Elon Musk and His Twitter Verification of “Jesus Christ”

There used to be a time when NTA was a national square in Nigeria. Yes, NTA had great programs like the Masquerade (Zebrudaya, Ramota, etc) and Tales by Moonlight. In the local stations, NTA Aba will feed users with the iconic Willie Willie  horror TV show (Hot Cash). Who did not enjoy Willie Willie? You knew if you watched it, you would possibly be on vigil all-night because sleep would not come. In short, if you see your shadow, you might think it was the ghost from the show.

Indeed, everyone suspected there were ghosts in villages but few had seen them fight humans. Willie Willie gave people the opportunity to experience that extra-terrestrial world on TV: send ghosts to deal with bad people. In America, it would have been rated 18+ but in Nigeria, it was a family show – and kids liked it because when the ghost appeared, villages/cities would thunder: he is out, hold me, and help me. Laughs in abundance because the ghost had disappeared again.

That takes me  to the reality that  Elon Musk and his new brand Twitter verification system have verified “Jesus Christ” on Twitter. Go figure what a man can do.  And I will ask: what drives Elon Musk? As Musk smiles while his verified “Jesus” is making a case that he is not fake, you begin to wonder why can’t Musk verify you as a “billionaire” with all the rights and privileges. 

At least, he has got many newspapers and magazines to write something on religion. Every major newspaper in the world has carried the news, and took time to explain the difference between Elon’s “Jesus” and Jesus, son of David in the Bible. You will hope he keeps it to only Jesus for his own safety! Indeed, verifying other prophets and messengers across religion may not be a parody!

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