside APC’s Multi-Billion Naira Plot to Silence Dissent Before 2027, published on August 2, 2025. That investigation revealed how a sprawling network of influencers, bot farms, and well-funded digital operatives was being marshaled not to engage in healthy political debate, but to destroy reputations at all costs. What we are now witnessing confirms every line of that revelation.
From Atiku Abubakar to Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, Aminu Tambuwal, Abubakar Malami SAN, and even respected voices like Najaatu Mohammed, no opposition figure is spared from the toxic claws of APC’s digital enforcers. These campaigns are not rooted in policy debates, governance records, or ideological contest. Instead, they are dripping with venom — personal attacks, character assassinations, and invasive smears. The strategy is simple: dehumanize the opponent, distract the public, and dominate the narrative through noise, scandal, and spectacle.
The smear campaign against Peter Obi’s family is only the latest chapter in this disturbing saga. We have seen Atiku branded with concocted corruption allegations amplified through WhatsApp forwards and Twitter/X trends engineered by paid influencers. El-Rufai has been targeted with fabricated scandals designed to paint him as politically toxic and unfit for national leadership. Aminu Tambuwal, too, has been relentlessly hounded online with labels aimed at erasing decades of public service. Even Abubakar Malami SAN, though a former insider of the APC, has not been spared since falling out of the power circle. And Najaatu Mohammed — a fearless voice of dissent — has faced a torrent of misogynistic attacks and fake news designed to discredit her political commentary.
What ties all these cases together is not coincidence but coordination. APC’s 2027 ambition has birthed an industry of digital brutality. The party, instead of building its case on governance achievements, seems determined to drown Nigerians in a flood of misinformation and online bullying. It is a strategy both immoral and destructive, one that trades national unity for partisan dominance, and sacrifices truth on the altar of political survival.
The saddest part? These campaigns are not the work of fringe actors. They are fueled, sponsored, and amplified by key APC media warlords who relish in throwing morality to the dogs. Day after day, they recruit impressionable youths into digital mobs, turning social media into a marketplace of hate where lies travel faster than facts.
This is not just a political strategy — it is a cultural war aimed at reshaping Nigeria’s democratic space into a theater of cruelty. The human cost is immense: families shamed, reputations destroyed, public trust eroded. When morality is sacrificed, when leaders and their foot soldiers embrace sadism as a weapon of politics, the country itself becomes the casualty.
As we march towards 2027, Nigerians must ask: is this the democracy we fought for? A democracy where opposition is not debated but digitally lynched? Where morality and decency are mocked, and families are dragged through the mud to score political points?
History will remember this season not as a time of great policy contest, but as the era of digital bloodsport — where power was pursued not with ideas, but with the ruthless immorality of a digital war machine.
What they want us to forget, however, is far more damning than the lies they spew on social media. While APC’s digital warriors manufacture smear campaigns and hurl insults with reckless abandon, over 130 million Nigerians are trapped in multi-dimensional poverty, struggling daily to find food, water, and shelter. Children waste away from hunger while the ruling party’s army of propagandists waste billions to trend hashtags and wage war against imaginary enemies.
What they want us to forget is the rising tide of insecurity that still stalks every corner of this country. From Zamfara to Plateau, from Benue to Borno, kidnappers, bandits, and terrorists remain untamed. Citizens travel in fear, families are torn apart, and blood continues to soak the soil of a nation whose leaders pretend that tweets and press statements can secure lives.
What they want us to forget is the height of hypocrisy: a government that boasts of saving trillions from subsidy removal, yet continues to borrow recklessly in the name of “propping up foreign reserves.” They want us to clap as they pile debt on unborn generations, even while diverting billions to fund trivialities, luxuries, and political survival. The question every Nigerian should be asking is simple—if trillions have truly been saved, why are we still drowning in debt?
And what they want us to forget most of all is this: while they gorge on public wealth and dance in the corridors of power, ordinary citizens suffer in silence. Nigerians are not blind. Nigerians are not deaf. The truth will not be buried under hashtags and propaganda. The time has come for citizens to rise and demand accountability. For if we do not, this digital army of sadists will continue to throw morality to the dogs, and the country we love will collapse under the weight of deceit, hunger, and despair. Enough is enough. The people must speak—louder than their propaganda, stronger than their hate, and clearer than their lies.