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By Reno Omokri


Tell me if you have noticed this trend-your friends and acquaintances who used to shout 'sai Buhari' and 'body language' and who used to fight anyone who criticized President Buhari, have quietly dropped those slogans, stopped defending him and now either concentrate on European Football or US Politics. Tell me I am not hallucinating, that I am not the only one noticing this!

Nigeria under Muhammadu Buhari is degenerating so badly and we have never had it so bad, yet the very administration which is likely to go down as the worst government in Nigeria's history keeps pointing accusing fingers at other and more successful previous governments as being the source of our woes!

If it is true that previous governments were looting Nigeria and are the cause of our present economic woes, then how come recession came as soon as 'looting' stopped and Buhari came? Does it make sense? Common sense dictates that if the above argument were true then Buhari's coming would have heralded prosperity not austerity.


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Yet people with no knowledge of history blame oil price. Under President Buhari oil price has been an average of $40 but under former President Obasanjo's 8 years oil averaged $20, yet Obasanjo paid off Nigeria's debt, achieved 5% GDP growth and still fought corruption without scaring away foreign and domestic investors.

Under former President Jonathan, we achieved an unprecedented 7% GDP growth, emerged as the third fastest growing economy in the world and the largest economy in Africa and revived our railways which had been moribund from the first Buhari military government. Yet today, a man who promised heaven and earth to get elected now tells us that he almost ran away after his swearing in. Why almost? He should have ran away. Are we better off that he did not run away? A bad workman always blame his tools but only fools will be deceived!

And to add salt to injury, an administration that cannot point to one single tangible achievement is now floating the kite for second term! Really!!

Buhari married a beautiful Nigeria, then beat her to the extent that she needs life support to survive but instead of taking her to the hospital he stylishly announces plans to marry a 2nd wife! That is the only way I can describe this second term focus in the midst of the unprecedented recession, famine and double digit inflation he put us in. And then the Presidency's statement even made bold to say “the masses are solidly behind Buhari" for 2019! The only way I see that happening is if President Buhari uses famine to finish the masses off before then!

Since President Buhari is fond of comparing himself favorably with President Jonathan, let me point out a few comparisons that he may have failed to notice.

While in office, former President Goodluck Jonathan's children schooled in Nigeria yet he provided foreign exchange to ordinary Nigerians to school their own kids abroad. On the contrary, President Muhammadu Buhari's children school abroad but he denies Nigerians forex to school their own kids there!

President Muhammadu lost election three times and each time he refused to concede defeat. Everybody cheated him. Obasanjo rigged him out, Yar'adua did the same abs then ex President Jonathan stole his victory. Well ex President Jonathan lost election once and conceded even before votes had finished being counted and for the first time in Nigeria's history the candidate who lost did not challenge his loss on court. Under President Muhammadu we have had 'inconclusive elections', under President Jonathan all elections were conclusive.

Jonathan, while President, travelled to London and praised the 'entrepreneurial' spirit of Nigerians. President Muhammadu went to London and told the The Telegraph of London that Nigerians 'reputation for crime had made them unwelcome in Britain'.

Ex President Jonathan never blamed past administrations for the problems, such as a collapsed railway, that he met. He fixed those he could and today our railways are revived. President Muhammadu blames past governments for everything yet he has not fixed any problem. Some say he has made them worse!

Yet in every other speech President Muhammadu accuses former President Jonathan of destroying Nigeria. If this is not a case of pot calling kettle black then I do not know what will qualify as such!

During the electioneering campaign, both President Buhari and Vice President Osinbajo' both promised 3 million jobs in their first year in office (we lost 4.58 million during their first year). And then after reducing the amount to only 200,000 N-Power jobs which are to commence on December 1st, 2016, the government through the Nigerian Communications Commission 'directed' GSM firms to hike data tariffs. On the surface, this looked like a plan to rob Peter to pay N-Power.

The situation made me ponder our fate. In other climes, regulators are the ones who direct vendors to reduce prices, but in Nigeria the banking regulator, (CBN) directs banks to charge stamp duty, the telecommunications regulator,
(NCC) directs telcos to increase data charges, the road regulators, (FRSC) announces plans to raise charges for number plates and drivers licence, the tax regulators (FIRS) warns that you will require tax clearance to get an international passport, the electricity regulator (NERC) directs GENCOS to increase tariffs!

Does anyone remember that GSM/Internet rate plans collapsed from ₦3,000 to ₦1,000 under 'clueless' Goodluck Jonathan? I need a witness. Does anyone recall that fuel price crashed from ₦97 to ₦87 under the 'failed' PDP administration.

Again, I say boldly that only a fool expects a President who could not make money for himself in his private business to make money for his nation through public service! It is like expecting a man who could not build a house for himself to build a city for his followers!

And someone called Ibrahim Zakari Biu responded to me saying that Buhari was not poor as a private citizen but it was more of a case that he did not love wealth.

But Ibrahim Zakari Biu for the sake of argument let me agree with you that the private citizen Buhari was not poor and only did not love wealth. Whether poor or average or ascetic, the fact remains that it is not prosperity. If President Buhari does not love wealth, Nigerians do. He should not impose his personal vow of poverty on the rest of us. He can remain poor with his family but as for me and my house, we shall prosper in Jesus' name!

You hired a polytechnic graduate as minister of financial yet you blame Jonathan for recession. You hired a French graduate as agriculture minister yet you blame Jonathan for skyrocketing food prices. You hired a man that does not know how much Nigeria owes as budget minister yet you falsely claimed Jonathan did not save. Your minister of transport read literature which is why he literally gave you credit for railways that Jonathan built. Your minister of power read law which is why he knows how to defend himself for the powerlessness of his ministry. Your Minister of Information and Culture thinks he can end the recession by turning us all to masquerade dressers. Conclusion: A cartoon loving President can only appoint cartoonish characters as ministers!

And instead of clerics like Reverend Father Ejike Mbaka, who openly campaigned for President Buhari during the electioneering campaign to side with the truth, they have turned themselves to apologist for the President's failure!

Dear Reverend Fr. Mbaka,

The wife of an evangelist was beheaded-you kept quiet. Her suspected killers were acquitted-you kept quiet. However, today you have found your voice to defend President Muhammadu Buhari and condemn former President Goodluck Jonathan. As a Reverend Father, were you called by God to speak for a man who has 5 media aides and advisers and a minister of information all speaking for him or where you called to speak for the poor and powerless children of God who face injustice with no one speaking for them? A seminarian was killed by cattle herders. He was going to be a priest like you. This happened in Enugu where you are based. Where was your voice when I and others were crying for him? It was too busy defending President Buhari. Remember Christ's admonition in Matthew 25:40 "whatsoever you do to the least of my brethren that you do unto me". Jesus is coming soon Reverend, and you, President Buhari and I as well as all humanity will stand before God in judgment one day!

The truth is that like a heavily made up plain girl, President Muhammadu Buhari's administration is fine from far but far from fine.

And just as an aside, let me state that the recent media attempts to implicate my spiritual mentor, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, the former President of the Christian Association of Nigeria as the sponsor of Niger Delta Militants is a lie from the pit of hell and comes from the same people that tried to rope in former President Jonathan in August of this year.

Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor did much damage to the enemies of Christ and of course they would retaliate by trying to damage him. In the interview, the so called militant said that pastor Oritsejafor provides arms to Ijaw militants.

This type of story only comes from people who do not do their research. Pastor Oritsejafor and I are proudly Itsekiri by accident of birth and spiritually Jews by deliberate choice to follow Christ.

Any genuine student of the Niger Delta will know the history of the Ijaws and the Itsekiri and how preposterous and even stupid it will be to suggest that Ijaw militants will be funded by an Itsekiri pastor. The liars should go study recent history then come up with a better lie!

Omokri is the founder of the Mind of Christ Christian Center in California, author of Shunpiking: No Shortcuts to God and Why Jesus Wept and the host of Transformation with Reno Omokri

Mockery wants to be relevant in the scheme of things


No more free package for anyone

Make u calm down first

It's now very obvious Omokri is really looking for an employment under Sai Baba. Oga Omokri, continue sending your CV, maybe one day Abu Zahra will reason your matter.

Mockery as you called him don broke so he need appointment to top his bank account I kuku like Sai Baba, na ignore sure pass.

sarrki:
Mockery wants to be relevant in the scheme of things


No more free package for anyone

Make u calm down first

Whether na ugly from front, wowo from behind;
Or yeye from face, or poo poo from foot.

Weting we know be say, Bubu no do well, and may God forgive everyone that played major or minor roles to bring this calamity upon us, whether they try to jump parties or not. The did/harm, had already been done.

How long it will take for us to correct this monumental abnormally, it's only God that knows.

wen I discovered that this govt is a failure,was wen it took pmb 6months to select his ministers....only then I knew we were heading for the rocks.

Reno baba dealing mighty & invisible blows on d notorious, world recognised ineffectual dullard. Hw a notorious fulani bandit witout waec certificate known 4 inciting violence anytime he loses elections became president of 160million pple still puzzles God himself

the zombies above...left the content of the message and attacked the messenger; SO TYPICAL

i cannot fault reno's piece cus it is fortified with the truth, buhari reminds me of one olosho i carried when i was in the world, the olosho had huge breasts, was fair skinned, and her bom bom was bigger than bombay..only for me to get to my house and as she removed her clothes everything was padded (like the budget), she was as flat as dunlop slippers, and the next morning i saw that the yellow na bleaching cream, bitch was looking like boli.

Buhari will still win 2019, that is possible cus Yoruba people love buhari see ondo and Edo na:- APC won. If that is not evidence that Yorubas are with buhari i wonder what else is; same with Hausas (of course that is expected since he is from the north) and if the two major tribes vote for him he will surely win...only the people that love prosperity and have entrepreneurial spirit that can muster the balls to vote against buhari (i.e South east and south south), the people that love hunger and penury will vote for buhari.

Have u asked urself why Yoruba and Hausa witches are usually broke upon all their powers; it shows how comfortable they are with SUFFERTY
buhari is an abomination, but hey if u say make dog no chop shit u go chop am?

FuckyourMama:
Reno baba dealing mighty & invisible blows on d notorious, world recognised ineffectual dullard. Hw a notorious fulani bandit witout waec certificate known 4 inciting violence anytime he loses elections became president of 160million pple still puzzles God himself

Vital screw when missing can make an device

Not to work perfectly

FuckyourMama:
Reno baba dealing mighty & invisible blows on d notorious, world recognised ineffectual dullard. Hw a notorious fulani bandit witout waec certificate known 4 inciting violence anytime he loses elections became president of 160million pple still puzzles God himself

Vital screw when missing can make any device

Not to work perfectly

sarrki:



Vital screw when missing can make any device

Not to work perfectly

Oba of Zombies...ur head na empty satchet water n dead grass na him full inside

Senseless article!

Omockery at it again . . . Tireless Ineffectual Buffon he is

Atiku2019

Smack down. . From the first paragraph to the closing punch ..

Nothing to add.

I am still laffing because he opined that Zombies now concentrate on Nairabet and MMM.

Nigeria is so finished under this regime! Brothers and sisters, have you prayed for Nigeria today?

FakoMaybach1:
the zombies above...left the content of the message and attacked the messenger; SO TYPICAL

i cannot fault reno's piece cus it is fortified with the truth, buhari reminds me of one olosho i carried when i was in the world, the olosho had huge breasts, was fair skinned, and her bom bom was bigger than bombay..only for me to get to my house and as she removed her clothes everything was padded (like the budget), she was as flat as dunlop slippers, and the next morning i saw that the yellow na bleaching cream, bitch was looking like boli.

Buhari will still win 2019, that is possible cus Yoruba people love buhari see ondo and Edo na:- APC won. If that is not evidence that Yorubas are with buhari i wonder what else is; same with Hausas (of course that is expected since he is from the north) and if the two major tribes vote for him he will surely win...only the people that love prosperity and have entrepreneurial spirit that can muster the balls to vote against buhari (i.e South east and south south), the people that love hunger and penury will vote for buhari.

Have u asked urself why Yoruba and Hausa witches are usually broke upon all their powers; it shows how comfortable they are with SUFFERTY
buhari is an abomination, but hey if u say make dog no chop shit u go chop am?

I am from the North and also a Muslim. Count me out of Buhari's supporters because I am not stupid. Even if I can eat, how about all these my family members and friends who were once blossom now calling me for ordinary food?
I visited one of my friends recently - a graduate with 2.1 from ABU Zaria and could not afford ordinary garri to drink. Honestly, I am not an illiterate, unsympathetic and a bigot-these I think qualify the people still supporting this mean government.

Reno doesn't want fayose to take all the credit at the wailers lounge.

I dnt think this guy sleeps again.

This is clearly an obsession. .which in itself, it's a mental disorders..

Bang on point.

Can't shake the feeling that Buhari will win in 2019 though. Nigerians have short memory; case in point, the people pushing the course of Atiku or El Rufai for President...

PMB is a basketcase...
but he continues to alienate those with the wherewithal to help him succeed.

28 03 15 was too brutal to Omockery & wailers
Truth is mine!

Naked truth....
but Zombies will always be zombies....

nature2abdul:

I am from the North and also a Muslim. Count me out of Buhari's supporters because I am not stupid. Even if I can eat, how about all these my family members and friends who were once blossom now calling me for ordinary food?
I visited one of my friends recently - a graduate with 2.1 from ABU Zaria and could not afford ordinary garri to drink. Honestly, I am not an illiterate, unsympathetic and a bigot-these I think qualify the people still supporting this mean government.

God bless you. Great abusite!

Reading

Am afraid Reno is wrong in both facts and what he inferred from them. Just because the prevailing sentiments (mine inclusive) is against this government should not make anyone peddle false information or amount to us believing everything we read hook, line and sinker.

He mentioned that crude prices averaged $20 in obj's 2 terms. First of all crude oil was only in the $20's during obj' first year in office. The average price of crude in obj's 8 years was $45 with a peak of over $70 at the tail end of his 2 terms.

In his attempt to ride on popular sentiments Reno claimed 'the recession started when looting stopped', this is a childish analogy on his part. Yes the current governments rigid policies played a role in fostering this recession on us but more important is the drop in our main source of revenue and FX - oil. During the Goodluck's regime average production was at 2.4 million barrels a day, currently we are barely doing above 1 million bpd. Any meaningful analysis of the cause of the recession should start from the crisis in our source of revenue.

The rest of his argument are mere subjective rantings like GEJ said this and PMB said that, which sincerely is a no brainier. He did actually credited the cut in PMS price from 97 to 87 to GEJ but forgot to mention whence GEJ met it after Yaradua.

nature2abdul:

I am from the North and also a Muslim. Count me out of Buhari's supporters because I am not stupid. Even if I can eat, how about all these my family members and friends who were once blossom now calling me for ordinary food?
I visited one of my friends recently - a graduate with 2.1 from ABU Zaria and could not afford ordinary garri to drink. Honestly, I am not an illiterate, unsympathetic and a bigot-these I think qualify the people still supporting this mean government.

God bless your honest heart.

This is already the worst Nigerian govt ever

Maisuya1:
the drop in our main source of revenue and FX - oil. During the Goodluck's regime average production was at 2.4 million barrels a day, currently we are barely doing above 1 million bpd.

Was it also Goodluck's fault that oil production levels dropped from 2.4 mbpd to about 1mbpd?

OBJ did anything and everything to sustain oil production levels no matter what the price was, because he understood that it would be double calamity and eventually disastrous if prices were low and production was also low.

Yar' Adua had to come up with an Amnesty programme even when popular opinion was against it, in order to sustain production levels, no matter what the oil price was.

So also, Goodluck used all forms of persuasion, be it brutal, subtle or persuasive to ensure that oil production levels never dropped, no matter the price.

But, what happened when PMB came on board? Your guess is as good as mine.

So, there's no need blaming anyone, when the President refused to, or did not understand that it would be double jeopardy and seriously calamitous for oil prices to drop and for production levels to also fall. He failed to do the right thing by ensuring that oil production levels do not fall (this was within his precincts), instead he focused his attention on oil prices, which he cannot control. After which, he's blaming everyone else but himself for what he has launched us into...

@FlyboyZee
Don't quote me out of context Reno was trying to say that 'recession started when looting stopped' in an apparent mockery of this administrations anti graft effort. That is misleading and an oversimplification. Recession started because our major sources of revenue dropped due vandalism in production which in turn led to drop in our FX supply, which in turn led to fall in FX reserves and hence the currency crisis. Now because the government does not have enough reserves to defend the naira it partially floated/depreciated the naira, this has resulted soaring prices because ours is a consumer nation rather than manufacturing one, thus, we imported the inflation (also a cost-push inflation).
Also note that our major export/produce is oil which has contracted due to vandalism hence, the contraction of Gross Domestic Product over successive quarters (which is also the technical definition of a recession and not the anti graft war Reno was alluding to)

This is a knock-out constructive criticism.

Reno keep it up.

Maisuya1:
@FlyboyZee
Don't quote me out of context Reno was trying to say that 'recession started when looting stopped' in an apparent mockery of this administrations anti graft effort. That is misleading and an oversimplification. Recession started because our major sources of revenue dropped due vandalism in production which in turn led to drop in our FX supply, which in turn led to fall in FX reserves and hence the currency crisis. Now because the government does not have enough reserves to defend the naira it partially floated/depreciated the naira, this has resulted soaring prices because ours is a consumer nation rather than manufacturing one, thus, we imported the inflation (also a cost-push inflation).
Also note that our major export/produce is oil which has contracted due to vandalism hence, the contraction of Gross Domestic Product over successive quarters (which is also the technical definition of a recession and not the anti graft war Reno was alluding to)

Go back and do ur research, this is nt d first time oil price is crashing; and we didn't go into recession. So wats ur point exactly?