peteregwu:
Jonathan's Prophecy, Buhari's Heresy and Tuface's Bravery By Reno Omokri First published in Saturday Thisday February 4, 2017. On December 11, 2014, then President 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.

paschu:
What nonsense?

Too lazy to add paragraphs and white spaces or what?

peteregwu:
Jonathan's Prophecy, Buhari's Heresy and
Tuface's Bravery
By Reno Omokri
First published in Saturday Thisday February 4,
2017.
On December 11, 2014, then President 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.

paschu:
What nonsense?
Too lazy to add paragraphs and white spaces or what?