{"id":18915,"date":"2018-05-26T21:19:19","date_gmt":"2018-05-26T21:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=18915"},"modified":"2018-05-26T21:19:19","modified_gmt":"2018-05-26T21:19:19","slug":"so-buharis-role-model-is-abacha-a-common-thief-by-reno-omokri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=18915","title":{"rendered":"SO BUHARI&#8217;S ROLE MODEL IS ABACHA, A COMMON THIEF! By Reno Omokri"},"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 class=\"amp-wp-inline-9ebb7490943b27acf21bc3342b5bd50d\"><em>Being half literate is like a piece of meat being half-cooked. From the outside, the meat looks cooked. It is only when you taste it that you realize that the cook was not cooked through.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"amp-wp-inline-9ebb7490943b27acf21bc3342b5bd50d\">This is the problem with Muhammadu Buhari. The President does not like to read. If he was a reading man, he would not have made the statement he did about $16 billion being wasted on power projects by the Obasanjo-led administration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"amp-wp-inline-9ebb7490943b27acf21bc3342b5bd50d\">The President had said while playing host to the Buhari Support Group as follows:<br \/>\n\u201cOne of the former Heads of State between that time was bragging that he spent more than 16 billion American dollars, on power. Where is the power? Where is the power? And now we have to pay the debts.\u201d<br \/>\nThe figure of $16 billion does not exist and it is sad that a President, with records available to him can make such a reckless accusation, especially when the facts are available to him if he would only read!<br \/>\nSince President Buhari is so enamored with Nasir El-Rufai, the manipulative Governor of Kaduna State and uber Buhari sycophant, I would like to quote from an interview that El-Rufai gave on October 17, 2009.<\/p>\n<p class=\"amp-wp-inline-9ebb7490943b27acf21bc3342b5bd50d\">In that interview, entitled \u2018My Grouse With Yar\u2019adua, El-Rufai said:<br \/>\n\u201cWhen Yar\u2019Adua came in, he made statements while receiving Oby Ezekwesili in her new capacity at the World Bank to the effect that he believed that the amounts spent by Obasanjo were wasted. He came up with a figure of $10 billion. When his own Senior Special Assistant (Engr. Foluseke Shomolu) wrote him a memo to the effect that the figure quoted was inaccurate, the president fired him. Very conveniently, the House of Representatives began a probe of the NIPP under Obasanjo and sensationalised it.<br \/>\nThe National Economic Council also had a committee under Governor Suswan of Benue reviewing this NIPP. After a year, both committees were not able to establish any wrongdoing against Obasanjo and in fact confirmed that the actual amount spent was not $10 billion, but actually a fraction of that amount (less than $6 billion committed and $3 billion actually disbursed \u2013 the exact amounts quoted by Engr. Shomolu).\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"amp-wp-inline-9ebb7490943b27acf21bc3342b5bd50d\">If the report of the various committees that investigated these allegations are too long for a President who prefers to read cartoons as his own spokesman admitted, then perhaps he can spare the 25 minutes it would take him to read his prot\u00e9g\u00e9\u2019s interview.<br \/>\nBut the question that discerning Nigerians should be asking is why is Buhari bringing this up? After all he and Tinubu once begged former President Obasanjo to be their \u2018navigator\u2019. Did they not know he was a crook when they started their bromance with him?<br \/>\nLast year on Obasanjo\u2019s birthday, President Buhari called him a statesman \u2018with commitment to good governance\u2019. Today, he is hinting at probing Obasanjo\u2019s alleged $16 billion power project contracts just because Obasanjo is against his reelection. This is just vindicating my stand that we have war on Corruption opposition!<br \/>\nAs long as you are on the President\u2019s side and praising him, all your sins are forgiven like Musiliu Obanikoro. But the minute you get a bout of conscience, your old real and imagined sins are dredged up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"amp-wp-inline-9ebb7490943b27acf21bc3342b5bd50d\">On this matter of Obasanjo however, President Buhari has met his match. I like Obasanjo\u2019s response to Buhari. Trust Baba Iyabo. He said, inter alia that:<br \/>\n\u201cIf he (Buhari) cannot read the three-volume book (My Watch), he should detail his aides to do so and summarise the chapters in a language that he will easily understand\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=16255&amp;ad_type=59&amp;rl=180\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Buhari is an ungrateful ignoramus for saying he is paying Obasanjo\u2019s debt. Obasanjo did not spend $16 billion on power. Obasanjo actually paid ALL our foreign debts and left a total reserve of $67 billion.<br \/>\nThank God it was an All Progressives Congress Senator that got up on live television and revealed that this administration has borrowed more money in three years than the Peoples Democratic Party borrowed in 16 years, yet what has been the impact?<br \/>\nImagine a man like Buhari, who has not initiated, started and completed any project in three years (beside the helipad he built for his personal use in Daura) attacking men who initiated and finished thousands of projects.<br \/>\nThe President\u2019s comments overshadowed an even more important issue which very few journalists appear to have picked on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"amp-wp-inline-9ebb7490943b27acf21bc3342b5bd50d\">The Buhari Support Group, whose visit excited the President and moved him to indict Obasanjo, is led by the Comptroller General of the Nigerian Customs Service.<br \/>\nA serving Comptroller General of Customs heading the Buhari Support Group without resigning, a serving Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission publicly wearing a Buhari re-election lapel pin on live television is how low the Buhari administration has taken Nigeria.<br \/>\nAt that same event, the President also lavished praise on former head of state, General Sani Abacha.<\/p>\n<p class=\"amp-wp-inline-9ebb7490943b27acf21bc3342b5bd50d\">What type of anti-corruption crusader chooses Abacha, a proven thief, who was also a blood-thirsty buffoon, as his mentor? When I schooled in England, my university had a module on Abacha\u2019s thievery. This is the man Buhari aspires to be? The man who exiled Tinubu and NADECO!<\/p>\n<p class=\"amp-wp-inline-9ebb7490943b27acf21bc3342b5bd50d\">Abacha\u2019s killer squad killed many Nigerians during his reign of terror including Kudirat Abiola, Chief Alfred Rewane, Major General Shehu Musa Yar\u2019adua (rtd) Bagauda Kaltho, Sola Omatsola amongst others, yet this is the very same man a democratically elected President like Buhari praises as his mentor. A murderous thief! Are we then surprised that there are killer squads of herdsmen going round Nigeria killing people? Like mentor like mentee!<br \/>\nWhat was the point of Chief MKO and Kudirat Abiola\u2019s sacrifice if Abacha is today the hero of our President? Why stop at Abacha? President Buhari should also declare Anini and Shina Rambo as national heroes. How unfortunate for a nation when a thief is the President\u2019s role model.<br \/>\nIn the year 2000, Osinbajo, then the Attorney General of Lagos, prosecuted members of Abacha\u2019s killer squad including Hamza Al-Mustapha, who was sentenced to death for Kudirat Abiola\u2019s murder. In the year 2018, Osinbajo\u2019s boss, President Buhari, eulogizes Abacha as his hero and mentor. Can someone help me ask Osinbajo, what he is still doing in this wicked government?<\/p>\n<p class=\"amp-wp-inline-9ebb7490943b27acf21bc3342b5bd50d\">On the same week that the Buhari administration charged Shekarau to court for ALLEGEDLY looting N950 million, the head of the government, was busy praising Abacha, a man that has been CONVICTED for looting over $5 billion. Buhari charges small thieves and worships big thieves!<br \/>\nThis is the same Buhari, whose government brought back, reinstated and double promoted Nigeria\u2019s biggest ever thieving civil servant, Abdulrasheed Maina. How can anybody in their right minds believe that Buhari still has integrity?<br \/>\nAnd this is the man who wants Nigerians to re-elect him next year? A man who thinks Nigerian youths are lazy, who thinks Nigerians are criminals (as he told the Telegraph of London), who goes about telling international investors that his country is corrupt?<br \/>\nThat is why he has surrounded himself with people like Lai Mohammed and Garba Shehu.<br \/>\nLai Mohammed said President Buhari\u2019s re-election in 2019 will be easy because the APC has kept their campaign promises. Can someone remind Lai that he is meant to be fasting during Ramadan and that fasting is not just abstaining from food, it includes abstaining from lies! Lai, fear God!!!<\/p>\n<p class=\"amp-wp-inline-9ebb7490943b27acf21bc3342b5bd50d\">Why should Lai Mohammed still Lie even in Ramadan when he is meant to be fasting? The name Lai is not enough for this remarkable liar! We should just add Linus, Liability, Lion, Liebaran and Lieraba to his name. Someone that lies during Ramadan that Buhari has fulfilled his campaign promise can never be trusted to ever tell the truth!<br \/>\nAnd as for Garba Shehu who told me to tell my friends in the PDP that they are not coming back to power, my response to him is that he should buy a mirror and what he will see is the face of PDP.<br \/>\nGarba Shehu was Special Assistant on media for years during the Peoples Democratic Party administration of President Olusegun Obasanjo. Garba did not resign from that government.<br \/>\nIn fact, Garba Shehu was affiliated with the Peoples Democratic Party for 12 good years. He was in the PDP for more years than he has been in the APC. He was in the PDP longer than I, Reno Omokri, have been associated with the PDP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"amp-wp-inline-9ebb7490943b27acf21bc3342b5bd50d\">Garba Shehu cannot deny this because his office was opposite mine at the Presidential villa between 2003 when I returned from the United Kingdom and 2005 when I went to the US.<br \/>\nGarba shehu used to craft very strong anti-Buhari press releases for the PDP during his 12 year sojourn as a PDP member, which included years spent as SA media under Obasanjo. Now he crafts press releases for the same man he once attacked against the same people he once praised! Garba is the epitome of AGIP \u2013 Any Government In Power. I am the epitome of loyalty. There is no basis to compare myself with him. I follow my conscience. Garba follows his stomach.<br \/>\nLet me stop here for now and continue to observe the unraveling of Buhari. I warned Nigerians but they never listened. Sadly, the man had to ruin the nation before my fellow countrymen saw him for who and what he truly is \u2013 a pretender who used subterfuge to get to power.<br \/>\nWhat can separate Abacha from the love of Buhari? Certainly not the over $5 billion Abacha stole. Certainly not the people Abacha killed. Certainly not the June 12 Mandate that Abacha frustrated by throwing Abiola in jail where he died. Nothing can separate Abacha from the love of Buhari.<\/p>\n<p class=\"amp-wp-inline-9ebb7490943b27acf21bc3342b5bd50d\"><span class=\"amp-wp-inline-f146f9bb819d875bbe5cf83e36368b44\"><strong>Reno\u2019s Nuggets<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nIt is a mistake to think time is going. Time is not going. Time is here until the world ends. It is you that is going. You don\u2019t waste time. Time is infinite. You waste yourself. You are finite. It is you that grows old and die. Time doesn\u2019t. So make better use of it. And one of the worst things to do with time is comparing yourself to others. A cow eats grass and gets fat but if dog eats it, it will die. Never compare yourself with others. Run your race. What works for one person may be what will kill you. Focus on the gifts and talents God gave you and don\u2019t be envious of the blessings He gave others #RenosNuggets<\/p>\n<p class=\"amp-wp-inline-9ebb7490943b27acf21bc3342b5bd50d\">Quote: But the question that discerning Nigerians should be asking is why is Buhari bringing this up? After all he and Tinubu once begged former President Obasanjo to be their \u2018navigator\u2019. Did they not know he was a crook when they started their bromance with him? Last year on Obasanjo\u2019s birthday, President Buhari called him a statesman \u2018with commitment to good governance\u2019. Today, he is hinting at probing Obasanjo\u2019s alleged $16 billion power project contracts just because Obasanjo is against his reelection. This is just vindicating my stand that we have war on Corruption opposition!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Sheriff.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18603\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Sheriff.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"728\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Sheriff.jpg 1080w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Sheriff-300x86.jpg 300w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Sheriff-768x219.jpg 768w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Sheriff-1024x292.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being half literate is like a piece of meat being half-cooked. From the outside, the meat looks cooked. It is only when you taste it that you realize that the cook was not cooked through. This is the problem with Muhammadu Buhari. The President does not like to read. 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