One of the most shameful spectacles ever to have happened in the
history of Nigeria occurred on Thursday, January 31st of 2019 when
President Muhammadu Buhari gleefully and with much aplomb, raised up the
hand of the Governor of Kano, Umar Ganduje, and urged the crowd at the
Sani Abacha stadium to vote for the Governor for a second term.
In case you have forgotten, this is the same man who was caught red
handed on camera receiving bribes. He has been nicknamed Gandollar
because of that and I christened him the father of babanriga mobile
banking.
This man, this thief, this rogue, is who President Buhari endorsed.
Imagine that. It was fitting that the endorsement of Ganduje by
President Buhari was done at the Sani Abacha stadium in Kano. What
better venue for the show of shame than a monument to Nigeria’s biggest
ever thief!
And President Buhari’s conscience is obviously convicting him,
because shortly after the dishonourable endorsement, Garba Shehu, the
Any Government in Power political prostitute, released a statement
explaining that President Buhari was powerless to prosecute Ganduje
because of his immunity.
First of all, this is not true. Udom Emmanuel, the Akwa-Ibom
Governor, also has immunity like Governor Umar Ganduje, yet the Economic
and Financial Crimes Commission filed fraud charges against the Akwa
Ibom governor on December 18, 2018. So Buhari’s excuse that he cannot do
anything to Ganduje because of his immunity is just that-an excuse.
But even if it were true, does the Constitution also compels him to
associate with known criminals? By endorsing Governor Ganduje,
President Buhari has become guilty of his crimes and is at best an
accessory after the fact. How can a President associate with known
crooks and still brandish his anti-corruption image?
President Buhari’s desperation for a second term has caused him to
abandon even his pretense of fighting corruption. He has canonized Orji
Kalu, the alleged eja nla thief as a saint. The man was
declared wanted by the EFCC only to turn up at President Buhari’s right
hand during his rally in Abia. How could the EFCC have missed him? The
man was at that stadium for two hours. A wanted man.
The hypocrisy even got to suffocating levels when Senator Abdullahi
Adamu, who was enmeshed in an EFCC multi million Naira fraud and whose
son, not to be outdone, is under trial for a multi-billion Naira fraud,
joined President Buhari on stage as he campaigned in Minna and praised
the President’s anti-corruption war.
It does not occur to him that if the President was truly fighting
corruption, he and his son would be in a really nasty guest house
belonging to the federal government.
What is worse, Senator Adamu is the North Central Presidential
Director for the Buhari-Osinbajo campaign organisation. I could not make
up such nonsense even if I tried. How can a man who was fingered in a
multi-billion Naira corruption case be your coordinator? What am I even
saying? Isn’t Akpabio also his coordinator?
At this stage, only a simpleton would still believe in Buhari’s
alleged integrity. His integrity, if he ever had any, died with the late
Major General Tunde Idiagbon (rtd) of blessed memory.
Even his wife, Aisha Buhari, seems unable to bear the stench of her
husband’s hypocrisy. Have you seen her in recent days on the campaign
trail? I admire Aisha. I suspect she does not want to share the stage
with the likes of Gandollar, Akpabio and Orji.
Buhari’s moral depravity and his unfitness for power are now all too clear. Consider the following for example:
- SACKS Onnoghen. BACKS Ganduje.
- Abacha DID NOT steal. PDP Stole
- Kemi Adeosun escorted to airport. Adeleke escorted to court
- Obanikoro: A thief when in PDP. A saint after he decamped to APC
The saddest fact of all in this saga is the fact that President
Buhari is not even ashamed. He is so brazen and in your face about his
hypocrisy because he feels that he has a captive audience in the North
that will vote for him no matter the situation.
He is also counting on Tinubu’s desperation to be President after
him to ensure that he gets the Yoruba vote. Whether his gambit works, I
do not know. But what I know is this, the name Buhari will go down in
history as a byword for hypocrisy and disappointment, the likes of which
Nigeria has never seen before and may never see again.
As to the EFCC, I quote the last words of Brigadier Mamman Vatsa
‘as to the Nigerian Army, let me warn you that the minute you start
insulting yourself, you will never lack those willing to help you insult
yourself’. In endorsing Ganduje, Buhari has insulted you and you have
clapped for him.