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| Prince Deji Adeyanju |
One would have ignored the ranting of Deji Adeyanju but for
the position he holds in a faction of PDP, the neonate opposition party that
ruined our nation and stole our collective joy as a people. Before the advent
of PDP in our national political space, Nigerians were the happiest people on
earth. But all that is gone now, within a short space of time- sixteen years!
For one whose party cannot run its own affairs and has
fallen apart since the end of money sharing culture in 2015, it reeks of
contradictions for him to on one hand, desire pomp and pageantry on October 1,
2016 and on the other, deep reflection on the socioeconomic situation foisted
on the nation by the inept PDP government of ex-Pres. Jonathan and his more
than forty thieves.
Reflection? Oh no! Pomp and pageantry were what Deji was
really after. That’s what he was used to. It would start with Deji and his co
travellers in the ruination train of Nigeria, being invited to the Presidential
Villa. At the villa, choice wines, spirits and champagnes, worth hundreds of
millions of Naira would be gulped down, spilled and even vomitted. Food, mostly
imported from America, South Africa and United Kingdom, would be consumed. At
tax payers expense.
Exotic women would be flown in from across the world in
private jets to meet the inordinate needs and desires of Deji Adeyanju and his
big brothers. No ordinary Nigerian was invited to be part of this pomp and
pageantry. None I dare say. Ordinary Citizens stayed home, reflecting on their
socio-economic woes and being unhappy, at the insensitive pomp and pageantry
photos coming out from the Presidential Villa.
Independence Anniversary Party packs could range from an
invitation to the Office of the National Security Adviser, ONSA, to cart away
GHANA must go bagful of Naira, a briefcase full of Dollars or to submit an
account number where our collective wealth would be frivolously given away.
Ordinary citizens stayed home, in deep reflection of how to get rid of Deji
Adeyanju and his big brothers and sisters!
Adeyanju is a PDP youth leader. It’s common knowledge that
corruption became widespread and a national past time under the PDP led
governments, particularly in their last six years.
How then can the one whose cohorts recolonised us talk about
Liberty? How can not being able to feed our families, pay our children’s fees,
afford basic health care needs, driven from ones ancestral homes, families
separated from one another be termed “Liberty”?
It was the former coordinating Minister for the Nigerian
economy, Mrs Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, who told a delightfully shocked nation that
the present economic recession cannot be blamed on the government of President
Buhari. She said lack of political will to save oil revenue under former
President Goodluck Jonathan was responsible for the challenges facing the
country presently.
She went further to insinuate that our economy has been in
recession for the last three years. Deji Adeyanju, What do you expect from an
economy where the Central Bank was constantly under pressure from the President
to print more money as was in the days of Uganda’s Idi Amin and Central Africa
Republic’s Emperor Jean Beddel Bokassa?
The simple truth is that Deji Adeyanju miss his life at the
Presidential Villa. That was where they arrived as ordinary boot lickers and
departed as millionaires or billionaires. Their discussions were centred not on
how to provide basic amenities nor the diversification of the economy but who
bought the latest private jet. It was where they lived as Lords, removed from
the reality of the hardship Nigerians were faced with.
Nigerians were not part of this pomp and pageantry. Nigerians
wallowed in poverty, insecurity and suffered the consequences of the corrupt
activities of Deji Adeyanju’s friends. Did he care? Of course not. As long as
he had his own share of the national loot exclusively reserved for faithful PDP
members, it didn’t matter.
Talking about division in our nation, it was not the
election that divided our nation. Nigerians, ordinary Nigerians were united in
their one goal of ensuring that PDP was buried, forever through the ballot box.
On this one period and mission, Nigerians were United!
It was common knowledge that division deepened during the
last administration. Our then President played tribal and religious politics,
making policy statements in churches. He also did not reckon that those who
play tribal or ethnic politics must come from ethnic groups with great and wide
numerical advantage.
He ignored, thereby, tacitly encouraged the activities of
Boko Haram in the North East, hoping it would drastically dissipate their
population and destabilise the region, making it impossible for the region to
vote in the 2015 general elections. But brave Prof. Jega’s INEC threw a handful
of sands in their devious plans. The rest, as they say, is history.
And how, Adeyanju, have your people reacted to their defeat?
Still with the bulk of our resources stolen from the days of pomp and
pageantry, they reached out to some confused criminal elements in the Niger
Delta as well as hijacking the Biafrans. They empowered them, not with
education nor useful skills, but skills to blow up oil facilities across the
region.
Even in the face of the global dwindling oil prices and
revenue, Pres. Buhari’s administration was poised to unleash prosperity on the
nation through prudent and judicious management of our resources, provision of
much needed infrastructures, renovation of dilapidated and abandoned projects,
social net for our poor and proper implementation of agricultural policies that
would make Nigeria self sufficient in food. But that would have easily exposed
the ineffectual buffoonery of the last administration. Your people, Adeyanju,
had to act to ensure that Nigerians continue in the poverty and penury you
created for them.
For those whose hands are dripping with fresh blood of
Nigerians who died needlessly, it’s cute talking about human rights. The same
lawlessness that pervaded under the rule of PDP was extended by a religious
sect that held Zaria and its environs to ransom for years. Lawlessness is not
an option in a free nation where everyone has a right to move about freely.
It was also under a PDP administration, Jonathan’s to be
precise, that some members of the Movement for the Actualization of the
Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, held a peaceful demonstration in Onitsha.
Over sixty of them were arrested and a few months later, their dead bodies were
seen, floating on Ezu river. Deji Adeyanju, do you by chance know when these
more than sixty young Nigerians would come back to life?
In 2012, Nigerians rose up against the government of
President Jonathan’s decision to remove the fuel subsidy. The reason being that
it was a corrupt government that was not trusted as it did not act in the
interest of Nigerians. That PDP government rolled out the tanks and some of the
protesters were murdered in cold blood. President Buhari, a man trusted by
those who were not part of the pomp and pageantry, has since pulled off the
same feat, backed by those who opposed it under Adeyanju’s PDP.
Do we even need to talk about the young men and women who
were scammed by paying to be killed, when they were lured to stadia across the
nation for jobs that had already gone to families and friends of Deji Adeyanju,
et al.
Or do we need to rehash the genocide that happened in the
North East of Nigeria which affected over 30 million Nigerians, bringing with
it, our nation Nigeria, being labelled a terrorist nation?
You said and I quote, “The military has gone on to summarily
execute 100s of members of IPOB without recourse to the rule of law.” I ask,
“Where? When?”
Unless of course, you are trying to tell us something. Are you
saying that those who blow up our pipelines and run back to their camps in
Arepo are IPOB members? It was only at Arepo that our security forces engaged
and killed economic saboteurs. But thanks for that information. Nigerians
suspected already! Some Nigerians have always known that someone who is clever
by half would confirm that IPOB HAD A HAND IN BLOWING UP OIL INSTALLATIONS.
Thanks for not disappointing us.
There’s something Adeyanju cannot understand. We have rules
and laws in this nation. Coming from PDP, a lawless organ, it will be hard or
impossible for his likes to understand that our laws are no respecters of
persons. When people break the laws, they are pulled in by the law. Ask your
brothers and friends who are facing charges for various crimes of money laundry
and outright theft.
The whole world is aware that Nigeria is a much secure and
safe nation under Pres. Buhari. The American Secretary of State, Rt. Hon John
Kerry has been dashing around Nigeria in safety. The founder of Facebook, Mark
Zuckerberg, was seen on the streets of Nigeria, jogging with ordinary
Nigerians. In safety. Nigerians, even those in the North East are moving about
in safety.
The truth is that, unlike the insensitive PDP bunch, Pres.
Buhari and his team are sensitive Nigerians. They are aware of the present
sufferings and hardships Nigerians are going through. They are not just
empathetic to the plight of Nigerians but they are working round the clock to
bring succour to them. They are prudent in the management of our scarce
resources. The best part is that our resources are safe with President Buhari.
He will not spend our hard earned resources on pomp and pageantry while
Nigerians suffer. He has assured that the present recession is temporary. We
believe him.
God bless Nigeria.
God bless us, everyone.
Lauretta Onochie
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