BUHARI'S 'AREWACENTRICITY' VS OBASANJO'S 'NIGERIA-CENTRICITY'

My attention was drawn to a piece by Farooq Kperogi, an American-based Nigerian. As usual, the man shamelessly set out to whip up cheap sentiments against the current president for his 'Arewacentricity'. But interestingly, this same man who never misses the opportunity to brag that he worked in the inner sanctum of the Obasanjo govt as his 'speech writer', never for once told his readers one single story pertaining to their 'Nigeria-centric' OBJ administration: That is the story of the nature of distribution of appointive positions among regional and religious groups under the Obasajo's govt he is so proud to have served as a presidential speech writer! This I intend to do to prove that, compared to the OBJ govt Farooq served under, nay GEJ's, PMB's govt is the most fair and just in terms of appointments reflecting our diversities!

OBJ VS PMB ON APPOINTMENTS
In his 2nd term, OBJ appointed 42 ministers: 26 (63%) were Christians and 16 (37%) were Muslims. There was NO cry of Christianization agenda by Muslims or sympathetic echoes of that by Christians. Heaven did not fall that time! OBJ did not become a Christian fanatic nor a Kudu-centric chauvinist: this is even when no Muslim leader from Balewa up to the 'Arewa-centric' Buhari ever did that to Christians(I stand to be corrected) ! But this is not the shocker! Of ALL OBJ's ministers from the South-West, NONE was a MUSLIM!!! And even when pressure was put on OBJ by NOCOMYO et al. regarding this egregious marginalization of SW Muslims , OBJ only caved in reluctantly by appointing one Alhaji Bashir Awotorebo, as the only SW MINISTER representing the entire SW Muslims in OBJ's cabinet. And you know what, Awotorebo was appointed as a, 'symbolic', portfolio minister of state! Now imagine what would have been the story if PMB appointed ALL Muslims as ministers to represent the North Central region. In fact, even OBJ's two ministers from predominantly Muslim Kwara were both Christians (Mrs Adebayor and Adedoyin) and the story was the same with Kogi State minister under OBJ. Yet OBJ was not a Christian- or Kudu-centric but Nigeria-centric former president while poor PMB who is clearly more fair than OBJ in ministerial appointments is an 'Arewa-centric' president.

ACTUALLY, under PMB, there are 36 ministers. 18 Christians and 18 Muslims. That is his ministers are 50% Christians 50% Muslims. And to the Christians, you've got to add SGF and HoS. To the Muslims, Chief of Staff and Accountant General. Yet, OBJ and his domestic and foreign lapdogs have the effrontery to look at Nigerians in the face and tell them that Buhari is "Arewacentric, insensitive, in-your-face, knee-jerk, Northern sub-nationalis[t]"! While OBJ is a Nigeria-centric, sensitive, in-your-back, ankle-jerk, Nigerian Nationalist!

MOREOVER, a comprehensive look at the distribution of appointed positions in to agencies, boards and parastatals of FG during OBJ, GEJ and PMB tenures reveal PMB to be the most fair of all three WALLAHI (in terms of distribution along regional, religious and ethnic lines)! I have a comprehensive data thereon but presently haven't the time or the space here to do the analysis. But it is something I intend to even write a book on, hopefully after my PhD. The only thing that makes the difference against PMB is the power of media misinformation, misrepresentation and mischief-making. For e.g when I looked at the distribution of service chiefs in successive administrations since the advent of democracy in 1999, I was gobsmacked by the pattern! Yet all we're being told today is that history is no longer an account of the past but the present, as if our history began just in 2015 with the advent of an 'Arewacentric' Muhammadu. And because the vast majority of our compatriots are given to forgetfulness, historical realities have now been substituted with ahistorical mendacity and you're called names if you dare to point out the inconsistencies!

What is this one saying too?

Story for the gods this one want to be relevant

As dumb as

Who b this mumu?

Are you actually justifying PMB' S lopsided appointments that even some party members even on nairaland frown at??

WHAT A TWISTED MIND YOU ARE! I READ THE ARTICLE YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT, FAROUK WAS MAKING COMPARISON BETWEEN BUHARI AND TAFAWA BALEWA, BUT TO SUITE AND JUSTIFIES YOUR USELESS MYOPIC DEMENTED AND TWISTED THINKING, YOU SHAMELESSLY DIVERT AND EXTRACT THE NAME OF TAFAWA BALEWA AND REPLACED IT WITH OBASANJO'S NAME, WELL, NOT SURPRISED, YOU GOT TO EARN A LIVING, I DON'T KNOW WHY ALL BMO GANGS ARE JUST LIKE THERE DEMENTED PAYMASTER.

This really shows how south west is divided.

you give something (minister) to a Yoruba man he complains that you didn't give it to a Muslim.

They keep shouting that yorubas are one but deep inside they know they are not.


below is a guy who rejected his traditional title and declared that he preferred to be a fulani emir rather than a yoruba Oba

I may be wrong (and please correct me if I am) but I think AREWA refers to people from a particular region of the country (North).
You say your post is a reply to the original post by Farooq Kperogi, but from your first sentence, you have been offpoint... Making it an argument between RELIGIONS rather than REGIONS as stated.

Forgetfulness is our second biggest problem. We are amnesiac, the reason why politicians grill us as they like.


How on earth did Obasanjo become our messiah after his atrocious regime? He now speaks, and iPod yoot clap for him.

Farooq Kperogi is fiendish and sits fact on its head!

nickxtra:
What is this one saying too?

"Iqra" ...read!


Nigeria has produced too many fools as a result of our poor reading culture. Stop that trend by reading to prevent further descent into abyss of consanguinuous national foolishness.