Reno Omokri, a former Special
Assistant to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan on New Media, has raised the alarm
over what he described as President Muhammadu Buhari’s lack of intention and
capacity to hold credible elections in 2019.
In an open letter to the
international community published through his Facebook page, Omokri alleged that
President Buhari has unleashed the fascist in him by taking steps to undermine
democracy and take Nigeria the way of Venezuela as the country prepares for
another round of presidential elections.
Omokri cited the cases of the two
prominent opponents of the president, who have indicated interest in contesting
the Presidential elections of 2019.
“The first is the incumbent
Governor of Ekiti state, Ayo Fayose. Exactly one hour after Governor Fayose
declared, his Commissioner for Finance and the state Accountant General were
arrested on trumped up charges to cripple the Fayose campaign.
“Also, when former Vice President
Atiku Abubakar looked like he might be interested in the 2019 race, the
government of President Buhari on October 11, 2017, curiously accused his firm,
INTELS of not adhering to a policy that runs contrary to a legally binding
agreement between the government and INTELS and on the basis of that
unilaterally revoked a contract that was still in force. Obviously, this was
done to neutralize him ahead of the 2019 Presidential election,” Omokri
explained.
He further pointed out that an
international fugitive who is on INTERPOL’s wanted list, Abdulrasheed Maina,
was invited back to the country by the Buhari administration, according to a
press conference by his family.
Omokri noted that Maina was
reinstated to the civil service from which he had been dismissed after he stole
millions of dollars from the pension fund, and given a double promotion by the
Buhari government.
“Being that Maina’s gubernatorial
campaign posters suddenly sprung up all over Northern Nigeria, it is generally
suspected that he was brought in by the President to fund his reelection
campaign with his loot especially as the president has fallen out with people
like Atiku Abubakar and Bola Tinubu, who funded his 2015 election.
“This is all the more so given
the fact that the head of the civil service revealed in a leaked memo that she
warned the President against the act of reinstating a known criminal into the
civil service, even though the President had lied to the Nigerian public that
he was unaware that Mr. Maina had been recalled and reinstated,” he said.
He alleged that the head of the
civil service, Mrs. Winifred Oyo-Ita, is now being persecuted by the Buhari
administration, adding that the President’s chief of Staff was caught on video
trying to intimidate her for exposing the president as a liar.
“There is now a palpable fear in
Nigeria about the fate of the 2019 election. Some people fear that the
unprecedented militarization and intimidation in Nigeria under Buhari would
render any credible election impossible.
When he was an opposition leader,
he contested the presidential elections in 2003, 2007 and 2011. At each of
those elections he was rejected by the Nigerian people, yet he refused to
accept the results and encouraged his followers to take to violence through
combustible rhetoric including threatening that ‘the dog and the baboon will
both be soaked in blood’ if he should suffer the same fate,” Omokri explained.
Omokri argued that if President
Buhari was unable to accept defeat as an opposition candidate and even
threatened bloodshed and non recognition of the government in power, it would
not be reasonable to expect that he would be able to conduct a credible
election and accept defeat as an incumbent president.
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