When recession hits the economy, it leads to
inflation. When it hits INEC it leads to
‘inconclusive elections’. When it hits APC,
they turn Graduate to Conductors. When it
hits Davido he stops singing ’emi omo baba
olowo’ and starts singing ‘gba be oshi’.
When it hits P-Square they stop singing
‘chop my money’ and start singing ‘bank
alert’. When it hits Nollywood stars, they
stop flashing cleavages and bum and start
flashing you with calls.


When it hits E-Money, he stops spraying
dollar with spraying machine and starts
spraying Naira by hand. When it hits UAC
they start making gala with sausage only at
the end and none in the middle.


When it hits Vice President Yemi Osinbajo he
forgets mathematics and blames Jonathan
for looting $15 billion arms fund though less
than $10 billion was budgeted for defence
under Jonathan. But when it hits President
Buhari, he stops promising change and starts
blaming Goodluck Jonathan!-


The incurable Responsibility Dodgers
Syndrome afflicting the current
administration has reached alarming
proportions such that they have turned the
weekly meetings of the federal executive
council into blame Jonathan sessions.
Rightly, agents of the government of the day
have earned the unflattering sobriquet,
Responsibility Dodgers, because, the big guns
in this government, despite their manifest
unpreparedness for office and obvious
cluelessness, have continued to blame past
administrations, especially that of Dr.
Goodluck Jonathan, for their own failure.


It is even most disappointing that a
clergyman like Vice President Yemi Osinbajo,
a Professor of law, who incidentally is also
the head of the administration’s economic
team would join the fray.


The latest outburst from Professor Osinbajo
was made in a paper he presented at an
event in the United States last Monday,
where he claimed that the Jonathan
administration was never committed to
defeating Boko Haram.


Really? Let me remind our revered Vice
President of a statement made by his boss
when the then President Goodluck Jonathan
unleashed the firepower of the Nigerian Army
on Boko Haram.


Since the Vice President has finally confessed
that it was a national leader of the All
Progressive Congress who was a former
governor that nominated him to his present
post, permit me to quote from a newspaper
in which the same national leader has
interest to buttress my argument.


“On the 2nd of June, 2013, The Nation
Newspaper in a headline titled ‘Buhari Faults
Clampdown on Boko Haram Members’ said
“Former Head of State and Presidential
candidate of the Congress for Progressive
Change (CPC), Major General Muhammadu
Buhari has faulted the federal government’s
clampdown on Boko Haram Islamic
insurgents.”


“He accused the government of killing and
destroying their houses while the Niger Delta
militants were given special treatment by the
government.”


“Buhari who spoke on Sunday on a Liberty
Radio programme, Guest of the Week
monitored in Kaduna also admitted that the
road to the registration of the All Progressive
Congress (APC) was rough, pointing out that
the promoters of the party were well
prepared for any hitch that may arise.”


“Buhari who first spoke in Hausa before the
English version accused politicians from the
Niger Delta region of starting the current
insecurity in the country by recruiting and
arming youths of the region in their
desperate attempt to retain power as
governors.”


“The former Nigerian leader said that unlike
the special treatment given to the Niger
Delta militants by the federal government,
the Boko Haram members were being killed
and their houses demolished by
government.”


From the above, a few things become clear:


1. There was a ‘clampdown’ on Boko
Haram under Jonathan.


2. It requires ‘commitment’ to unleash a
clampdown.


3. It was precisely Vice President
Osinbajo’s boss, President Buhari who
was against the clampdown.


4. So now I ask, who was really never
committed to defeating Boko Haram?
The three facts established by the newspaper
owned by the very man who nominated
Professor Osinbajo to his present position
has exposed him as either a liar or a poor
student of history.


Given that the Vice President earned a
professorship, I am not inclined to believe
that he is a poor student of history which
leaves only one other conclusion.
Let us recall that at one point, while
addressing pastors and leaders at a retreat
of the Fountain of Life Church in Lagos,
Osinbajo had also claimed that the
Governments of Jonathan and that of late
President Umaru Yar’Adua didn’t build a
single road in ten years!


On the issue of recession and how to get out
of it, the Vice President has continued to
dither. In one breathe, he had blamed the
downturn on the past administration, and in
another, he found it convenient to put the
blame on pipeline vandalism. And this is
despite the fact that the administration,
through the Chairman of All Progressive
Congress (APC) Governor’s Forum, has
assumed responsibility for plunging the
economy into recession.


Any discerning mind seeking to appraise the
Vice President by what he says, about the
past administrations, cannot but come to the
conclusion that Osinbajo simply does not
realize the weight of the responsibility that
rests on the seat he occupies.


I have no doubt in my mind that
accountability requires that a man in his
position, whose word bears the full stamp of
the administration, should always aspire not
only to speak the truth, but to say it with
candour and dignity.


In the first place, he has continued to raise
wide and baseless allegations of an
embezzled $15 billion security equipment
fund, without any shred of evidence.
Again, I state that this is the kind of loose
and trite talk that a Vice President should
never be associated with.


It is self evident that the entire five year
defence budget under the former President
did not have a security equipment
component that was anywhere near that
figure. Also, when he insists that the military
were poorly equipped, he is simply being
economical with the truth.


This is because, despite his distant
disposition in office, we expect that he
should at least know, that the entire military
arsenal currently being deployed in the
prosecution of the war against Boko Haram,
are still the ones ordered or purchased by
the past administrations, as the Buhari
Administration is yet to replenish the
nation’s armoury.


Funny enough, as I was writing this piece,
Vanguard Newspaper published a video of
the hero of our time, Lieutenant Colonel Abu
Ali fighting Boko Haram with the headline
“Video: Footage shows artillery weapons
bought by Jonathan, used by Late Col. Abu-
led troops against Boko Haram!”


APC’s lies are catching up with them! I leave
Nigerians to determine the wisdom in the
Vice President’s claim that Boko Haram
occupied 20 of the 27 Local Government
Areas in Borno State at the time his
Government came on board, when the fact
remains that the election that produced both
the APC presidency and Borno State
Governor, held in all the local government
areas in the state.


I have to painfully admit that, going by his
insensitive and offhand comments, Osinbajo
has not impressed Nigerians either as a
Senior Advocate, pastor or Vice President.
We believe that as a senior lawyer, he
understands that his garb of silk conveys on
him the responsibility of speaking factually
and evidentially. We are also convinced that
as a Vice President, his office requires that
he speaks with decorum and respect at all
times.


Above all, as a minister of the gospel,
apparently schooled in the forbearing ways of
the Saviour, his utterances should only seek
to heal, and not revile. Unfortunately,
Osinbajo has failed woefully on all these
counts.


I urge Vice President Osinbajo to rummage
the archives to bring himself up to speed on
how Chief Alex Ekwueme, Alhaji Atiku
Abubakar, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan and Arch.
Namadi Sambo, all reputable former Vice
Presidents, functioned during their time, to
make themselves effective in office.


For instance, Osinbajo should be reminded
that during Jonathan’s short time as Vice
President, he left a good track record as the
head of the nation’s economic management
team. Beyond providing a sterling leadership
for the well-placed economic direction of the
Yar’Adua administration, Jonathan was also
the face of the amnesty negotiations that
brought about the peace in the Niger Delta.
He did not achieve that through pointless
drivel empty sound-bites.


We have to point out that while the economy
bleeds, this Vice president as the head of the
economic management team of the present
administration, who ordinarily should be
marshalling out policy initiatives, remains
aloof and marooned.


Let us not forget that he was the head of the
economic team when padding was
introduced in our budgeting lexicon. The
2016 budget which he supervised and sent
to the Senate with all grime and warts, has
gone down as the most scandalous and
worst ever to be prepared in this country.


Ditto for the $29.9 billion loan request which
has just been thrown out by the Senate, as a
result of the opaque and vague nature of the
proposal.


It appears the shame of plummeting naira
value, galloping inflation, mounting job losses
and collapsing economy, increasing hunger
as well as worsening unemployment
numbers, are not enough to rouse the Vice
President to action.


Otherwise, Osinbajo, did not have to wait for
the World Bank, the International Monetary
Fund (IMF) and the National Assembly to
remind his Government that a humongous
loan bid without a comprehensive economic
blueprint, simply cannot fly.


But did he need to be reminded that a
depressed economy, or any economy at all,
can never recover or flourish when placed on
auto pilot, like Osinbajo and his team have
done?


The earlier Osinbajo realizes that a good Vice
President avoids the distractions of tactless
activism, the better for him. What is required
of him is to strategically apply himself to the
job of helping his principal and the
administration to succeed, especially in these
trying times.


Omokri is the founder of the Mind of Christ
Christian Center in California, author of
Shunpiking: No Shortcuts to God and Why
Jesus Wept and the host of Transformation
with Reno Omokri


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/11/recession-people-osinbajo-president-buhari-inclusive-reno/

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Relevant questions and factual answers. . .but our Zombistic Omnivores fit chew this one so?

However,

Long epistle like the 3rd mainland bridge.

Very succinct writeup! I hope the VP takes heed to this & makes amend accordingly. Sycophancy or sheer hypocrisy should never be the attributes of office holders.

Siberia101:
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Who your love for Osibande don't epp?

Reno always on points. pls fellow nairalanders, am new in this platform, what is the meaning of AFONJA?

Nice one there, reno our modern day martin luther #senatorOlakaNwogu rivers-southeast #PDP

I think Reno is quite apt on this

Erudite202:
Reno always on points. pls fellow nairalanders, am new in this platform, what is the meaning of AFONJA?

This is Afonja

Siberia101:
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I Love Osinbajo

Please, point out 2 things Osibande has done for Nigeria and Nigerians that can make me to love him too..

or you love for him is only based on tribalism?

When issues like this are raised, peeps like you should continue immersing your head in a perpetual hole like the ostrich..

Erudite202:
Reno always on points. pls fellow nairalanders, am new in this platform, what is the meaning of AFONJA?

Siberia101:
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