President Muhammadu Buhari’s
Personal Assistant on Social Media, Lauretta Onochie has insisted that a
“cabal” has taken over the affairs of the National Assembly.
Onochie alleged that the cabal
worked as if the National Assembly was “their private estate in total disregard
to the welfare of those who elected them.”
She said this while recalling how
Buhari nominated a Minister from a minority ethnic group in Enugu State and the
Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, fought against it, “screaming hard and
threw a tantrum.”
The Presidential aide made the
claim,in an article she titled, “This Storm Before The Calm Will Deepen Our
Democracy”.
The article, she posted on her
Facebook page reads partly, “In 2015, Nigerians began the process of recovering
their nation from the hardened criminals who hijacked Nigeria for sixteen
years. With an APC majority in the National Assembly, we had hoped for a speedy
recovery and transformation of our nation, believing that we all understood the
meaning of change.
“For starters, it took the better
part of five months of President Buhari swimming through the mud to finally
have a glimpse of what looked like a nation from where Ministers would be
nominated. He was determined to begin to address the issue of marginalization
in appointments. Where possible, he reached out to some of the over 200
minority ethnic groups for his ministerial nominees.
“This did not go down well with
the power brokers in our nation. Senator Ike Ekweremadu screamed hard and threw
a tantrum. He said he had never heard of the nominated minister from his native
Enugu State. But the hitherto unknown Igbo sub group that produced the Minister
of Foreign Affairs, felt a sense of belonging in a nation where the Ike
Ekweremadus of this nation have continuously nominated themselves to serve,
without a thought for the minority groups in their areas.
“But it has been a nightmare. A
cabal had quickly developed and seized the National Assembly. This cabal worked
as if the National Assembly was their private estate in total disregard to the
welfare of those who elected them. They do not count.
“When Nigerians recovered their
nation from the hardened criminals that hijacked our nation for sixteen years,
no one thought the cabal at the National Assembly, would become the major
opposition to the recovery of our nation. After all, what we promised was to
bring about a change in the ways we had done things in the past that favoured
only a few at the top.”
She claimed that the cabal “waged
war” against Buhari over his Ministrial nominees due to their selfish,
self-centred and egocentric” nature.
“All their actions have been
selfish, self-centred and egocentric. They wanted the status quo to remain.
Consequently, they started by waging war on the President for his choice of
Ministers. They had a free hand to place their cronies as heads of House
Committees. But they also wanted to appoint Ministers and others for the
President. They wanted to run the Presidency, own the Presidency and dictate
who should be hired or fired.
This same cabal is now posing as
the defender of the ordinary Nigerians. Hian!
“Nigerians are not fooled. They
know the man who is fighting to deepen our democratic experience as a nation.
They also know pretenders to the throne of democracy, who have put themselves
above the laws of our land and above everyone of us.
“Nigerians know those who have refused to make
laws that can help the war on corruption move some steps further, sanitize our
nation and propel us into the 21st century,” added.
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