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Odinkalu Asks: Are We So Useless That Our President Cannot Address Us? by Buyeradvertcom: 6:30pm On Feb 06, 2017
Chidi Odinkalu, a lawyer and human rights activists, says President Muhammadu Buhari has not done enough in terms of communicating with Nigerians.

Speaking when he led protesters to the presidential villa in Abuja on Monday, Odinkalu said: “When he wants to talk about Nigeria, he gets on a plane and goes outside Nigeria and he starts gossiping about us.”

Odinkalu rated the current administration low, saying the All Progressives Congress (APC) government has not been able to fulfill its electoral promises.

“We thumbed Buhari into office in 2015, then he got into power and what happened?” he asked.

“Our president has never ever spoken to Nigerians. When he wants to talk, he goes abroad. Are we so useless that our president cannot address us? Are we so idiotic that our president cannot tell us that ‘things are hard and these are my plans’?

“Are we so useless that our president cannot invite us and tell us, ‘look, we need your help to get this’? We don’t get compassion, we don’t get empathy, we don’t get thoughtfulness, and there is no plan, and then we are told we cannot protest too? What kind of country is that? What kind of citizens are we?”

He also spoke on the absence of the president, saying there were inconsistencies in the president’s camp.

“On this Monday morning, we don’t know where our president is. On January 18, we were told that our president was going on a 10-day vacation. Yesterday, we were told that he was waiting for his medical test before he will return,” he said.

“Last week, fake pictures of the president meeting people in London emerged. Last night, Femi Adesina said people can get sick; people can even die, and Shehu Garba said he spoke with the president’s doctor and was told he is well. Now think about it, if the president is well, who is Shehu to speak to his doctor?

“If the president is not ill, why should people be circulating fake pictures?”

He told the protesters that they did not need to obtain a “license” from the police before expressing their rights.

Odinkalu also taunted the pro-government group, which held a simultaneous rally, saying if they had food on their table, they would not be hired for a counter protest.

“Nothing is bigger than trying to rescue our country. We are trying to make sure that Nigeria works for everybody. We came here as poor ordinary Nigerians armed with our national plan,” he said.

“President Muhammadu Buhari’s government is one that intimidates people. It is a government that just intimidated 2face. I told the security agencies that were here, we saw this under Jonathan, now we are seeing worse.

“Look at the crowd they are renting across there. Does this show a government that thinks, the things people complain under Jonathan is the same thing happening now, even worse.

“Under Jonathan many people were stealing, now under this government a few people are stealing. One person took money for IDP and government has cleared the person. It’s a shame, is it not a shame?”

https://www.thecable.ng/odinkalu-asks-useless-president-cannot-address-us

Re: Odinkalu Asks: Are We So Useless That Our President Cannot Address Us? by Thewrath(m): 6:32pm On Feb 06, 2017
Question directed to those useless drunks that led us into this mess and have been standing since 2015.
Though leg don Dey pain some...Na dem go tire!

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Re: Odinkalu Asks: Are We So Useless That Our President Cannot Address Us? by hucienda: 6:32pm On Feb 06, 2017
Mr Human Rights. You asking to hear from a president who violates human rights without regard cheesy? Okay, I see.

Keep waiting.
Re: Odinkalu Asks: Are We So Useless That Our President Cannot Address Us? by chanx: 6:34pm On Feb 06, 2017
On point
Re: Odinkalu Asks: Are We So Useless That Our President Cannot Address Us? by ekpeye(m): 6:34pm On Feb 06, 2017
How can the president that went on leave handed over before he left address you.
Re: Odinkalu Asks: Are We So Useless That Our President Cannot Address Us? by babyfaceafrica: 6:34pm On Feb 06, 2017
Okay
Re: Odinkalu Asks: Are We So Useless That Our President Cannot Address Us? by doublewisdom: 6:35pm On Feb 06, 2017
Buhari always knew you were useless, after all you voted him a completely useless man to be your president.

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Re: Odinkalu Asks: Are We So Useless That Our President Cannot Address Us? by vedaxcool(m): 6:36pm On Feb 06, 2017
Yes you might be that useless....the lies spewed in your claims makes you no better than a useless clown.
Re: Odinkalu Asks: Are We So Useless That Our President Cannot Address Us? by ojimbo(m): 6:38pm On Feb 06, 2017
Hmmm
Re: Odinkalu Asks: Are We So Useless That Our President Cannot Address Us? by crestedaguiyi: 6:43pm On Feb 06, 2017
vedaxcool:
Yes you might be that useless....the lies spewed in your claims makes you no better than a useless clown.

Onuku
Re: Odinkalu Asks: Are We So Useless That Our President Cannot Address Us? by Nedumadrid(m): 7:00pm On Feb 06, 2017
How can a dead man address us?...I stand with #BuhariMustPeme

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