Reno Omokri writes on 'Meeting Prime Minister Theresa May And a Bit About Fela and Buhari’s Missing Billions'
Read his post below...
I must thank my friend, Daniel Hannan, a Member of
the European Parliament, who invited me to the 2017 Conservative Party
Conference in Manchester. It was a beautiful and mind-expanding
experience attending the conference as an official delegate and my
democratic experience and temperament is all the better for it.
One of the best parts of the experience was that on Monday October 2, 2017, I met and was photographed with Prime Minister Theresa May and I must say that she is the epitome of simplicity and a specimen of good upbringing and class.
Prime Minister May gave me audience, listened to me and took a
picture with me and then sat directly behind me without a single
noticeable security aide for the entire Monday session where the
Chancellor of The Exchequer, Philip Hammond, gave his inspiring speech.
Imagine if this were in Muhammadu Buhari’s Nigeria, would such an
honour have been done to a person without much status in Nigeria? Would
the security detail around the President even allow that? I leave you to
answer that question.
But that was not even the best part for me. After meeting Prime
Minister May on Monday, I was interviewed by a BBC crew and I informed
them point blank that democratically unseating President Muhammadu
Buhari is my greatest human ambition other than making it into God’s
kingdom when I die.
President Muhammadu Buhari is President of Nigeria
for now, and I will respect that, but when the time comes (and it is
coming soon), I will do all that is legally and humanly possible to
democratically unseat a man who I believe has taken Nigeria more than a
decade backward.
By now, my readers must have either heard of or read the letter by the minister of state for petroleum resources, Mr. Ibe Kachikwu, to his senior minister, who also happens to be President Muhammadu Buhari.
In that letter, Kachikwu states that not only has he, as chairman of
the board of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, been sidelined
by the Group Managing Director of the NNPC, Maikanti Baru, but the
entire board has, allegedly been made redundant.
Appointments that are heavily lopsided in favour of the North have been
made by Baru without recourse to Kachikwu or the board of the NNPC. But
perhaps most troubling is the fact that, according to Ibe Kachikwu,
contracts worth $26 billion have been awarded by Baru, without recourse
to due process.
$26 billion. Imagine that! Of the 55 senior management positions
recently made by Baru at the NNPC, only 19 of those appointments went to
Southerners while 36 of those appointments went to the North, a region
that produces no oil. Does this not corroborate what Malam Nasir
El-Rufai said about President Muhammadu Buhari on October 6, 2010, to
wit that Buhari’s “insensitivity to Nigeria’s diversity and his
parochial focus are already well-known.”
The above is a direct quote from El-Rufai. Today, his words almost seem prophetic.
Never in the history of Nigeria have we had an administration so openly
partial to one group of Nigerians against other groups. In fact, so
obvious has the Northernisation agenda been that TY Danjuma, a retired
Lieutenant General and former chief of army staff was forced to publicly
call out the President.
TY Danjuma, whom many call the President’s
godfather, on July 14, 2017 accused the Buhari administration of
“deliberately disregarding the constitution and federal character.”
But back to Ibe Kachikwu.
Ibe Kachikwu obviously did not get the memo. There is no Nigerian
National Petroleum Corporation any more. It is now Northern Nigeria
Petroleum Corporation.
And it is very sad that even the Minister of state for Petroleum
resources cannot even see the President who is the minister of Petroleum
resources! However, Kachikwu was naive for writing that letter to
Buhari! He does not know that Baru was brought in to do exactly what he
is doing!
The first time Muhammadu Buhari was Petroleum Minister in the 1970s,
Fela sang ‘2.8 billion Naira missing’. Now he is Petroleum Minister
again and Kachikwu is singing ‘$26 billion missing’! Why is it that huge
billions tend to go missing or spent without due process whenever
Buhari is Minister of Petroleum?
If President Buhari truly has integrity and if his anti-corruption
war is not a cover for an anti-PDP war, then Baru must be investigated.
Just imagine what would have happened if a minister accused Goodluck Jonathan’s government
of awarding $26 billion contracts without due process! Anti-corruption
government my foot! We will not know the extent of the Muhammadu Buhari
administration’s corruption until they leave office! In fact, the new
definition of a fool is as follows: Noun used to describe anybody who
expects a government that returned Sylva’s 48 mansions to him to
investigate Baru for the $26 billion oil mess.
Babachir Lawal is still enjoying his grass-cutter
money because under this administration it is a case of guilty unless
you are covered by the broom. If your covering is the umbrella, then you
are guilty until proven innocent!
I mean, with Nigeria’s security challenges, one would have thought
President Muhammadu Buhari would have appointed himself as Defence
Minister instead of Petroleum Minister. I always felt it was an odd
choice for an ex-general who was elected majorly because the electorate
thought he could handle the security challenges facing the nation. Yet
he left security to others and personally chose to handle the Petroleum
ministry. Now we know why!
President Buhari told Nigerians that his government came to fix Nigeria.
But thanks to Kachikwu, we now know that in reality, this
administration came to STEAL, KILL and DESTROY!
$26 billion corruption exposed in NNPC. Who knows what is going on at
the Nigerian Ports Authority, the Nigerian Communications Commission
and the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission. You and I won’t know
the extent of President Muhammadu Buhari’s corruption until he leaves
power!
And finally, let me say that though Buhari is President, the buck
does not stop at his table. In as much as he still blames Jonathan, the
buck stops at Dr. Goodluck Jonathan’s table.
What the President fails to understand however is that when a government
repeatedly and consistently blames the opposition for their failure to
fulfill their campaign promises, what they are really saying to the
people is that they are no longer useful!
Reno’s Nuggets:
Teach your children not to be in a hurry to have premarital sex. Bearded
meat is most delicious when eaten only after marriage. Do this, because
if you don’t train your children when young, they will strain your life
when you are old. Train or strain. The choice is yours. Finally, if you
train them well they won’t become fools. Who is a fool? A fool is a
person that ignores their parents when they are alive and suffering only
to spend big money giving them a ‘befitting’ burial when they die
#RenosNuggets
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