Kaduna (Nigeria) – Benue State government, north central of the country has expressed reservation on a statement that it was not including the leadership of the opposition party, PDP, in its efforts to end attacks on the people by herdsmen.
Reacting to the statement, Terver Akase, Chief Press Secretary to Governor Ortom explained that government finds the allegation as untimely and unnecessary.
“The Benue State Government under Governor Samuel Ortom has employed an inclusive approach and brought stakeholders of the state irrespective of political affiliation to the same table to find ways of addressing the current security challenge of herdsmen attacks on innocent people.
“An example of such inclusiveness is the stakeholders meeting which took place at the Benue Peoples House, Makurdi. Invitation was sent to leaders of PDP in the state, among who are the State Chairman of the party, Mr. John Ngbede and State House of Assembly members from the party.
“The presence of Hon. Sule Audu of Agatu Constituency, Hon. Kester Kyenge of Logo and Hon. Terseer Azuu of Guma among other leaders of PDP in the state at the meeting confirms this fact.
“Governor Ortom personally called his predecessor, Dr Gabriel Suswam and former Senate President, Senator David Mark and invited them for the stakeholders meeting. Dr Suswam told Governor Ortom that he was not in the country at the moment and could therefore not attend the meeting.
“We wish to advise that what has befallen Benue now calls for all hands on deck not political sentiments and diversionary commentaries. This is certainly not the time for political jingles.
“To demonstrate the seriousness he attaches to tackling the security situation in the state, Governor Ortom has suspended all activities relating to his re-election bid in honour of victims of renewed herdsmen attacks in the state.
“We owe Benue the duty to protect it against its enemies, and we can only achieve that if we reason and speak with one voice as one people tied together in the single garment of destiny.”
Kaduna (Nigeria) – Centrum Initiative for Development and Fundamental Rights Advocacy, CEDRA, has said that the impunity by Fulani Herdsmen in parts of Nigeria, is a disappointment by the Federal Government led by President Muhammadu Buhari.
According to CEDRA, a horizontal and vertical perusal of opinion of pundits holds that the Federal Government of Nigeria can nip in the bud, this menace.
John Danfulani, Chairman of the rights advocacy group in a statement issued in Kaduna observed that “FGN under Buhari only consciously decided not to see or hear the Fulani Herdsmen terror that has attracted the attention of the global community.
“Sadly, when it comes to issues affecting Nigerians of different ethnic background the same or inaction disposition of President Buhari disappears. He acts with speed of light even if it means outright breaking the law or refusal to follow due process.
“We are witnesses to how he unlawfully labeled IPOB a terrorist group, and ordered invasion of some South East cities by the military under an operation code named python dance.
“The saddest dimension to this is the statement of the Inspector General Of Police who ignored facts surrounding the pogrom and said;the Benue massacre was a communal clash. After his highly subjective and absurd claim, commanders of the “Butchers Of Benue” advanced a different reason for their semi holocaust .
“They claimed, they went on killing spree because their 1000 cows were stolen. If their tale by moon light is true, what stopped them from deploying the same force and brutality on bandits that stole their cows? This is a classic case of transfer of aggression.
“Above all, is it permissible in our laws for people to take laws into their hands when a perceived wrong is meted on them? With his disposition, how can IGP discharge his duties of law enforcement devoid of prejudices?
“While we accused the FGN of conscious refusal to liquidate our version of Janjaweed, we admit that; some State chief executives are helpless due to lack of constitutional powers to command the security outfits in their domains.
“Now that it’s incontrovertible that the FGN and some state governors have consciously developed cold feet to strangulating this systematic genocide by Fulani Herdsmen, we are calling on the leadership of the National Assembly to trigger the clause of emergency session and cut short their recess under matters of national importance to discuss the Fulani Herdsmen threat to national security.
“The National Assembly’s intervention is quintessential because Nigeria is a few inches away from a full blown civil war. There is no stressing the fact that statements from leaders of affected communities shows that their backs are on the walls. And that, they have exhausted their barns of patience. And since the person and institutions constitutionally empowered to pull the brakes on the jajaweed-like gang are not willing to act accordingly, it’s good for the National Assembly to swiftly step in.
“Lest they forget, members of the National Assembly are Representatives of the common folks and members of an institution with the power of checks and balances.
“They will be letting down millions of compatriots that are looking up to them for protection, if they tarry or also pretend not to see nor her this evil. Simply put, honourable and distinguished men and women of the Green and Red chambers should help us stop an impending civil war that has the capacity to spell the greatest post Second World War humanitarian crisis.
“From 23rd December 2017 to 6th January 2018 Middle Belt communities of Southern Kaduna and Benue State witnessed barbaric lethal assaults by Fulani Herdsmen- a terrorist group listed by world bodies as the fourth deadliest group in the world.
“In Southern Kaduna, a zone that has suffered protracted Fulani Herdsmen terrorism, communities were assaulted,many were massacred and scores wounded on the eve of Christmas.
“Shortly after that, a first class chief of Numana Chiefdom and his pregnant wife were cowardly murdered and the paramount ruler of Ikulu Kingdom kidnapped at his residence.
“While the hue and cry of their savagery in Southern Kaduna was glowing, the same blood thirsty beasts opened a deadlier front in Benue State. Horrific pictures of their Benue victims who are mostly defenseless women and innocent children hoisted in old and new media are still giving people terrible nightmares. As I write,the beasts are still operating in the Benue front with impunity .
“Aside Southern Kaduna and Benue incidences, there were others in Taraba, Adamawa, Niger and Plateau. And a pocket of states and communities south of River Niger. Lives terminating and properties destroying skirmishes in these States and communities were triggered by the same marauding Fulani Herdsmen.”
Gombe (Nigeria) – Deputy National Chairman of the Nigeria’s main opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Babayo Garba Gamawa has, accused President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration of inflicting hardships on the country’s masses.
Senator Babayo Gamawa who was speaking with journalists in Gombe, said the APC federal government lacked the ability to initiate sound policies that would positively impact on the lives of the citizens. This, he explained, was responsible for the prevailing hardship being experienced across the country.
“Personally, there are certain areas Nigerians are left in the dark. If you are presiding over the affairs of the government, you are expected to introduce policies that will impact positively in the lives of Nigerians. I mean the common man. People can’t even compare life during PDP and now because things are tough because of hardship, the prices of goods in the market have tripled,” he said.
He dismissed claims by the APC attributing the prevailing hardship to economic recession as result of alleged PDP’s mismanagement of funds, stressing that the recent economic recession was a global phenomenon and not peculiar to Nigeria.
“Recession is not only in Nigeria, and if you go through the economic books, recession is something that comes once a while whether you apply something or not it will go ,but the issue is what do you apply to reduce the pains which is not there,” Gamawa said.
Gamawa assured that if the PDP comes back to power 2019, the party would adequately tackle the recession in order to soften the hardship on the citizens.
“We know government is not a profit making venture but a service provider. A serious government is always concerned about three fundamental things; Developing the country by executing projects, improving economy by engaging experts to apply measures which will boost the economy as well as providing security for life and property of citizens,” he said.
“The PDP of today is not the PDP of yesterday. The team that we have today is concerned with the victory of the party, lives of Nigerians, developmental projects in the country as well as gives a level playing ground for all. We will make sure we give a level playing ground for all aspirants, allow them to come and speak out their manifestos.
“Personally, I’m not impressed by the APC, there is nothing to show. The federal universities were established during our time, I was a member of the 7th Senate and opportune to serve in Education Committee, in Transport issue of rail, remodeling of airports dualization of Kano-Maiduguri started during our time.
“Insecurity has not stopped those in Maiduguri, Yobe and Adamawa know better. We hear news of bombings, killing almost daily with another group emerging in Zamfara State and the rising cases of kidnapping along Kaduna and Abuja highways”, Gamawa said.
Reacting to the raging controversy surrounding the New Year predictions of a Catholic priest, Reverend Father Ejike Mbaka, Gamawa said that though only God knows the future, the PDP would be glad to have Dankwambo as its flag bearer come 2019.
“The issue of future is only known by God, but there are people from different faith, who were making predictions which sometimes become real sometimes it doesn’t. If his prediction becomes reality, PDP will definitely be glad to have someone like him as the party’s flag bearer.
“Considering how he transformed Gombe State from what it was to its present stage, going by his record, having excelled through his professional carrier to the rank of Accountant General and Governor of Gombe State, he has the prerequisites qualification and curriculum vitae to preside or to be the flag bearer of our party comes 2019,” he said.
Gamawa said in politics, there was no need to pre-empt plans but that Dankwambo knows how to manage finances going by his discipline as a professional accountant.
Gombe (Nigeria) – A monarch in Yobe State northeast of the country has expressed concern over the increasing wave of drug abuse among youth, including married women in his domain
The Mai of Tikau , Mohammad Abubakar Ibn Grema was speaking with Journalists in his Palace at Sabon Garin Nangere at the weekend.
The Monarch lamented that a lot of the youths and married Women were involved in the consumption of illicit substances like Tramadol, codeine, marijuana and other harmful substances that influence them.
He suggested that those affected ought to be treated, rehabilitated and offered jobs with the social works department of the state while a sensitisation of youths be commenced.
Ibn Grema described the situation as unfortunate and wondered how it became so rampant among his subjects. “To be candid drug addiction has become one of the issue of concern and a major problem within the community”.
He observed that “It has gone to the extent now that if you go to the local markets in the rural areas you find people selling it openly without any fear of law and order. This has not stopped here as even the married women are now into drug abuse, youths, old men and women you see them taking it rampantly. I think only prayers will get us out of this mess”.
The traditional ruler who commended the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, said “Even though they’re faced with manpower challenges, they are not many enough to cover all the places. I am also on the opinion that there should be quick dispensation of cases before the Court”.
“In Tikau Emirate, we are trying to form an independent drug fighting Society to check mate drug activities within my community”.
The traditional ruler said that the local government Chairman has been briefed on the development and they summoned all their District Heads, Village Heads and Ward Heads and directed them to go to their respective areas and form societies that will be checking the activities of drug peddlers in their environment.
“We informed the NDLEA officials in our midst that we want to come up with a new approach but we need their own support, so that it will enable us sample some youth to be monitoring the activities of the drug peddlers that bring the substance to the area and sell”.
Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, south-south Nigeria
Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, south-south Nigeria
By Odimegwu Onwumere
I was with a group of pressmen this January when one of us frowningly said that the government of Governor Ezebunwo Nyesom Wike of Rivers State is not media friendly.
I would not have believed the statement if some of Wike’s media aides had not resigned from his government and also, told the world in their resignation letters that Wike invariably hates the media.
In June 2017, Dr. Austin Tam George who was the state Information and Communication Commissioner resigned his appointment for irreconcilable issues in the government of Wike while he served in the information capacity. This was barely 24 hours the Rivers State Works Commissioner, Bathuel Harrison was relieved of his appointment by Wike.
Opunabo Inko-Tariah who was Wike’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity resigned from his job on November 6 2015, commenting that his former boss was underfunding the media. Inko-Tariah claimed that his office was vigorously famished of funds by the Wike government, except funds for publications and advertorial.
These are but a few media persons in the state who have expressed the condescension and disparagement the government of Wike has for journalists. This means that journalists who were supposed to carry out their social responsibilities in the state, were not empowered through the office of the then Wike’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity. And till date, journalists are roaming in the state like wanderers; unlike they have had it in other successive governments in Rivers State.
Take it to anywhere, Wike operates a government devoid of a strong media team. He forgot that journalists are the bastion of governance in sustaining accountability and security of any given sovereignty. It is on record that “Section 22 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended entrusted the media with the power to monitor governance and uphold the Fundamental Objectives and Directive Principles of State Policy as enshrined in Chapter 2 of the Constitution.”
However, the saying that whoever that controls the media controls the mind may be true of Wike’s Rivers State. Why Wike has refused to make journalists in Rivers to be happy does not meet the eyes.
This implies that if Wike continues to be media unfriendly, the Rivers masses would be starved of the necessary information they need, given that journalists are needed to be active in Rivers State, especially in these times of insecurity.
In sane climes, organisations, persons and governments spend millions of dollars to empower journalists on reporting projects. Rivers State under Wike should tow this example, because he cannot afford the death of journalism in the state under his watch.
He needs to keep journalism alive. Wike should understand that according to one Henry Anatole Grunwald: Journalism can never be silent: That is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air.
Wike needs journalists in the fight against insecurity in Rivers State. It is journalists signed obligation to expose the ills of the society even with their lives. I have a belief that if Governor Ezebunwo Nyesom Wike’s objective is to change Rivers State for the better, journalists are the most potent tools to use, instead of allowing journalism grope in apprehension in the state. It is too bad!
Odimegwu Onwumere is a Poet, Writer and Media Consultant based in Rivers State. Tel: +2348032552855. Email: apoet_25@yahoo.com
Stakeholders say that not just supporting women to go into agriculture in order to produce nutritious foods but having more women in policy formation of Nigeria will help in ending malnutrition, Odimegwu Onwumere writes
Ousmane Dore is a Director in African Development Bank for Nigeria. While in a public presentation lately, Dore orated that in spite of the huge labour investment by women in agriculture, productivity is low and they often have limited roles in decision-making on the farms. Dore later frowned and added that lack of ownership of land and other productive assets due to existing social norms have created a significant negative impact on the family income, nutrition and the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at large.
This is even as Aisha Jummai Alhassan, Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, while at an event on “Financial Inclusion and Social Investment Interventions in Nigeria” expressed trepidation that in many African countries, which Nigeria is among, there is a log in the wheel of inclusive pursuits, while those who call the shots against inclusion are far from meeting the needs of the population they are supposed to reach, and women are mostly affected.
A national paper harangued that women are hardly allowed access to credit facility in the financial sector. “As a matter of fact, among the total beneficiaries of the US$698 million fund created by government to ginger the growth of Small and Medium Scale Enterprises in the country, only 5 percent out of the 60 percent beneficiaries are women,” the source said.
But upon the limited roles Dore said were given to women in decision-making on the farms, about 70 per cent of agricultural workforce in the country is contributed by women. Indications are that, the 70 per cent produce cover 80 per cent of Nigeria’s food, and this is not enough to send malnutrition on errand outside Nigeria.
Highest In Number Of Malnourished Children
Records show that Nigeria has the highest number of malnourished children, Minister of State, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed disclosed this while at the flag-off ceremony of 2017 Nigeria Nutrition week themed “Improved Nutrition and Empowerment.”
Nigeria would also require $912 million over five years to alleviate malnutrition, Dr. Chris Osa Isokpunwu of the Federal Ministry of Health, Abuja, made this known at a two-day Media Dialogue on “Leveraging Resources for Child Malnutrition in Nigeria” that took place on Thursday and Friday, April 28 and 29, 2017, at Enugu.
Interventionist Programme
The issues of malnutrition and women empowerment are puzzlements fronting stakeholders in the country of which President Muhammadu Buhari in his first bicentenary speech to Nigerians on May 30, 2017 announced N1.6 billion National Women’s Empowerment Fund.
Worried by the grave morbidity velocity of malnourished Nigerian children, wife of the President, Hajiya Aisha Buhari in July 2016, had launched a swift interventionist programme dubbed: “Get involved” to put off yearly death of thousands of malnourished children in the country.
A speech by the Deputy Governor of Rivers State, Dr Ipalibo Banigo, on Wednesday, October 25, 2017, in Port Harcourt, raised dust.
The radiating, blistering and scorching beautiful Banigo on the occasion of the opening ceremony of International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA) Nigeria Week/Annual General Meeting and Pre-convention meeting, while speaking on the topic, “Economic Empowerment of Women under the Nigeria Economic Recovery and Growth Plan 2017/2010”, said, “studies had shown that women were central to economic growth of any nation.”
Nigerian Women Without Financial Inclusion
Ifeoma Okeke, a public affairs analyst on April 2, 2017, gave a shocking revelation that women make about 49 percent of the country’s over 170 million people, yet without financial inclusion.
“With Nigeria’s female population estimated at 83 million (about 49 percent of the country’s over 170 million people), the need for financial inclusion of women to boost development and employment opportunities is becoming increasingly urgent, especially at this period of economic recession,” Okeke said.
It was gathered that about 42 percent of people who are financially excluded are women. According to the source, “Temitope Fadeyi, head, Financial Inclusion Secretariat, Central Bank of Nigeria, also revealed that out of 39.5 percent of people that are financially excluded in Nigeria, 42 percent are female.”
Soliciting For More Political Appointment
According to Banigo, “Women should be given more political appointments to enable them to participate in decision-making and represent the interest of women.
“Educating a girl-child was one way of empowering a woman, while engagement in agriculture remained a way out of poverty and hunger.”
The Minister for Agricultural and Rural Development, Dr. Audu Ogbe while speaking at the AGROBIZ stakeholders forum organised by the National Center for Women Development NCWD, for women farmers in Abuja, said Nigerian women need to be more financially comfortable.
According to Ogbe, “I want Nigerian Women to improve their lives and health and become more comfortable financially and that is the will of federal government.
“So, l believed that, for this country to grow and grow well, there is need for us to take a serious look at the situation of Nigerian women at every level down to the villages.”
But the presidential fund was apparently not what Banigo thought women are looking for. Her body language suggested that investing in women would be economically important, but filling the supposed gender fissure in employment (labour) circle would add up. She was tensed-up with the view, adding that if urgent measures were not taken, “it can take about 70 years to close up the gender gap in the labour sector’’.
Odimegwu Onwumere is a Poet, Writer and Media Consultant based in Rivers State. Tel: +2348032552855. Email: apoet_25@yahoo.com
“Balarabe Musa is one of Nigeria’s brightest stars of integrity and sterling principles. The octogenarian has lived to his reputation by avoiding any conduct associated with corruption and dishonour. Even Musa’s worst enemies and critics cannot dispute his remarkable reputation for integrity and selfless service to the people.” – Muhammadu Buhari
At 81, Abdulkadir Balarabe Musa who is regarded as a left-wing Nigerian politician, elected Governor of Kaduna State, during the Nigerian Second Republic, has remained an outspoken loyalist to the downtrodden, hapless and defocused Nigerians, who are enduring charlatanic governance under the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led government of Nigeria. Musa who probably would not have owned a house of his own if not that he took a loan about 40 years ago of which he balanced recently, has spoken truth to the mendacious APC government.
Musa, the National Chairman of Peoples Redemption Party, PRP, with an undamaged acumen not always known of persons of his age, news has it that while speaking at the 54th National Executive Committee of the party in Kaduna on December 12 2017, had the following words for the retrogressed and aberration known as APC: “The economy remains comatose, and in some sectors, particularly in industry and commerce, it is even getting worse. Monetary and fiscal management have continued to lack coherence and consistency, or even predictability and strategic planning.
“Unemployment, particularly among the youths, who constitute the bulk of our population, has assumed critical proportions and is now, for all practical purposes, a national emergency. Yet, this APC administration, which rode to power on the back of false promises to this generation of hapless young men and women, seems to have no answers to this ticking time bomb beyond slogans such as N-Power.
“In the name of an anti-corruption campaign, the government has been consistently assaulting Due Process and the Rule of Law. Court orders are flagrantly disobeyed by the very institutions that should enforce them. Basic democratic rights are being cynically abused.
“While talking glibly about fighting corruption, the government shamelessly looks askance where corruption is exposed within its own very ranks, closets and cocoons. APC, both at the centre and the states it controls, has proved that it has little or nothing else to provide Nigerians other than further mass impoverishment, frustration and hardship.”
While the Major General Muhammadu-led APC government has shown that it lags the tenets of positive leadership in the points raised above by Musa but with a PhD in propaganda, you wonder what is then an impeachable offense that a president should commit before he is shown the exit door in the office. T
The governened are enduring untoward hardship as they are experiencing under the government of Buhari in the name of democracy.
Musa has shown that he is not and cannot be like the Senate leader, Ali Ndume (APC, Borno South), who on July 25 2016, said in an interview that Buhari cannot be impeached, because he has not been faithful to any impeachable offence. In the same month of that year, the Nigerian House of Representatives corroborated what the Senate had said through Ndume.
Chief Whip of the House, Alhassan Doguwa was the garrulous ‘speaker’ for the lower chamber. Whereas the Senate and House of Reps exonerated the president of impeachment, it is still fresh in our hearts that the DSS was unashamedly above board in its excesses in this government, Army, Police, Fulani herdsmen and Boko haram were also defiantly everywhere in this government.
Remember that the Nigerian Police was rated the worst in the world few weeks ago, according to World Internal Security and Police Index International, WISPI. But apart from the fact that Nigerians are roasting under Buhari and some persons were saying that he had not committed an impeachable offense, the retention of the (il)legal Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, upon the rejection of Magu by the Senate, had been said is one impeachable offense.
We should not even remember the brain behind Maina’s return. According to Reno Omokri, the author of Facts Versus Fiction: The True Story of the Jonathan Years: Chibok, 2015 and Other Conspiracies, “This is even as the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami had already revealed that he “acted in the public’s interest” in initiating the process for Maina’s return.” The $25 billion Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) fiddle which is regarded by opinion leaders as “the biggest scam ever in the history of Nigeria since 1914 to date” could also have been “in public interest”.
Omokri, about five months ago, said that the former President Goodluck Jonathan made mistakes, but Buhari is a mistake. Omokri is not far from the truth. Buhari is not just a mistake but a failure in governance that many of us shouted about during his emergence as APC’s presidential candidate in the 2015, that he will finally not prove critics wrong.
Taking to Twitter of the lies of the Buhari government, Omokri wrote that before the APC came into power, Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN, and currently the Federal Minister of Power, Works and Housing and was Lagos State Governor from May 29, 2007 to May 29, 2015, had in 2014 promised stable electricity, if only the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) is voted out.
“However, he is now blaming Jonathan, for reducing electricity tariff. Buhari will do well moving @tundefashola from being in charge of generating power for Nigeria to being in charge of generating excuses for govt,” Omokri mocked them. “The main difference between GEJ/PDP and PMB/APC is that @GEJonathan made his mistakes as President while @MBuhari is a mistake as President. The major difference between the PDP and the APC is that whereas the PDP had some confirmed liars as members, the APC is itself a lie!”
Against that influence, Buhari spent the vital parts of his first year in office junketing around the world without a cabinet. Buhari stayed in the office without a cabinet knowing or unknowing that the different states depend on the Federation Account to survive. Buhari had a view that he was preparing for the best for the country, oblivious that his action was for the worse. Six months without a functional cabinet of ministers, ambassadors and so on, were enough to damage the country’s economy than just recession. And here we are!
However, speaking in an interview on April 2 2017, Senator Femi Okurounmu, regarded as a die-hard Awoist, said that the president might be impeached, on the appointment of the Magu, if he refuses to follow the constitution. In the words of Okurounmu, “There are two issues involved here. If the Senate rejects Magu and the president allows him to act, that is an impeachable offence. If our legislature is up to the task, if our lawmakers know their rights and they are men of honour, that is enough to impeach the president.”
Hmmm. Hardly is anyone talking on the hyper-kept secret of the health condition of Buhari since January 19 2017, we read then in the news that he sent a letter to the senate in respect of this. The senate did not see him, but saw the letter. Since then, Nigeria has been sick as their president is sick.
It is the odious of governments that Buhari is heading that pushed Musa to weep that at 81, he is not yet fulfilled, while fielding questions to journalists on October 27 2017. It is this type of nuisance called democracy under Buhari that made Musa to regret the 57 years of Independence from the rapacious British colonial masters. He said, “At 81, I will say I feel great and I thank God for everything. But, I am not completely fulfilled because we are yet to have the country of our dreams. We are yet to have a country where there is equity and respect for rights and dignity of all citizens. We are yet to have a country where the governed are good followers and leaders think first about the people and not the other way round. I desire a better Nigeria where everyone will feel the impact of governance that is my birthday wish for the country.’’
Nevertheless, when this government expires someday, the remaining of us who were not killed by the Buhari hunger policies would remember Balarabe Musa as a man who spoke truth to power, when some others chickened out. We would remember Musa that it was his un-daunting courage for the elements of integrity that made Buhari to describe him as a “man of unassailable integrity and untainted record of public service” in a tribute to Musa on the occasion of his 81st birthday anniversary this year.
If Buhari apologists think they can keep the health of the president a secret, they cannot keep the fact that Nigerians are hungry under Buhari a secret; they cannot keep the killing and marauding Fulani herdsmen a secret, and many other deliberate abuses here and there under the Buhari-led APC government. These are the hardships being offered to Nigerians by the APC government, which Abdulkadir Balarabe Musa was not happy about.
Odimegwu Onwumere is a Poet, Writer and Media Consultant based in Rivers State. Tel: +2348032552855. Email: apoet_25@yahoo.com
By Amos Tauna
