Governor Rauf Aregbesola — or the handlers of his official Twitter handle — must, by now, be regretting a tweet that was meant to boost his goodwill but has only fetched him scorn.
On Saturday, the handle tweeted a photo of the Governor in his car, making the peace sign to a shoeless boy standing in front of a mud house, who was also making the same sign.
It was accompanied by Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s saying: “The soul is healed by being with children.”
However, Twitter users didn’t think Aregbesola did a thing to heal the boy’s soul or that of many children like him, nether did he do a thing to heal his own soul.
While a user told him to “delete” the tweet, another simply branded it “silly”.
The soul is healed by being with children.
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky pic.twitter.com/1nme7qOG7E— Rauf Aregbesola (@raufaregbesola) August 12, 2017
Other reactions ranged from asking the governor to delete the tweet, to wondering why he didn’t disembark from his car to personally greet the boy.
See some of them below:
That child is shoeless.
Living in a mud house.
You are driving by in an air conditioned SUV.
Waving…
…and proudly sharing it.— Somi (@SomiEkhasomhi) August 12, 2017
Mister Governor look at difference between u and that child. Politicians living at the expense of their people.
— osaghae osamuyi (@chalcedonynaija) August 12, 2017
How u sleep at night sir ,knowing that ppl are dying daily cos of ur actions n inactions ?
— Honyfactory (@Honyfactory) August 12, 2017
And u are very far away from the poor kid , u inside an air conditioned suv nd d kid have no shoe and might have no good drinking water o .
— akhogba era (@armaniera) August 13, 2017
would b nice if u come down from ur car to greet him
Smh— unlimitedsala (@olowosalamalt) August 12, 2017
Sir pay the workers , how hard is that?
— Honyfactory (@Honyfactory) August 12, 2017
“Being with children” you say? He is like half a mile away from u on foot and you are in a bus, zooming by. That’s not “being with children”
— Hearkeen (@OlokunAkindeji1) August 12, 2017
Not like you post a picture along side with the child ???? you were just passing by like a star player hisssss ????????
— Marcus Bamidele J (@Highnessjackie) August 12, 2017
Silly!
— Chinedu Anyaegbunam (@educhuckie) August 13, 2017
Delete!!!!
— Dr. John Bassey (@jaybrizzy) August 13, 2017
You can better his life, not by showing two fingers to a poor boy.
— IYKE (@Iykelopezz) August 12, 2017
Not paying their parents would make the children to be denied of many things
— Emmanuel Oluwakorede (@oluwakoredeemm1) August 12, 2017
You are such a disgrace sir… he is not waving cos he likes you. That is a call for help. Too bad you can’t discern.
— Hearkeen (@OlokunAkindeji1) August 12, 2017