Goodluck Jonathan accepted the Presidential
nomination of the Peoples Democratic Party to
contest the 2015 Presidential elections as its
candidate. At that occasion, the former leader
made a statement which, in hindsight, can now
be seen as a prophecy.
On that day, Jonathan said:
"The choice before Nigerians in the coming
election is simple: A choice between going
forward or going backwards; between the new
ways and the old ways; between freedom and
repression; between a record of visible
achievements and beneficial reforms - and
desperate power-seekers with empty
promises."
When the Naira crashed to ₦500 to $1 on
Monday the 30th of January, 2017 it hit me
that Dr. Jonathan's prophecy had been fulfilled.
I remember (and I am sure you can too) the
giant bill boards the APC erected all over the
country saying, and I quote
'Is ₦216 to $1 okay? It is time to act now.
Buhari-Osinbajo'.
Well both President Muhammadu Buhari and
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo have 'acted' for
almost two years now and today it is now over
₦500 to $1. It is time for the duo to answer
their own question.
On the 20th of November, 2014, a certain
young Nigerian named Mohammad had
tweeted the following tweet on Twitter;
"Today a dollar N180 and a pound is N280,
hope you have a family....this is really the
transformation agenda..!! GEJ has finished
Nigeria.."
This tweet went viral because the APC through
its agents on Twitter retweeted the tweet until
it trended online.
Flash forward to Monday the 30th of January,
2017, the day the Naira crossed over the ₦500
to $1 rubicon and the now sober Mohammad
tweeted three times and I will quote each of
those tweets below:
The first tweet
"GEJ should please forgive me!!!"
The second tweet
"N500 even wen they claim the are fighting
corruption #bringbackourGEJ "
The third tweet
"GEJ a true definition of the word HERO ...!!!"
This time around, though the APC refused to
retweet Mohammad who tweets from the
handle @deee009, his last tweets are even
more popular than the first because Nigerians
retweeted them, storyfied them and blogs
celebrated them.
On Tuesday 31st of January, 2017, another
young Nigerian named Uchenna tweeted
through his twitter handle, Uchez2 this:
"@Uchez2: How did the dollar stay at ₦175-
₦200 for 4yrs under "massive looting"? How is
it now at N510 in 2 years under "massive
savings"?"
What Jonathan's 2014 quote and Mohammad's
2014 and 2017 tweets as well as Uchenna's
question has shown is that, no matter how far
and fast falsehood has travelled, it must
eventually be overtaken by truth.
Everybody is affected by the failed promises of
the Buhari administration. The richest African
and Black man in the world, Aliko Dangote, has
seen his fortune depreciate by more than 50%
from $25 billion under former President
Jonathan to $12.4 billion today. We pray it
does not shrink to $1.2 billion before 2019!
There is no Nigerian that is not affected and
that is all the more reason why the multiple
award winning singer and rapper, Innocent
Idibia, AKA Tuface has said he is going to lead
a nationwide protest against the policies of this
government which are impoverishing
Nigerians.
Of course very predictably, the administration,
either directly or indirectly, has come out guns
blazing against the much loved entertainer.
Government surrogates and jealous rivals have
sought to disqualify and disenfranchise him
from leading his protest by saying that as a
father of seven children from three different
mothers Tuface lacks the moral authority to
protest against government policies!
First of all, the problem many of his celebrity
haters have with Tuface is not the protest
itself perse. They are really angry that they
were not the ones who thought of it!
If having children from many women is their
grouse then they would have had a grouse with
many Nigerian leaders. Which Nigerian leader
has children from only one woman?
And it almost became comical when the
Presidency asked to debate with Tuface on live
TV. Really? A President who refused to debate
his opponents at the Presidential Debates
during the elections now wants Tuface to
debate live on TV. I mean just negodu!
When some musicians and actors gathered at
Ojota with Nasir Elrufai and Dino Melaye
against then President Jonathan in February
2012, nobody cared how many children they
had but suddenly they care about Tuface's
baby mamas!
I guess both Elrufai and Dino Melaye have all
their children from one woman!
In the new and improved Federal Republic of
Double Standards, if you have more than one
baby mama you can be a President, a Governor
or a Senator, but you cannot lead a protest! It
is haram! You are not morally fit to protest!
And it was so disappointing to see an official
All Progressive Congres Twitter handle mocking
the protest. APC News TV tweeted and I am
quoting:
"@APCNEWSTV: JUST BEFORE YOU JOIN THE
SENSELESS PROTEST, NOTE THAT! Godswill
Akpabio bankrolled the posh wedding of 2face"
What rubbish! First of all, this is a desperate
lie. But even if this were true (it is not) didn't
Nigerians vote for President Muhammadu
Buhari despite the fact that former Governors
Rotimi Amaechi and Bola Tinubu bankrolled
him?
If the Presidency and the APC want us to
believe that Tuface Idibia's planned protest is
"senseless" because his wedding was
bankrolled by former Governor Godswill
Akpabio then they are inadvertently admitting
that President Buhari's Government is
"senseless" because its election was bankrolled
by Amaechi and Tinubu. That will explain a lot!
It will explain the Presidency's senselessness in
the matter regarding Supreme Court Justice
Walter Onnoghen who has been denied what
should have been his privilege by political
tradition as well as by judicial precedent.
Ibrahim Magu is accused of corruption yet
President Muhammadu Buhari insists on
confirming him. Justice Walter Onnoghen is
free from corruption yet President Buhari
refuses to confirm him!
This from a so called anti corruption President.
Is it because Magi is a Muslim from the North,
while the other is a Christian from the South.
This is yet another example in the series of
double standards that are the hallmark of this
administration.
A Government that publicly urged accused
justices to immediately step down, yet writes
copious and even verbose letters to justify why
the provenly corrupt Secretary to the
Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal,
continues to retain his post. In Nigeria, it
seems there is one law for the 97 percenters
and another for the 5 percenters. Again I say,
welcome to President Buhari's new and
improved Federal Republic of Double
Standards!
What President Buhari is doing to Justice
Walter Onnoghen is nothing short of judicial
heresy. He is placing his parochial bias above a
well established doctrine that seniority at the
bar and bench is the major requirement for
upward mobility in the legal profession.
And as an aside, I am noticing that the rapidly
shrinking army of the cult of Buhari are also
set against the new U.S. President, Donald John
Trump. And it got me thinking.
I have a hunch that the problem Buharists
have with Donald Trump are not his policies
but the fact that a politician is actually doing
what he promised to do during his campaign.
They are so used to President Buhari, who
promises one thing and does another thing,
that when they finally see a leader who says
what he will do and does what he says they go
into shock.
In his first day in office, President Trump has
already started fulfilling his promises. He has
not blamed Obama, he has not blamed the
state of things he met on the ground. He has
rather began his tenure by focusing on his
promises rather than focusing on the alleged
wrongdoings of his predecessors.
This is why many people who supported
Nigerian President Buhari cannot stand Trump.
Because he exposes the hypocrisy of someone
who promised change and is delivering more of
the same.
This is why they are so heavily invested in
blame gaming the system and blaming every
negative occurrence on previous
administrations while waiting to give President
Buhari credit for the few things that have gone
right under his government which are,
ironically, the handiwork of the very
administrations that he denigrates.
Two days ago (January 31st of 2017) the
Nigerian Bureau of Statistics revealed that
foreign investments into Nigeria has dropped
to a 10 year low.
I am waiting to see the creativity with which
the Buhari administration will come up with
reasons to blame Goodluck Jonathan for this!
Perhaps Jonathan went around to all the
nations of the world to convince them not to
invest in Nigeria!
I thought that the Buhari government said
Nigeria was a pariah state under Jonathan. How
could a pariah government attract more
investment than an acceptable government like
the Buhari administration. You see, like I said
previously in this piece, no matter how far and
fast a lie has travelled, it MUST eventually be
overtaken by truth.
And it is silly of the Lagos State Police
Command to say they would stop Tuface's
protest! This is the sort of impunity that has
become the norm under President
Muhammadu Buhari.
Doesn't Tuface have the Constitutional right of
freedom of assembly? Does he not have the
right to free speech?
The same security forces that cannot bring the
killers of pastor Eunice Elisha to book, or give
justice to the be-headers of Evangelist Bridget
Agbahime have now found their voice when it
comes to stopping the harmless Tuface.
Is it not silly that at a time when the
Directorate of State Security have not been
able to utilize its man power to make any
discernible impact in the war against terror
they have the men to storm Apostle Johnson
Suleiman's hotel room in Ado Ekiti?
At a time when we have a Governor confessing
that he paid money to killers of the citizens he
is constitutionally sworn to protect, at a time
when Nigeria has overnight become the most
dangerous place in the world to be a Christian,
at a time when the dollar goes for ₦500 to $1,
is it really Apostle Suleiman that is the
problem of Nigeria?
The Presidency called Apostle Suleiman's
speech hate speech! puh-leeze! What hate
speech can be worse than President Buhari's
97% versus 5%? That a Presidency headed by a
man who threatened that the "dog and baboon
will all be soaked in blood" has the guts to ask
the Christian Association of Nigeria to
condemn Apostle Suleiman is the joke of the
year. If the Presidency are looking for
someone to condemn let them go to London!!!
Finally let me say that the Father did not give
Jesus a Name that is above all names because
Jesus is intelligent. No. Lucifer is also
intelligent. God promoted Jesus because of two
qualities. Loyalty and Humility.
When people ask me why I am loyal to former
President Jonathan, they do not realize that I
do not live my life for anybody whether it is
Dr. Goodluck Jonathan or President
Muhammadu Buhari or even Donald J. Trump.
My life is a test and upon my death the Father
will mark my test paper. I am loyal to ex-
President Jonathan just as I try to be loyal to
all my friends whether high or low because a
disloyal and proud person is like Lucifer who
tried to take The Father's Throne and a loyal
person is like Jesus who had the opportunity to
do the same yet chose to remain Loyal and
Humble. If I do not follow the Messiah's
example, then my Christianity is questionable!
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