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Religious Bigot: “Mohammadu Buhari’s religious Pig, will remain a pig, no matter how you waste your time to wash and cloth him’–London-based Pastor Emeka Okala

Religious Bigot: “Mohammadu Buhari’s religious Pig, will remain a pig, no matter how you waste your time to wash and cloth him’–London-based Pastor Emeka Okala New York[RR]London–Mohammadu Buhari didn’t shock citizens of South-East and South-South(Biafra) geopolitical region, because his(Buhari)’s activities as Chairman of Petroleum Trust Fund, PTF, under military regime of Abacha regime in the […]

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Religious Bigot: “Mohammadu Buhari’s religious Pig, will remain a pig, no matter how you waste your time to wash and cloth him’–London-based Pastor Emeka Okala

New York[RR]London–Mohammadu Buhari didn’t shock citizens of South-East and South-South(Biafra) geopolitical region, because his(Buhari)’s activities as Chairman of Petroleum Trust Fund, PTF, under military regime of Abacha regime in the 90s, and his 1980s military dictatorship is manifest of his Northernization, and his religious fundamentalism, and fascist bigotry.

London Based Pastor, Reuben Chukwuemeka Okala, said, that Mohammadu Buhari is a biblical pig, that even if you wash him gazillion times, will still remain a pig.
In his words: “..APC gave Nigerians who needed a change of baton at all cost a very wrong candidate. And we were constrained to give consideration to Buhari.

“Considering Buhari’s age, 72 years and the way he carried himself during the campaign outings, one was constrained to believe that he had outlived his deficiencies. Whosai! His appointments so far speak volume! President Muhammadu Buhari remains the proverbial pig that remains a pig – no matter how you waste your time to wash and cloth him! Buhari has not changed his ethnic and tribal toga one bit. Too bad!
“You said that Buhari has over 6,000 more appointments to make abi? Let me hasten to point out that he is constrained by the constitution to respect the federal character in the appointment of the ministers that will form his cabinet. So, when you see the national spread in his cabinet, that is because the constitution gives him no room to maneuver. He will be doing nobody any favor because the constitutions compels him to appoint at least a minister from every state of Nigeria…”, he warned.

“The only way one can determine how Buhari feels about the South and non-Muslims is in the appointment of people to the positions of responsibilities where the constitution gives him no boundaries or restrictions. And he has shown clearly his true colour. Buhari did not disappoint. He is undoubtedly an unrepentant sectional leader!

“I wonder his motive for excluding the VP in all security meetings. Buhari’s actions should be watched and checkmated before this man plunges our dear and beloved country and hard-earned democracy into problems that we cannot handle. Nigeria is not a personal entity of Muhammadu Buhari. Nigeria belongs to all of us – North, South, East and West. Buhari is only elected to serve and not to dictate for the 180 million Nigerians. If he acts funny, the National Assemblies are there to either bring him to order or throw him out of power before he destroys Nigeria!

“My faith in the ability of Muhammadu Buhari to govern Nigeria without sectional inclinations and loyalty has almost fizzled out – to put it mildly.

Score record is self-evident. Out of 34 appointment by Buhari APC-led regime 27 are from the North:
1. President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria –
north.
2.Senate President- north.
3. Speaker of the House of Representatives- north.
4. Chief Justice of the Federation- north.
5. President of the Court of Appeal- north.
6. Chief Justice of the Federal High Court- north.
7. Secretary to the Federal Government- north.
8. Chief of Staff to the President- north.
9. Chief of Army Staff- north.
10. Chief of Air Staff- north.
11. Comptroller General of Customs- north.
12. Director-General of State Security Services
(SSS)- north.
13. National Security Advisor- north.
14. Director General NIMASA- north.
15. Chairperson of the Independent Electoral
Commission (INEC)- north.
16. Comptroller-General Immigration- north.
17. Accountant-General of the Federation – north.
18. Commander of Civil Defence Corps- north.
19. Chief Security Officer to the President- north.
20. ADC to the President- north.
21. Principal Secretary to the President- north.
22. Senior Special Assistant to the President on
media- north.
23. Chairman of the EFCC- north.
24. Head of Service- north.
25. MD of Nigerian Ports Authority- north.
26.DG of Nigerian Broadcasting Commission (NBC)-north.
27. Chairman NDLEA- north.

However, reacting to the uproar, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, told reporters in FCT-Abuja that Muhammadu Buhari’s political appointments will balance out soon on other appointments.

He said, ““Nobody can fault the fact that the persons appointed were appointed on merits.

“In terms of the spread, the President has prerogative to appoint and he knows there is federal character. I am sure that there will be balance in the future.
“These are still early days. At the end of the day, we will have a balance.
“By the time more appointments are made, it will balance out. The President is trying to get the very best of Nigerians. The issue of key positions and no key positions should not be the issue.
“He gave a deadline of September for the appointment of ministers, ?and he will keep to it.”

The President’s Senior Special Assistant Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, also issued a statement yesterday urging critics of the President’s appointments to be patient with the administration over political appointments, adding that the appointments made so far constitute less than five per cent of the total that would be made.
Besides, he said, the people so far appointed by the President are mostly people acting as his staff or unofficial advisers, many of whom had been working with him in official capacities.

The statement reads: “Our brothers and sisters and fellow countrymen should bear with the new administration as it takes its measured steps towards an effective take-off.

“These appointments are just beginning. The ones down so far, apart from the security services, are mostly of people acting as unofficial advisers or staff of the President.

“They are mostly men and women who have been doing things for the President and the positions are being formalized.

“Statistically, the appointments don’t amount to five per cent of what is to come. There will be ministers, heads of government departments, federal boards and ambassadors.

“At the end of the exercise, no part of the country will be left feeling left out.”

Reacting to the appointments, a faction of the Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) had described them as an insult to the Igbo race whose members he said were not appointed into any top office.

The group, in a statement signed by its Director of Information, Uchenna Madu, said the actions of the president since he assumed office had shown that he is not a lover of Igbo people.

“The latest appointments and previous ones since Buhari’s administration should be an eye opener to Ndigbo that Buhari is not seeing Ndigbo as part of Nigeria.

“These appointments have further confirmed the fact that the present administration is against Ndigbo, despite the massive support some Igbo leaders like Gov. Rochas Okorocha, Chief Ogbonnaya Onu, Senator Chris Ngige and Rotimi Amaechi, among others, gave to Buhari and the APC during the last general election. This is an insult to our people.”

Also, Lagos-based lawyer, Festus Keyamo, ex-EFCC, Consultant, issued a statement also saying that “the so-called ‘uproar’ over the perceived ‘lopsided’ appointments made so far by President Buhari is nothing but an orchestrated frustration of a few jobless politicians who depend only on government appointments as their means of livelihood and, of course, the noise of the latest opposition party in town…”, he said.

“My worry is that the decade-long general division of government positions into ‘juicy’ and ‘non-juicy’, and the mentality that these few ‘juicy’ positions must be shared equally amongst the major ethnic groups was nothing but a contraption of the old order from which we have just liberated ourselves,” he said.

“To my mind, all government appointments pose an equal challenge to those appointed as a call to higher service of fatherland.

“All public positions come with an equal responsibility to be honest, forthright and dedicated. To go further to classify them as ‘juicy’ or ‘non-juicy’ is just a euphemism for positions that have enough money from which to steal and those that are ‘dry’.

Son of former Economist, late Sam Aluko, Bolaji Aluko, whose family has always lived on government appointments speaks well of Buhari.
For record, late Sam Aluko served under former Head of State, Gowon, as Financial adviser to then Minister of Finance, Obafemi Awolowo, that instituted indigenization policy that robbed former Eastern Region of all her assets in the country, implemented starvation as fair at war time, 1967 to 1970, that killed over 3.5Million Biafrans.

His words: “Even in the US, most presidents who have had executive position elsewhere before (like Buhari) tend in their first year or two to fill positions with people from their state, which translates to who they know. It happened with Nixon (Californians), Reagan (Californians), Carter (Georgians) and Clinton (Southerners, Arkansans)…..less with the Bushes. After a year or two, there will be better balance…”, said, VC, Bolaji Aluko.

Full text of Okala’s response beneath:

“..on this occasion you failed to compare like with like. Let me quickly draw attention to the fact that, those American presents you mentioned in your quote above, were able to do what they did successfully because of the sound mentality of the American people towards patriotism. An American living in California today may decide to migrate to Oklahoma or Texas or Alaska tomorrow and automatically become a citizen of his/her new found state. But can you say that of Nigeria? Can you or I migrate to Kaduna and see ourselves as Hausa people? Even if we want to, the Nigerian system, based on the mentality of the people would not allow us to be. In the event of any tribal crisis, you and I – including our children born to us in that region – children who know little to nothing about the social behaviors of the states and regions of their biological parents for reasons of the place of their birth and upbringing, would be the first the Hausa man would classify as enemies and none-indigenes and go ahead to severe their heads from the rest of their bodies. A Rivers man living in Hausa or Yoruba or Igbo – including his children born to him in the place of his abode, will forever remain a Rivers man and vice versa. The Nigerian society has no value for social integration as we have it in the US the UK and many other places. The status quo may continue for many generations to come. So your analogy on this occasion does not hold water! President Clinton and Vice President Al-Gore can both hail from the same state and comfortably rule America successfully, but can you say that of Nigeria? No way!

Honestly, when Buhari was elected by APC to fly their flag, I was initially troubled and did not waste time to express my displeasure and disappointment about such a choice. My fear was largely a function of the man’s antecedents. His jailing Vice President Ekwueme and keeping Shagari at home to enjoy the comfort and pleasures of his family, his travelling to the airport to release an Hausa Emirs 50+ suitcases of money at a time many Nigerians were expressly put away for currency trafficking, his locating well over 75% of developmental projects in the North whilst only 25% were located in the entire South, his declaration that Muslims should only vote their kinds in elections are just a few examples that gave rise to my concern at the time about this Buhari of a man.

But on the other side of the coin, not only was PDP having a palpably clueless man as the President of Nigeria to fly their flag, the party itself was completely drenched in corruption and needed to be thrown out of power. APC gave Nigerians who needed a change of baton at all cost a very wrong candidate. And we were constrained to give consideration to Buhari.

Considering Buhari’s age, 72 years and the way he carried himself during the campaign outings, one was constrained to believe that he had outlived his deficiencies. Whosai! His appointments so far speak volume! President Muhammadu Buhari remains the proverbial pig that remains a pig – no matter how you waste your time to wash and cloth him! Buhari has not changed his ethnic and tribal toga one bit. Too bad!

You said that Buhari has over 6,000 more appointments to make abi? Let me hasten to point out that he is constrained by the constitution to respect the federal character in the appointment of the ministers that will form his cabinet. So, when you see the national spread in his cabinet, that is because the constitution gives him no room to maneuver. He will be doing nobody any favor because the constitutions compels him to appoint at least a minister from every state of Nigeria.

The only way one can determine how Buhari feels about the South and non-Muslims is in the appointment of people to the positions of responsibilities where the constitution gives him no boundaries or restrictions. And he has shown clearly his true color. Buhari did not disappoint. He is undoubtedly an unrepentant sectional leader!

I wonder his motive for excluding the VP in all security meetings. Buhari’s actions should be watched and checkmated before this man plunges our dear and beloved country and hard-earned democracy into problems that we cannot handle. Nigeria is not a personal entity of Muhammadu Buhari. Nigeria belongs to all of us – North, South, East and West. Buhari is only elected to serve and not to dictate for the 180 million Nigerians. If he acts funny, the National Assemblies are there to either bring him to order or throw him out of power before he destroys Nigeria!

My faith in the ability of Muhammadu Buhari to govern Nigeria without sectional inclinations and loyalty has almost fizzled out – to put it mildly. I hope he does something to redeem his goodwill…”, Emeka Reuben Okala, warned.

For record, Buhari warned in 2001 that he will Islamize Nigeria if given the opportunity.

In 2001 Buhari addressing supreme Islamic council in Kaduna said: “Sharia should be introduced in full across Nigeria…I will continue to show openly and inside me the total commitment to the Sharia movement that is sweeping all over Nigeria…God willing, we will not stop the agitation for the total implementation of the Sharia in the country…It is a legal responsibility which God has given us, within the context of one Nigeria, to continue to uphold the practice of Sharia wholeheartedly and to educate non-Muslims that they have nothing to fear…What remains for Muslims in Nigeria is for them to redouble their efforts, educate Muslims on the need to promote the full implementation of Sharia law.” – Former Military Head of State, Gen. (Rtd) Muhammadu Buhari, speaking in Kaduna at a seminar organized by the Supreme Council of Sharia in Nigeria, August 2001.”, he said

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