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I commended President Muhammadu
Buhari when he belatedly did what he ought to have done quickly, which is to
speak up against the enslavement of Black African migrants in Libya.
I did so
because the President listened to the strong criticism from civil society
against his tardiness in responding to the situation. However, I still need to
ask a question.
Both the Buhari administration
and the African Union condemned Germany’s 2016 terror attack that killed 12
persons within mere days (hours in the case of Nigeria). Yet, both the Nigerian
Government and the African Union remained silent for weeks on the selling of
hundreds (perhaps thousands) of Africans as slaves in Libya.
That being the case, have both
the Nigerian Government and the African Union outlived their usefulness to
their people?
Such a thing as the Libyan affair
should ordinarily attract the swiftest rebuke. In fact, I am still puzzled that
the African Union in particular is taking this issue lying low.
It leads me to think that to a
very large extent, we Africans are our own worst enemies.
I remember how I campaigned for
candidate Obama during the 2008 US elections, thinking that Obama as President
would do a lot for the Black Race.
Now, after eight years of Obama,
Black people are worse off than they were before him in many respects and this
is actually due to Barack Obama’s policies.
When Gaddafi was in power, there
was no slave trade of Black Africans in Libya. As a matter of fact, Gaddafi
gave financial aid to Black African nations and almost single handedly funded
the fight against White minority rule in the then Rhodesia (renamed Zimbabwe)
and against apartheid in South Africa (Google it. There is a YouTube video of
Mandela saying so openly in America during his thank you tour after his release
from prison).
To be sure, Gaddafi had his own
challenges too, but no one is perfect. Gaddafi did for the Black world much
more than anything Obama ever did for Africa. He gave financial and military
support to oppressed people. He funded scholarships and health schemes. He was
not big on rhetoric, like Obama. He was big on helping you in reality.
And then Barack Obama staged
Gaddafi’s removal and now Black Africans are being sold in Libya and you think
Obama is good and Gaddafi was bad?
All over Africa, from Libya, to
Egypt, to Nigeria, Obama intervened without caring what Africans really wanted
and saddled us with incompetent regimes that are taking Africans backward.
History will not be kind to Obama!
Certainly, it was fortuitous for
the African continent that Obama’s echo in the person of Hillary Clinton did
not make it to the White House. I believe it would have been more of the same.
And look at the incompetent
government they helped come to power in Nigeria. I only wish Nigerians know how
much of a role Obama played in the emergence of President Muhammadu Buhari in
2015.
It was actually quite
hypocritical for Obama, a blatant meddler in other people’s elections, to point
fingers at Russia. If at all Russia meddled in the 2016 US Presidential
elections, they were only paying Obama back in his own well-deserved coins.
In less than two years, the Obama
supported Nigerian government of Muhammadu Buhari has destroyed a once thriving
economy that was projected to be the third fastest growing economy in the world
in 2014 by CNNMoney.
He has wiped off 70% of the value
of the Nigerian Naira. He has increased electricity, fuel and passport costs
without increasing the minimum wage.
But it is when it comes to his
anti-democratic credentials that I cringe the most.
President Buhari has used many
dirty tricks to try and intimidate his most likely opponent. Not minding that
he as President has not created jobs and has rather lost the jobs that his
predecessors created, President Buhari has tried to cripple the businesses of
Atiku Abubakar by coming up with flimsy excuses to breach the commercial
contract entered upon between INTELS and the Nigerian Ports Authority.
It does not matter to the
President, obviously, that by trying to ground INTELS he is putting the jobs of
many Nigerians at risk.
But the most hypocritical thing
that this government did is to attack Atiku’s credibility over his decision to
quit the ruling All Progressive Congress.
The President even permitted one
of his official spokesperson to verbally insult Atiku in public after first
unleashing Malam Nasir El-Rufai to take Atiku to the cleaners right there at
the Presidential Villa.
But to show that President Buhari
and his surrogates are hypocrites, let’s take a quick look at the political
odysseys of those criticizing Atiku for leaving the APC,
Muhammadu Buhari, from:
· ANPP to
· APP to
· CPC to
· APC
Nasir El-Rufai, from
· PDP to
· CPC to
· APC
Rochas Okorocha, from
· PDP
· Action Alliance
· APP to
· ANPP to
· APGA to
· APC
The only major politician on the
national stage that has remained in one party since the return to civil rule in
1999 is Dr. Goodluck Jonathan and he has not criticized Atiku Abubakar, but
rather, he has stretched out a hand of fellowship to him.
It seems that this is the season
for decamping. In fact, I have just been reliably informed that President
Buhari has sent his AGF to Dubai to open discussions with Maina so the
President can decamp to Pension Fund Bazaar Party. Rochas Okorocha too would
soon be decamping from the APC to Statue Party, while Nasir El-Rufai may be
leaving to join Serial Betrayer party of Nigeria.
Reno Omokri
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