By Reno
With President
Muhammadu Buhari's lawyer's ₦500,000 'gift' to
Justice Adeniyi Ademola while the certificate case was being tried before that
judge and with the Secretary to the Government of the Federation's
Grasscuttergate scandal, can we all stop pretending and accept that the anti
corruption war is dead?
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| *President Buhari and Gov El-Rufai |
I believe I now
know the reason why God allowed President Buhari to come back to power. It was
to expose him for who he really is. Not a saint, but a hypocrite!
A hypocrite of the highest order. A so called anti corruption
crusader who writes letters to cover his corrupt Secretary to the Government of
the Federation and whose lawyer gives gifts to a justice that is being tried
for collecting gifts from others. Do as I say, not as I do!
Things were already
bad enough until the President's spokesman released his statement trying to
justify the 'gift'!
When Femi Adesina,
President Muhammadu Buhari's spokesman, says PMB's lawyers ₦500,000 payment to
Justice Ademola was a 'gift' not a bribe he must think that Nigerians are on
the bottom of the ladder in the rational thinking food chain!
So if I take a bribe
and call it a 'gift', according to Femi Adesina, it automatically transforms
from corruption to 'gift'? So President Buhari believes in the Transformation
Agenda after all! Who would have thought so!
So why can
President Buhari's lawyer give gifts but Andrew Yakubu cannot accept 'gift'?
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission should just release everybody they
are trying because they took 'gifts' not bribe. After all, President Buhari and
his lawyer have shown us the way!
The Justice Ademola
that is currently being tried is accused of taking bribes because people gave
him gifts. So why were their gifts proceeds of corruption and Lawyer Awodein's
(Buhari's lawyer) a proceed of friendship?
According to the
Oxford English Dictionary, a bribe is defined thus:
bribe/brīb/verb: persuade (someone) to
act in one's favor, typically illegally or dishonestly, by a gift of money or
other inducement.
Now if you consider
the favorable way the certificate case against the President has been going
for him in the matter before Justice Ademola, you may be forgiven if you quote
Proverbs 18:14 and say "a
man's gift makes room for him".
With all apologies to
the publishers of the Oxford English Dictionary let me say that they have to
alter the meanings of some words in their dictionary.
With Nigeria
gift (noun): New word for
BRIBE as approved by the current President Muhammadu Buhari led Nigerian
government for exclusive use of All Progressive Congress members.
And while we are at
it, I am feeling some generosity to my readers. If any of my readers will like
a GIFT, then they should send me an email. But if they would prefer a BRIBE,
then they should send me a hand written letter instead. If you as my reader
does not know the difference, then contact President Muhammadu Buhari's lawyer!
Everybody gives
gifts but some gifts are more equal than others. For tips on giving EFCC
approved gifts, see President Buhari's lawyer! The DEODORANT has been sprayed
on Lawyer Awodein and the INSECTICIDE is being sprayed on Justice Ademola. Now
I understand Shehu Sani!
But this President
Muhammadu Buhari knows how to code better than Mark Zuckerberg! Look at the
code word his team used for the payment made to Justice Ademola. The 'gift'!
I am tempted to ask
what else they have coded? Is the 2017 budget codedly (I invented the
word codedly since we are all making edits to the Oxford English Dictionary)
padded? Have they coded INEC to produce only inconclusive elections? Is
Babachir's grass cutting contract a means to get more resources to provide
future coded gifts?
In fact, I am
reliably informed that APC members give GIFT while PDP members give BRIBE but
if you were once a Peoples Democratic Party member and you are now in the APC
you give GIFTED BRIBE! Now we understand why Rotimi Ameachi said he never gave
nor received bribes. As an APC member, maybe he gave and received 'gifts'.
After all, there is nothing wrong with that! Our leader has shown us the way!
And President
Buhari is not the only hypocrite in town. His mini me, Nasir El-Rufai, the
unofficial Vice President and Khalifa of the Buhari personality cult is as
hypocritical as they come.
Many Nigerians were
shocked to find out that Malam Nasir El-Rufai, the Governor of Kaduna state,
instigated the arrest of Audu Maikori, Nigeria's version of Jay Z and the CEO
of Chocolate City, a man who has made many stars including Africa's number one
rapper, MI Abaga.
What is Maikori's
crime in El-Rufai's eyes? That he erroneously tweeted false information that he
had been by his driver who misled him for the purpose of obtaining financial
favours from him.
When Maikori
realized he had been duped, he immediately apologized. But that was not enough
for his Governor. He was accused of incitement because of his tweets!
But the thing is
that the El-Rufai that is now so sanctimonious is actually by far guiltier than
Audu Maikori in what he accuses him of. In fact, El-Rufai is the grandfather of
making false an inviting comments on Twitter and other social media platforms and
I will prove it.
On November 25,
2014, Nasir El-Rufai, the current Governor of Kaduna State, in a tweet
questioned whether then President Goodluck Jonathan was traveling to Chad
On July 24, 2014, El-Rufai, via another tweet, accused then President Jonathan of meeting with his
terrorists from Nasarawa state. On January 2, 2014, El-Rufai alleged that he was
number 6 on a list of politicians to be assassinated by then President
Jonathan. He also claimed that the current President, Muhammadu Buhari, Asiwaju
Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Rotimi Amaechi were on that list.
On November 9,
2013, as then President knelt praying to his God, El-Rufai tweeted a picture of
the President and said (and I quote) "many prayers of the lazy, docile,
incompetent, clueless, hopeless, useless leader!"
On July 15, 2012,
shortly after then President Jonathan had issued an Executive Order to the
military to fish out killer Fulani herdsmen that had turned some parts of
Plateau state to a theater of war, El-Rufai tweeted the following:
"We will write
this for all to read. Anyone, soldier or not that kills the Fulani takes a loan
repayable one day no matter how long it takes."
On January 28,
2013, this same El-Rufai had tweeted thus:
“If Jesus
criticises Jonathan’s government, Maku, Abati or Okupe will say that he slept
with Mary Magdalene”.
On October 2, 2010,
El-Rufai posted on facebook the lie that the Jonathan administration had spent
64 billion Naira celebrating Independence Anniversaries during its time in
office. His exact words were as follows:
“This is the
APC/PMB change we voted for. Independence
Well, a Freedom of
Information request was made by activists to the Office of the Secretary to the
Government of the Federation and even though this administration hates the guts
of former President Jonathan, they were forced to admit that Nasir El-Rufai
lied and that the Jonathan administration spent only N333, 600, 000 for
four years to hold independence day celebrations. An amount that is less than
1% of what El-rufai claimed was spent.
As I write this to
you, Nasir El-rufai HAS NOT apologized for shy of these strings of lies!
Yet, this is the
same El-Rufai that has now instigated the arrest of Audu Maikori for allegedly
inciting the public by spreading lies. This the biggest act of HYPOCRISY I have
seen and I urge you my reader to individually Google these tweets and facebook
posts. Do not take my word for it.
When a man who has
a history of falsely attributing such deviousness to Christians (as he did with
his September 18, 2014 tweet accusing Christians of being behind Boko Haram)
becomes Governor of a state, should we be surprised at the fate that has been
visited upon the Christian people of Southern Kaduna ?
If you can believe
that Christians were behind Boko Haram to "tarnish the name of Islam"
as he himself tweeted, who can tell what he would do to get revenge on them
when he finds himself in a position to do so as Governor?
If without power
Nasir Elrufai showed open bias for the Fulani people as he did in his tweet of
July 15, 2012, can any reasonable person expect him to be objective while he is
in power? That would be like expecting a man who cannot keep his hands off a woman
when he is dating her to become chaste with her after he has married her. It is
not possible!
Knowing the
manipulative tendencies of Nasir El-Rufai and his Machiavellian, the end
justifies the means approach to power, I will not be surprised if he starts
sponsoring articles against me as a Fulani hater, so let me be preemptive.
I love the Fulani.
They are perhaps the most beautiful Black people on planet earth. I am now a
pastor and have been faithfully married for the last thirteen years to the same
woman who I expect to stay married to until Jesus returns or I die, but before
then I was in a relationship with a Fulani from Taraba state. I do not need to
go into too much detail but suffice to say that I did what most young people
would do in a relationship (this was before I re-dedicated my life to Christ).
In the course of
that relationship, I visited and spent time in Taraba, in Gembu and Nguroje to
be specific. My time was spent with a beautiful clan of Fulani people who would
not have minded having me as an in-law. They taught me some Fulfulde and I
remember them and my time with them with nostalgia. I still have pictures from
that time.
There is no way I
could have gotten so close to the Fulani and even contemplated becoming their
in-law if I did not and do not admire them.
Moreover, perhaps
my best friend while I was in Law School (1999-2000) was Abbas Ibrahim, a pure Fulani
from Maradun in Zamfara state who now works in the Federal Ministry of Justice,
Abuja
This article is not
targeting the Fulani. No. rather, it is identifying one of them who has,
perhaps more than anybody else in Nigeria
Nasir El-rufai is
not an example for Fulatanci and this may explain why he tries so hard to show
loyalty to virtues and traits that are a given to the well brought up Fulani I
have come to know and respect intimately. His Pulako is doing great harm to the
Fulani Peoples of Nigeria.
Finally, let me end
this piece by saying that I was so glad to hear President Muhammadu Buhari's
voice as he spoke to Governor Ganduje of Kano London
To those who have
done so and to others who are contemplating doing so, I hope and pray you get
treated like the Guardian Newspaper reporter who was almost arrested when the
residents of Abuja House (President Buhari's current residence) called the
police to help get rid of him. But just in case you do not get arrested, permit
me to write a new version of an Old Nursery Rhyme for you.
Old
Version:
Pussy Cat,
Pussy Cat Where Have You Been?
I've Been to
London to See The Queen
New Version:
Sycophant,
Sycophant, Where Have You Been?
I've Been to London
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