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(Reuben Abati)--You probably don’t know Sugabelly. I don’t know her
either. But it is the twitter handle of a Nigerian lady: @sugabelly, who in the
wake of the death of former Governor Abubakar Audu of Kogi State felt the urge
to go public with her story. My foregrounding her/story as opposed to
his/story, is further affirmation of an earlier submission that Audu’s death is
“inconclusive” (The Guardian, Nov 27).
As the rest of Nigeria mourned the death of Abubakar
Audu and pondered the implications of an inconclusive electoral process,
Sugabelly showed up on social media and started celebrating his death. Her
message was that the death of the man was good riddance to bad rubbish. “I feel
so amazing”, she wrote. “Like God actually answered my prayers… That’s usually
how it is. Powerful people rarely remember the people whose lives they destroy.”
