By Reno Omokri
Recently, a number of people criticised pop singer, Davido,
for donning a Peoples Democratic Party attire during the PDP mega rally for his
uncle, Senator Ademola Adeleke’s gubernatorial bid.
They say that as a serving member of the National Youth
Service Corp, Davido ought not to promote a political party. I thought long and
hard about the criticism and my conclusion is that Nigerians are hypocrites.
According to the Police Act and the Nigerian Police Code of
Conduct, serving police officers should not participate in partisan politics.
Yet, the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission, Ibrahim Magu, a serving police officer, appeared on a Channels
Television programme on Tuesday, March 15, 2018, wearing a lapel pin bearing an
insignia of the re-election bid of President Muhammadu Buhari.
Did those criticising Davido speak up then? No, they did
not. I know for a fact because I led to choristers who protested against that
anomaly and even called for Magu’s sack.
The problem is that many Nigerians are cowards! Some might
even say most Nigerians are cowards.
I thank PremiumTimes, for
exposing Kemi Adeosun, Adebayo Shittu and Okoi Obono Obla as either NYSC draft
dodgers or potential certificate forgets. But what about Muhammadu
Buhari‘s children?
Three of them graduated a few years ago. Have they served?
To be the best of my knowledge they have not served.
Zahra
Buhari graduated. Did she serve? Yusuf, the power bike rider, graduated. Did he
serve? Or is his service to Nigeria done on top a multi-million Naira Okada?
Hypocrisy will kill Nigeria before corruption. Why should
the children of ordinary Nigerians serve while President Buhari’s children do
not? Yet the Presidency keeps regaling us about Buhari’s so called-integrity
And let me say that I am rather impressed at the effort the
Nigerian Police put into investigating Senator Adeleke’s WAEC certificate. I
just wish the Nigerian Police had also put in the same diligence in
investigating President Buhari’s WASCE Certificate.
Three members of President Buhari’s cabinet, Kemi Adeosun,
Adebayo Shittu and Okoi Obono-Obla, either forged their certificate or have no
certificate, yet the Nigerian Police DID NOT charge them. The West African
Examination Council confirmed Senator Adeleke’s certificate, yet he is the one
police want to charge!
Does that even make sense? Are we living in an upside down
world? Has life in Nigeria become so farcical that Alice in Wonderland appears
Sandeep than life in Buhari-land?
How else do you explain the irony of Kemi Adeosun who
admitted to forgery and was escorted to Nnamdi Azikiwe airport to board a
business class flight to London, while Senator Adeleke who is accused on
forgery is asked to report to the force headquarters for arraignment in court
just days to Osun election. Meanwhile, Buhari, the man of integrity, does not
know the whereabouts of his own certificate.
And the hypocrisy of Nigeria is so contagious that it is
rapidly contaminating previously rationally minded individuals. Take for
instance Senator Shehu Sani who on Monday, September 17, 2018, tweeted in
response to the HSBC report warning that a Buhari re-election will spell doom
for Nigeria as follows:
“HSBC is angry that African Heads of States are now going to
the Chinese restaurant and stopped going to the Mc Donald’s and KFC.”
This tweet went viral with many Nigerians cluelessly
supporting the clueless Senator without realising that in actual fact, HSBC is
a CHINESE bank.
The full name of the bank is The Hongkong and Shanghai
Banking Corporation. HSBC is actually the bank that issues the official
currency of China’s HongKong province. The headquarters of HSBC is in HongKong.
HongKong is a district of China. How can a Chinese bank be angry that Africans
are going to China?
Even HSBC holdings in London, which styles itself as a
‘British’ bank, is actually a wholly owned subsidiary of The Hongkong and
Shanghai Banking Corporation.
These facts are actually listed on HSBC’s website. So why
would a Senator open his mouth and spew such ignorant nonsense!
I guess one has to get used to such inanities from the All
Progressives Congress and its members. After all, the leader of the party is a
proud owner of a Bachelor of Science NEPA certificate. With such a leader, what
else can you expect from the followers?
I have just read a statement by the Presidency accusing the
Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki, of hypocrisy for disparaging President
Muhammadu Buhari, who Mr Saraki called visionless.
That President Buhari is visionless is not debatable. It is
an international fact. We are all witness to the publication by the Financial
Times of London, which revealed that after meeting President Buhari, US
President Donald Trump said: “I never wanted to meet someone so lifeless
again”.
President Buhari’s visionless-ness is evident in the fact
that even one of the world’s richest men, Bill Gates, looked President Buhari
in the eye and told him right there at the Presidential Villa that “your
economic blueprint does not address Nigerian’s needs”.
Even the President’s wife, Aisha Buhari, has borne witness
of the President’s visionless-ness when she said “He is yet to tell me if he’ll
seek re-election, but I have decided as his wife, that if things continue like
this up to 2019, I will not go out and campaign again and ask any woman to vote
like I did before”.
Evidence of President Buhari’s visionless-abounds. Under
him, Nigeria became the world’s headquarters for extreme poverty as published
by the World Poverty Clock, the World Economic Forum and British Prime Minister
Theresa May.
Moreover, just three days ago, the Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation published that young by the current trajectory, if nothing changes,
30% of the world’s extremely poor people will be in Nigeria by the year 2050.
Ironically, the statement lambasting Senate President Bukola
Saraki, was signed by Garba Shehu, President Buhari’s spokesman.
How can Garba Shehu attack Bukola Saraki for once supporting
Buhari in 2015 and now saying that Buhari lacks vision in 2010? Did Garba Shehu
not condemn Muhammadu Buhari while he was Special Assistant on Media at the
Presidency during former President Obasanjo’s Peoples Democratic Party
government? Evidence abounds. Does Garba Shehu deny this?
The Presidency’s statement is nothing less than a case of
the pot calling kettle black.
Reno Omokri
(Bestselling author of Facts Versus Fiction: The True Story
of the Jonathan Years, and other books. Avid traveller. Tormentor of the APC.)
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