On Monday morning, Godsday Orubebe — a former appointee of President Goodluck Jonathan — tried to stop the vote counting as Jonathan was around 2 million votes behind.
Orubebe’s was unsuccessful — but he got Twitter famous in the process.
His name was immediately reborn — always as a verb, and always about disrupting something you shouldn’t be.
Some meanings of the new phrase “to Orubebe” are less kind than others.
Orubebe’s outburst also spawned a new spin on the name of the elections chairman, Attahiru Jega.
Jega had already become widely known and respected in Nigeria for the calm with which he handles having the most sensitive, stressful job in Nigeria right now.
Attahiru Jega, chair of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Afolabi Sotunde / Reuters
And after Saturday’s election “Jega” has taken on new meaning. Sometimes “to Jega” can be a verb…
Culled From Buzzfedd News
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