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Saturday, December 22, 2018
Full Broadcast: Nnamdi Kanu Spits Fire, Warns Nigeria and Gov Okezie Ekpazu
This evening the reportage will be on direct and undiluted as usual.
The Biafran leader started with a prayer for the restoration of Biafra.
"Our job is to restore Biafra and there is nothing anybody will do about it. The zoo must fall with the president Jubril.
We shall expose the Yoruba media that collect money to publish rubbish.
Once again Jubril and his handlers has shown to the world the ample opportunity for those brave enough within the zoo to confront the impostor from Sudan but they passed up because they are cowards. They are natural born cowards. What natters to them is the money they loot especially the Yoruba media.
I want Yoruba journalists to go back to the scientific evidence I gave about two weeks ago. Look at it and look at the person that presented the budget to the Senate and tell me if the person is general Buhari.
The most painful part is that you don't need a vibrant brain to understand that Jubril is not Buhari.
They flew Yoruba journalists to Abuja recently and bribed them thinking we will not know about it.
I want everybody to look properly to look at Jubril in the house of Senate. All of you who saw the video saw that the left ear is still intact.
Alex Bade was courageous enough to tell them to remove him from their trial or he will expose them and he was killed.
I will prove it tonight that Aisha Buhari knew about the killing.
I say it that very conviction that the Nigerian media is working against the people.
Alex Bade died because he threatened Aisha Buhari and end
Kari.
Yoruba media is responsible for the mess Nigeria is in today.
You will see from the picture of Buhari in that had a growth on the chick.
Did you notice that Jubril was cutting the birthday cake with his left hand.
No matter how you reverse the picture, it will be left. If you try to change it, 76 will change to 67.
Because the cabals were forcing Jubril to mimic Buhari, he can not sign his signature well.
Yoruba media should go and verify themselves.
Everybody in the Senate knows that the person the northerners voted had a damaged ear but no one asked a simple question.
I want to prove to the Yoruba media tonight that they are working for the devil.
They know that any day Biafra goes, Fulani will invade them that's why they can publish anything to keep every thing possible to keep Nigeria one.
I want everybody to look at the official picture taken when Jubril visited Trump and the picture the dead Buhari attended anti corruption summit in London.
You will notice the damaged ear.
Take note of the different parts of the ear.
Look at the pictures very well and after this night if anybody still believe that Jubril is Buhari then I know pigs are better than black Africans.
That trouble is coming sooner because I will prove that they sent a fake to Trump.
K will even charge the US diplomatic mission in Nigeria for sending a fake Buhari to Trump.
Now that you have seen the two pictures, are the two helix the same?
What of the lobule?
The one of Buhari is not same as Jubrils'.
I'm using official pictures published by Nigerian government.
There are some things you cannot change in life. You cannot change your fingerprint. You cannot change change your ear structure.
Why is it that Africans don't reason even when the Babylonians used this years ago?
When you tell Nigerians to look at the fingerprint but they still don't understand.
I told you Jubril will not be waving in public anymore.
There was a question I asked my father in 1985.
I asked him why is it that White musicians are plying in London and elsewhere to feed we in Africa?
He said it's because there was no water in Ethiopia.
I told him that but it's very simple. He asked how and I said it's just H2O.
He didn't talk maybe he didn't want me to feel bad.
Can you believe that after our killing in Abia state, some people are still campaigning for Okezie Ekpazu?
After the Python dance, some people are still campaigning for APC.
If Okezie Ekpazu should come back as governor, Abia state will burn. Write it somewhere thatbi said so.
They will know that Abia state is for IPOB and for the people.
He is an agent of the North.
A publisher told one of my assistants that publishing the exposé of Jubril will make them to close up or possibly go to jail.
Alex Bade is dead.
I want to bring to you what might have transpired.
This is what Punch newspaper wrote not me.
They said it has been revealed that Bade meet with Aisha Buhari and the chief of staff over his trial two weeks before he was shot dead.
Do you need to know why he was killed?
A close associate said that Bade told him that Aisha said that only Abak Yari can help him.
Do you know know that it means that Buhari is dead?
The same story stated that Aisha took Bade to Yari.
Is it a surprise that you wonder why Bade was killed?
I know you will not reason. That's why I call Nigeria a zoo.
They always attack people without arms and leave those with arms.
We will get there soon.
Where I stay in Israel you cannot brake into my room.
It will take you 4hours before you can do so.
I gave 6 scientific evidence proving Buhari is dead.
Remember that Lai Mohammed reacted to my allegations saying it's false.
Jubril will no longer campaign because all lens will be focused on his ears.
I will imprison Jubril in Aso Rock.
That is why they are sending Osibanjo everywhere.
Only Biafra will save Africa by the help of the Most High.
PDP should ask Saraki to verify documents signed by Buhari in the past and the resent ones.
I know he will be afraid because they may kill him.
My submission is that the signatures before 2016 and the ones now are not the same.
Let me warn Nigeria, IPOB will challenge all resent signatures signed in the international community.
I am giving you another evidence.
This now goes to Moslems.
How many times does one perform hajj in a year?
Why did Aisha Buhari perform hajj more than 3 times in 2017.
Aisha was frequenting Saudi Arabia the same time they said the late Buhari was said to be in hospital in London.
Let me rephrase what I said last two weeks.
Any day Jubril waves his hands again, it will be bye bye to himself and Nigeria.
At the Senate presentation, he was closing his palm with his thumb.
Okezie Ekpazu ordered for the arrest of 51 Jewish Biafrans making a religious prosecution.
Anywhere Okezie Ekpazu is, he will not have peace.
Anywhere Okezie Ekpazu campaign group is in Abia state will disrupted.
After Okezie Ekpazu we will face Obiano.
Anywhere you see Okezie Ekpazu poster destroy it. It's a standing order.
That thing you people are looking for you will get it now.
I am giving you 3 days to release our people if not Abia State will be on fire.
That stupid Okezie Ikpazi cannot campaign henceforth
We don't hate anyone. We hate those that hate us. There is nothing you will do to stop this match.
Those of you that are afraid to die should get ready to die because there is no way an impostor's name will be on ballot and you ask us to vote.
There will be no election".
The end
Scripted and edited by Rex O. Enwere.
Thursday, December 20, 2018
Atiku’ll divide Nigeria if he becomes president — Miyetti Allah
Gololo was reacting to a statement by Atiku campaign media organisation. One of the Alhaji Atiku Abubakar presidential campaign spokesmen, Phrank Shaibu, had earlier in the week said there would be more killings of farmers by suspected Fulani herdsmen if President Muhammadu Buhari was re-elected next year.
The Miyetti Allah leader in Benue State said it was wrong for Atiku to have made such inciting statement, noting that it was not only Fulani herdsmen that had issues with farmers in Nigeria.
He said, “We Fulani herdsmen are not killers and before Buhari came to power, there were crisis between farmers and herders in Benue, Tarawa, Nasarawa, Adamawa and some other states.
He said, “I am disappointed in Atiku because he had already divided Nigeria even when he has not come to power. Buhari has nothing to do with herdsmen, he is a Nigerian and it is the people of Nigeria that voted him into power and l believe they will still vote him again in 2019.”
“Nigerians should ask Atiku about the N68.8bn proceeds from NEPA which he sold when he superintended over the privatisation process of the then NEPA.
“People should talk about the power plants or the money he raised from the sale of that public asset. As far as I am concerned, Atiku is not a credible candidate to contest the coming presidential election in Nigeria because he is so sentimental and if they vote him in as president, he would divide Nigeria the more.
“So, for us Fulanis, we are not killers, neither are we criminals nor kidnappers and President Buhari has nothing to do with herdsmen. It is the people of Nigeria who voted Buhari in 2015 and they will still vote him .The crisis between farmers and herdsmen is a common thing everywhere across the world it is not peculiar to Nigeria.”
Gololo asked the PDP presidential candidate if herdsmen were responsible for killings when he was a vice president.
Source: Punch
Wednesday, December 19, 2018
The Namibian Tribe Where Sex Is Offered To Guests
BY NJIDEKA AGBO
The people of Ovahimba and Ovazimba tribes in the Kunene and Omusati regions in Northern Namibia have an upheld culture that has defied western influence and agitation.
With a population of over 50,000, the women engage in the daily activity of milking their cows, taking care of the children and other extensive duties while the men go hunting leaving, sometimes, for an extended period of time. These nomads’ wealth is determined by the number of cattle one has. A polygamous people, the Himba girls are married off to male partners selected by their fathers once they attain puberty.
You cannot ignore the red skin they have. The red colour seen on their skin is called, the otjize paste ( a combination of butterfat, omuzumba scrub and ochre) and its function is to protect their skin from the sun and insect bites. They are also guided by the belief that the colour red signifies “Earth and blood”. Rather than take their baths, the women take a smoke bath and apply aromatic resins on their skin.
Honour Is Relative
Give honour to whom it is due: This saying is applied differently in this tribe. When a visitor comes knocking, a man shows his approval and pleasure of seeing his guest by giving him the Okujepisa Omukazendu treatment. This practice literally means that his wife is given to his guest to spend the night while the husband sleeps in another room. In a case where there is no available room, her husband will sleep outside.
This handed down tradition has its “benefits” in the community: it reduces jealousy and fosters relationships. The woman has little or no opinion in the decision making. Submission to her husband’s demands come first. She has an option of refusing to sleep with him but has to sleep in the same room as the guest.
She is also entitled to give her friends to her husband when they visit but this rarely happens.
GnT
Law makers boo Buhari as he lists achievement
As he mentioned each achievement, they chorused, ‘No!’ The development forced the All Progressives Congress lawmakers to clash as the opposition lawmakers booed the President.
When he said, “We have weathered the storms and made progress on every front,” They screamed, “Nooooo! Boooo!”
When he said, “The economy has recovered well,” the lawmakers screamed again.
Buhari who was displeased with the development was forced to say, “The world is watching us and we are supposed to be above this.” Nigerians should know they way they threat me.
The protesters however continued, particularly when Buhari said his administration had made success in its anti-corruption campaign.
VN
Manchester United Names Gunnar Solskjaer, Caretaker Manager
The former United striker will take charge of the first team with immediate effect and will remain in place while the club looks for a new full-time manager.
He will be joined by Mike Phelan as first-team coach, working alongside Michael Carrick and Kieran McKenna.
“Manchester United is in my heart and it’s brilliant to be coming back in this role. I’m really looking forward to working with the very talented squad we have, the staff and everyone at the club,” said the Norwegian.
Executive vice chairman Ed Woodward said: “Ole is a club legend with huge experience, both on the pitch and in coaching roles.
“His history at Manchester United means he lives and breathes the culture here and everyone at the club is delighted to have him and Mike Phelan back. We are confident they will unite the players and the fans as we head into the second half of the season".
AFP
BREAKING: Protesting NASS Workers Disappear As Buhari Presents 2019 Budget
The President is scheduled to arrive at 11am and lay the budget before a joint session of the Senate and House of Representatives.
Men of the Nigeria Police and operatives of the Department of State Services are spearheading security operations in and around the complex.
Presidential Guards Brigade, Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, Federal Road Safety Corps, among others, are also on the ground.
The Clerk to the National Assembly, Mr Mohammed Sani-Omolori, was in the House chamber to conduct a rehearsal for the Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters ( Senate), Senator Ita Enang, who will guide Buhari on his movement and presentation in the chamber.
Workers at the National Assembly, under the auspices of the Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria, who had crippled business and legislative activities as part of their four-day warning strike, were not on sight.
The workers, who barricaded the entrances to the National Assembly on Monday, and had earlier picketed the chambers, were still at the main entrance to the premises as of 8am, had resolved to stay away from the premises pending the time the budget presentation would last.
While businesses have remained closed, security operatives conducted multiple checks at each of the gates on the premises.
Details later…
(PN)
Tuesday, December 18, 2018
Just In, Former Chief Of Defence Staff, Alex Badeh Assassinated
He was said to have been ambushed by gunmen at Gitata village, along the Keffi-Badeh Road.
The military has since recovered his body.
Badeh was a retired four star flag officer of the Nigerian Air Force who served as the 18th Chief of Air Staff (Oct 4, 2012- January 16,2014) and the 15th Chief of Defence Staff of the armed forces of Nigeria (January 16, 2014 – July 13,2015)
In February 2016, Badeh was accused of financial misappropriation by the EFCC. He denied involvement in any misconduct.
(DP)
Army Pulls Five Generals Out Of Service Published
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the generals that were pulled out are Maj.-Gen. Abimbola
Amusu, Maj.-Gen. Patrick Falola, Brig.-Gen. Folorunsho Jegede, Brig.-Gen. O. Akinyode and Brig.-Gen. M. Robbinson.
The pulling out parade of the five generals was witnessed by top military officers, both serving and retired.
Amusu, in her valedictory remarks, attributed her success to hard work, dedication, commitment to service and divine help.
She admonished serving military personnel to remain focused and resolute, and exhibit total loyalty to constituted authorities.
“Your loyalty to the Federal Republic of Nigeria can best be given through vigilant security consciousness,” she said.
The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, was represented at the event by the Corps Commander Ordinance, Maj.-Gen. Joel Unnigbe.
(NAN)
Trump Agrees To Shut Down Personal Charity
State Attorney General Barbara Underwood said the family foundation would be dissolved and its remaining assets distributed to other charities under her supervision.
Underwood accused the Foundation of a “shocking pattern of illegality involving the Trump Foundation –- including unlawful coordination with the Trump presidential campaign, repeated and willful self-dealing, and much more.”
“This amounted to the Trump Foundation functioning as little more than a checkbook to serve Mr. Trump’s business and political interests,” she said in a statement.
“This is an important victory for the rule of law, making clear that there is one set of rules for everyone,” Underwood added.
The state attorney general filed a lawsuit against the Trump Foundation in June, accusing it of “persistently illegal conduct".
The suit, which will move ahead despite the agreement dissolving the charity, seeks millions of dollars in restitution and penalties.
It also seeks to bar Trump, his sons Eric and Don Jr and daughter Ivanka from serving on the boards of other New York charities.
(AFP)
BREAKING, CUPP Withdraws Call For Boycott Of Buhari’s Budget Presentation
The coalition’s first national spokesperson, Imo Ugochinyere, in a statement made available to journalists said the CUPP changed its position on the matter following the intervention of the President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki; Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara; and two unnamed former presidents.
Ugochinyere therefore called on the lawmakers to scrutinise the document when eventually presented.
Despite the withdrawal of the boycott order, however, he said the CUPP stood by its earlier position that the present administration has been characterised by “a reign of impunity.”
The statement read, “The opposition coalition has yielded to the pressure of an early morning intervention by the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki; and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, calling on opposition coalition CUPP to sheath their sword and withdraw their call on opposition boycott.
“The opposition leadership, after reviewing the intervention of Senate President and the Speaker as well as other eminent leaders, including two former presidents, wish to announce a withdrawal of the call.
“The opposition coalition says they will continue efforts to ensure that they deploy all lawful arsenal at their disposal to ensure that the President is defeated and urges parliamentarians to scrutinise the budget documents when presented and ensure it reflects the wishes of the people.
“The opposition, however, holds strongly to the views expressed for the boycott over the three-year reign of impunity of the President, despite the call off.
“The opposition also condemns the IGP for illegally holding activist Deji Adeyanju and moving him by 4am to Kano in a plot to hold him behind bars over a case he has been discharged and acquitted of by a court of competent jurisdiction".
Scripted by Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja
Pharaoh, Let My People Go! Agbaje Tells Tinubu
Tinubu had, while addressing members of the All Progressives Congress on Monday, said, “Those who said they want freedom should go and learn tailoring and vulcanising and we will do freedom for them later.”
However, in a statement on Tuesday, Agbaje likened Tinubu to the biblical Pharaoh of Egypt who refused to allow the children of Israel to leave but kept them in bondage until God sent down 10 plagues that forced Pharaoh’s hand.
“Pharaoh, you must let our people go!” Agbaje said.
“Apparently, the APC leader has lost touch with reality,” Agbaje said in a press statement by his Director of Media and Publicity, Felix Oboagwina.
“Otherwise, he would know that, like the children of Israel, Lagosians are groaning under the taskmaster that Tinubu and his cronies have turned themselves into in this state that should rate as Nigeria’s foremost,” he added.
Recalling that the biblical Pharaoh finally granted liberty to the Israelites only after several vicious plagues, Agbaje said, Lagosians would be liberated after the people might have delivered an electoral disgrace to the APC in 2019.
He also said that his campaign slogan mirrored the same spirit that moved Nelson Mandela to declare his long walk to freedom in an apartheid South Africa.
Agbaje said, “We identify with our vulcanisers, tailors and all craftsmen who have the joy of duly-earned freedom after their apprenticeship.
“But it is apparent that, unlike them, those who have gotten used to filthy lucre and the dividends of corruption cannot savour the joy that comes with the legitimate sweat and labour of hardworking artisans.”
He argued that Lagos State must be freed from the era of nepotism and corruption that saw a private firm maintaining a stranglehold on the state’s funds, contrary to global best practices.
Scripted by Eniola Akinkuotu
Monday, December 17, 2018
"Dear Nigerians, Your President Is A Foreigner" ~ Jerusalem Ex-Deputy Mayor
Recently, reactions has been poring in globally on the scandal 95% are favourable to the claim of an impostor in charge of the African country Nigeria.
Adding to what has already been in existence, an Israeli politician and an Ex- Deputy mayor of Jerusalem Rachel Azaria has referred to Nigerian president as a foreigner.
In her words, "dear Nigerians, your president is a foreigner many around the world are aware of this but unfortunately, only you can do something about it. Shalom!"
Nnamdi Kanu educates world diplomats on Biafra in Jerusalem
Information reaching us had it that the Biafra leader made the move to educate the outside world more on Biafra. He has gone far into connecting Biafra to Israel. The exhibition took place today in Jerusalem.
This may possibly be in connection to why he did not broadcast as usual on Saturday. Information has it that something bigger is on the pipeline.
More details coming!
Sunday, December 16, 2018
“A Senator Told Me That Buhari is No Longer on This Planet” ~ Dele Momodu Reveals
Fellow Nigerians, let me say how worried I’m about our dear beloved country Nigeria. Yes. I’m troubled because of how much we have allowed politics and politicking to turn our land into a playground of beasts and vampires. It is sad, very sad.
Just yesterday, an old friend woke me up from my deep sleep. He is no other than the former Governor of Abia State, Dr Orji Uzor Kalu. I had tried to reach him desperately in the last few weeks after reading all kinds of reports online about him. The one that alarmed me the most was a purported ‘Breaking News” that said Orji has just died after an unsuccessful operation in Germany. I was so rattled that I quickly put a call through to my dear friend and former colleague at Concord Newspapers of Nigeria, Eric Osagie, now the Managing Director of The Sun Newspapers. As soon as he picked his phone, I tried to check if I would hear, or feel, any wailing, or gnashing, of teeth in the background but my friend sounded as boisterous as ever. Ever since I knew Eric, I have never seen or heard him in a dull moment.
Dele Momodu and Orji Kalu
Eric screamed my moniker as always “Bob Deeeee!” I retaliated, “Ericooo!” and I went straight to the reason I was calling him.” Where is Orji Kalu?” I asked, hurriedly. “Your friend is in his house in Abuja,” Eric responded, matter-of-factly. Somehow, I thought he was just being clever and tactful and didn’t want to break the sad news, just yet. I wasn’t going to allow Eric do that to me. The reporter in me took the upper hand and I thundered, “I just read that Orji is dead!” But Eric, in his characteristic confidence mode, responded authoritatively. “Bob Dee, don’t mind them, “your friend is in his house in Abuja, please call him.” Wow, thank God, I sighed and simmered. I called but got no response from my friend of over 27 years.
matter the situation, my friends are always my friends. Business or politics should never separate friends. Orji was already a successful businessman when I met him around 1990. I used to call him “the Aba Trader” then and he changed my nickname from Bob Dee to Don Dee. He used to pick me up, every now and then to visit his various sites and properties in Lagos and I was quite impressed about his business acumen and vision. I loved to gist with him, as he had incredible information on everything and everyone. One of the most fascinating stories I savoured endlessly from him was that of the coup that almost toppled General Ibrahim Babangida from the seat of power at Dodan Barracks. Orji is an extremely affable man whose wealth of friends, from North to South, and East to West, is remarkable and commendable. I wish every Nigeria was like members of their generation who saw Nigeria as one nation and not a country of fracticidal fractional nationalities.
When I was in exile in England, Orji contacted me regularly whenever he breezed into London and he always invited me to his beautiful home in North Finchley. We had fun visiting the best restaurants and we were so close then and remain so now. I will always recall his visit to our former home, on Romford Road in East London, when my wife and I had the naming ceremony of our second son, Enitanyole, in July 1996. Also present was Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Unfortunately, I have not been able to locate most of the photographs taken on that special occasion, but we still have that of Tinubu and myself.
When Ovation took off full blast, we did an exclusive interview with Orji Kalu at home in London, titled “Aba Trader Eyes the Government House.” It was the first time Orji revealed for the first time that he was nursing the ambition to go into politics and contest the gubernatorial election in his home State of Abia, in South East Nigeria. I was excited by the story which was lavishly garnished with beautiful pictures of his London home. Though I had my doubts about his ability to take on and dislodge the firmly rooted professional politicians in Nigeria, I was nonetheless happy that successful managers of men and resources were getting into politics instead of abandoning governance in the hands of semi-literates, mediocres and never-do-wells.
My only worry at the time was the risk of duelling with political sharks and alligators who were ready to tear everyone and everything into shreds if it threatened their entrenched interests. I felt that Orji might end up a veritable victim of their customary shenanigans. Orji soon started his campaign and I monitored him from a distance. His raw courage always marked him out and I assumed his humongous business conglomerate was the source of his confidence and suavity. He contested and won the Governorship race and I was very elated. We met a few times whenever he was in his Lagos home and I relished our breakfast meetings at his home in Victoria Island. He had bright ideas about how to transform Aba from a rural setting to a cosmopolitan society. I noticed in his first term that he embarked on an aggressive modernisation of roads which was hailed in many newspaper reports which, I believe gave him the opportunity to win a second term, despite his running battle with President Olusegun Obasanjo. The only time I visited I visited Abia State was when I was made a Chief by HRH Eze Dr Ngozi Israel Ibekwe, the traditional Ruler of Etiti Mgboko Umuanunu Ancient Kingdom. Unless I am doing a story, or I am expressly invited for some activity, function or even visit, it is not my style to bother my friends who are in positions of power. I believe that they have enough on their plate and that I should not add to their problems or distract them from their serious work of nation building.
I had no means of assessing or ascertaining how well he did as Governor, but he seemed very popular from the way he was handed a second term by his people. At some point, he even nursed Presidential ambition. I will not be surprised if he still does because I know he is passionate about Nigeria and feels that we have so far been short-changed by the quality of leaders that we have had. He remains resolute and firm in the belief that he still has a lot to offer the country. Orji was one of the most vociferous critics of the Obasanjo regime. He must be commended for surviving the blistering Hurricane OBJ that swept away several Governors of that incredible era. Since he left power, his critics have attacked him too endlessly and he’s been dragged before the anti-corruption agency, EFCC, accused of pilfering some of the resources meant for developing his State. The latest controversy has now led to the rumour of his death.
Well, Orji woke me up from bed yesterday morning. “Don Deee, how are you?” Then he went into the rumour of his death. He said He’s happy that he survived his operations that lasted many hours.
He wondered why some people wanted him dead after serving his State and country meritoriously. He reminded me of how long we’ve known each other and recalled how he had made his billions via his SLOK GROUP, long before he went into politics.
He was very excited to chat with me just like old times and as we usually do whenever we have the opportunity to interact. He said he was returning to Germany to recuperate properly and fully and I wished him a safe trip. It is always a delight chatting with a man who has some of the hottest gist about men and women of power. His tentacles and reach also go beyond Nigeria.
Orji is not the only butt of jokes and ridiculous rumours in this season of political giddiness. I have had to practically engage in hot verbal exchanges with supposed educated and intelligent Nigerians over the cloning or body double speculation about our President Muhammadu Buhari.
I sat recently with a Senator at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja who insisted that Buhari is no longer on this planet and he’s been replaced by a nebulous Jubril from Sudan. My God, what manner of country is this, I soliloquised. The thought that any rational or reasonable person could contemplate that such far-fetched subterfuge and con could be perpetrated by any group of Nigerians with the collaboration of foreigners, especially the English, just makes the mind boggle. It is for example utterly ridiculous and sheer madness to ascribe to the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo – a cerebral, discerning man of God, a Professor of Law and the immediate beneficiary of any unfortunate accident to the President – any role in such a farcical debacle. Indeed, it is such a crying shame that supposedly brilliant, intelligent and wise men and women would even deign to condescend to join the cacophony of noise and excitement about the existence of such a dastardly plot. For me, this is a distraction that we can least afford when there are important matters to engage us as a nation particularly as we draw near elections which may turn out to be the making, breaking or otherwise of our great country.
I have met Buhari at close range on at least four occasions since 2011, including engaging him all alone in a room in Aso Rock in 2015. As far as I am concerned, he remaind the same person now as he was then. He may be affected by the aging process and ill-health, but that happens to us all. It does not make us cloned or a body double or doppelganger of a Sudanese man. How can anyone want to brainwash Nigerians like common idiots? The fact people disagree politically is no reason to manufacture such malicious, irresponsible and fallacious tales about anyone least of all the President of our country.
All our political gladiators must purge themselves of this poisonous bile. At the same time, I have a generous advice for Buhari and his handlers, in particular.
They should resist the temptation to play politics of coercion. While I agree that there is plenty of fake news going around which is a mere part of the internet phenomenon, not many of it is hate speech, but mere irresponsible, spiteful or just jocular people who do not know any better. Only God gives power. To label rational, but dissenting speech as fake news just heats up the polity and clearly degrades us and our democracy.
Dissent and criticism are the hallmarks of true freedom and the ability to tolerate such critique is the difference between celebrated statesmen and despised autocrats, dictators and tyrants.
Some of the moves of certain government officials and agencies in recent times have been interpreted as a sign of panic and desperation. Blocking and obstructing opposition on all fronts may actually make certain candidates more popular. We have recent history to refer to in this regard. A word is enough for the wise.
As we approach 2019, another year of elections in Nigeria, the unification, security and economic well-being of our countrymen and women should be our priority. It is not how long we rule or reign but how well that is important and vital.
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