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Tinubu’s Jaguda Govt

Tinubu is wayward. Otherwise he would control the number of vehicles in his convoy.

By Adeola Aderounmu

If you want to change the world for better, if you want to change your nation so she moves forward, if you want to change the society you live in so that it becomes a better place for you and your children, then look in the mirror and be that change you wished to see.

In this Tinubu’s government (one whose legitimacy is still being contested by one Peter Obi), one would expect that perhaps money would be saved at all fronts so that common good can be enhanced. But I have heard about politicians in this Tinubu jaguda government employing tens and several tens of personal assistants.

I live in a country where personal assistants are employed, mostly temporarily, for people with disabilities or people with challenging intellectual functions.

The first thing that came to my mind is that crazy people are all over the place in Tinubu’s government.

As a politician, the only reason to employ a personal assistant is to show that that you are intellectually deficient and cognitively incapable on your own. Otherwise you need a secretary (if you have a big office to run) and in a worst case scenario, one assistant to help organise things that the secretary (if you have one) cannot handle.

Ordinary legislators and ordinary lawmakers will be employing several tens of assistants. Why? I mean, where does the money for their salaries come from? Over the years Nigerian politicians have become notorious for over-hyped wages as the rest of the populations wallow in abject penury (and Nigeria still the champion as the poverty capital of the world).

The first adjustment that the Tinubu-Shettima jaguda government ought to do was to cut off all wastages. This jaguda government needed to sit down and reshape the political map of Nigeria. There is no way a unitary system of government is going to benefit more than 200 million people. To think that a unitary system of government is fine, and to even work by it is simply an act of madness.

So, there are pressing political and economic issues to be straightened out. It it is sad to be bombarded with the news of thousands of special aides and special assistants all over the country. Are you people in Tinubu’s jaguda government completely insane? How can you run a country on life-supporting machines called personal aides. Ori yin ti da ru o..!

I have seen some stupid excuse to even justify the over 100 vehicles in Tinubu’s lagos convoy. Are you mad? Tinubu is wayward. Otherwise he can control the number of vehicles in his convoy. It is called decorum or common sense. Go your way, and let the other owambe convoys go their way. Must they be at the aiport to follow? Please, stop motivating madness. Stop being stupid. Just shut up!

Tinubu was not ready for the presidency that he wrestled from INEC at all cost. If he was ready, his cabinet would have been announced the day after his inauguration. Nigeria’s politics is not just a joke, it is a mad joke! As an opposition, it is required to always have a shadow government on stand-by during campaign and elections. This is with a readiness to take over the government even before elections should in case the incumbent government stepped aside.

Personally, I thought Tinubu was exposed having studied and lived in the US. But one more time, we have a “president” who is acting like a dumb ass. In what age, in what year will an opposition in Nigeria have a shadow government in place even if there are no campaigns and no elections?

Ask Labour Party. Ask the PDP for the names or the lists of their cabinets. Be sure that there are no lists, be sure that there are no shadow government in any Nigerian opposition party at this moment. You still think Nigeria is practicing democracy? Are you sure you don’t want to examine your thinking faculties?

Nigeria is not yet a country. It is still a company where the winner takes it all and does what it likes.

I thought Tinubu’s jaguda government would come with something different from day one. It didn’t. I can predict what the excuse for failure would be. PDP ruled Nigeria for 16 useless years. Buhari’s APC ruled Nigeria for another 8 senseless years. It’s been 24 years of total madness, corruption, murders, lying, suffering, hunger, poverty and terrorism. Say this post and quote this: It is not easy to clean or repair the maladministration of 24 solids years. This is be the slogan of the Tinubu jaguda’s government.

To be sure, since the colonial thugs from Britain left (?) in 1960, Nigeria has mostly been in the hands of tropical gangsters in khaki and agbada alike. If you have hope in Nigeria. I understand your hope, but I do not share it. Whichever, we are all on a long thing.

May the wind be our way.

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Tinubu-Shettima Mandate: Another Decor For “Fraudgeria”

By Adeola Aderounmu

When I saw former governor Orji Kalu crying, I did not bother to see him or listen to the nonsense he had to say or explain. I mean, uncountable number of people in Nigeria have cried and even died unnecessarily because of criminals called politicians like Kalu since 1999 (to choose a recent start line).

There was a time I thought I would write about all the criminal politicians in Nigeria, especially since 1999. I started writing what I called THE UNTOUCHABLES. The first one was about Orji Uzor Kalu (the cry-cry man), the second one was about Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The third criminal that was featured is Atiku Abubakar. The blog entries are here on adeola.blog which is one of Africa’s longest private blogs. However, most of the external links on those articles written between December 2007 and January 2008 would be outdated for sure. I stopped the series after the third post.

There was a time in the lifespan of the EFCC that gave huge promises and bright hope. Those were the early days of Ribadu. Later it turned out that Ribadu was a rogue planted (most likely) from the IBB team. In Nigeria (aka Fraudgeria), the more you see, the less you understand. The more time goes, the greater the distortion of facts. Even more sadly, the more time goes, the less the suffering masses remember of the sins of their oppressors and slave masters.

Despite all the possibilities for Ribadu to put Tinubu away, he failed. I don’t know why. But hopefully I would be able to do a piece on why Tinubu was an evil child of necessity for Nigeria and Yoruba politics. Despite all his shortcomings and obvious criminal tendencies, Tinubu is today the president of Nigeria through an election that was simply a scam.

With evil men like IBB, Ribadu and Obasanjo in control of Nigeria (at that time), the emergence and survival of Bola Ahmed Tinubu was a necessity. The gods must have kept him and preserve him. Tinubu was one of those that appeared in my series, THE UNTOUCHABLES. Indeed, he is still untouchable.

Ribadu’s failure at EFCC was due to a few factors. He was handpicked from the camp of the cabal so he lacked the merit and experience to be an anti-corruption chief. He was the 11th finger on Obasanjo’s crooked hands. His weakness and low level of mentality was exposed during the third term bid of Obasanjo. I have written severally on that topic on my blog, so it would not be revisited today.

Nigeria was established by British criminals. Today, the colony is ruled by corrupt politicians. Fraudgeria was established as a business enterprise and today, the mission remains intact. If we raise the standard of governance by an inch in Fraudgeria, if we raise the standard of law and order by another inch, almost all the people in government in Fraudgeria today would have been sentenced to death or life imprisonment. But Nigeria is in the gutters. There is nothing to raise.

What has kept Fraugerian politics in motion and sustenance is the willingness of the masses to place their slave masters, their so-called Polithieves on a scale of more evil to less evil. What does this mean? It means that you are not expected to be a good (or normal) person based on the foundations of Fraudgeria.

So, a certain Kalu who should have been forgotten in prison after his tenure as governor can cry in public and get sympathy. It means a Tinubu who became a necessity to counter greater evils like Obasanjo can act as the hope of a certain generation. A Shettima whose hands are soiled in terrorism can become president in Fraudgeria. You cannot draw up the list of all the criminals in Fraudgeria politics and public life. It is a fundamental requirement that your criminalities give you elevation to positions of power and authority. So, the list will be inexhaustible.

A Tinubu-Shettima mandate that started a few weeks ago has already supported my claim that a certain Buhari in Aso rock was the dumbest thing in human history. A man (real or fake Buhari) who has no sense, a man who could only lead by the gun and a man I would never have employed as a houseboy ruled over Fraudgeria for complete 8 years. I can never get over that trauma. Nigeria is already a fraud, then the people sat back and allowed a complete fool to rule. Even in my grave, I would fail to understand how a nonentity held sway!

We have now reached a decoy. That is what this present regime would serve. People would wait to see what can be achieved. The man who would have been the vice-president had he sat his ass in the PDP, one Peter Obi is doing all in his might to derail the faulty mandate. Some of his disciples are reasoning it that Tinubu-Shettima mandate got off to a brilliant start with decision makings.

People forget how quickly 4 years pass in our lifetime. It is like a blink of an eye. If the composition of this mandate is sustained for 4 years, if Peter Obi continues to labour in vain (which is very likely), then those issues that shook Fraudgeria to her foundations in 2023 would be back in 2027. The decoy would be off for a while and the realities that Fraudgeria was built upon would be exposed again. At that time, the people would be deceived again, and suffering with One Fraudgeria would be oiled and relaunched.

Who benefits from one Fraudgeria? This essay is not designed to answer that question. But think about a place where a greater evil sustained a lesser evil in other to bring hope. Then, think about where the common good outweighs the sum of all evil. What will bne your choice?

Regardless of how long the tactics of the politicians play out, regardless of the antics of the founders of Fraudgeria and regardless of how many more generations that would waste away, a certain history event that would be made in the future will dismantle Fraudgeria.

As it is now, even with the nations entrapped in Nigeria are not liberated, it is obvious that the political structure in Nigeria is a fraudulent one. If Tinubu sustained the idea of a unitary government, then he is maintaining the criminality of the system. That will make him a more dangerous criminal too. No normal human being should intend to rule under a unitary system.

The emancipation of Africa and the rise of the nations that would be set free from entrapment in Africa would be triggered by declaration of freedom in today’s Nigeria. At that time, no regime would be a decoy. Nations would arise (even if just in the name of regional government) and take their rightful places.

This outgoing generation has still a slight chance of changing history and championing the strat of a new future. Time will tell if Tinubu is (actually) wise or stupid.

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