President Muhammadu Buhari has been accused profligacy in just two years into his administration under the banner of the All
Progressives Congress.
A former staunch supporter of President Muhammadu Buhari named Farooq A. Kperogi has accused the 74-year old
Nigerian leader of secretly building a multi- million naira helipad in Katsina, his home-
state and also wasting precious state funds on his health care abroad.
The journalism professor and blogger at the Kennesaw State University in Atlanta, United
States of America made the daring
allegations on his birthday, 31st of March, 2017 while analyzing issues bordering on the political climate of Nigeria.
He made this known in his recent opinion piece titled; “Buhari Has No Business Being The President, Saraki Is A Cold Hearted
Conman”.
The fiery writer took some close jabs at the Nigerian Senate of the 8th Assembly as well as the House of Representatives.
Read the interesting article below:
What’s all these annoyingly false Manichean binaries people are erecting between an
“evil” National Assembly and a “benign” Aso Rock! Both Aso Rock and the National Assembly are equally evil, corrupt, obtuse,
and inept. Saraki is a cold, calculating, corrupt conman who destroys everything that comes in his way and Buhari is a self-
centered, insensitive, naïve, and clueless man who has no business being president.
The politics and choices of both men conspire to drag the nation to the pit.
Saraki’s astonishingly gargantuan
corruption is matched by Buhari’s
unparalleled profligacy. We have a
supposedly “frugal” president whose first priority upon being sworn in as president was to build a multi-million naira vanity “helipad” for himself in his hometown, who spent millions of dollars to travel the world
in his first year, and who has spent millions more on both secretive and public “medical
vacations” while the people he is
mandated to govern starve, die of easily treatable diseases, and writhe in pains.
Now Aso Rock is scared to tell Nigerians how much the president spent in his last “medical vacation” in London—itself an unprecedented international
embarrassment.
I agree that the National Assembly is useless, but so is Aso Rock. None is better than the other. It used to be said that Nigeria was on
auto-pilot. Under Buhari, Saraki and Dogara, the triumvirate of double-dyed incompetence and corruption, Nigeria came to a screeching halt and is now nose-diving.
Exactly two years ago today, I said here that Buhari’s election as president was the best
birthday gift I had ever received in my over 4 decades on earth. I spoke too soon. In retrospect, it was the absolute worst
birthday gift. We elected a president who repudiates his campaign promises with the
glibness of an accomplished conman, a man who luxuriates in the perks and privileges of
his office without a bother for the welfare of the people who put him in power, a man
who has no earthly clue (of) how to govern, whose economic policies institutionalize
reverse Robin Hoodism, that is, robbing the poor to enrich the rich, and so on.
Buhari’s ineptitude, double standard, mindless profligacy, and insensitivity to the
poor actually feed and fortify Saraki’s corruption, pigheadedness, and intolerably
brazen arrogance. So stop the false binaries already!
I know today is my birthday when I should be savoring and basking in the glow of the hundreds of warm and delicately phrased
goodwill messages I am receiving. But that’s not me. I am not a celebratory person, and
giving expression to my philosophical anxieties about my home country is more
important than my birthday.
But thanks for your birthday wishes nonetheless!.
