President Muhammadu Buhari’s
appointee, Modibbo Kawu, the Director-General of National Broadcasting
Commission (NBC) is enmeshed in what has been termed hate speech against Senate
President Bukola Saraki.
Saraki, governors of Benue, Kwara
and Sokoto recently announced their defection from the APC to the opposition
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Earlier, some members of the
National Assembly defected from the APC to other parties.
Kawu, in a WhatsApp group of
northern editors and intellectuals after the defections, lambasted the former
Kwara governor.
The NBC chief in the chat seen by
Premium Times, said: “It is not the “natural” human condition to continuously
vote for a kleptocratic hegemony such as Saraki has imposed on our dear Kwara
State”.
“Bukola Saraki’s hegemony has
been responsible for a systematic underdevelopment of Kwara; the entrenchment
of a pattern of cult killings and blood letting that’s unique.
“And over a three year period,
2010, 2011, and 2013, tens of people were killed in stampede in front of the
offices and residence of the Saraki. Even the Offa “robbery” where 33 people
died was far more like their pattern of ritual killings than robbery!
“How much money do they have in
Offa banks that 33 people had to be killed? These are questions people ask in
Kwara. Hopefully the incredibly arrogant Bukola Saraki, whose family has no
Asali whatsoever, has finally arrived at a denouement! Nothing lasts forever;
not a kleptocratic hegemony; not an oppressive domination of a state by a family,
which really isn’t even from our state!” Kawu said.
He further declared that Saraki
is not from Kwara State.
“That’s why he doesn’t share the
values of our community; looks down at our people and carries himself with so
much contempt!’ Mr Kawu said. ‘Even his names tell anyone who knows Ilorin that
this is an “alien” individual. His full names are OLUBUKOLA OLABOWALE ADEBISI
(sic).”
“These are not names an Ilorin
person would normally be called. And he didn’t have a Muslim name until he
wanted to run for governor in 2002-2003! They first named him Muktar after his
grandfather and that was then dropped for Abubakar, the name his father was
also “borrowed” in Ilorin. These are the facts!” Kawu said.
However, some members of the
WhatsApp group challenged Kawu for his comments.
“We should not allow politics to
becloud our judgments and hence destroy all the principles we claim to stand
for,” one of them, Zainab Okino said.
“We cannot build or grow a
nation, when we remain stuck in the past; that one is not qualified for this or
that because he’s not from so so state.”
“Instead we should work towards
being citizens of one nation identified only by residency, without labelling or
profiling. This is an ideal which I thought Modibbo espoused.
“How will he feel if Kwara people
also disclaim him, having traced his origin to Wurno in Kebbi or may even be
farther to Futa Jalon in Guinea, Senegal or Mali.
“We all come from somewhere, so
it should not be a yardstick to assess individuals, even if they do not represent
what we stand for,” Ms Okino added.
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