A lonely, in-your-face protest has set Nigerian social media alight after footage surfaced from Port Harcourt.
In the clip, a bare-chested man wheels an empty wooden coffin down the street. Going shirtless is itself a common local protest signal: I’ve got nothing left.
Mid-walk he starts to sing a looping question in Pidgin:
“Who get this coffin?”
Spectators answer the only way the rhyme allows: “Tinubu! Tinubu!”
Feeding on the crowd, he keeps pushing and turning the box, turning a solo stunt into a communal jab at the president.
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The mix of near-nudity, death imagery, and the name-check has split opinion. Supporters call it a raw mirror of the hardship caused by record inflation and the fuel-subsidy removal. Critics slam it as disrespect bordering on incitement.
By Tuesday night the clip was still doing the rounds on X (formerly Twitter) and WhatsApp; neither the Rivers State police nor local authorities have issued a statement.
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