Dear Vanguard Newspaper, you have for a long time given “bigotry” a voice in mainstream media in Nigeria. Your bigotry problem predates the exposure of the “sophisticated moron” comment by your Editorial Board Chairman, Mr. Ochereome Nnanna. Your penchant for promoting ethnic and religious division is not masked; it is in your DNA. Your Editorial Board’s decision to publish genocidal diatribe by the bigot Femi Fani-Kayode, where he referred to some prominent Yorubas and Hausa-Fulanis as vermin and cockroaches was an anticlimax.
The puzzle is: why have you surrendered your platform to bigotry? Who are your paymasters? The question that Ochereme’s reference to Yorubas as “sophisticated morons” presented to you the management of Vanguard Newspaper is: was Ochereome’s rant a verbal stumble or intentional bigotry?
Unsurprisingly, in your response, you performed…
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