by Kingseyi Sun Jul 22, 2018 5:19 pmIn a tweet he tweeted on January 9, 2012, the
Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai,
tagged Dr. Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala a “zero”.
Not too long after, a nasty little child who was
promoted by the same El-Rufai, tweeted that Dr.
Okonjo-Iweala was ‘overrated’.
Jonathan-Buhari
The two characters aforementioned also
spouted some of the vilest things about
former President Goodluck Jonathan and
his wife, with the nasty little El-Rufai
social media sidekick comparing then
President Jonathan to a “dead pig” and
referring to his wife as a “natural
disaster”.
To say Elrufai threw decorum to the wind
would be the understatement of the year.
He insulted former President Jonathan
while he was praying, calling him “stupid”
and “lazy” as he prayed to his God. El-
Rufai’s ill-brought up children also joined
the fray and used some of the most
uncouth language on the then President.
And then it became the turn of Lai
Mohammed and his principals,
Muhammadu Buhari and pastor Yemi
Osinbajo. It seemed they were in a
competition to outdo themselves in a bid
to cast aspersions on the person of Dr.
Goodluck Jonathan and his government.
Clueless, useless, inept and incompetent
were some of the choice words they used
to describe either the then President or
his administration.
While campaigning in February 2014, then
candidate Muhammadu Buhari said he
‘would not continue with the programmes
and policies of President Jonathan’s
administration, because to continue with
the ideas of a government that does not
have a clue signals danger’.
His deputy, Osinbajo accused the
Jonathan administration of lacking
‘commitment’ and promised that their
administration would do better.
Not to be undone, Lai Mohammed called
Dr. Jonathan ‘clueless’, “callous”,
“insensitive” and “punch drunk”!
All three of them promised to give Nigeria
a better government and reverse the “rot”
of the Jonathan years.
Yet in three years of being in office, the
Buhari administration has been unable to
initiate, start and complete any project in
three years . Where they met an
economy that was growing at an
unprecedented rate of 6.7%, they
negatively turned the table and in six
months , an economy that was officially
cited as the third fastest growing
economy in the world in 2015 and the
largest economy in Africa, officially went
into corruption!
Whereas, Nigeria gained 3 million new
jobs in the last three years of Jonathan,
we have lost 11 million jobs in the same
period of review under Muhammadu
Buhari. Do not look at me. Those figures
came from the National Bureau of
Statistics which is owned and controlled
by the government Buhari heads!
President Buhari, a man who claimed that
then President Jonathan was weak on
security has been faced with an ever
increasing level of herdsmen killings.
There is a lot of press coverage over the
fact that there has been 1,692 civilian
deaths in Afghanistan in the first six
months of 2018, which is the highest
number in the war on terror to date. The
sad fact is that this number is not up to
the number of Nigerians who died in the
first 10 weeks of 2018. Yet Nigeria is
supposedly at peace while Afghanistan is
at war!
Faced with these facts, you would expect
the clueful Buhari to come up with
strategies to stem the killings, instead, he
had this to say: “There is nothing I can do
to help the situation except to pray to God
to help us out of the security
challenges” (I am not making this up,
Buhari actually said that).
When bandits killed 34 people in Sokoto
two week’s ago, the same President
Buhari said Nigerians should be patient
because ‘my security teams are cracking
their brains’!
To think that this is the man who called
Jonathan and his government clueless is
so annoying!
And to show you how jobless President
Muhammadu Buhari is, he could not visit
Sokoto State, where 32 Nigerians were
killed by bandits, but he traveled to the
Netherlands to attend the 20th
anniversary of the International Criminal
Court.
NO OTHER Head of State attended the
anniversary other than Buhari! The man
places no priority on his citizens’ life.
How can he expect the world to value him
when the world knows he does not value
his own people?
And the truth is that as long as
Muhammadu Buhari and his All
Progressive Congress are in power,
Nigeria is not going to make any real
progress. I mean look at the people who
make up the Buhari cabinet!
Former President Goodluck Jonathan’s
minister for finance got her PhD in
regional economics and development
from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. On Thursday July 19, Jack
Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter appointed Dr.
Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to the board of
Twitter. She also seats on the boards of
Lazard, Gavi and the Asian Infrastructure
Investment Bank.
President Buhari’s minister of finance on
the contrary went to a London
Polytechnic, seats atop a recessed
economy and is accused of forgery. Now
tell me who is CLUELESS between
Jonathan and Buhari?
It is commonly said, show me your
friends and I will tell you who you are. A
good leader knows that he or she is a
product of his or her environment so they
surround themselves with the best
people.
This is a principle that Jonathan lived by.
Can the same be said about President
Buhari? A leader should surround himself
with those who are on the same mission
as himself. Looking at President Buhari
and the people he has surrounded
himself with, I am tempted to believe that
the mission the President has chosen for
himself is a mission to fail!
Ex President Jonathan’s former health
minister is now a Professor at America’s
Duke University. His former agriculture
minister is now the President of the
African Development Bank. His former
finance minister sits on the board of
Twitter, Gavi, Lazard and the Asian
Infrastructure and Investment Bank.
His communications minister is now the
Chairperson of the global Alliance for
Affordable Internet. All this is happening
while President Buhari and his finance
minister are still looking for their
certificates!
Buhari’s Director General of the Securities
and Exchange Commission, Mr. Mounir
Gwarzo, was fingered for high level fraud
and was so incompetent that Nigeria’s
equity markets kept shrinking under him.
Compare this with Arunma Oteh, who
tripled the net worth of our capital market
to $150 billion and was so good at her
job that she was appointed a vice
president and treasurer at the World Bank.
Now take all these in and again ask
yourself who is truly clueless between
Jonathan and Buhari?
Back to Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, my
response to him on his ‘zero’ tweet is as
follows-Thank God Twitter, GAVI, Lazard
and the Asian Infrastructure and
Investment Bank do not think that Dr.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is a zero.
But the curious thing is that El-Rufai, who
thinks that he is a hero, has not
accomplished anything worthwhile as
Governor of Kaduna state. He had
saddled his state with debt, pays
herdsmen by his own admission, while
internal strife kills his own citizens. After
six years, we now know who the real zero
is.
As for Lai Mohammed, the man who told
Nigerians that President Buhari’s
achievements have ‘exceeded his
promises to Nigerians’, Nigerians laughed
when he launched ‘A National Campaign
Against Fake News’. This is like satan
opening a church. Lai Mohammed and
fake news are 5 and 6. They are Siamese
twins! Lai should buy a mirror and arrest
the person he sees there and by so doing
he will reduce fake news in Nigeria by
half!
The truth is that when you compare and
contrast Jonathan’s cabinet with Buhari’s
cabinet, the facts speak for themselves?
Reno Omokri, bestselling author of Facts
Versus Fiction: The True Story of the
Jonathan Years. Avid traveler. Certified
Ruffler of Buhari’s Feathers!
Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai,
tagged Dr. Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala a “zero”.
Not too long after, a nasty little child who was
promoted by the same El-Rufai, tweeted that Dr.
Okonjo-Iweala was ‘overrated’.
Jonathan-Buhari
The two characters aforementioned also
spouted some of the vilest things about
former President Goodluck Jonathan and
his wife, with the nasty little El-Rufai
social media sidekick comparing then
President Jonathan to a “dead pig” and
referring to his wife as a “natural
disaster”.
To say Elrufai threw decorum to the wind
would be the understatement of the year.
He insulted former President Jonathan
while he was praying, calling him “stupid”
and “lazy” as he prayed to his God. El-
Rufai’s ill-brought up children also joined
the fray and used some of the most
uncouth language on the then President.
And then it became the turn of Lai
Mohammed and his principals,
Muhammadu Buhari and pastor Yemi
Osinbajo. It seemed they were in a
competition to outdo themselves in a bid
to cast aspersions on the person of Dr.
Goodluck Jonathan and his government.
Clueless, useless, inept and incompetent
were some of the choice words they used
to describe either the then President or
his administration.
While campaigning in February 2014, then
candidate Muhammadu Buhari said he
‘would not continue with the programmes
and policies of President Jonathan’s
administration, because to continue with
the ideas of a government that does not
have a clue signals danger’.
His deputy, Osinbajo accused the
Jonathan administration of lacking
‘commitment’ and promised that their
administration would do better.
Not to be undone, Lai Mohammed called
Dr. Jonathan ‘clueless’, “callous”,
“insensitive” and “punch drunk”!
All three of them promised to give Nigeria
a better government and reverse the “rot”
of the Jonathan years.
Yet in three years of being in office, the
Buhari administration has been unable to
initiate, start and complete any project in
three years . Where they met an
economy that was growing at an
unprecedented rate of 6.7%, they
negatively turned the table and in six
months , an economy that was officially
cited as the third fastest growing
economy in the world in 2015 and the
largest economy in Africa, officially went
into corruption!
Whereas, Nigeria gained 3 million new
jobs in the last three years of Jonathan,
we have lost 11 million jobs in the same
period of review under Muhammadu
Buhari. Do not look at me. Those figures
came from the National Bureau of
Statistics which is owned and controlled
by the government Buhari heads!
President Buhari, a man who claimed that
then President Jonathan was weak on
security has been faced with an ever
increasing level of herdsmen killings.
There is a lot of press coverage over the
fact that there has been 1,692 civilian
deaths in Afghanistan in the first six
months of 2018, which is the highest
number in the war on terror to date. The
sad fact is that this number is not up to
the number of Nigerians who died in the
first 10 weeks of 2018. Yet Nigeria is
supposedly at peace while Afghanistan is
at war!
Faced with these facts, you would expect
the clueful Buhari to come up with
strategies to stem the killings, instead, he
had this to say: “There is nothing I can do
to help the situation except to pray to God
to help us out of the security
challenges” (I am not making this up,
Buhari actually said that).
When bandits killed 34 people in Sokoto
two week’s ago, the same President
Buhari said Nigerians should be patient
because ‘my security teams are cracking
their brains’!
To think that this is the man who called
Jonathan and his government clueless is
so annoying!
And to show you how jobless President
Muhammadu Buhari is, he could not visit
Sokoto State, where 32 Nigerians were
killed by bandits, but he traveled to the
Netherlands to attend the 20th
anniversary of the International Criminal
Court.
NO OTHER Head of State attended the
anniversary other than Buhari! The man
places no priority on his citizens’ life.
How can he expect the world to value him
when the world knows he does not value
his own people?
And the truth is that as long as
Muhammadu Buhari and his All
Progressive Congress are in power,
Nigeria is not going to make any real
progress. I mean look at the people who
make up the Buhari cabinet!
Former President Goodluck Jonathan’s
minister for finance got her PhD in
regional economics and development
from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. On Thursday July 19, Jack
Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter appointed Dr.
Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to the board of
Twitter. She also seats on the boards of
Lazard, Gavi and the Asian Infrastructure
Investment Bank.
President Buhari’s minister of finance on
the contrary went to a London
Polytechnic, seats atop a recessed
economy and is accused of forgery. Now
tell me who is CLUELESS between
Jonathan and Buhari?
It is commonly said, show me your
friends and I will tell you who you are. A
good leader knows that he or she is a
product of his or her environment so they
surround themselves with the best
people.
This is a principle that Jonathan lived by.
Can the same be said about President
Buhari? A leader should surround himself
with those who are on the same mission
as himself. Looking at President Buhari
and the people he has surrounded
himself with, I am tempted to believe that
the mission the President has chosen for
himself is a mission to fail!
Ex President Jonathan’s former health
minister is now a Professor at America’s
Duke University. His former agriculture
minister is now the President of the
African Development Bank. His former
finance minister sits on the board of
Twitter, Gavi, Lazard and the Asian
Infrastructure and Investment Bank.
His communications minister is now the
Chairperson of the global Alliance for
Affordable Internet. All this is happening
while President Buhari and his finance
minister are still looking for their
certificates!
Buhari’s Director General of the Securities
and Exchange Commission, Mr. Mounir
Gwarzo, was fingered for high level fraud
and was so incompetent that Nigeria’s
equity markets kept shrinking under him.
Compare this with Arunma Oteh, who
tripled the net worth of our capital market
to $150 billion and was so good at her
job that she was appointed a vice
president and treasurer at the World Bank.
Now take all these in and again ask
yourself who is truly clueless between
Jonathan and Buhari?
Back to Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, my
response to him on his ‘zero’ tweet is as
follows-Thank God Twitter, GAVI, Lazard
and the Asian Infrastructure and
Investment Bank do not think that Dr.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is a zero.
But the curious thing is that El-Rufai, who
thinks that he is a hero, has not
accomplished anything worthwhile as
Governor of Kaduna state. He had
saddled his state with debt, pays
herdsmen by his own admission, while
internal strife kills his own citizens. After
six years, we now know who the real zero
is.
As for Lai Mohammed, the man who told
Nigerians that President Buhari’s
achievements have ‘exceeded his
promises to Nigerians’, Nigerians laughed
when he launched ‘A National Campaign
Against Fake News’. This is like satan
opening a church. Lai Mohammed and
fake news are 5 and 6. They are Siamese
twins! Lai should buy a mirror and arrest
the person he sees there and by so doing
he will reduce fake news in Nigeria by
half!
The truth is that when you compare and
contrast Jonathan’s cabinet with Buhari’s
cabinet, the facts speak for themselves?
Reno Omokri, bestselling author of Facts
Versus Fiction: The True Story of the
Jonathan Years. Avid traveler. Certified
Ruffler of Buhari’s Feathers!
