“Asiwaju is disconnected and dislocated from reality”
Jesutega Onokpasa, a Lawyer, is still angry. He is still angry with President Bola Tinubu over the President’s appointment of Daniel Bwala, a Lawyer like him as Special Adviser Policy Communication.
Less than 48 hours after Bwala’s appointment, Onokpasa recorded an angry video message where he said that by Bwala’s appointment, Mr President has humiliated his loyalists. He said Mr President has betrayed them. He said Mr President has stabbed them on the back. He said God would pay the President in kind. That video recording went viral on Social Media.
Onokpasa’s beef with Bwala’s Presidential appointment stems from what the President suffered in the hands of Bwala in the months running to the 2023 Presidential Election.
A member of the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council, Bwala resigned from the APC and decamped to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, over Tinubu’s choice of Senator Kashim Shettima as his running mate. Both men are Muslims, and Bwala said that a Muslim-Muslim ticket was an insult, a slap on the face of Christians. A humiliation and a sacrilege, almost.
On decampment to the PDP, he was immediately appointed the Spokesperson for the Party’s Presidential Campaign Council. It was a job he did so well by calling then Candidate Bola Tinubu all kinds of names. A fraud. Fake. Drug Dealer. Drug Baron. Convict. Certificate forger. And more. And, he continued even after Tinubu won and was sworn-in.
Bwala called Tinubu’s mandate a stolen mandate. He said the election was rigged. And, he said Tinubu was so incompetent that even if he spends 30 years in office, he still would get nothing right.
If not a few Nigerians were shocked when Bwala suddenly made a u-turn and began to hotly romance the President, they were more shocked that the President, a few days ago, appointed Bwala his Special Adviser.
Onokpasa’s immediate reaction was like a bomb thrown at the President and Bwala. Many thought he would have calmed down a bit. But Onokpasa anger is still boiling to high heavens as confirmed by the interview he granted Arise Television’s Charles Aniagolu.
In the interview, a boiling Onokpasa dismissed Bwala’s appointment as stupid. He took a look at most of the President’s appointments and said the President’s Government is for the people of Osun and Lagos, the two States, he pointed out, where the President lost at the polls. He said the President has ignored the North, the South-south and the South- east in appointments.
He summed his anger up by saying the President can no longer be trusted, and thar those his loyalists who he has shocked by Bwala’s appointment, including himself, will never support his second term bid in 2027.
Following, parts of Onokpasa’s interview with Aniagolu on Arise Television.
“My President just behave like he can stab anybody in the back, disgrace anyone and humiliate anyone.
I don’t trust him anymore. I am sorry.
“He is clearly and totally misguided, he just believes he is doing what will help him in 2027.
“Somebody said that it is a strategy, but I said NO, it is stupidity.
“Bwala helped Atiku Abubakar to fail in 2003, and he will help Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to fail in 2027. That is my prediction unless he (Tinubu) changes”.
Asked if he felt like a fool by Bwala’s appointment Onokpasa answered:
“Not only for me, but for all us, our Party. We won in Ekiti, we won in Ondo and Ogun State, where are those people. You form a government of Lagos and Osun, where you lost at the 2023 Presidential Election. What an Insult.
“My President thinks he has conquered everywhere and also conquered everyone. We shall see what will happen in 2027.”
Asked if the President’s policies are helping the poor, Onokpasa answered in the negative.
“At all. This is the strange part. In fact, Asiwaju is confusing us. Now, you form a government and prices keep increasing, our citizens can hardly afford to buy food. What was our plan? We massively planned to produce food for Nigerians. We buy cars N250 million, we put on wrist watches worth N200 million, and we can’t afford to take tractors to villages.
They called us “Agbadorians” during the Election. Okay, you call us Agbadorians, and we eat the Agbado, are you not Agbadorians like us?
“No plan, absolutely nothing. I don’t know what the two guys in the Ministry of Agriculture are doing. They have no plans to feed anybody, perhaps, other than themselves.
“Infact, it is a disgrace. I don’t understand Asiwaju anymore. Asiwaju seems to have been disconnected and dislocated from reality.
“So, is it during the second term he will take us seriously? We are not going to support him in 2027.”
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