{"id":67396,"date":"2019-06-30T17:26:53","date_gmt":"2019-06-30T16:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=67396"},"modified":"2019-06-30T17:26:53","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T16:26:53","slug":"osinbajos-trip-to-the-us-the-critics-and-their-splitting-moral-hair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/articles-opinions\/osinbajos-trip-to-the-us-the-critics-and-their-splitting-moral-hair\/","title":{"rendered":"OSINBAJO&#8217;S TRIP TO THE US: THE CRITICS AND THEIR SPLITTING MORAL HAIR"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m4072160012637387234\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\">By Abdullahi .O. Haruna<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \">\n<div class=\"clear\">\nRecently the Nigerian media have been inundated with various reports,<br \/>\nmost of which were mischievously manufactured to malign Vice President<br \/>\nYemi Osinbajo on his working visit to the United States of America. When<br \/>\none subject the various critics and their critiques to common sense and<br \/>\nlogic, it is easy to uncover their wicked intentions. Chiefs among these<br \/>\nmoral impostors are: Reno Omokri, an ex-aide to an ex-president; Kola<br \/>\nOlogbondiyan, National Publicity Secretary to a crumbled political<br \/>\nparty, the People&#8217;s Democratic Party, and one Emmanuel Aziken, a man<br \/>\nwith nebulous identity.<\/p>\n<p>A quick trip through the watery commentaries of these unpatriotic<br \/>\nNigerians on Prof. Yemi Osinbajo&#8217;s working visit to the United States of<br \/>\nAmerica reveal that their interpretations of water the erudite Professor<br \/>\nsaid during the visit lack vista, as they are full of contradictory<br \/>\npropositions, suggesting the splitting moral hair of the commentators.<br \/>\nAs a matter of fact, no reasonable human being with his full sense<br \/>\nintact will take such barrages serious as they are bereft of logic and<br \/>\ncommon sense.<\/p>\n<p>Nigerians are not new to Reno Omokri&#8217;s naughty propaganda; ever since<br \/>\nthe current government snatched yam from his mouth, his heart has been<br \/>\nfull of bitterness and sourness. We therefore understand why he cannot<br \/>\nput off his wailing apparel. His new job since his Boss was chased out<br \/>\nof Aso Rock is to deliberately manufacture lies, half-truths, fallacies,<br \/>\nhoaxes and propaganda to sway gullible members of the society. Nigerians<br \/>\nare wise and smart people, as paid publicists and propagandists like<br \/>\nReno Omokri lack the credibility to influence public opinion.<\/p>\n<p>Those who have been following the commentaries on Osinbajo&#8217;s visit to<br \/>\nthe United States of America by the three mischievous individuals<br \/>\nmentioned earlier would agree that some elements are giving journalism a<br \/>\nbad name. It is easy to identify such elements that give the noble pen<br \/>\nprofession a bad name. One of the obvious traits is that they<br \/>\ndeliberately manufacture and disseminate falsehood to score cheap goals,<br \/>\nand twist reality to suit the interest of their paymasters and<br \/>\npseudo-sponsors. They are therefore merchants of fake news,<br \/>\nmisinformation, disinformation and episodic reports that disdainfully<br \/>\ntreat context with levity, isolate the event from series of happenings<br \/>\nthat give birth to it, thereby obscuring reality.<\/p>\n<p>For the purpose of clarity, it is important to state that Prof. Yemi<br \/>\nOsinbajo was completely misquoted and his words taken out of context.<br \/>\nNowhere in the Vice President remarks at the Town-Hall meeting with the<br \/>\nNigerian community in New-York did he say \u201ckidnapping in Nigeria is<br \/>\nexaggerated and not entirely new\u201d as peddled by those media<br \/>\norganisations that are known for fake news and misinformation.<\/p>\n<p>For record purposes, this was exactly what Vice President said: \u201cWith<br \/>\nrespect to general kidnapping which we have seen in certain parts of the<br \/>\ncountry, again this is not entirely new. When you listen to some of the<br \/>\nstories, some of them are simply not true anyway. Some are fueled by<br \/>\npolitics, but there are cases of kidnapping, there is no question at all<br \/>\nabout that. But I think some of the more dramatic cases that we hear<br \/>\nbecause every story we try to track and trace. When you track them, you<br \/>\nfind out that people just tell some stories, but the truth anyway is<br \/>\nthat there is kidnapping in places where it has taken place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The above statement made by the Vice President represents the true state<br \/>\nof kidnapping in Nigeria. First, kidnapping in Nigeria predates this<br \/>\nregime. Nigerians will recall with colossal disappointment and deep<br \/>\nsoreness that the kidnap of Chibok girls, father of all kidnaps, was<br \/>\nhatched and executed during the infamous reign of the People\u2019s<br \/>\nDemocratic Party (PDP). Can somebody therefore remind the PDP what<br \/>\nhappened in April 2014 at Chibok when their hero, Goodluck Ebele<br \/>\nJonathan was president? Recall that on that fateful day, a total number<br \/>\nof 276 female students, in a single swoop, were kidnapped from<br \/>\nGovernment Secondary School in the town of Chibok. If the likes of<br \/>\nOmokri and Kola Ologbondiyan have deleted the gloomy and grotesque<br \/>\nmemory of Chibok kidnap from their heads, Nigerians as well as the<br \/>\ninternational community have not.<\/p>\n<p>Can someone boot Ologbondiyan&#8217;s memory that it was during the reign of<br \/>\nhis Party that the mass kidnap that sparked the biggest global social<br \/>\ncampaigns was heinously orchestrated? Till date, a kidnap of such<br \/>\nmagnitude has never happened in Nigeria or any part of the world. Is it<br \/>\nnot surprising therefore that the People\u2019s Democratic Party (PDP) that<br \/>\nought to apologise to Nigeria and Nigerians or cover its face in shame,<br \/>\nis the one running watery commentary on a government that is making<br \/>\nfrantic efforts to improve on the security situations of the country?<\/p>\n<p>Where were the Omokri and Ologbondiyan of this world when their hero,<br \/>\nGoodluck Ebele Jonathan admitted publicly and shamelessly that the<br \/>\nkidnap of Chibok girls was instrumental to his abysmal performance in<br \/>\nthe 2015 elections? For a political party that superintendent the<br \/>\nlargest kidnap in the history of Nigeria to issue press statement,<br \/>\ndescribing the current government as lacking \u201cno iota of concern towards<br \/>\nthe pain and suffering of Nigeria\u201d shows how shamelessness has been<br \/>\ntaken to another level. One of the critical questions that readily come<br \/>\nto mind is, what efforts did PDP make to rescue those innocent girls<br \/>\nthat were horrendously kidnapped to show that they care? Was it not in<br \/>\nOctober 2016, during the administration of the APC-led government that<br \/>\nthe first mass release of 21 of the Chibok girls was executed? Also, was<br \/>\nit not during the APC-led government in May 2017 that another set of 82<br \/>\nChibok girls were released?<\/p>\n<p>At the New York town-hall meeting with Nigerians, Vice President Yemi<br \/>\nOsinbajo acknowledged the fact that many of the kidnap stories that<br \/>\noften flood the media landscape were untrue. This was exactly what Prof.<br \/>\nOsinbajo said that was deliberately and mischievously taken out of<br \/>\ncontext:\u00a0 \u201cWhen you listen to some of the stories, some of them are<br \/>\nsimply not true anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those who understand the geo-politic of information in Nigeria would<br \/>\nrecognise the fact that there are scores of stories on kidnap that are<br \/>\nmerely coordinated media spectacles aimed at discrediting the current<br \/>\ngovernment. Is it not true that on different occasions media are flooded<br \/>\nwith ridiculous stories about fake kidnap? As far back as 2013, when<br \/>\nGoodluck Ebele Jonathan was the President, the BBC News through this<br \/>\nlink,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-24524707\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-24524707&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1561998176675000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGF6hbpyhebsmi6R-DzIcAhxUkYLQ\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world<wbr \/>-africa-24524707<\/a>\u00a0reports that<br \/>\n\u201cPolice in south-eastern Nigeria have arrested a woman who allegedly<br \/>\nfaked her own kidnap to demand a ransom from her husband. Nancy Chukwu<br \/>\nis accused of conspiring with a man to stage her abduction in the city<br \/>\nof Enugu and asking for 200,000 naira.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, there was another media report that that a teenage apprentice,<br \/>\nAdeboye Micheal, faked own kidnap to steal from his employer&#8217;s N500,000.<br \/>\nThere was another story in the media which says that a teenage girl,<br \/>\nDorcas Adilewa, faked own kidnap to defraud father. Just recently also,<br \/>\na Methodist pastor\u00a0 in Ado Ekiti named Adewuyi Adegoke was reportedly<br \/>\napprehended by the Police for allegedly faking his kidnap while<br \/>\ndemanding for a ransom of three million naira from the church members.<br \/>\nShortly after Adegoke&#8217;s disappearance, it was also reported that the<br \/>\nsocial media was awash with claims that he was abducted by herdsmen<br \/>\nwhile travelling. Is it not such kind of sensational stories that Prof.<br \/>\nOsinbajo said \u201care fueled by politics\u201d? If not politics, what is the<br \/>\ncorrelation between self-kidnap and abduction by herdsmen?<\/p>\n<p>With the above stories of fake kidnap, can anybody with his complete<br \/>\nsense still dismiss Vice President Osinbajo\u2019s statement as fallacy and<br \/>\nuntrue? For Reno Omokri to call the Vice President unprintable names<br \/>\nwith different pejorative adjectives, just for saying what Nigerians<br \/>\nalready know, shows that he (Omokri) has not been cured of the<br \/>\nprotracted dementia that he was infected with as a result of the<br \/>\ncolossal loss of his master. Many lines in the Omokri\u2019s watery<br \/>\ncommentary attest to his moral imposture; he forgets to note that his<br \/>\npast and that of his principal is just a click away. Disgustedly, many<br \/>\nNigerians have not forgotten how they almost crippled the nation\u2019s<br \/>\neconomy by sharing its common patrimony among friends and families,<br \/>\ncronies and proxies. One could see how Omokri struggled so hard to place<br \/>\nthe failed regime of his master above the current government by<br \/>\ncomparing the poverty index of the two administrations. Not every<br \/>\nNigerian has the penchant for Reno Omokri\u2019s posture that lacks a speck<br \/>\nof moral integrity. Vice President Osinbajo, like President Muhammadu<br \/>\nBuhari, is committed to ameliorating the plights of ordinary Nigerians<br \/>\nwho were denied of basic social amenities by the regime superintended by<br \/>\nOmokri\u2019s principal.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it is true that the United Nations and the World Poverty Clock<br \/>\n(WPC) have tagged the country as the headquarters of poverty, but Omokri<br \/>\nfailed to tell the world how Goodluck Jonathan\u2019s brazen profligacy and<br \/>\nyears of squandermania culminated into the current poverty status of the<br \/>\nnation. The good news however is that the Muhammadu Buhari-led<br \/>\nadministration has adequately positioned the country to get out of<br \/>\npoverty through different social investment programmes. President<br \/>\nMuhamadu Buhari\u2019s administration had initiated National Social<br \/>\nInvestment programmes, SIP under the office of the Vice President, after<br \/>\ntaking over the affairs of this country in 2015. The programme which is<br \/>\npredicated on the need for a more sustained and inclusive economic<br \/>\ngrowth, reduced poverty rates and closing the wide inequality gap<br \/>\nbetween the rich and the poor, is anchored on four pillars which include<br \/>\nN-Power, National Home-grown School Feeding Programme, Conditional Cash<br \/>\nTransfer (CCT) and Government Enterprises Entrepreneurship Programme<br \/>\n(GEEP). Nigerians know that the Social Investment Programme of the<br \/>\ncurrent administration of President Muhammadu Buhari is far better than<br \/>\nthose of the previous administrations, including the ones initiated by<br \/>\nOmokri\u2019s principal. For instance, one of the differences between N-Power<br \/>\nand SURE-P programme is that while ordinary Nigerians are beneficiaries<br \/>\nof the former, the beneficiaries of the latter were men and women in<br \/>\nhigh places who turned the SURE-P to SURE-C, where \u201cC\u201d stands for<br \/>\ncorruption.<\/p>\n<p>It was not only Reno Omokri and Kola Ologbondiyan that ran malicious<br \/>\ncommentaries on Osinbajo&#8217;s working visit to the US; there was faceless<br \/>\nindividual called Emmanuel Aziken. From his name one assumes he is a<br \/>\nNigerian, but a Nigerian who is not consistent in the spelling of the<br \/>\nname of Vice President of his country should not be taken serious. In an<br \/>\narticle titled \u201cSee what Presidency has done to Osibanjo\u201d (sic) which<br \/>\nwas published in Vanguard newspaper, Aziken describes Mike Pence, the US<br \/>\nVice President and Prof. Osinbajo as a remarkable pair\u201d who \u201cclaim to be<br \/>\npractising Christians.\u201d He went further to say that \u201cBoth Vice<br \/>\nPresidents have seemingly controversial Principals that are in their<br \/>\nrespective countries said to be divisive. Someone should tell Aziken and<br \/>\nhis sort that Nigeria of today is more united than the Nigeria of<br \/>\nyesteryears. The only palpable division we have in the country today is<br \/>\nthe division between the looters of our collective patrimony and those<br \/>\nwho believe that the wealth of this nation is meant for all. If there is<br \/>\nany division in Nigeria today, it is the division between those who<br \/>\ndestroyed the base of our prosperity through corruption and those who<br \/>\nare building what has been destroyed over time.<\/p>\n<p>The NextLevel is about truth and war against all forms of indiscipline,<br \/>\nincluding corruption in high and low places; it is about entrenching<br \/>\nwhat is good while opposing what is evil. No matter the campaign of<br \/>\ncalumny levelled against our amiable President Muhammadu Buhari and his<br \/>\nloyal Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, the NextLevel has come to stay and<br \/>\nthe duo cannot be distracted by the Omokris, Ologbondiyans or Azikens of<br \/>\nthis world \u2013 they will deliver on all their campaign promises.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"conversation-footer\" class=\"spacer\"><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Abdullahi .O. 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