Okechukwu, on Saturday fired back at Mr. Reno Omokri, an ex-aide of
former President Goodluck Jonathan, over his recent verbal attacks on
President Muhammadu Buhari.
The Director General of the Voice of Nigeria,
In Reno’s recent statement, he had asked Buhari to be a ‘ceremony
president’ and allow his Vice, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo perform the duties of
the President, especially in relation to the economy.
However, in an interview on Saturday, the VON DG said Reno had actually
shown that he was a non-democrat, who was suffering from the bazaar era
of former President Jonathan.
He said, “I have my sympathy for Reno; he was one of the greatest
beneficiaries of Jonathan’s bazaar; he lost the bazaar but he still
remembers the bumper years of sharing budget fund.
“I see him as one suffering from the nostalgia of a bazaar era; now he
is in the fridge, he has to see everybody as enemy; we don’t expect
anything different from what he is doing.
“He was in the publicity team of Jonathan; now that the bazaar has collapsed, he resorted to throwing stones.
“From his latest statement, we can even see that he is not a democrat;
he would have known that we have nothing like acting President in
Nigeria’s Constitution.”
On President Buhari’s return, Okechukwu said God had shown rumour mongers that death and life belonged to him.
“We thank God so much; for us in the Christiandon, we have a song that
“He gathers whole world in His hands”; so we rely on Him, every one of
us.
“If we want to be honest, we have our own drugs in our hands; some are
carrying drugs for hypertension, some for diarrhea, diabetes, constant
malaria, some for cancer; it’s only God that keeps us alive.
“President Buhari is not the person that is sick; so, we pray to God to guide and keep him.
“We need him in this country because even though we all believe in the
sovereignty of this country, he epitomizes it. His being alive will
strengthen democracy, strengthen the unity and progress on the country”,
he stated.
Meanwhile, the Buhari Support Organization, (BSO) Enugu State Chapter, has also expressed delight over the President’s return.
In a statement by its Publicity Secretary, Eze Chibueze, the BSO
thanked the Almighty God for his return, stating that “it has reinforced
our infinite confidence in Almighty God, the one in his hands the world
rests. And on the worldly sphere his return has put an end to
unwarranted suspense, anxiety and all manner of rumours from traducers
some of whom wished him dead.”
“BSO Enugu State in league with patriots and well meaning Nigerians had
maintained that the life of any of us rests squarely in the hands of
God.
“We subscribe to the ageless folklore which posits a scenario that while
women in the village were anxiously waiting for the old dry tree to
fall in the harmattan, to be used as firewood, year in and year out the
harmattan came and went, the old tree stood its ground whereas the fresh
young trees fell with the rain.
“In sum, we pray that Mr President reflects the old tree cited above so
that the quiet Buhari revolution aimed at laying a solid foundation for a
transparent, prosperous and progressive Nigeria will be consummated”,
the group further stated.
