By Odo Ijere, Okpotemba
THE EFCC Chairman is known to have snubbed two arrest warrants for contempt of court orders and lives above our laws but today 1he is the one to enforce laws to get erring citizens to kowtow to CBN directives. You can only see this recklessness in Buhari’s government of confused people and a bunch of jokers everywhere.
See what they’ve done with this beautiful country. Yet Buhari is not to be blamed nor is his APC government ever to be blamed. He and Tinubu, with other APC political merchants, are still busy campaigning and flaunting their beautiful clothes before the people with utmost disdain of the people and utter shamelessness.
Nigerians across the divides are stranded and feeling pain from Buhari’s incompetent policies in all sectors. They’re looking for fuel, looking for money to buy fuel and other essentials. I mean Nigerians are buying money with their money and spending a whole day looking for cash out of their banked monies to buy food and other essentials.
Buhari is unconcerned as usual and only campaigning to reinforce his failed government with another failure. Tinubu is no doubt another calamity waiting to happen to Nigerians.
But not a few Nigerians are out there dancing, campaigning, wining, dining, costuming, gallivanting and picnicking in the name of party politicking.
Buhari and APC have slaughtered democracy in Nigeria. This is not the Plato’s Republic we were taught in school. This is not Aristotle’s government of the people that has brought civilization to every progressive nation that I know. In Nigeria, Aristotle and his student, Plato’s principles failed both the intellectuals and the rulership class.
This is because both the intellectual and ruling class in Nigeria, rather than sire in pragmatism, are busy playing ethno-religious politics that promote only tribe and religious leanings. And the worst of this tribe is Buhari and APC.
Now the ship of state has torpedoed and cascaded ashore. Nigerians who once clapped over one-sided government and appointments are now staying in queues daily to be rationed their savings in their bank accounts.
There are no more intellectual activists to start the “Save Nigeria” movements. The only activists are the government-procured ones. The sponsored activists only come to befuddle the populace with more confusion. Being sponsored by government to foist more madness among us.
These ethnoreligious cabals ruling over us today have destroyed everything in sight. The CBN is in ruins. Emefiele says he has no papers to print CBN’s new notes to go round. And he still has the guts to declare the old notes illegal tender.
So CBN Act authorizes him to ration people’s money in commercial bank custody. He’s now hiding under CBN Act to commit treason against the citizens of this country and some are clapping and defending instead of arresting and prosecuting him.
The evil policy of currency swap could not catch the monkeys it was designed to catch. It only caught the poor innocent citizens of this country who are spending hours and days in queues just to access essentials.
This is the price of having a President that refuses to take responsibility but passes the buck. This is resulting from keeping Emefiele in a job he literally begged to be sacked. The President was of course unaware of when to ask Godwin Emefiele to take his leave from the CBN.
The President didn’t realise when the CBN governor bought APC forms for N100 million Naira to contest to replace him. They could not invoke the CBN Act to relieve this man from further polluting and damaging the revered and sensitive institution given to him to run until now that he has ruined our entire monetary economy.
Buhari must take the blame for this monetary crisis. APC must take the blames for cluelessness, incompetence, irresponsibility, recklessness, incapacity and myopia. We are witnessing a free fall of governance at the twilight of this APC federal government. Everything is gravitating to a free fall.
Even next weekend’s election for the Presidency is unsure. APC is now fighting APC. APC cabals are instigating makeovers and crossovers to other opportunistic parties. If you rely on Buhari standing in campaigns with Asiwaju, you’ll be making the worst mistakes of your entire life.
The Northern cabals have left Buhari to enjoy his frolics with Asiwaju. Both of them will soon secretly become in-laws. Nigerian politics have left Buhari and his narrow ethnoreligious cabal. You should smell the coffee to know its new gravitation and destination.
All hail the Obidients.
•Engr. Odo Ijere can be reached at odoijere64@gmail.com