Today I remembered a song we used to
sing in primary school. Some of you sang
the ancient version, but in my school, we
sang the revised standard version. Join me
if you remember it:
“Some have mouths but cannot wail;
Some can wail but have no mouths;
We have mouths and we can wail;
Glory be to thee, Oh Lord”
As I sang that song, my heart was lifted in
thanksgiving. Yes, I have mouth and I can
wail if I want to; but I searched, and there
was not one reason under the Nigerian sun
for me to wail. Not one reason. As the APC
songster, Joe Igbokwe, noted in his recent
release, “Buhari is on the throne”, so who
am I to wail? I choose to hail the President
instead.
The wailers say that Buhari is insensitive to
gender, age and tribal diversities in the
nation. They say the Buhari presidency is
proving to be a setback for our women
because only about 12 per cent of his
appointees so far have been women. As for
the youths who backed him so strongly
during the elections, none is worthy of
serving under him. They remind the
president of statements like the one made
by IMF boss, Christine Lagarde, in a recent
interview that, “having diverse perspectives
in leadership results in better strategy and
having diverse voices at decision-making
tables results in better policies.” Bleh!
Dearest Pres. Buhari, please pay no
attention to officials of these Bretton-
Woods institutions. What concerns a Rock
like you with the Woods?
It is unfortunate that the Ife oracle chose a
40-year old as new Ooni of Ife whereas
Buhari has not appointed anyone less than
48 years old. A situation where a sectional
oracle refuses to follow the worthy lead of
the great oracle of Aso Rock is
confrontational and does not bode well for
the rule of law in this country. It is
imperative for the Code of Conduct Tribunal
to prosecute the Ife oracle for its
unacceptable conduct.
Before I forget, let me use this opportunity
to welcome Pres. Buhari back to Nigeria
after another one of his foreign trips. May I
also bring to his attention the fact that he is
yet to visit China, Australia, Saudi Arabia,
Iran, Brazil or even Russia. I am not wailing
o; this is just a friendly reminder. It is a
great thing that he only speaks directly to
Nigerians when he is abroad, whereas
when he is in Nigeria he leaves the
speaking to the inimitable duo of Femi
Adesina and Garba Shehu. It was during
one such trip that Buhari graciously told us
that he would have a cabinet in place by
September. He broke his word, and up till
now we don’t have a cabinet. But his name
is Buhari and he has the right to break his
words anyway he likes because it is in the
measure that he breaks his words that he
will also break the chains of kwaraption,
poverty, insecurity and unemployment in
Nigeria.
I will also like to plead with President
Buhari to travel abroad again this week so
that he could announce to us personally
when he intends to swear-in the confirmed
minister-designates. Something tells me he
will swear them in before January 2017
because there is really no need to rush.
Buhari is the only star in the Nigerian
firmament and must remain so for as long
as possible. We don’t need mini-stars please
– one star is enough for us. In any case,
even if he proves me wrong and swears the
new ministers in soon, I shall still not wail
because I know that Ogbeni Buhari always
knows best.
The senate approved 15 special advisers for
President Buhari as far back as June 3rd. By
then, David Mark had not even handed over
as senate president to Bukola Saraki. Some
wailers are wondering why Buhari has still
not appointed his special advisers. Not even
a chief economic adviser has been
appointed, five months after the approval.
But I say to the critics: Why should Buhari
appoint special advisers? Is he not the
special ONE? How many other special
people can the nation afford? Besides
everyone knows the reason he has not
appointed them is that ex-president
Jonathan went to Tanzania to monitor
elections and did not submit his handover
notes on time.
Whenever Buhari decides to swear in his
appointees, we are confident that they
would be ready. For the records, the
favourite nominee of every young Nigerian
man is the Bayelsa nominee, Mr. Heineken.
Being the sharp man that he is, Heineken
has already taken a new job as campaign
manager to Timipre Sylva, the APC candidate
for the December guber poll in Bayelsa. We
hear that Heineken – who will be the
minister of miracles in charge of turning
water into beer in the Buhari cabinet –
decided to take up the Bayelsa campaign
job as he waits for his swearing-in because
he knows that an idle hand is the devil’s
workshop and a bottle of Heineken should
never be left idle.
Some of the worst critics of Buhari are the
busybodies who quote the law as if they
know the law better than the president.
Section 11(1)(b) of the Fiscal Responsibility
Act (2007) mandates the president to
prepare a Medium Term Expenditure
Framework (MTEF) for the next three
financial years and lay it before the national
assembly FOUR MONTHS to the
commencement of the next financial year.
The financial year begins in January,
therefore the MTEF ought to have been
presented before the national assembly not
later than 31st August. Today is 1st
November but the presidnt doesn’t give a
damn about that law. Meanwhile, it is only
after the MTEF has been submitted that
Nigeria’s annual budget can then be
prepared and presented before the national
assembly because Section 18 of the same
law says that the MTEF shall be the basis for
the preparation of the annual budget.
As a result of this so-called negligence by
the president, his critics are accusing him of
breaking the law. What a joke! What a
malicious thing to say about our dear
president! Is there no depth that the
wailers won’t sink to? Let it be on the
record today: President Buhari does not
and cannot break the law. He is the
fulfillment and the personification of the
law – NAY – he is the law.
Those are the reasons why I hail the
president and do not wail. I thank him for
bringing reality TV entertainment to
governance, where everything is
sensational, last minute, secretive and
suspense filled. Ride on, Mr. President. Take
your time and if time tries to hurry you up,
bring her to book. We shall continue to wait
for you like Godot because the children of
anger who are for you are far more than
the wailers against you.

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Another igbo wailer....bunch of retards!