The ill thought out remarks by
Presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, to the effect that rodents had damaged the
President's office, forcing him to work from home should not come as a surprise
to discerning Nigerians and neither should we blame Mr. Shehu for the infantile
lie.
You see, once the decision had
been reached at the highest levels to be less than transparent about President
Muhammadu Buhari's health situation, there was really nothing much that his
media aides could do.
If I was Garba Shehu, what I
would have said is that the President has a backlog of work and so had to
cancel FEC and focus fully on clearing this backlog from home! It would not be
a lie being that the President is always on call 24/7.
As a Presidential spokesman,
lying is the last thing you want to do. Your job is to find creative, but not
dishonest, ways to make the bitter truth palatable to the general public. Lack
of creativity is a greater liability to a Presidential spokesman than lack of
funds.
And the remark itself (“Following
the three months’ period of disuse, rodents have caused a lot of damage to the
furniture and the air conditioning units") reminds me of the iconic movie,
Of Mice and Men.
Of Mice and Men is a 1937 book by
John Steinbeck, which got made into a movie. It tells the tale of of two
California migrants workers who roam from town to town during the Great
Depression in search of greener pastures.
How fitting that the lie told by
Mr. Shehu should dovetail into Steinbeck's classic.
Just like in Of Mice and Men, we
have a migrant President who moves back and forth from London to Abuja. And
again like Steinbeck's classic, he does so in a depression.
The only difference is that while
George Milton and Lennie Small were the victims of a depression caused by
others, President Muhammadu Buhari is not a victim but a perpetrator of the
fastest negative turnaround of an economy from the third fastest growing
economy in the world to an economy in recession.
There are many other parallels
one can draw from the movie and the comedy the Buhari administration is
unleashing on the nation, but one has to be careful in drawing attention to
them especially in these days that the military is scouring social media for
"anti-government and anti-military information".
But I just wonder how Garba could
have said ?"Rodents have caused a lot of damage to the President's
office" with a straight face! Really Garba Shehu! There should be limits
to propaganda.
It is only in Nigeria that
"rodents" will chase a lion away from his den! Garba, please you
should be too decent for this, leave lies for Lai Mohammed! If President
Muhammadu Buhari is not strong enough to go to the office, simply say the truth
and shame the devil.
I have been in the President of
Nigeria's office. It is cleaned everyday. I also had an office in the villa and
I traveled abroad for a long period and nothing happened to my office.
The Presidency has projected
President Buhari as an anti-corruption crusader with strong integrity and
credibility. Such infantile lies as this rat story rubbishes that image! It
also portrays the Buhari administration as a government severely deficient in
intelligence!
Almost every international news
agency carried the ridiculous story in a way that belittled Nigeria. BBC, AFP,
RFI and even China Xinhua News!
Worldwide the Muhammadu Buhari
administration has turned Nigeria into an international joke because of an
inept President and his inept aides!
I mean it is just clear that the
President still needs to recover and that he only returned because the pressure
from Charly Boy's #ReturnorResign group had become unbearable, especially when
they announced that they had gotten a permit from the Metropolitan Police in
London to protest outside Abuja House.
Of all things to use as an
excuse, it has to be rats! If you are wondering why the rats in your city have
reduced, wonder no more. They have all relocated to seek greener pastures at
Aso Rock!
But on a serious note though,
President Yar'adua left Nigeria on November 23, 2009 and did not return until
February 10, 2010. Thereafter he was at the Presidential Villa until he died on
May 5, 2010. For a period of 6 months, his office was vacant until Dr. Goodluck
Jonathan succeeded him. In all that time, rodents never destroyed his office.
Which just makes you wonder the type of rodents that exist in Aso Rock under
President Muhammadu Buhari the man who promised Nigerians change but ended up
giving those who voted him as President chains!
As for the Nigerian military who
will now monitor social media for "anti-government information", I
can only say what a lovely change! Did I hear you say chains!
Can any comment be more
"anti-government" than this comment made by Buhari on May 15, 2012
"by the grace of God, the dog and the baboon would all be soaked in
blood"? And can any comment be anti Nigerian than this comment made by the
same man on July 25, 2015 "The constituents, for example, gave me 97%
cannot in all honesty be treated on some issues with constituencies that gave
me 5%"?
So funny when the father of hate
speech and the king pin of anti-government talk now wants to deal with those
who have not even come close to doing what he has done!
And after His misspeak on why the
President had to work from home, ?Garba Shehu followed up with a statement
warning that the Presidency will henceforth not tolerate harsh words being used
on President Muhammadu Buhari and said "calling Buhari an enemy of Nigeria
was in extremely bad taste".
Is this not the same Buhari that
said on May 15, 2012 and I quote "the biggest Boko Haram is the Federal
Government.” Buhari called the government of Goodluck Jonathan a Boko Haram
government without providing proof and now complains about being criticized!
Mr. President, buy a mirror and arrest the person you see in it as an example
of your zero tolerance for "harsh words"!
These shenanigans are annoying
enough, but to add salt to injury, along comes Yahaya Bello!? To show how useless governance
has become under the APC, Yahaya Bello, a state Governor declares a public
holiday to celebrate President Muhammadu Buhari's return!
Now, I sympathize with President
Buhari, but aren't public holidays meant to be for events pertaining to a
nation's history? President Buhari has been a resident of the U.K. for over a
hundred days, has he ever known the U.K. to proclaim a public holiday because
the Queen returned from hospital?
Our army killed at least 347
Shiite men, women, children and infants, our Air Force killed 119 people at the
Rann IDP camp in a mistaken bombing. We did not declare any national mourning.
Yet we declare a public holiday for Buhari's return! This is the height of
sycophancy!
Well, enough about the
Presidency's ineptitude and comedic behavior, let me change the mood of this
piece and enter second base.
Someone tell Oby Ezekwesili that
it is hypocritical to complain about a soup you helped cook just because you
were not given your share!
She was used to bring down a good
man and thereafter dumped and now she is bitter and she wants to feign that she
is one of us who are genuinely opposing a dictatorial and clueless government
for patriotic reasons!
Where are her fellow
#BringBackOurGirls colleagues? Are they not now holding very, very, very juicy
positions in President Muhammadu Buhari's government? She is a woman scorned
because her lover (APC) enjoyed her pleasures but refused to marry her. Now she
wants to use Nigerians to get her revenge! We are not that foolish!
Imagine Oby Ezekwesili
complaining of President Muhammadu Buhari's "missed opportunity". She
is one of those who helped him get the opportunity to miss an opportunity!
It is an insult to our
sensibilities for this woman to start wailing like she is doing! Has she
forgotten when she was giving keynote speeches at All Progressive Congress
events where she demonized former President Jonathan and deified Buhari by
calling him a "discipline instilling" leader on March 7, 2014?
Did it occur to her at that event
that she was empowering the very person she is now denouncing?
People like Oby are like the bush
rat that Chinua Achebe wrote about. They bite you and blow breeze on your
wounds so you won't know the damage they have caused. If Oby wants to know who
is responsible for bringing Buhari to power, I can buy her a mirror. I assure
her it won't be a pretty sight!
Oby Ezekwesili is a sanctimonious
hypocrite who likes to criticize but does not like to be criticized. She once
threatened to report me to then President Jonathan when I responded to her
criticism, as if Dr. Jonathan "gives a damn" about her opinions! The
sad thing is that everybody, but especially her Southeastern kith and kin,
knows she was used and dumped by people who know only too well her real nature.
I suspect that her bitterness is that she could not attain the heights Ngozi
Okonjo Iweala has attained and is still attaining.
Now she continues to prance about
giving subdued messages to the Buhari administration because she knows that if
she unleashes on them like she unleashed on Jonathan she will be taught the
difference between a democrat and a dictator! Oby, in case you do not know, you
are a figure of scorn in the Southeast zone where you come from and considered
a Quisling in the other zones of the federation.
Reno's Nuggets
When you make it, women will
flock around you. Tantalizing as they are, don't forget the one who was there
before you made it-mum! The love of your life can't divorce you, can't be
separated from you and won't sue you. After God, your mother is the love of
your life. Finally, marrying a girl because of sex is like buying a car because
of its sound system. You will enjoy it, but you won't go anywhere #RenosNuggets
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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Reno, nobody brought down Jonathan. You should also know that you are not eh only commentator in our social space. Others may just be busy.. it's sycophancy to also hold brief for Jonathan and you haven't event acknowledged he did anything wrong while piloting the affairs of our nation. Infact pastor Reno , it will be right to call you names also.. you are simply a blind guy, foolish in all your submissions....
ReplyDeleteHmmmn! Reno! Pls forgive these dullards. The day they showed us Buhari's 75yrs pics on a certificate supposedly issued to him at age 17yrs tells us everything about these RAKUMIs.
ReplyDeletePls bros leave them alone 2019 is just by the corner.
This is an interesting movie.... "Pay back by Karma"....lol
ReplyDeleteJonathan systematically ruined our economy with his ' stealing is not corruption' mentality. And his political friends really stole until there was nothing left to be stolen. Then economy was in ruins before PMB took over.
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