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Abdullahi Haruna
Someone should
please tell Reno Omokri, an ex-aide to an ex-president that no amount of
malicious outburst on Vice President Yemi Osinbajo can shrink the respect
Nigerians have for a man who is touted as one of the most venerated public
office holders in the chequered history of Nigeria’s democracy. Omokri, instead
of brandishing his envenomed guilt without remorse or debasing a government
that has repositioned the country for greater prosperity, should throw tirades
at those ghosts that perpetually haunt him and his principal as a result of the
debaucheries perpetuated by them.
Nigerians don’t
understand why Omokri does not see anything good about a government that has
achieved within three years, what his principal could not in six years. As one
of the spokesmen to former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, a man who
superintended a government that reeked with filth and sleaze, each time Omokri
writes, his ink ventilates foul smell in form of brazen lies that often lack
lustre. Recently, he has gotten for himself a new job and that job is to throw
random, vapid vituperations on the person of Vice President Osinbajo.
Nigerians were
very much aware how Goodluck’s regime birthed fashionable corruption and
christened it a new name. It was an era where stealing was not regarded as
corruption. Corruption during Jonathan’s regime was like an abandoned public
lavatory, it was riddled with maggots of different sizes, and when opened, it
oozes nauseating smell. Nigerians should therefore understand why Reno Omokri
cannot freely breath each time one of the chimneys to the lavatory is open.
Recently, Osinbajo’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, opened the tiniest vault to the
lavatory and as expected, Reno Omokri could not stand the unpleasant smells it
ventilate. Laolu had said: “We have a situation where a former first lady came
out openly to claim over $171m found in her accounts and you think Nigerians
will simply overlook that.”
Reacting, Omokri
in his usual demeanour, threw a pointless dart into the air, thinking that his
enemies were domiciled in the sky. In his bid to defend a government that was
known for buffoonery and corruption, Omokri keeps ridiculing himself and
revealing the inherent mutability of character of a man who arrogated himself
the status of a Pastor. He spewed thus: “First of all, there is no former First
Lady from the Jonathan administration that has claimed $171 million in a bank
account. Upon a promise of a suit for libel, I challenge Vice President Yemi
Osinbajo to name that person.” Even if Omokri has lost all his senses due to
the fact that he benefitted enormously from a regime that was notoriously
unpopular, but popularly notorious for its corruption, the remnant of his
senses should remind him that there was only one first lady during Goodluck
Ebele Jonathan’s regime, and that was Mrs. Dame Patience Jonathan.
Omokri, admitted
that Vice President Osinbajo mentioned the discovery of $43.4 million, a money
starched in one of the rooms at the Osborne Towers in Ikoyi, Lagos by
Ambassador Ayo Oke. Someone should please remind the Defender General of
Corruption (DGC) that Ambassador Oke was one of the seeds of corruption planted
by former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, and if anything, Omokri should
applaud the current regime for their tenacious and daring commitment towards
removing all the vestiges of corruption planted by the past regimes. For record
purpose, Ambassador Oke, the sacked Director General of the National
Intelligence Agency (NIA) was appointed by Goodluck Jonathan on November 7,
2013 but was sacked by President Buhari on October 30, 2018 following his bounteous
involvement in the Osborne Towers scandal.
Did Omokri
equally accuse Professor Osinbajo of being ‘silent’ about the alleged corrupt
case involving the immediate past Secretary to the Government of the
Federation, Babachir Lawal? Someone should please activate Omokri’s memory.
Vice President Osinbajo was the Chairman of the Panel that recommended the
immediate sack of Babachir, how else does the overtly benighted and
disillusioned Omokri want the Vice President to exercise his eloquence on
anti-corruption? Curious minds would ask why Babachir has not been charged to
court. We should not be oblivious of the fact that the constitution of the
Federal Republic of Nigeria defines how certain powers are exercised. It should
be noted that neither the President nor the Vice President has the right to
interfere or hinder any investigation as the constitution does not offer them
such power. The onus of prosecution lies with the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related
Offences Commission (ICPC); where and when they have reasonable grounds to
charge former and serving officers to court under laws, they do not require the
permission of the President or his Vice to do so.
There are
indications that the Buhari-led administration is committed to fighting
corruption, and he is winning where Omokri’s principal had failed woefully.
Omokri who served the most corrupt regime in our history lacks the locus standi
to even run any form of commentary on corruption because his principal is a
symbol of how not to fight against corruption. Figures published by the EFCC,
reveal that N738.9 billion was recovered in just two years of Buhari’s regime
and bulk of these monies were siphoned by the same government Omokri is striving
hard to defend, forgetting that it is always impossible to carve a good image
out of rotten wood.
Those who know
Omokri, understand how desperate the self-ordinated pastor could be. Instead of
dissipating energy to burnish the battered and plummeted image of his
principal, Omokri now finds solace in throwing tactless tirades on the Vice
President and the government that is working so hard to repair all that they
destroyed. In order to give dog a bad name so that he can be hanged, Omokri had
quoted Aisha Yesufu, who described Professor Osinbajo as her ‘greatest
disappointment’.
Few background
information will explain why Aisha, the co-founder of BringBackOurGirls is
greatly disappointed with Vice President Osinbajo and the Buhari-led
administration. Students of history would recall that Aisha rode to stardom on
the account of failure of the past regime in tackling the menace of Boko Haram.
However, the commitment of the present administration to fighting terrorism has
hauled her to the back seat of activism, thereby deflating the undeserved
relevance she garnered during Goodluck’s regime. One option to Omokri and
Aisha, his co-traveller will suffice – they should go get themselves decent
jobs. Specifically, Aisha should change the direction of her activism because
majority of the girls that were kidnapped by Boko Haram during Goodluck’s
regime have been brought back.
No amount of
worthless diatribe and gibberish from Reno Omokri and his ilk, can stop the
revolution being championed by President Muhammadu Buhari and his co-rider,
Professor Yemi Osinbajo. The Change Mantra is like a moving train, nothing can
stop it.
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