“Mr President, you discarded your supporters, you dumped us for who? Bwala. Let me tell you, the person that discards his fellow man, that is how God will discard the person.”
A die-hard supporter of President Bola Tinubu, Jesuta Onokpasa, a Lawyer, has come down hard on the President for his recent appointment of Daniel Bwala as Presidential Adviser on Media.
Bwala, a visible member of the All Progressives Congress, APC, dramatically quit the Party in the months running to the 2023 Presidential Election in protest against the choice of Senator Kashim Shettima as Tinubu’s running mate. He said it was an insult on Nigeria’s Christian Community to have a Muslim- Muslim ticket. He dismissed it as a doomed ticket, and so, defected to the opposition Peoples Democratic Party where he was quickly appointed the Spokesperson to the Party’s Presidential Council.
He did not do the job “decently”. He rubbed s**t on Tinubu. He called then Candidate Bola Tinubu all kinds of derogatory names including a drug baron, druggist, and certificate forger!
After Tinubu became the President, Bwala did not calm down. He always painted the President in the worst of colors. In one of his famous outings he said of Tinubu’s performance as President: “Even if you give Tinubu 30 years, he still would perform woefully.”
But soon, Bwala suddenly, shamelessly, as a number of people put it, made an about-turn and began a hot romantic pursuit of President Tinubu. He became his defender-in-chief at every little opportunity. He became Mr President’s chief praise-singer. He went back to his vomit.
Last week, his about-turn paid off when President Tinubu, inexplicably, appointed him his Special Adviser on Media.
The shock which followed the appointment was palpable. To some people, the President appointed him so Bwala can publicly eat his vomit to the President’s satisfaction. The President has just mocked him, they said.
But to others, the President has stabbed those who defended him all the time Bwala reduced him to nothing. They said the President has betrayed them. And, they are ashamed of the President’s behaviour. They asked the President to fear God.
One of them is Onokpasa who, in a video recording that has gone viral, poured out his anger, with everything at his disposal on the President. He decreed God’s anger on the President, almost. And, his choice of words has been described as undignified.
Following is Onokpasa’s reaction.
“My dear President, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, my very dear President, I am so angry with you.
“How could you make such an appointment -of who? Daniel Bwala? Who insulted all of us and called you a Drug Dealer, a Drug Baron? You stabbed all of us in the back, disregarded us and humiliated us by appointing someone who insulted all of us during the campaign.
“What is going on, your Excellency? What happened to you? You will attack Yahaya Bello, you will attack El Rufai, you will abandon Fani Kayode, we supported you. The people who fought us are given appointments.
I don’t need any appointment from you. My Lord Jesus Christ takes care of me anytime, anyday. That is the story of my life. I don’t need anything from you.
“But this is such a shame, that you will stab all of us in the back like this, and bring some funny character, a serpentine character, you never know where he stands.
“You gave him an appointment. On what basis? We are the ones that put you In power, we are the ones who God used.
“This is so painful, very painful. This is not how to use people, unless you don’t fear God. You just dumped your supporters, you humiliated, disgraced and discarded them. The person that discard his fellow man will be discarded by God.
“With due respect, let me teach you some theology. This is just too painful, painful to me and other supporters. This man insulted the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, called our President a Drug Dealer, and you make him What?
“The guy that has no credibility, nobody believes him. Our Party supporters don’t trust him, the people he dumped us for and went to, the PDP, don’t trust him. Obidients hate him. Then my brother, Bayo, even stooped so low to be the one to announce the appointment.
“I am really very angry. If there is anyone who opens his mouth to say that I am not a BATIST, may God punish the person. But am really disappointed in you my President.
“You gave the impression that you can dump anybody, you can sacrifice anybody, you can stab anyone in the back, how would people trust you.
“I am not interested in your appointment. I am a Lawyer, I talk about trust, that is how people live together, it is trust. People have to trust you, otherwise, you lose your credibility. Where did this come from? This is bizarre.
“Daniel Bwala who don’t have any authentic, original personality. I don’t want it, I don’t need it, I am okay, my Jesus always takes care of me. You didn’t see another person that supported us? This is so painful.
“Don’t take us for granted my President, it is unfair. That is not how to treat your fellow man, otherwise, this is how God will treat you. You don’t do that, I am really angry. It is really painful. It is an insult to all of us.
“Why should you insult your supporters who are die hard BATISTs? And you treat us all like we are expendable, well, treat your fellow man as if he is expendable? Let us see what God will do about that. It is really painful Your Excellency. So it is an insult to all of us.
“The the man started talking crap, then we had to push back on it, then you make him what? Special Adviser. What rubbish.
“Your Excellency, My President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, it is God that made you President. Like we say in Niger Delta, in Urhobo, ‘It is somebody you use to do something, and it is God that will use people to do something for you’. So keep dumping your people and keep romancing with messed up human beings that normal human beings can’t trust. No problem. We will see where it will all end up.
“We, the BATISTs, are really, really angry with the bizarre, macabre appointment. I don’t know who you got this funny idea from. The guy cannot do anything for you, he can’t convince anybody about anything, he lacks credibility, nobody respects him, where did you get him from?
“Why do you keep abandoning our people? You can’t see them to give appointments? You keep bringing some funny people. How do we trust you?
“You see me, I am a Catholic. We are deep people and may Our Lord Jesus Christ take care of you and our dear Country.
“I am disappointed.
May God Bless You and Nigeria. Thank you My President.”
In his own reaction, Senator Ali Ndume, said Bwala’s appointment shows President Tinubu’s forging spirit. He asked Bwala to go and beg Vice President Shettima for forgiveness.
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