By Reno Omokri
At last, Kemi Adeosun, Muhammadu Buhari’s cockney
accented Minister of Finance has finally resigned. Kemi claims she did not know
her National Youth Service Corps exemption certificate was forged and I believe
her.
I read her
letter and it made sense. I believe she is an unfortunate victim of
circumstances. Ordinarily, I would have called for her prosecution, but this
was an honest mistake and she should not be punished beyond her resignation.
*President Buhari and Dr. Ngige |
Having said that, it is surprising that President Buhari accepted her resignation on the ground that she has a forged certificate. The question is what should a man whose certificate is suspected not to have ever even existed do in such a circumstance? Muhammadu Buhari claims to be a man of integrity, but when challenged to provide his West African School Certificate results for perusal, the famously boastful Buhari responded by hiring thirteen Senior Advocates of Nigeria to hide behind a wall of legalese.
So blasé was the President to calls for him to show Nigerians
that he has his certificate that the President’s private army, AKA the Economic
and Financial Crimes Commission even went to the ridiculous extent of arresting
and charging the judge handling President Buhari’s case. If that is not
intimidation, I wonder what would be.
Be that as it may, even
after appointing another Northerner to head the Department of State Security,
President Buhari accepted Kemi Adeosun’s resignation and replaced her with a
Northern Muslim, Mrs Zainab Ahmed. Sometimes, I almost think that if given the
opportunity, the notoriously nepotistic and tribalistic Buhari will replace
even the President of the Christian Association of Nigeria with a Northern
Muslim!
I congratulate President Buhari for appointing yet another
Northerner, to join his cabinet. He had previously also appointed Yusuf Magaji
Bichi, to head the Department of State Security. Now, for only the second time
in history (the first time was in 1984 when Buhari was s military dictator) all
the intelligence agencies, DSS, DIA, NIA, DSS, NPS, NIS and
NSA are headed by Northerners. Not even one competent Southerner could be found
amongst 180 million Nigerians by President Buhari.
Whoever doubted Buhari’s 97% versus 7% statement can now see
the President is dead set on his Northernisation of government agenda. The
question those who truly love Nigeria should
be asking themselves is this: If Buhari can be so tribalistic 5 months to an
election, ask yourself what he will be like if he is re-elected for a second
term?
If a man
starts beating his wife publicly in the mosque immediately after their wedding
Fatiha, what will happen when they get home? And then there is the Quisling of
the Buhari administration. I refer to none other than Rotimi Amaechi. On June
14, 2016, Rotimi Amaechi, who is Mr Buhari’s minister of transport, publicly
refused to spend ₦13 billion on the Maritime University in the Niger
Delta, where 90% of Nigeria‘s foreign earning comes from.
On that day, Mr Amaechi, who was speaking at a town hall
meeting organised by the federal ministry of information in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State ,
defended the decision of the Buhari administration to scrap the project which
is critical for his own people in the Niger Delta. In response to a question,
Mr Amaechi said: “If you give me 13 billion, I will buy the half of Lagos ”.
It took the intervention of the minister of state for
petroleum, Mr Ibe Kachikwu, for sanity to prevail on that day. Visibly offended
by Mr Amaechi’s statements, Mr Ibe retorted “let me say on Okerenkoko University ,
I disagree with the Minister of Transport. Any facility that is located in the
South-South we should work close to developing it. I don’t care about the
circumstances under which you are placed”.
However, on
Tuesday, September 11, 2018, Mr Amaechi, who felt that ₦13
billion was too much to be spent on the Niger Delta, justified citing an ₦18
billion, so-called, Transport University, in President Buhari’s village of
Daura. Mr Amaechi said there is nothing special about building the university
in the president’s hometown since “Daura is also part of Nigeria ”.
But what of
the Niger Delta?
Is the Niger Delta not part of Nigeria ?
How can ₦18 billion to build a university in Buhari’s village
be justifiable but ₦13 billion for the goose that lays the golden egg is
not? It should be recalled that the only federal university in President
Buhari’s home state of Katsina, was built by former President Jonathan, a man
who treated all parts of Nigeria equally.
Rotimi Amaechi is a minister today because of the Niger
Delta. He was nominated as a minister to represent Rivers state in the
Executive Council of the Federation. By his actions, it is safe to say that
Amaechi is a traitor to his people! However, kudos must go the way of the
minister of state for petroleum, Mr Ibe Kachikwu, who stood up for the truth
when it counted. Unsurprisingly, it was after speaking up for the Niger Delta
that Mr Ibe was consequently sidelined in his ministry with President Buhari
giving the real power in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation to
Maikanti Baru, his fellow Northerner, promoting Mr Ibe’s famous leaked memo.
And then, there is the court jester in Buhari’s government. I
refer to none other than Chris Ngige, the fetish shrine visiting Minister of
Labour in Mr Buhari’s lacklustre federal cabinet. Mr Ngige said he is surprised
that Nigerians do not clap for President Buhari on a daily basis. I hope Okija
shrine did not do permanent damage to Chris Ngige’s psyche! How can he ask us
to clap for a Buhari under whom Nigeria lost
11 million jobs and became the world headquarters for extreme poverty and whose
government wants us to give land for cattle ranch or die?
Ngige wants us to clap for Buhari.
Do we clap for:
* Being the world HQ for extreme poverty?
* For our foreign debt doubling in 3 years?
* For moving 12 places backwards in Transparency‘s corruption
rating?
* For ‘giving land for cattle ranch is better than death’?
What Buhari needs is a clapback, not a clap
#RenosDarts Reno’s Darts:
Between 2015 and 2018, the Naira has depreciated by 85%, the
earning power of Nigerians has depreciated by almost 100% and cost of living
has increased by an average of 125%, yet the Buhari administration has borrowed
more money than the PDP borrowed in 16 years! #RenosDarts
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