By Reno Omokri
In a tweet he
tweeted on January 9, 2012, the Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai,
tagged Dr. Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala a “zero”. Not too long after, a nasty
little child who was promoted by the same El-Rufai, tweeted that Dr.
Okonjo-Iweala was ‘overrated’.
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The two characters aforementioned also spouted some of the
vilest things about former President Goodluck Jonathan and his wife, with the
nasty little El-Rufai social media sidekick comparing then President Jonathan
to a “dead pig” and referring to his wife as a “natural disaster”.
To say El-rufai threw decorum to the wind would
be the understatement of the year. He insulted former President Jonathan while
he was praying, calling him “stupid” and “lazy” as he prayed to his God.
El-Rufai’s ill-brought up children also joined the fray and used some of the
most uncouth language on the then President. And then it became the turn of LaiMohammed and his principals, Muhammadu Buhari and pastor Yemi Osinbajo.
It seemed they were in a competition to outdo themselves
in a bid to cast aspersions on the person of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan and his
government. Clueless, useless, inept and incompetent were some of the choice
words they used to describe either the then President or his administration.
While campaigning in February 2014, then candidate Muhammadu Buhari said he
‘would not continue with the programmes and policies of President Jonathan’s
administration, because to continue with the ideas of a government that does
not have a clue signals danger’.
His deputy, Osinbajo accused the Jonathan
administration of lacking ‘commitment’ and promised that their administration
would do better. Not to be undone, Lai Mohammed called Dr. Jonathan ‘clueless’,
“callous”, “insensitive” and “punch drunk”! All three of them promised to give Nigeria a
better government and reverse the “rot” of the Jonathan years. Yet in
three years of being in office, the Buhari administration has been unable
to initiate, start and complete any project in three years. Where they met
an economy that was growing at an unprecedented rate of 6.7%, they negatively
turned the table and in six months, an economy that was officially cited
as the third fastest growing economy in the world in 2015 and the largest
economy in Africa, officially went into corruption!
Whereas, Nigeria gained
3 million new jobs in the last three years of Jonathan, we have lost 11 million
jobs in the same period of review under Muhammadu Buhari. Do not look at me.
Those figures came from the National Bureau of Statistics which is owned and
controlled by the government Buhari heads! President Buhari, a man who claimed
that then President Jonathan was weak on security has been faced with an ever
increasing level of herdsmen killings.
There is a lot of press coverage over the fact
that there has been 1,692 civilian deaths in Afghanistan in
the first six months of 2018, which is the highest number in the war on terror
to date. The sad fact is that this number is not up to the number of Nigerians
who died in the first 10 weeks of 2018. Yet Nigeria is supposedly
at peace while Afghanistan is
at war!
Faced with these facts, you would expect the
clueful Buhari to come up with strategies to stem the killings, instead, he had
this to say: “There is nothing I can do to help the situation except to pray to
God to help us out of the security challenges” (I am not making this up, Buhari
actually said that). When bandits killed 34 people in Sokoto two week’s ago,
the same President Buhari said Nigerians should be patient because ‘my security
teams are cracking their brains’!
To think that this is the man who called
Jonathan and his government clueless is so annoying! And to show you how
jobless President Muhammadu Buhari is, he could not visit Sokoto State, where 32 Nigerians were killed
by bandits, but he traveled to the Netherlands to
attend the 20th anniversary of the International Criminal Court.
NO OTHER Head of State attended the anniversary
other than Buhari! The man places no priority on his citizens’ life. How can he
expect the world to value him when the world knows he does not value his own
people? And the truth is that as long as Muhammadu Buhari and his All
Progressive Congress are in power, Nigeria is
not going to make any real progress. I mean look at the people who make up the
Buhari cabinet!
Former President Goodluck Jonathan’s minister
for finance got her PhD in regional economics and development from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. On Thursday July 19, Jack Dorsey, the
CEO of Twitter appointed Dr. Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to the board of Twitter.
She also seats on the boards of Lazard, Gavi and the Asian Infrastructure
Investment Bank. President Buhari’s minister of finance on the contrary went to
a London Polytechnic, seats atop a recessed economy and is accused of forgery. Now
tell me who is CLUELESS between Jonathan and Buhari?
It is commonly said, show me your friends and I
will tell you who you are. A good leader knows that he or she is a product of
his or her environment so they surround themselves with the best people. This
is a principle that Jonathan lived by. Can the same be said about President
Buhari? A leader should surround himself with those who are on the same mission
as himself. Looking at President Buhari and the people he has surrounded
himself with, I am tempted to believe that the mission the President has chosen
for himself is a mission to fail!
Ex President Jonathan’s former health minister
is now a Professor at America’s Duke University.
His former agriculture minister is now the President of the African Development
Bank. His former finance minister sits on the board of Twitter, Gavi, Lazard
and the Asian Infrastructure and Investment Bank. His communications minister
is now the Chairperson of the global Alliance for
Affordable Internet. All this is happening while President Buhari and his
finance minister are still looking for their certificates!
Buhari’s Director General of the Securities and
Exchange Commission, Mr. Mounir Gwarzo, was fingered for high level fraud and
was so incompetent that Nigeria’s
equity markets kept shrinking under him. Compare this with Arunma Oteh, who
tripled the net worth of our capital market to $150 billion and was so good at
her job that she was appointed a vice president and treasurer at the World
Bank. Now take all these in and again ask yourself who is truly clueless
between Jonathan and Buhari? Back to Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, my response to him
on his ‘zero’ tweet is as follows-Thank God Twitter, GAVI, Lazard and the Asian
Infrastructure and Investment Bank do not think that Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is
a zero.
But the curious thing is that El-Rufai, who
thinks that he is a hero, has not accomplished anything worthwhile as Governor
of Kaduna state. He had saddled his state with debt, pays herdsmen by his own
admission, while internal strife kills his own citizens. After six years, we
now know who the real zero is. As
for Lai Mohammed, the man who told Nigerians that President Buhari’s
achievements have ‘exceeded his promises to Nigerians’, Nigerians laughed when
he launched ‘A National Campaign Against Fake News’.
This is like satan opening a church. Lai
Mohammed and fake news are 5 and 6. They are Siamese twins! Lai should buy a mirror and arrest the person he sees there
and by so doing he will reduce fake news in Nigeria by
half! The truth is that when you compare and contrast Jonathan’s cabinet with
Buhari’s cabinet, the facts speak for themselves?
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