From under the "umblerah"(umbrella) of shame where they have been hibernating since they ran from the Presidential debate because they could not get questions in advance,Omeri ran to foul the atmosphere with a thoughtless charge that General Buhari is not sincere about his resolve to rid Nigeria of corruption.
In the usual audacious incompetence of the Jonathan camp,Omeri's only evidence to support his assertion is the fabled "53 suitcases" of 1984.
For a campaign that parades a PHD on top of its ticket,we would ordinarily expect that any subject they want to attack would be properly researched but unfortunately the way governance in Nigeria has not seen any touch of intellect in the last 10 months is also reflecting in their puerile propaganda.
For the sake of the unwary who may be tempted to believe their is any substance to this urban legend,we recap what happened .In 1984,the Emir of Gwandu whose son was ADC to General Buhari was returning to the country from overseas.The Head of state on learning of his arrival asked his son to go and receive him at the aiport as they were only playing squash at the time..
Coincidentally,the Nigerian ambassador to Libya at the time,Dr Tahir Waziri arrived at the same time with the Emir with his three wives and 16 children.They all came with their belongings as he was coming home to take up a new appointment as chief of protocol to the Head of state.It was the suitcases of the family of 20 that were counted as belonging to the Emir and falsely presented to the public.
General Buhari has over the years asked those who have questions over the matter to go to Alhaji Atiku Abubakar who was at the head of Customs operations at the airport on the day.Now we are further suggesting this as a research topic for a doctoral thesis by the president when he hands over on May 29,2011.
Having come clean on this as General Buhari does with all his public service records,we are asking Predient Jonathan a few questions as we await his threat of exposing his main challenger,a feat which his godfathers in PDP have been unable to achieve since 2002 that he threw his hat in the ring against the ruling party.Here we go:
1) Can Mr President explain what happened to the case of N104m seized from Nancy Ebere Nwosu who allegedy swore to an affidat to the EFCC that she was laundering money for Dame Patience Jonathan?
2) What about the announcement by the then EFCC spokesman,Mr Osita Nwajah on September 11, 2006 that the sum of 13.5m USD was seized from another associate of Mrs Jonathan which the anti-graft body said belonged to the now first lady?
3) Any explanation on the several billions of Naira which DSP Alamiesegha left in Bayelsa coffers as at the time of his impeachment which was allegedy squandered in months by Jonathan without anything to show for it?
4) Who presided over the FEC meeting in October 2009 where a 4 km runnway at Abuja Airport was awarded for N64b?Late Predident Yaradua was already in Saudi Hospital as at the time!
5 What happened to the 30b USD Yaradua left in the excess crude account that is virtually empty now?
6 How come it is only Nigeria under Jonathan whose foreign reserve is depleting among oil producing nations at a time of all time high increase in prices of oil products?
We understand Jonathan is scared of General Buhari promise to check out what happened to the billions of dollars the ruling PDP has sunk to the power sector to give Nigeria further darkness instead of light because he has supervised that sector in the last four years.
No amount of cheap shots will stop the change Nigeria awaits from ensuring that Nigerians enjoy regular power supply starting from finding out what the PDP did to put the light out so that money never pour into procuring darkness in our country again.
yinka odumakin
spokesman for General Buhari
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