The Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity Femi Adesina, had in a tweet said Nigerians trust the Buhari-administration, replying Jonathan’s comments while receiving one of the PDP’s national chairmanship aspirants, Tunde Adeniran.
Adesina had tweeted:When petrol went to N145 under PMB, Nigerians held their peace, unlike when they shut the country in 2012. The difference is trust. Simple.In a statement released by Jonathan’s media team and signed by Reno Omokri, the former president listed both the alleged killings of 347 unarmed Shiite men, women, children and infants, and the detainment of Ibrahim Zak Zaky, as instances through which the current administration instilled fear in the population.
Fear, the statement read, is “the reason Nigerians did not come out to protest against the fuel price hike”
Read the full statement below:
Femi Adesina Lied: Fear, Not Trust is Why Nigerians Did Not Protest En Masse Against Fuel Price Hike
When
Femi Adesina says that it is because of trust that Nigerians did not
rise up against the Buhari administration when it increased the pump
price of petrol from ₦87 to ₦145, he betrays a deep ignorance and
arrogance.
First
of all, it was not Nigerians that rose up again the Jonathan
administration when that government increased the price of petrol on
January 1, 2012. It was actually members of the All Progressive Congress
who sponsored the protests.
Nigerians
have not so soon forgotten how Malam Nasir El-Rufai led other
chieftains of the opposition to the Gani Fawehinmi Freedom Park, Ojota,
Lagos, where they attracted crowds by inviting top musicians to perform
and giving out free food and drinks.
If
anyone cares to Google the pictures of that event, they will see
pictures of people who are currently on President Buhari’s media team
directing ‘protesters’ at that event.
To
now pass that sponsored protest as a sign that Nigerians trust Buhari
but did not trust Jonathan is another propaganda in the long line of
lies and deceit that the APC has come to be known for.
The
truth is that the reason Nigerians did not come out to protest against
the fuel price hike by the Buhari administration’s from ₦87 to ₦145 was
because of fear, pure and simple.
On
December 15, 2015, the Nigerian Army, under President Muhammadu
Buhari’s command, killed 347 unarmed Shiite men, women, children and
infants and buried them in a mass grave as revealed by the panel of
inquiry instituted by the Kaduna State government.
The
excuse given by the military for this massacre was that the Shiites had
blocked a road during one of their procession and this allegedly
affected a trip by the chief of army staff.
After
killing his followers and destroying their place of worship, Sheikh
Ibrahim Zak Zaky, the spiritual leader of the Nigerian Shiite community,
was illegally and unconstitutionally detained and has not been seen or
heard of in public since December 15, 2015.
So
when the Buhari administration increased the pump price of petrol,
Nigerians wisely reasoned that if the Buhari administration can kill 347
unarmed Shiite men, women, children and infants for blocking a road, it
would be suicidal to give them an opportunity to do the same thing to
them on a wider scale.
Under
the Buhari administration, human life has become so cheap that the
military and security services routinely kill innocent Nigerians whether
it be Shiites, peaceful demonstrators or IDPs at the Rann IDP Camp.
To
say Nigerians trust an administration that publicly boasted that it
would not tell Nigerians how much of their own money the President spent
in treating himself in London when the State House Clinic cannot boast
of ordinary panadol (by his own wife’s testimony) is to speak a lie.
Nigerians
can judge the nature of the man whose number one campaign promise was
that “no Nigerian Public official should receive medical treatment
overseas at public expense”. For him lies are cheap even if they are
expensive for the Nigerian public who has to pay the price.
Nor
have Nigerians forgotten the promise to end corruption when the $25
billion Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation scam is ringing in their
ears along with the denials by the Vice President that he never
approved any contracts.
How can they trust a government that has still not released or acted on the SGF’s grass cutter contract prove after six months?
In
the five years that he GOVERNED Nigeria, President Goodluck Jonathan
spent ₦16 trillion. The economy grew. The Naira was stable. We had the
greatest expansion of infrastructure since the Gowon years and inflation
was in single figures.
In
the two years that President Muhammadu Buhari has RULED Nigeria, he has
spent ₦15 trillion. We have had recession. Naira collapsed. Inflation
has gone back to double digits and the only infrastructure that he has
started and completed is the Daura helipad.
So
Femi should spare us his propaganda and accept the truth that he is the
mouthpiece of a murderous regime sustained by propaganda and surviving
on corruption.
Reno Omokri
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