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The Shaming of President Buhari’s ME-Nister by the People’s Minister

By now, you probably have watched the viral video of the town hall meeting organized by the ministry of masquerade dressing (otherwise known as ministry of information) in Uyo the Akwa Ibom state capital.

At that event, the mild mannered minister of state for petroleum resources, Ibe Kachikwu, proved that you should not judge a book by its cover as he publicly took on the minister of transport, Rotimi Amaechi and gave him an answer that could not be responded to.

By now, you probably have watched the viral video of the town hall meeting organized by the ministry of masquerade dressing (otherwise known as ministry of information) in Uyo the Akwa Ibom state capital.

At that event, the mild mannered minister of state for petroleum resources, Ibe Kachikwu, proved that you should not judge a book by its cover as he publicly took on the minister of transport, Rotimi Amaechi and gave him an answer that could not be responded to.



Amaechi, in response to a question on why he appears to want to consign the maritime university Okerenkoko to history, responded thus:

“I am not against the University. I hope you people appreciate that. My argument about Okerenkoko is that the land alone is N13 billion. If you give me N13 billion I will buy half of Lagos. That N13 billion has built the university already so there is no need to spend more money. Let EFCC retrieve the money from them and then release them and we would build the University. I believe the Federal government has no money to continue. When we have money we would continue. The Minister of state for Petroleum has whispered to me that he would look for the money to continue…Minister, bring it to me and I will continue”

In response to this, Mr. Kachikwu said:

“First let me say on Maritime University, I disagree with the minister of transport. Any facility that is placed in the south south, we should work towards developing it. I don’t care the circumstances under which we are placed… It is not my position to determine whether land was valued at N19 million or N10 million or N3 million. The appropriate institutions which are the court systems will determine that. That has nothing to do with the development of the infrastructure. As far as I know, so much has gone into that property. So much fiscal assets are being developed. We are not going to throw the baby with the bath water. We will deal with the issues but the University will be developed. If he doesn’t want it in maritime, I will take it to petroleum”

Seated with the duo was the minister for budget and planning, Senator Udoma Udo Udoma. The cameras actually caught his smile as he listened to Kachikwu and I tell you, that smile was worth N13 billion.

It was the type of smile you get when you watch an Uncle Tom being given a lecture he so badly needed.

An Uncle Tom is defined as an individual who is excessively apathetic to the group interests of his community while at the same time rabidly crying more than the bereaved in support of the group interest of another community with competing interests to his own community within a state or a nation.

I will leave it to my readers to determine whether this definition defines Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi or not.

But since the minister of state aptly chided Amaechi for attempting to throw away the baby with the bath water, it might be expedient of me to bring my readers up to speed about the origin of the term ‘throw away the baby with the bath water’.

In medieval Europe up until the Industrial Revolution, water was scarce. You could hardly get enough to drink, let alone bath with, so people did not have their bath regularly as they do today.

What would happen is that a family would obtain a bath tub’s worth of water at great expense and then the man of the house would have his bath right in the bath tub. When he was done, the next ranking male member of the family would have his bath. This would continue until all the men in that household had had their baths according to their pecking order.

Next in line would be the females who, believe it or not, would all have their baths in that very same water, according to their standing in the family.

Finally, the minor children of the household would then have their baths in that same water and bath tub.

As you can imagine, by this time, the water would have become dirty and almost muddy and by the time the matron of the family came to throw away the water, she may not notice that a young child or baby was in the water and in many cases they threw the water into the sewers along with any unfortunate child that was hidden in the water by the dirt.

This historical occurrence is a metaphor for Nigeria.

The precious water in the bath tub represents the wealth of Nigeria, which in this case is largely centered around the oil industry which is domiciled in the Niger Delta.

The bath tub itself is Nigeria.

The men, women and children who bath with the water in the bath tub are the various ethnic nationalities that make up Nigeria.

The man who first enters the bath tub is the Northern gentleman. He is followed in quick session by the Westerner and then the Easterner and the women are the larger minorities.

Finally, the children and babies are the smaller minorities that largely make up the Niger Delta.

The matron who attempts to throw the baby away with the bath water are those people close to power and who rather than serve the people from whence they came, prefer to serve the powers that be.

By that standard, Rotimi Amaechi is a matron who must realize that he was not sent to the Niger Delta by President Muhammadu Buhari. Rather, he was sent by the Niger Delta to President Buhari.

Ibe Kachikwu gets this and I wish more people around President Muhammadu Buhari would get this.

In recent years, there has been an attempt by many pseudo intellectuals to try and revise Nigerian history by peddling the false narrative that prior to the discovery of oil in commercial quantities in the Niger Delta, other regions shared their wealth equally within the Nigeria project.

This is simply a lie.

The fact is that until the infamous Decree 34 (Unification of Assets) was passed by the Major General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi administration after the aborted Nzeogwu/Ifeajuna (or Ifeajuna/Nzeogwu depending on who you believe) coup of January 15th, 1966, Nigeria practiced a brand of True Federalism known as regionalism.

The 1960 Independence Constitution arising from the 1957 Lancaster House Conference provided that each of the three regions (a fourth region, Midwest Region, was created in 1963) kept 50% of its income and paid 25% to the central government and 25% to a central pool that was then shared amongst the regions.

So in essence, what Nigerians freely agreed was that each region should keep at least 50% of its income (it could go as high as 75% when the central pool was shared amongst the regions).

Now without consulting the minorities, Nigeria’s majority ethnic nationalities, through force of military might, stripped the regions off control over their own resources and vested it in the newly created Federal Government and the minorities have been overruled at every constitutional conference since that time as they tried to reclaim their God given heritage.

On my first ever visit to Bayelsa state in 2012, I saw tens of human bodies that had been burned as if in a nuclear incineration. They had been scooping petrol from a fallen petrol tanker which eventually burst into flames and took them with it to other world.

Why did they do this? Because of poverty.

These people are so poor, yet Lt. General (rtd) T.Y Danjuma publicly declared that after he sold an oil block given to him by General Abacha, he made $1.5 billion (yes, you heard me right, $1.5 billion not Naira!) and had so much money that ‘I did not know what to do with it’!

Mrs. Folorunsho Alakija is the richest woman in Africa with a net worth of over $2 billion. She can afford to dole out millions of dollars through her charitable foundations because, like Mr. Danjuma, she also got an oil block from a military regime.

Not only has the Nigerian state stripped the Niger Delta of its own resources, the state has also used those resources to enrich a selected few individuals to the exclusion of the region that lays the golden egg.

So if Niger Delta oil has made well connected Nigerians over $13 billion in personal wealth, then Mr. Amaechi, what is the big deal if $13 billion is spent on the maritime university at Okerenkoko?

Right in Maitama and Asokoro, there are lands and properties that you can buy for $13 billion, yet there is not a single drop of oil in the Federal Capital Territory. As a matter of fact, the infrastructure that has made Abuja one of the most developed cities in Africa was funded by petrodollars from the Niger Delta.

So as my Yoruba brothers would say, kini big deal?

Ibe Kachikwu gets this. One wonders why Amaechi doesn’t? The two of them are very unique in that both Amaechi and Kachikwu straddle the world of both the Niger Delta and the Southeast where the Biafra agitation is currently very strong.

They should be telling President Buhari how to resolve both the Biafra agitation and the Niger Delta militancy.

I am not in support of violence and I urge both the Biafran agitators and the Niger Delta militants to advocate for their cause through non violent means.

I do not think secession is the answer. If I had the ear of the President, I would tell him that the federal government’s approach to Biafra agitators and Niger Delta militants is wrong. We should do what the United Kingdom did to Scotland. Pet them. Develop their region. Persuade them they are better off in Nigeria.

But I do not have the President’s ears so I count on Amaechi and Kachikwu to tell him for me.

Someone like Amaechi should know that abandoning a project like the Maritime University Okerenkoko will only serve to deepen the unrest in an already restive region.

The state that contributes the highest resources to the federal government is Akwa Ibom where Kachikwu confronted Amaechi. That state did not even have an airport until the state government built one with their own money!

Delta state had to build its own airport. The airport in Amaechi’s home state of Rivers was named by CNN as the worst airport in Africa in a broadcast on February 1, 2016.

Is this then the region that Amaechi wants to strip of whatever little infrastructure that she has?

Amaechi has this all wrong. He will serve Buhari better by explaining the Niger Delta to him than by explaining Buhari to the Niger Delta.

Amaechi should not get too carried away. Let him ask himself two questions. Where was President Buhari living before he became President? Was it not Daura and Katsina both in the Northwest? Where has former President Jonathan lived since he left power? Is it not Otuoke in the Niger Delta? Where has former President Obasanjo lived since 2007? Is it not at Ota and Abeokuta in the Southwest?

Abuja is sweet to call home when you are in power but when power leaves you (as it does to even the best of us) you will have no choice but to return to your mother’s house.

But one thing is clear going forward. Ibe Kachikwu has turned out to be the star in an otherwise lackluster cabinet. He had taught us the difference between a MINISTER and a ME-nister. A minister ministers to Nigerians while a me-nister ministers to his ego!

–– 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.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2016/06/18/the-shaming-of-president-buharis-me-nister-by-the-peoples-minister/

TheGoodJoe:
So Hon. Amaechi who built top quality hospitals for the Rivers People and provided Quality health care free for the young and elderly is not a true son of the Niger Delta. Pictures of some of the Hospitals below.

This is not Under-23 Olympic team thread. How back there pls

ayampissed:
As for me am a learner in all this politics brouhaha, but I must say that this your piece @TonyeBarcanista has made me understood a bit. however, from what I read up there, i need clarity on points made.

you said:

-Sheriff chairmanship is legal.
- Chairman(Sheriff) tried to organize May 21 convention but didn't want it to happen.
-Sheriff denies being a part of the suit to stop the convention.
- Court stops the convention.
- All factions complied with the court ruling.
- Sheriff continues to claim chairmanship.

Now you are asking what does sheriff wants abi?

Questions?

- Isn't it clear that Sheriff remains the chairman after the court stops the convention?
- Why would all factions comply with the court ruling stopping the convention and yet not recognize the seating chairman?
- Who organized the 7 man convention to take charge of the party affairs for three months?
- Can PDP go to court (the PH fed high court) without the the consent or awareness of its chairman because as I see it 'the Chairman is PDP and PDP number one man'.

From the ongoing what I see is, you guys are angry that he didn't want the convention to hold and as such, decided to do away with him. Am I right?

Abeg make me understand biko.

note: am not a member of any party in Nigeria o!

The summary of the matter is that. Sheriff was not truthful to its promise of organizing free and data election without impossition. Which majority did not want, hence the crooked court cases

Kachisbarbie:
I really don't know what the man wants, but I want to know how one man can conveniently hold a whole party down? Abi na juju?

I also don't know how shii like this works, can't they sue him to court with the agreement of majority?

"Abeg can anybody hem interprets this statement of the letter to atuleka a.k.a Sheriffu....."

"I hereby say that I knows nothing about the case. And neither did I authorize anybody to file the case in the name of the party."

bettercreature:
Dont mind @TonyeBarcanista he is looking for sympathy

Sympathy for waiting. When does it becomes a crime to Remind atuleka a.k.a Sheriff the letter he wrote and signed himeslf

modath:
It is unethical & criminal to take someone's money and not deliver what the person paid for.... whatever grouse you have take it to aspiring VPs Fayose,Wike, Ekweremadu and Akpabio they will help you, you are only preaching to the choir here..


No one on NL can help you!! Go to Wadata & fight your battle.

Who paid who.

#SAS is going on a misson-impossible and SAS knows dat

#SAS go and cool off at EFCC leave PDP alone oooooh

papayeye:
Na now I know say APC dey support Markafi. Na big lie sey dem pursue sheriff. I read am for Sahara Reporters say Youths wen like Sheriff later show face con give dem jobless APC thugs hot chase comot from PDP house. Wetin I see for Dem Sahara Reporter Computer be sey Sheriff still dey sit down for PDP chair gedegba.
http://saharareporters.com/2016/06/15/second-youth-group-supporting-ali-modu-sheriff-forces-pdp-secretariat-open-now-occupying

Make una read real gist

Read where you are quoting very well. .. before coming here to abeg....

Didn't you read "Thay seek to" but what happen. The real PDP Youth are fully in control, the rented Sheriff APC tugs where given a very hot chase

ybalogs:
Abeg, what's the title of the movie? I gaz get am fastfast

Sheriff relay race through the back door Part 1

PDP youths have taken over the PDP National Secretariat in Abuja, the nation’s capital.

The youth who stormed the secretariat in their numbers scaled the perimeter fence, made their way to the offices while the staff and other Ali Modu Sheriff supporters had to scamper for safety.

Senior member of the party and owner of AIT, Raymond Dokpesi, later arrived the scene and commended the youths for what he called their “gallantry”, while also assuring that the party will definitely get back on its feet.

The youths then handed the keys to the secretariat over to him but he declined, telling them that the BoT Chairman of the party was on his way.

The chairman of the PDP care-taker committee, Ahmed Makarfi later surfaced at the scene. He addressed the crowd, commending the youths for their action.
He later collected the keys to the secretariat from them and went inside.

Barely 48 hours ago, the ousted PDP chairman, Modu Sheriff stormed the National Secretariat of the opposition party with his supporters to take over the affairs of the party.

Sheriff has maintained he remains the chairman of the party until 2018.
He was chairman before the party’s national convention held in Port Harcourt on May 21.

Makarfi had reacted angrily to the invasion of the PDP National Secretariat by Ali Sheriff.
The spokesperson for the Makarfi committee, Dayo Adeyeye, had addressed a press conference on Tuesday at the residence of one of the members of the Committee, Abdul Ningi, in Abuja saying Sheriff was working for the APC to destabilize the PDP.

Sheriff was removed at a convention held in Port Harcourt in southern Nigeria on May 21, with a caretaker committee set up to co-ordinate the affairs of the party.
The Caretaker Committee headed by Senator Ahmed Makarfi, a former Governor of Kaduna State, was mandated to elect a new National Working Committee for the party within three months.

The PDP is Nigeria’s biggest opposition party, and was defeated only in May 2015 after holding power for 16 years.

http://www.tv360nigeria.com/pro-markarfi-activists-take-pdp-national-secretariat-abuja/

Will this help in the PRESIDENCY ULTIMATE SEARCH for PMB certificate

Lalasticlala

kpogede77:
The ignorance exhibited by Ibe Kachukwu on the political dynamics of the Niger Delta may create a dangerous conflagration in the Niger Delta that will finally cripple the Nigerian economy. Ibe Kachukwu is a close friend of Okowa. Okowa is pupet of Tompolo/Avenger, the deputy governmenor is a cousin to Tompolo. Ibe Kachukwu insistence that Itsekiri land of Omadino community called okerenghigho which was changed by Ijaws to Okerekoko after the warri crises should be acquired by government for 13billion to build a university without consulting the rightful owners is an invitation to anarchy. Ibe Kachukwu, you want to negotiate with militants who are your friends to give them amnesty for the second time because you want oil, Itsekiris are also planning to bomb oil welll in their area too to attract negotiation. note that 30% of Nigeria's oil out put are in Itsekiri land. Amaechi is a former governor of a Niger Delta State. He knows the game better than you. You are not experience in the Niger Delta issue. Many militant camps will spring up after this second amnesty. You will continue to give amnesty. Non violent youths will take to arm struggle.

And what happen to this structured.....

Hmmmmmm

PDP Crisis: I won’t step down for Sheriff – Makarfi
— 14th June 2016
(Taiwo Amodu, ABUJA)

Former Kaduna state governor and chairman of the PDP caretaker committee, Senator Ahmed Makarfi has dismissed as mere speculation, claim that he has opened discussion with former chairman of the dissolved national working committee, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff with the motive of stepping down for the latter.

The former Borno state governor had on Monday stormed the national secretariat and took over its administration.

Former national vice-chairman, South-south, Cairo Ojougboh at a news briefing yesterday claimed that Senator Ahmed Makarfi has accepted Senator Ali Modu Sheriff as the legitimate chairman of the party.

But addressing newsmen at his residence in Abuja, Senator Makarfi dismissed the claim as fraudulent.
He said:” That’s very fraudulent. I saw him, (Senator Sheriff) at the convention of course, but I haven’t sat privately with Modu Sheriff in the last 3 months, or anybody representing him not to talk of me making such a statement.

“I haven’t granted any press statement. If that is the case, how can it be that the only statement I would make is to apologise to him and express support for him? “There is no basis for that, absolutely no basis for that. This is what we are trying to get rid from PDP and all the so called court orders, judgment being bandied about aren’t really true. We know what the courts have said, the court never stopped any convention, of course it said do not elect and we didn’t elect and the order which was said to be vacated and that’s the Port Harcourt court order hasn’t been vacated and the IGP and INEC till today said it is an existing order.

“So, I really don’t know why they are spreading falsehood.”

The former Kaduna state governor however disclosed that he was open to dialogue that would ensure the amicable resolution of the seemingly protracted impasse facing the party.

“All said and done, I still believe that the path towards resolving political problem is dialogue, accomodation and I am open to that.

“But as I am open to dialogue, accomodation so that we become one strong united family once again but it is very, very unfair to make a fraudulent statement that there is a document purported to have been issued by me. That never, ever happened and I never even dreamt about it not to talk of issuing it.”

http://sunnewsonline.com/pdp-crisis-i-wont-step-down-for-sheriff-makarfi/

IHEJIRIKAisBOKO:
So APC that was formed in 2013 created MEND that has been in existence since circa 2004

Those people are only looking for ways to sell the idea of Pipeline survellance to their boys.

Nothing more. The sponsors have nothing to do with Niger Deltans interests. Since Tompolo had been scheme out by the Present govt. They also want to get their share as government person

IHEJIRIKAisBOKO:
So APC that was formed in 2013 created MEND that has been in existence since circa 2004

Those people are only looking for ways to sell the idea of Pipeline survellance to their boys.

Nothing more. The sponsors have nothing to do with Niger Deltans interests. Since Tompolo had been scheme out by the Present govt.

ShineuEye:
Don't you think a thread like this only help those who continuously agitate for heavy military presence in regards to issues affecting the Niger Delta?

Be informed dat those agitators are only using the NDA as foot soldiers.


If the government is serious let them to after their sponsors.

jaybee3:
What exactly is your profession if i may ask?

Let’s start from there bro

So you don't know profession and you could say this
.......

jaybee3:
Your username is a mockery of a profession i hold dearly

The country was at no point constantly generating to its installation capacity

Besides, most of the power plants are based on thermal technology meaning they are heavy reliant on Gas (which of recent has sadly become a scarce commodity) to power the turbines

obailala:
What about the road?

This is Lagos ibadan road started by part admin.
What is the present govt doing now.

jaybee3:
You bleeping muppet...
You are obviously too retarded to decipher his original demented post

Nigeria has a transmission capacity far greater than it's generating capacity. That's basic electrical engineering since electrical load can't be stored.
The current issue is our inability to generate to the installed capacity which obviously has something to do with lack of Gas to fire the turbines.

Thank me later for the schooling dumbfvck

What is the government doing to solve that problem...
1. They increase tarriff.. nothing to show for it only to be be blaming blaming NASS for tarrif increament.

jaybee3:
Your username is a mockery of a profession i hold dearly

The country was at no point constantly generating to its installation capacity

Besides, most of the power plants are based on thermal technology meaning they are heavy reliant on Gas (which of recent has sadly become a scarce commodity) to power the turbines

Mr name checker.....

What happen to fashola rocket science theory.....

http://thenationonlineng.net/fashola-steady-power-supply-possible/


Under fashola more with all his ticket science theory power crumble to zero MW power. ..

http://thenationonlineng.net/fashola-steady-power-supply-possible/

Am not ashamed of my profession and I understand what am saying


Summary is that Politicians are liars and cannot be faithful to their words

obailala:
At least the current FG hasnt boasted of filling anything, we all know they are cash trapped, we all know they inherited a 2015 budget which allocated less than N18bn for roads nationwide, an amount which was largely spent paying off contractor debts for old patched jobs; we also know that they messed up by delaying their budget for 6 months and only got it approved just recently. With their first budget now in place, I have no choice but to sit tight, fold my arms and watch what they do with their budget. That's even if the pipeline bombers which probably glorify will let them get any funds to do anything.

Now the big question is, the last FG which had all the money in the world and which boasted of building 25000km of roads in 5 years, abeg where are these 25000km of fixed roads located? ... because all the roads in my vicinity still remain the way they are, except for some minor patches.

What is the Government doing about this road



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81YA83pAS-8

jaybee3:
You and your bunch of likers are serial f..ktards

Since when did energy become something one can conserve/store and pass on as they deem fit?

Jonathan passed on a certain generating capacity which obviously couldn't have been reduced!!!!

The Power station can generate, now what happen why after increase units charges rated and still power was grounded to zero.....

Answer that,

What was handed over to him was generating 5000 MW when it was handed over to them.

koboko69:
So many toddlers just come online to talk about politics. @ what crude price bench mark was the 2015 budget created and how much did crude price fall below that bench mark?

So much noise-making and propaganda does not build roads and generate power.


You've not answer the simple question Mr Old-Man as if you know the person you are communicating with.

Answer the question you are asked......

koboko69:
They are here again, if figures are released, they will call it over bloated, lies, propaganda,......if it is proven, they will say enogh of blame..... clowns

Thought fashion said Lagos monorail will be completed, 10 lane lines will be completed in 2013. What happen to those projects now.

No wonder He continue to sprew thrash.

Zero MWatts electricity by fashola.....
Nothing's is said about that Abu n.a. GEJ cause an abi

koboko69:
They are here again, if figures are released, they will call it over bloated, lies, propaganda,......if it is proven, they will say enogh of blame..... clowns

Let me ask you this.

1. Last year 2015 budget was signed by April,
2. Buhari came into power by May
3. Then what happen to the 18 billion naira budgeted on roads as claimed by fashion.
4. How many roads has béen build or flagged off or continued by fashol......

We need facts not usual blame game lies and propaganda

StainlessH:
Mama peace is so happy!

How did she even come up with that name "mama peace" It's all good sha. We miss her and she knows that why she is shining her 32.

She launched a women for peace movement then



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siCLnN7TMWU

worksmart:
1. Buhari was asked a complex question by an American female journalist from the audience that mentioned inclusiveness. He didn't really understand the question and he sought clarification from the host on the stage with, who whispered something inaudible in his ear.
To be honest I also didn't fully understand the question.

2. Buhari said that it is a political reality that you cannot treat a constituency that gave you 5 percent the same way as a constituency that gave you 95%, because you have to show some appreciation for the hard work put in my constituencies that helped get you elected.

3.He went on to add however that he stands by his motto of belonging to everyone and belonging to nobody.

4.He also added that he couldn't treat any constituency differently even if he wanted to because the Nigerian constitution forbids it.

5. He never mentioned any regions so how the the ND militants know he was ascribing the 5% to them beats logic.

At OP is PMB not going by your point 2. Political reality already. Of recent tell me the south-south in the recent 6 appointed in the ministry of information viz.
1. Ishaq Modibo Kawu. Kwara - NC. Dg. BON

2. Mansur Liman, NW. Dg. FRCN

3. Garba Abari, yobe NE. Dg. NOA

4. Osita Okechukwu , enugu SE. Dg. VON

5. Bayo Onanuga, Ogun, SW. NAN

6. Yakubu Mohammed, bauchi NE. NTA


Where is South-South here abeg.

So where is 5%

IdisuleOurOwn:
But Christians still use the old testament up till date.


Why not throw it away?

The whole bible is guide for Christian. Old testament is before Christ and when Christ came he gave a comprehensive summary of God's command and purnishment.


The place quoted by OP is just like picking a fraction of what was written