THE PRETENTIOUS SPEECH OF A HUMILIATED PRESIDENT

 

President Muhammadu Buhari made a visit to the east recently which resulted in embarrassment because the residents and indigenes of the state did not receive him. The streets were empty. The state as many know is Imo state.

It is no news that the East has been on a stay at home protest during which they have refused to engage even in commercial activities. This according to them is a reaction to their unheeded cry for a sovereign state of Biafra. One could also call the stay at home protest solidarity with IPOB's detained leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, who was unlawfully apprehended in a foreign land, brought to Nigeria and detained.

However President Buhari has coated in shame in the following words of pretentious appreciation to Imolites for how they received him in the following speech.

"I thank the Government and people of Imo State for the very warm reception accorded me during my visit yesterday. It was a pleasure to visit Imo State and to be hosted by Governor Hope Uzodimma. 

I was pleased to see and commission his impactful infrastructure projects, and to note that he is giving infrastructure the same kind of priority that we are giving it at the Federal level. 

I firmly believe that when you get infrastructure right, Nigerians will mind their own businesses. And the Igbos will especially benefit from this ongoing infrastructure revolution, because, as a group, they are truly the most enterprising. 

There is no town you will visit in Nigeria without seeing the Igbos being in-charge of economic activities. The evidence is there for everyone to see, that Igbos are in charge of Nigeria’s economy. 

It is therefore unthinkable for me that any Igbo man would consider himself not to be a part of Nigeria.

Let me again say that I was very pleased with what I saw in Imo State, and I would like to assure that I will support Imo State and the entire region within the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

 The Federal Government will complete all ongoing key projects in the South East, including the 2nd Niger Bridge, and other major highways, as well as the railway lines and routes linking the region with other parts of the country."