{"id":16175,"date":"2017-10-02T20:32:20","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T20:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=16175"},"modified":"2017-10-02T20:32:20","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T20:32:20","slug":"buharis-national-day-broadcast-a-clear-display-of-hatred-for-igbos-ozekhome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=16175","title":{"rendered":"BUHARI&#8217;S NATIONAL DAY BROADCAST: A CLEAR DISPLAY OF HATRED FOR IGBOS &#8211; OZEKHOME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- www.deltanewsroom.com --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/code><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Activist lawyer, Chief Mike Ozekhome has said President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s speech on Octpber 1 clearly displayed his hatred for people of the South-East.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He said Buhari showed a fixated hatred for Igbos when he berated leaders of the region for allowing those feeling marginalised to agitate for the breakup of the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Describing the speech as not only un-presidential but un-reconciliatory, Ozekhome wondered how Buhari could see nothing wrong in the murderous activities of herdsmen across the country as well as the illegal quit notice asking Igbos to vacate the North without any\u00a0repercussion\u00a0against them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Ozekhome\u2019s stance on Buhari\u2019s speech was contained, in a statement he signed, entitled \u2018President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s National Day Broadcast: Yet Another Golden Opportunity Lost.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">According to Ozekhome, \u201cThe entire national day broadcast by PMB on the occasion of Nigeria\u2019s 57th independence is quite disappointing in all ramifications.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cIt was very un-presidential and un-reconciliatory. PMB left the real issues and pursued trifles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cThe broadcast was rabidly narcissist, parochial, nepotic and clannish, as it failed to see anything wrong with the blatant and well reported threats by the Arewa youths to quit fellow Nigerians from their domains.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cThe speech followed his now well worn out fixation of perceived hatred for the Igbo race, whose leadership he needlessly scurilized and lampooned, for allegedly being behind IPOB and other agitations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cI doubt and didn\u2019t hear him mention anything about gun wielding herdsmen that literally vanquish citizens in their own homesteads across Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cThe President celebrated mediocrity and edified his government\u2019s non-performance two and half years down the line.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cI genuinely wondered if he was discussing the same country, Nigeria, that I am in, or another utopian planet Mars.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cThe beautiful picture of a peaceful country he painted so glowingly and artistically with the paintbrush of breathless satisfaction is quite different from the stark reality on the ground, which every beleaguered Nigerian labours under.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cHis speech writers either wallowed in utopian mystic of redemptive messianism, or in crass fraud and grand deception.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cBut, Nigerians are no fools. Did I hear PMB say this is the first time a government at the Centre is losing the governorship, senatorial and Houses of Assembly\u2019s elections to the opposite at the state level?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=14587&amp;ad_type=59&amp;rl=180\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cNo sir, wrong. Whoever gave Mr. President this false electoral history has done him incalculable disservice and great damage and ridicule\u2019.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cFew examples: Remember Ondo state (Labour Party), Osun and Edo states (AC), Anambra (APGA), etc?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cNot only did the ruling PDP lose the elections to those opposition parties, the then President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan actually rolled out the drums and congratulated the new governors, Senators and House member.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cPeter Obi won the Anambra state governorship election in 2010 for the second time on the platform of APGA.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cObasanjo was President at the Centre under the PDP, just as Bola Tinubu won the Lagos state governorship seat twice under AD and ACN, with Obasanjo as president under PDP at the Centre.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cBuhari lost yet another golden opportunity to balm bruised nationalities\u2019 ego and cement Nigeria\u2019s yawning cleavages, hate and divisiveness.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cMust everything be predicated on falsehood, force, threats and gun boat diplomacy, viet armis?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cIt didn\u2019t ever work. When he applied such excessive force and threats to the Niger Delta militants, I counseled then it would not work.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cThe marginalized youth picked up the gauntlet, serially blew up oil pipelines, tore up Nigeria\u2019s oil jugular into smithereens.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cCrude oil output plummeted to about 700 thousand barrels per day from 1.5m barrels.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cIt took the then Acting President Yemi Osibanjo\u2019s shuttle diplomacy to the Niger Delta region to quell the strife.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cIt was Napoleon Bonarparte, a French General and Emperor (1769-1821), who famously declared: \u201cdo you know what amazes me more than anything else? The impotence of force to organize anything.\u201cPMB sir, allow Nigerians enjoy the full bloom of democracy and its inbuilt mechanisms for conflict resolution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Buhari-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15809\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Buhari-2-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Buhari-2-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Buhari-2-768x518.jpg 768w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Buhari-2-1024x691.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Buhari-2-272x182.jpg 272w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Buhari-2.jpg 1184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Activist lawyer, Chief Mike Ozekhome has said President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s speech on Octpber 1 clearly displayed his hatred for people of the South-East. He said Buhari showed a fixated hatred for Igbos when he berated leaders of the region for allowing those feeling marginalised to agitate for the breakup of the country. 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