Nigeria defies all common
sense and logic; for months
we were inundated with the
news that the senate
president, Bukola Saraki, was corrupt as
the then governor of Kwara State, and he
was prosecuted by the Code of Conduct
Tribunal (CCT). Saraki had 13 charges
preferred against him. Saraki claimed
that he was prosecuted because he
became the senate president against the
wish of the president and the APC
leadership. But, all of a sudden, the APC
leadership had a nocturnal meeting with
the president in Aso Rock, on Tuesday,
March 22, and thereafter, Saraki, the
corrupt one, became a saint again out of
the blue. Even, some All Progressives
Congress senators, who opposed the
election of Bukola Saraki as Senate
President, held a meeting the same
Tuesday, March 22, and suddenly, they
cast their differences aside and started
supporting the senate president. Why
did they waste our time all along?
As this was happening, the charges
against Saraki were dropped, and then,
the 2016 budget was passed, in a jiffy, by
the senate after weeks of foot dragging.
Nigeria is in trouble! All these prove that
President Buhari is a corrupt leader and
can't fight corruption. What happened
was that the senate president, Saraki, sat
on the 2016 budget, and threatened the
president that the senate will not pass
the budget unless the charges preferred
against him were dropped. The president
used all tactics to force Saraki's hand but
to no avail, and when nothing was
working to make the senate president
cave in under pressure from the
presidency, the president and the APC
leadership had no other option other
than to dance to Saraki's tune. Saraki
then got what he wanted, and the budget
was passed.
Attah Iron Comfort sees Buhari as the
world's most corrupt leader and why?
Because, "Nigerians have come to terms
of late on how President Muhammadu
Buhari and his handlers dubiously
manipulated Nigerians with the slogan of
CHANGE and the promise to fight
corruption, and with Buhari's lack of
planning and mismanagement of the
bailout money, spending over
unbudgeted N8trn in 9 months and his
submission of overloaded and over
padded budget of 2016 (to the national
assembly), which he drafted to
compensate those that sponsored his
election. Buhari because of one man,
Bukola Saraki, should have wished to
sink Nigeria because the Senate
President was not his preferred
candidate for the position. Now, the
corrupt Buhari, for selfish reasons, is
now Saraki's friend:
The captivity of Bukola Saraki has been
turn around within 3days timeframe. .
**On Monday (March 21) APC caucus
met, and then the judge on Saraki's case
withdrew.
**On Tuesday (March 22) APC faction
against Saraki declared support for
Saraki.
**On Wednesday (March 23) Saraki's
Senate passed the padded 2016 budget
without questions and Buhari praised
Saraki to high heavens. Buhari is
Corrupt and Corruption cannot fight
Corruption.
NO WONDER NIGERIA IS NOW NUMBER 1
CORRUPT COUNTRY IN THE WORLD">NO
WONDER NIGERIA IS NOW NUMBER 1
CORRUPT COUNTRY IN THE WORLD".
The problem continues: Saraki was
declared a saint on Tuesday, March 22,
after months of telling us that he was as
corrupt as the devil. Then, the following
day, March 23, the Nigerian senate
finally passed the 2016 budget into law.
We learned that the passage followed a
motion by the chairman, senate
committee on appropriation, Senator
Danjuma Goje, for the passage of 2016
Appropriation of N6.07trillion and
seconded by Senator Andy Uba. But how
come that a budget that was padded, that
also led to the sacking of many for
padding it, was passed without first of all
sorting out the problems? It was
reported that Senator Danjuma Goje,
while presenting the report on the
budget, said that the budget was "full of
controversy", but that the senate would
not want to delay its passage by adding
more controversies to it. What was he
talking about here? How can they pass a
budget riddled with controversies, within
an hour, without much debate? Hear
Goje say that "there were lapses in the
budget, but, the committee had to work
around them". Then, satisfied with
explanations that the nation will benefit
from the proposal, the senate passed the
budget into law without questions asked.
Even the Senate President, Bukola Saraki,
the man in the eyes of the storm,
commended the Committee for a good
job done on the budget in view of errors
in it, while urging the full
implementation by the Executive. Not
only that, the Presidency immediately
commended the National Assembly for
passing the 2016 budget into law.
Do you see how the politicians are toying
with Nigeria and Nigerians; Orderpaper
Ng. wrote "The Senate has passed the
2016 Budget in spite of what senators
were told were 'outstanding lapses' that
were neither filled by the Executive nor
corrected by the Parliament". Saraki
held the nation to ransom, and the
presidency caved in to his demand and
stopped his trial. So, in the first place,
President Buhari has been manipulating
the judiciary for his own selfish gain. He
uses the judiciary to fight his political or
real enemies, and in order to get what
he wants, he wouldn't mind putting his
personal interest above that of the
nation. Is this the man to salvage
Nigeria? I need the answer from you!
Buhari is a milksop; but people see him
as a strong man based on what we were
told he did as the then head of state. But,
from what's happening now, it's clear
that Tunde Idiagbon was the strong man
behind the government then, while
Buhari reaped the glory. Remember that
Tunde Idiagbon, the number 2 man
then, left Nigeria to Mecca to pray and
the government was toppled even when
Buhari was in Nigeria. As I noted before,
if Idiagbon didn't travel out then, but
remained and prayed in Nigeria, nobody
could have been able to topple that
government. The weak man, who was
the then head of state, couldn't stop the
coup that swept him out of power. Now,
the senate president, Saraki, brought
Buhari to his knees, by refusing to pass
the budget, and that forced Buhari and
his APC to withdraw all charges
preferred against him. Where's the
Buhari's strongmanship or conscience
now?
People say that corruption has been
tamed since Buhari took over as the
president, that even his body language
makes a dent in corruption. But, it's not
so: Buhari is himself corruption
personified: subverting the constitution;
disobeying court orders; and
manipulating the judiciary all for his
selfish gains are parts of corruption. Did
you read that $16 billion corruption was
committed under Buhari's very nose?
According to the Vanguard: "Apparently
believing that he had heard and seen the
worst of how corrupt practices have
brought Nigeria to her knees, President
Muhammadu Buhari, last week (third
week of March 2016) almost lost his cool
when it was brought to his attention that
a whopping $16 billion - (at the official
exchange rate of N196, this comes to
N3.136 trillion; while, with the parallel
market rate of N315, it comes to a
whopping N5.04trillion), of the nation's
crude oil revenue loss could be traced to
some sharp practices by some
individuals in Nigeria's oil and gas
sector. The quantum of funds in question
are revenue that ought to have accrued
to the Federal Government of Nigeria
through oil-lifting deals which are now
subject of intensive investigations".
The APC caucus has just endorsed
President Buhari for another term in
2019, when he has done nothing to
justify his first term, and when he still
has more than three more years to go
before the end of his first term. Wonders
never cease to happen in Nigeria. The
APC leaders, who endorsed Buhari for
2019, are political lackeys who don't
know what will happen tomorrow. These
political morons are not the people who
will dictate to Nigerians who will rule
them as from 2019. Nigerians made the
mistake of electing Buhari in 2015, and I
don't think that they would want such an
illiterate and clueless president as from
2019. There will be no more Sai Buhari
or Sai Baba as from 2019. Nigerians
have learned their lesson, and will elect
a better leader as from 2019. When
Patience Jonathan warned us in 2015
that "only conductors give change" we
refused to heed to that warning.
The president is not upto his job, but, he
wants to whip up cheap sentiments and
to hoodwink the gullible. He plans to sell
himself to Nigerians, when he knows
nothing about leadership. The president
has budgeted N1.2 billion and plans to
use #IStandWithBuhari to rally support
for himself, when that money can solve
so many other problems, or, can offset
the salary arrears and allowances the
federal government owes its workers.
The Whistler Ng. wrote that "The March
31 rally in support of the regime of
President Muhammadu Buhari is
expected to gulp N1, 203, 500 (One
Billion, Two Hundred and Three Million,
Five Hundred Thousand Naira), mainly
from tax payers money and business
concerns seeking patronage from
government. In documents obtained by
The Whistler, the group said the sum is
to cover T-shirts, face-caps,
transportation, accommodation, live
coverage and publicity of the event
billed to hold in Abuja".
Can somebody tell the president that a
good product sells itself: he can spend
whatever amount he wants to launder
his dirty image, but, nothing will change,
if he refuses to fix Nigerian's problems?
He asked for the office and it was given
to him, so he needs to get the job done.
President Buhari cries that Nigeria is
broke, but, he steals all the monies he
has recovered or what his predecessor
left. He has no problems travelling all
over the world, wearing expensive things
etc. Did you read that former President
Olusegun Obasanjo has asked President
Muhammadu Buhari to stop using
dwindling crude prices for lack of
performance? According to Obasanjo, he
met worse situation when he took power
in 1999, but made the best of it. He
reminded Buhari that unlike his
administration that met a paltry $3.7
billion, in the coffers, Goodluck Jonathan
left behind a whooping $30 billion for
Buhari. What has Buhari done with the
money Jonathan left for his government
plus the oil and gas proceeds since June
2015? Buhari knows where the monies
are. He needed power in order to get
what he didn't get the first time when he
was the head of state, because, IBB threw
him out "prematurely".
Just see how deceitful this government is:
Hope for Nigeria wrote that "In a
dwindling revenue, Buhari did the
unheard of, instead of reducing the
budget, he increased the budget from
N4.3trn to N6.07trn. He presented the
most fraudulent, inflated and
irredeemably padded budget".
The government said that it can't pay the
paltry N5.000 stipends to the
unemployed, because, there's no money
for that, but, the Chairman, Senate
Committee on Appropriation, Sen.
Danjuma Goje (APC, Gombe), disclosed
that the 2016 budget, passed by the
National Assembly on Wednesday,
March 23, has a provision of N500
billion for payment of stipends to
unemployed youths and the vulnerable
in society. Why is this government
deceiving Nigerians? I will continue to
say it that a government built on lies and
deceit will fail. This government has
dragged Nigeria through the mud,
making one to wonder if the country will
survive Buhari's onslaught.
HAPPY EASTER TO YOU ALL!
TIT BITS
These excerpts are from Mr. Jim Lawson
Moses, who called on Buhari to resign:
With just about 100 days to the end of
his first year in office, PMB is still
apportioning blames rather than
proffering solutions. Rather than shop
for those that will help him fix the
nation's bleeding economy, President
Buhari is busy globetrotting; spending
the little resources that Nigeria is left
with abroad and returning back home
with little or no results for his missions
abroad. Is it his war against corruption
that has refused to yield results as
buttressed by a recent statement by the
Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC) boss, Ibrahim Magu,
that "senior lawyers are frustrating the
war against corruption? Is it his victory
over Boko Haram which he claimed can
no longer carry out any conventional
attack yet they bombed Maiduguri,
Borno State capital, killing and injuring
scores? The same Boko Haram bombed
an IDP camp too killing and injuring
scores of harmless women and children
he swore to protect. And just recently,
the same group of terrorists razed Mala
Keri in Konduga Local Government Area
of Borno State. Is it the "padded zero-
based" budget of "change", corruptly
designed to enrich some pockets, which
they also claimed some rats smuggled
some items into it, as reported by the
BBC or the Treasury Single Account (TSA)
which he recently pronounced was a
creation of Dr. Goodluck Ebele
Jonathan's administration? Would it be
only the Dasukigate? Of what immediate
benefit is Dasukigate to Nigerians
compared with the sorry state of the
Naira or faulty policies like the one
which has caused even students inability
to pay their school fees abroad?
President Mohamadu lacks clues on how
to move Nigeria forward. He also lacks
the capacity to be Nigeria's president.
This is because he equally lacks ideas on
how to diversify the economy of this
great nation blessed with abundant
natural and human resources. His team
also lacks cutting edge ideas that will
take Nigeria out of the woods. They have
nothing new to offer as his "miracle
making" and "saints" ministers are of the
old school or old brigade with little or no
achievements to show in their past
leadership roles except for Babatunde
Raji Fashola.
Nigeria, a country with about 220
million people, does not need a president
that lacks a 22nd century vision. We
need one with solutions to her
challenges. The kind of president that
can set the propellers and the turbines of
Nigeria's economy running rather than
bringing it to a total halt; a president
that can place the most populous black
nation in the world, in its rightful place,
in the comity of nations.

We will but somehow

dont ask,just wait and see it urself.

we are still waiting for this government to deliver