President Muhammadu Buhari has commended the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, “for always putting Nigeria’s interest above every other thing.”
The President said this on Sunday in Abuja in a statement to mark the Speaker’s 50th birthday anniversary.
The statement was signed by the president’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu.
President Buhari noted that he was impressed with Mr. Dogara’s rising political career and leadership style at his relatively young age.
He said the Speaker’s performance had reinforced his confidence in the country’s youth.
“With Dogara’s performance as Speaker, fears that the country’s younger politicians have been pushed into background are unfounded,” he added.
He added that his administration would always encourage the younger generation.
The President said he was optimistic of closer working relationship with the legislature to fast track the implementation of critically important national policies and programmes.
Femi Fani-Kayode, former Aviation Minister, has revealed his conversation with an unnamed retired General over the fall of Sambisa forest, the last stronghold of the Boko Haram sect.
Fani-Kayode, noted that the claim by the Nigerian government that Boko Haram had fallen was a lie.
His words is reproduced unedited below;
“A retired General shared this perspective with me. He said the recent noise about defeat of BHT (Boko Haram terrorists) is so deceptive.
“It must be noted as a mission in furtherance of their belief & propaganda to achieve 2 things. First to vindicate Islam by presenting it as not being responsible for all the evil done by this terrible Jihadists movement.
“He had devoted a substantial portion of his inaugural speech in trumpeting this deception. Much of what he had to say there was to insist that Islam was not responsible for the atrocities.
“That message was more of an imam’s speech . The fact is that the last regime had already positioned the military to finally destroy the BHT even while the tyrant & his APC were busy encouraging & profiting from the exploits of the evil organisation.
“Secondly, himself, his party & many muslim fanatic military officers who were so committed to sabotaging the counterterrorist operations under Jonathan were mainly concerned that, Jonathan, an ‘infidel’ must not be credited with defeating an organisation identified with Islam.
“This to them would be an unacceptable aberration. Most of those officers sabotaging the operations under last leadership eventually became the earliest appointees to command in the NA (Nigeria Army) as soon as the tyrant assumed power.
“People fail to ask what really is his tangible strategic input of this tyrant to this defeat of BHT that he so much wants to be credited with? All the equipment used were procured by last regime. All the Special forces were trained under last regime.
“The MNJTF was an idea fully packaged by last regime. The massive recruitment, retraining & restructuring of NA all under last regime. The efforts to restore discipline which opposition politicians worked to undermine & incite was also not by this wicked regime of propagandists.
“In actual fact, part of the reasons anger of the tyrant’s regime agsinst Dasuki & leadership of military under Jonathan was because of the totality the efforts to roundly defeat BHT & terrorism in Nigeria.
“This is the background & the true narrative of the much noised December 2016 victory over BHT. I wish this understanding is available to Nigerians & historian on our nation’s travails.”
Former Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriation, Abdulmumin Jibrin, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to resign, if he cannot resist blackmail.
In a series of tweets posted on Boxing Day, Jibrin said Buhari is acting as if he needs the permission of some “political overlords”, before he does his job.
He also alleged Buhari was playing into the hands of those who do not mean well for him and his administration.
Some of the tweets read: “As a President, once you succumb to blackmail by individual, group or institution, you are finished and your presidency certified lame duck!
“How ever high the stakes are or necessity of the usually exaggerated ‘political expediency’ a President must refuse to be boxed or blackmail.
“Mr President, all your life you conducted yourself in such a way and manner that immunes you from blackmail which solidified your strength.
“So why is the President appearing weak…as if he has to beg some political ‘OverLords’ to do his work in the name of “political stability”?
“Mr President, ‘such ‘political stability’ and ‘harmony’ that compels you to turn away your face where you shouldn’t is useless to our country!
“Mr President, you are playing into the hands of people who do not believe in you&your govt. You will come back to these tweets in 18months.
“A President must repel blackmail with all his arsenals or give up the presidency. You cannot be an effective President while in hostage!”
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