Reno Omokri
In
this interesting and thought-provoking article, former presidential
aide, Reno Omokri has critically examined the recent declaration of IPOB
as a terrorist group, Operation Python Dance II in the Eastern States
and many more.
I read the statement by the former Deputy Director of the Buhari
Presidential Campaign Council, Mallam Mohammed Lawal with great
amusement.
Mr. Lawal, who is one of President Muhammadu Buhari's lopsided
recent appointees to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (AKA
Northern Nigeria Petroleum Corporation) wants Nigerians to believe that
former vice President Atiku Abubakar, has been plotting the downfall of
President Muhammadu Buhari since 2014.
I find the allegation laughable. Why, you may ask?
Well, because it is silly for any ally of President to say Atiku
Abubakar plotted President Buhari's failure. Does anybody need to plot
the failure of a man who still calls Germany 'West Germany'? Was it
Atiku's plot that made Buhari wait and waste six months before setting
up a cabinet of square pegs in round holes? Atiku did not force Buhari
to make promises he could not keep like making $1 equal to ₦1 or
creating 3 million jobs per annum.
Even before day one didn't Nasir El-Rufai warn Nigerians in 2010
that 'if you ask Buhari, he will think that Blackberry is a fruit.'
A serial plagiarizer who plagiarized Barack Obama's and Charles De
Gaulle's speeches, who surrounds himself with the likes of Amaechi, who
is still afraid of rats as an ex general, needs no one to plot his
failure!
Just as you have an auto-correct function on your phone, so does
President Buhari have an auto-fail function in his government. He does
not need an Atiku to plot his failure!
Let me cite an example. Two weeks ago, Benue state experienced a
cataclysmic flooding of almost biblical proportions. Many pundits,
including yours truly, appealed to the President to at least visit the
victims of the flood to give them moral support.
However, the President chose to ignore the 100,000 families that
had been rendered homeless and I thank God that this same Atiku Abubakar
who they claim is plotting the President's failure was able to plot his
way to donating ₦5 million to the suffering victims.
But that is not where the story ends. President Buhari who refused
to visit Benue shocked right thinking people by visiting Kaduna even
while the people of Benue (who coincidentally voted for him) had not had
the pleasure of his visit.
President Muhammadu Buhari is strong enough to visit Kaduna state
to commission a poultry but not strong enough to visit Benue to
commiserate with humans. You visit with poultry but not people. Why
does it seem as if this administration values animals over human beings?
Recall that when Nigerians were facing possibly the worst food
crisis in our history, Buhari's minister of agriculture was more focused
on importing grass for cows from Brazil. And even after herdsmen killed
vast amounts of people in Southern Kaduna the APC Governor of Kaduna
admitted to paying them compensation for their cattle killed. Perhaps
the President would have postponed his visit to poultry chickens in
favour of visiting paltry citizens in Benue.
Can his handlers continue to blame Atiku Abubakar for these unforced errors?
President Trump who we unfairly like to criticize in this part of
the world has visited Texas twice to help out with Hurricane Harvey
relief efforts and to project hope to his people. His office has equally
announced plans to visit Florida after Hurricane Irma eases. And here
our President is visiting poultry!
And look at what is happening in the Southeast. Do we blame Atiku for this avoidable crisis too?
Until Nnamdi Kanu was arrested by Muhammadu Buhari he was unknown
to most Nigerians and this include Nigerians of Southeastern origin. The
president actually created Nnamdi Kanu, made him a celebrity and gave
him the power he has right now.
Right now he has empowered the young man to do a lot more damage to
him and his inept administration by making him a cause célèbre that
even foreign diplomats go to pay homage to. What was Nnamdi Kanu doing
before President Buhari had him arrested? Radio Biafra? How many people
were listening to it?
What President Buhari did by arresting Nnamdi Kanu was to turn him
from a Bright Chimezie to a Michael Jackson without releasing a Thriller
album!
And to make matters worse, he has now initiated this unnecessary,
ill thought out, ill advised and ill fated so called Operation Python
Dance 2 in the Southeast.
The US Army is in Texas and Florida helping hurricane victims. That
is what I expect the Nigerian Army to do in Benue , where 100,000
families have been rendered homeless by flood, not doing a 'Show of
Force' in a place that is need of persuasion not threats.
Four days ago suspected herdsmen killed 20 people in Ancha village
in Miango district of Jos. If the army wanted to do a 'show of force',
that would have been a good place to start. It makes no sense to do a
show of force in a peaceful community when you have violence prone
communities all over Nigeria.
Since when did the dictionary definition of intimidation change to
'show of force'? Please let us call a spade a spade and not a big spoon.
The injustices under the Buhari administration are just too glaring, to blatant and too obnoxious.
Arewa youths gave their fellow Nigerians a Quit Notice and they get
a song and dance from the Buhari administration. IPOB youths who did
not threaten other Nigerians get Python Dance from the same government.
How is that fair?
Ignorance is a disease and the Buhari administration appears to be
heavily inflicted by this disease. If not, they ought to have known
that no nation on earth has permanently put down a separatist movement
by force of arms alone.
History does not repeat itself. Men repeat history. The United
States has 14 separatist movements. England invited her own separatist
movements to form regional govt in Ireland and Scotland. In the case of
Scotland, they even threw in a referendum into the bargain!
President Buhari could have defeated Nnamdi Kanu's IPOB and its
separatist agenda if he had only been equitable and just in his
management of Nigeria.
Buhari's appointments overwhelmingly favour the North. The
military and security agencies are almost entirely in the hands of not
just Northerners, but core Northern Muslims.
The chief of army staff is a core Northern Muslim from Borno. The
National Security Adviser is similarly a core Northern Muslim from
Borno. The Chief of staff to the President is likewise a core Northern
Muslim from Borno. The acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission is, you guessed it-core Northern Muslim from Borno.
The chief of air staff is a core Northern Muslim from Bauchi. The
Inspector-General of Police is a Northern Muslim from Niger state.
The Controller General of Prisons is a core Northern Muslim from
Kebbi. The Comptroller General of Immigration is a core Northern
Muslim from Jigawa. The Comptroller- Generalof the Nigerian Customs
Service is a core Northern Muslim from Bauchi.
The Director General of the Department of State Security Services
is a core Northern Muslim from Katsina. The Chief of Defence
Intelligence is a core Northern Muslim.
These are the appointments in the security agencies. Even if you
are a core Northern Muslim, as long as you fear God, you can see that
this list is obviously lopsided in favour of the core North.
In fact, the President has even stopped pretending. At the last
eid-el-fitri, President Muhammadu Buhari discarded all pretense and
addressed the nation in Hausa, the language of the core North.
When you take into consideration his famous comment, to wit "the
constituents, for example, gave me 97% cannot in all honesty be treated
on some issues with constituencies that gave me 5%", you can now see how
alienated he has made the South feel from Nigeria.
Since his swearing in as President of Nigeria, President Buhari has
not seen it fur to visit the Southeast yet this is a man that said "I
belong to everybody, and I belong to nobody" (never mind that he
plagiarized Charles De Gaulle.
If President Buhari wants to end the Biafran agitation, he needs
to, with urgency, retrace his steps and start acting like he is the
President of Nigeria, and not the President of core Northern Muslims
only. The day he makes this paradigm shift, will mark the day that
separatist agitation will start to fizzle out.
President Buhari does not need guns to quell any separatist movement. All he needs is guts.
About the Author:
Reno Omokri is a Christian TV talk show host and founder of the Mind of Christ Christian Center and the Helen and Bemigho Sanctuary for orphans. He is the author of the worldwide amazon #1 bestseller (Conspiracy Theory) Facts Versus Fiction: The True Story of the Jonathan Years: Chibok, 2015 and Other Conspiracies and three books, Shunpiking: No Shortcuts to God, Why Jesus Wept and Apples of Gold: A Book of Godly Wisdom
Reno Omokri is a Christian TV talk show host and founder of the Mind of Christ Christian Center and the Helen and Bemigho Sanctuary for orphans. He is the author of the worldwide amazon #1 bestseller (Conspiracy Theory) Facts Versus Fiction: The True Story of the Jonathan Years: Chibok, 2015 and Other Conspiracies and three books, Shunpiking: No Shortcuts to God, Why Jesus Wept and Apples of Gold: A Book of Godly Wisdom
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