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Recently, some political gladiators gathered in Abuja to whine and throw tantrums because they either lost the #NigerianElections2023 or lost out in the power game when their sins prevented them from being named minister to represent a state they had turned into a theatre of war.
And now, led by Nasir el-Rufai, the butcher of Kaduna, who superintended over the slaughter of Southern Kaduna Christians and the massacre of Northern Kaduna Shia Muslims, they want to use the same propaganda they successfully used against the Jonathan administration to turn Nigerians against the Tinubu government.Tap Here for the Full Story
Was it not the same el-Rufai who lied that then President Jonathan and Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor created Boko Haram to ‘reduce the population of the Muslim North’?
As the saying goes, fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
Take away the common enmity these strange bedfellows have for President Tinubu, and there is nothing to bind them together. Each had once betrayed the other.
The same Nasir el-Rufai who in 2010 called Buhari a bigot who is unfit to govern Nigeria and then went on to make a mentor out of the man he once called a monster now wants us to believe that Nigeria has retrogressed. But do the facts support his claims?
Good things are happening in Nigeria. The Naira is at a seven-month high of ₦1530 to the dollar. The Federal Inland Revenue Service has raked in a record revenue of ₦21.6 trillion for 2024. Our economy grew by 3.46% in the last quarter on record for 2024, while federal allocation to states has doubled.
Additionally, the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway has crossed far into Ogun. It is now approaching the border of Ondo State, even as work has commenced on the Sokoto-Badagry Super-Highway.
In aviation, FG facilitated Air Peace to secure daily direct flights to London, which crashed ticket prices.
For the first time since 1995, we are seeing a realistic effort to placate Ogoni land, clean up the oil spills, and resume oil production in the area. This will significantly boost Nigeria’s production capacity, which is already at a five-year high of 1.5 million BPD.
60,000 Nigerian students from all geopolitical regions are now benefiting from President Tinubu’s student loan program, which has paid out ₦104 billion since May 29, 2023. Meanwhile, Peter Obi, who could not even build a single nursery, primary or secondary school, or university, has the effrontery to talk. This is not about Hero beer!
In all of this, we also give thanks to God that Bello Turji’s bandit son has been killed, and Bello himself is on the run. At the same time, Ali Kachala, Boderi Isyaku, and Sani Dangote have been neutralised and sent to join their ancestors.
Even in el-Rufai’s Kaduna, there is now peace, and I can bet my last Naira that even el-Rufai’s children will not want a return to their father’s days when Kaduna was known more for the Southern Kaduna Genocide and multiple school abductions.
Things were so bad that even their father had to secretly un-enrol his son and their brother from the school he publicly enrolled him in because of fear of abduction.
The reforms are working, and Nigeria is getting better. Yes, we still have a very long way to go. I would like to see inflation brought to single digits and a reduction in the cost of governance.
There is disappointment here. But it is disappointment on the part of el-Rufai that he was not made a minister, which is why his wife, Hadiza, said to her son, Bashir when he criticised the government that:
“Would you be saying this if your father were part of this government?”
Source: Reno Omokri/ X
