President Buhari with APC chieftains
There is the KKK, Neo Nazis, White supremacists and all what
not in the US. There is the terrorist situation that involves the vehicle that
rammed into a crowd, killing up to thirteen persons, in Barcelona. There is the
deadly situation of mudslides in Sierra-Leone. There is even a chance of a
nuclear war between the US and North Korea. Let’s be honest, the world is full
of problems. It always has been full of problems. Obviously, you can’t expect
complete world peace. There must be tragedies, or drama, or just anything to
keep the world busy. Welcome to Nigeria… Oh, wait. You’ve most likely already
lived here your whole life. Here, it’s not that bad things happen by chance, or
that they happen because ‘something has to happen’ to us here. Many things
happen because in Nigeria, some people are in charge, and the rest are not.
These ‘some people’ will do everything and anything to please themselves, and
if it messes up the rest of the country, then let it. I’ll break it down for
you. These ‘people’ are the leaders. You know it. I know it. Everyone knows it.
Even the leaders know it. They know that things happen in this country because
of their decisions
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2015 was a hot year in Nigeria, especially for the All
Progressive Congress which ran against the then incumbent party Peoples
Democratic Party. Well, Goodluck Johnathan wasn’t any good, and Nigerians had
to pick a lesser evil. There came Buhari. Former military dictator. Already ran
twice unsuccessfully. Was 73 years old of age. He became a sort of a pragmatic
leader that would come and deliver Nigerians from the ‘evil’ PDP. Trust
Nigerians. They wouldn’t have more of Johnathan. Nobody cared that the APC had
controversial bigwigs such as Tinubu, Rotimi Amaechi, Rochas Okorocha and the
rest under it. All they wanted was a #CHANGE from what the PDP gave them for 16
years. In came Buhari. Yay!!! No more Johnathan. No more PDP. No more
‘kwarruption’. #CHANGE #CHANGE #CHANGE in the expectations of all.
It started with the ear infection. Baba flew to London.
Pause there. WHAT?! An ear infection?! Let’s just take a cup of water on that.
Our president flew 7 hours to the UK to fix a non-deadly ear issue. If you’re a
student in the medical field, or you are
there already, the presidency believes you aren’t good enough and that you can
never be. Keep it in mind. He went to a UK hospital on taxpayers’ money to fix
his ear. Well, the problem was probably not corrected because amidst Nigerians’
complaints, Buhari didn’t hear them, and flew once again to London on a
‘medical vacation’. How do they even have the face to say that the president of
a country is going on a medical vacation? This is where the secrecy came in.
This is where and when Nigerians should have known that the president and his
cabinet believed the president had nobody to question him on his health or any
other thing. Baba began to fly up and down. Baba became part time British
resident.
Right now, Its been more than 100 days since Buhari set foot
last on Nigerian soil (Unless his cabinet members take soil to London for him).
I won’t start telling you that over 30,000,00 USD. (About 10,875,000,000 Naira)
has been paid into the UK hospitals for Buhari (Or at least that is how much
the Presidency has taken from the National treasury) or the fact that out
Presidential Jet is still parked somewhere in the UK (Trust me, millions of
Naira go down everyday too on that one). What I will talk about is the fact
that some Nigerians eventually came out to speak against this London President
of ours, and, well, it didn’t turn out so well for them.
Femi Adesina
Lauretta Onochie
Charles ‘Charly Boy’ Oputa is a legendary Nigerian musician
and activist who has never ignored national issues that affect the masses. He
saw the state of the nation and decided that there was need for a movement. Therefore,
he mobilized an online movement called Our Mumu Don Do which was aimed at
awakening Nigerians to protest Buhari’s absence and the government’s
misbehavior in general. He also gathered a group of well-meaning Nigerians who
started the Resume or Resign sit outs in Abuja urging our London Baba to either
return to Nigeria and resume his duty, or resign. Well, history repeated itself
a few days ago when the peaceful protest was met with violence from
pro-government thugs. I hear about 400 million naira was used to pay the
pro-government protesters. Wow, isn’t it? You can’t even talk again. You see
evil, you talk, you get beaten up. This is the same government that said they
were fighting corruption. This is the same government that had the mouth to criticize
Johnathan’s government.
Charly Boy Oputa
The APC aren’t helping issues either. Funny thing is, Baba
surrounded himself with people who like to lie, people who don’t know many
things. One said he doesn’t know who pays the medical bills (SpeciaL Adviser
Media and Publicity Femi Adesina) and the other said Baba London is hale ad
hearty (Minister of Information Lai Mohammed). One even said it is
disrespectful to ask of the president’s health, calling him a private citizen
(Lauretta Onochie. I don’t even want to know how she got a seat on the
executive)
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