97% Vs 5%: An Open Letter to President Buhari

Your Excellency Sir, I write to you as a grossly disadvantaged Nigerian especially as you have so declared from far away USA during your last visit there. Let me start by saying that the USA is not the right country where a sitting President should make such inflammatory, misguided, needless and discriminatory remark that conveys vengeance against his own people simply because of their democratic choice. This singular declaration which only confirms what many have already known about your avowed dislike for the people that make up the 5% in your statement was a deadly fly in the fine ointment of your well publicised visit to the United States of America, a country that strongly believes in the equality of all men and women irrespective of their race, tongue, class, political inclination or religious belief.

As a grossly disadvantaged Nigerian, having hailed from the South Eastern part of this great country myself, I write you with a bleeding heart knowing full well that the next four years would be a total waste for fellow Nigerians who hail from that region and our South South brothers except for anticipated God’s continued intervention. At least, this much we can deduce from your statement in reference. Since that infamous statement, our disadvantaged position has been elevated to an official level with alacrity.
One then wonders what will happen to those who christened you “Okechukwu” with fanfare during your visits to the “disadvantaged” land in the run up to the last elections? What happened to the memories the Isi Agu attire you wore with relish while you courted the people for votes? Did you bear the name “Okechukwu” and wore the attire with one part of your heart while the other reserved punishment for us? Or is it that the Rochas Okorochas, Ogbonnaya Onus and Chris Ngiges did not have good enough people to recommend to you as (Senior) Special Assistants or even (Acting DGs) since none from the disadvantaged states have been appointed by you so far? If not for divine intervention that made some legislators go on a needless errand to the International Conference Centre, Abuja, for a non-existent meeting, and were there till the electoral proceedings ended in the Senate, without knowledge of what was going on despite advancement in communication tools, Ike Ekweremadu would not have emerged Deputy Senate President. Your party was also strongly against the emergence of Godswill Akpabio as Minority Leader while your intervention in the leadership crisis of the House of Representatives saw that no one from the South East was a principal officer despite the Speaker’s more fairly proposal for the distribution of offices to all regions. Need we say more?






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