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YUSUF BUHARI MARRIAGE CARNIVAL: A SHOW OF SHAME

August 27, 2021 | News

It's no surprise that the praise singers who constituted themselves into a gang of President Mohammadu Buhari's body language readers/advocates at the start of his civil rule in 2015 have all lost their voices.

 

 

 

-By Zik Gbemre

 

YUSUF BUHARI MARRIAGE CARNIVAL: A SHOW OF SHAME




The extravagance displayed in President Buhari son's marriage is most reprehensible and unexemplary of a leader.
Yet again, those who still promote the President as saint based on his body language have been exposed as paid liars who need psychiatric evaluation.
By endorsing the carnival of marriage for his son, Buhari is encouraging increased yahoo yahoo and blood money among the younger generation who believe it's normal to get rich by all means possible.
Buhari also proved he's a lawbreaker President with the Yusuf marriage carnival.


It's no surprise that the praise singers who constituted themselves into a gang of President Mohammadu Buhari's body language readers/advocates at the start of his civil rule in 2015 have all lost their voices.

By the action and inactions of Buhari in office, these self arrogated body language readers/advocates who saw the President as modest and economical in private or public life, that he's incorruptible and an experienced leader committed to fighting corruption and injustice have been repeatedly exposed as liars. They all need psychiatric evaluation.

Today, the President has proven to be too "holier than thou" in office that his true body language expresses the direct opposite of what his gullible body language readers/advocates had painted of him.

How can anybody still say Buhari leads a modest, quiet life when he staged for his son, Yusuf, the carnival that has broken all records of the most extravagant marriages in Nigeria's history?

Weeks ago, when the social media was buzzing with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Godwin Emefiele's reckless birthday jamboree in Jamaica, we had wondered why such a key public office holder would act as if he's competing with the likes of magic billionaire, Obi Kubana and his gang.

Now we know where Emefiele derived the impunity to throw money around in overseas birthday jamboree. Now we know Buhari appointees have full endorsement of their Principal to uncautionably, beyond their genuine means, flaunt undeserved wealth made from holding public offices.

And far worse than Emefiele, Buhari must be the most envious of Kubana, to have proven to the youthful Oba, Anambra money miss road magic billionaire that he Kubana) is yet a learner in the display of extravagance.

There are a number of bad examples the President has set with the showoff of marriage of his son to Zahra, daughter of the Emir of Bichi.

One, every leader, President of Nigeria for that matter, must exhibit exemplary modesty, self control and discipline in leadership. Throwing the most expensive marriage for a son is not how a President leads by example. Even Donald Trump who swims in billions of dollars before he became US president won't exhibit such recklessness.

Two, the capital flight induced by the distribution of an estimated minimum N1.7Million gift package shared to over 700 "Very Important Persons (VIPs) guests", excluding hangers on at the marriage is awful, coming from a president of a country with high level of economic & security challenges.

Virtually every item on the gift package, including the latest Apple phones and tablets are imported, which confirms President Putin's anger that Africa only benefits Africans as the burial ground they will all fall back into. Africans spend all their monies abroad to develop foreign lands.

Thirdly, staging the most extravagant marriage isn't the wisest way a father, should display love to a showoff of a son. Yusuf Buhari is not known to be gainfully employed or linked to a big business investment to public knowledge. Recall that he got involved in an accident with a multimillion naira power bike.

By encouraging him to live large at the expense of the state above his personal means and now throwing the most expensive marriage for him, what lessons is the President proving for the majority deprived and underprivileged peers of Yusuf Buhari?

The President is encouraging young men of Yusuf's age to also live large, by any means necessary. This is encouraging of increased yahoo yahoo, blood money and just about any means to make magic billionaires by teeming Nigerians the President sees as "lazy", excluding his son.

Yet another bad example in the Buhari sponsored Yusuf's marriage. Why would a President allow such recklessness under the stress of Covid-19, particularly with the greater fears over the resilient latest deadly variant of the pandemic. Evidently, guests at the event, broke all known Covid-19 protocols.

What more can we say. Buhari is a lawbreaker. Yes, we have a President that encourages lawbreaking. The CBN prohibits the abuse of the Nigerian Naira in the form of spraying in public functions. With impunity, Buhari allowed that law to be broken in his son's marriage.

We now know why the CBN lacks the will to enforce the stipulated sanctions against abusers of the Naira. Those who should enforce the laws are the prime lawbreakers. It goes to show that the problems most times is not the absence of viable laws, but the lack of the will by those at the helms of affairs to enforce.

On a closing note, in Buhari, we have, perhaps the most corrupt leader ever in Nigeria's history. The paid praise singers rather say, "He's not corrupt, but just surrounded by corrupt people". If we agree with that gibberish, does it detract from the fact that it takes a corrupt President to surround self with corrupt aides?

It's a measure of how much of failed followers Nigerians can be that of all the countless brains and leaders of high global standing we could have picked from, some excelling in various fields around the world, a military authoritarian was the choice of Nigerians as most fit to pick out of retirement to lead Nigerians in civilian garb.

Parting question: Can the leopard change its spots?

Zik Gbemre.

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