Mr. Samuel .O. Ajayi is a prolific writer; and those who have crossed or are still crossing his path in the
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can testify to this.
Equally, those who have been following his postings on his timeline on Meta will agree that he does not talk tongue in chick. He says it, as it is – no matter whose ox is gored.
Recently, Deputy Editor, Charles Okogene met him and the following dialogue ensued as to where he got the character of saying it as it is.
Impeachment, penalty for failure and incompetence
“That is my upbringing,” he continued as he sat lazily on a sofa in his expansive siting room. ” I cannot condemn wrong doing by people from the northern region or South East only to justify it when it is done by the people from my religion.” he said as he adjusted his sitting position and described such as hypocrisy, which he cannot stand.
Ajayi, who has been in government at a higher level, in fact, he was Special Adviser, Communications to Governor (Engr) Segun Oni, of Ondo State, said that in Nigeria, one must be ready to tell lies, praise sing, genuflect, be a syncophant, call black red or White red to be in government.
This is what he said he learnt or experienced while working with Engr. Oni, the former governor of Ekiti who later defected the All Progressives Congress (APC) and became the party’s Deputy National Chairman for Southwest.
To buttress his point about the eye service of politicians, he reminded us of the shenanigans of political office holders and their appointees both kitchen cabinet members and commissioner/ministers by taking us down memory lane of how former President Goodluck Jonathan was the butt of all jokes over a similar offence or misdemeanor that BUHARI was involved in.
He reminded us how the Buharis of this world, stood behind Bukola Saraki when he was being investigated by Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) but same Buhari turned around to chase some of his ministers and top civil servants around for corruption. “That was the height of it, that was what made me turn away from supporting them. When they were all criticising Jonathan then, all in the name of politics and when they took over they did worse than Jonathan.”
To him,Buhari’s appointees at all levels, also exploited his incompetence or nepotistic character.
According to him, the immediate past president lacked the capacity, competence and intelligence to preside over a country like Nigeria.
” He just wanted to be a democratic president, to equal the record of Obasanjo who ruled for eight years too. This has shown in how he ruled the country,” he said. “On this issue, I will also not excuse all the cabals around him, even the likes of Baba Akande and TInubu who used him to dislodge Jonathan and that has paid off for TInubu, a smart politician.
He gave an instance of how Buhari exposed himself for manipulation by his aides because of his incompetence/nepotism.
” He showed that he was nepotic, when for example say a CG of immigration is proceeding on terminal leave and the minister in charge of the agency brings the names of the six top officers next to the outing CG and begins to push for the most junior in line out of the six, instead of the most senior in line, on the grounds of ethnicity, and not on merit and the president falls for it, he has shown the minister his weak point and that is what the aides will continue to exploit but if he had called for the files of the six top officers, call the DSS’s DG to look into that of the most senior, in fact, instruct the HoS to announce that the CG is on terminal leave and that in his absence, the most senior in line will act as the new CG , the minister will not try such again but the reverse was the case,” this, he said, was the hallmark of Buhari all through the eight years he presided over Nigeria.
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While he was not ready to judge or assess President TInubu one month after, he said, “it is absolutely too early to judge a man who has been given mandate to rule for four years after one month; no, it is not fair to do that but one thing I can say from what he has done so far, is that he may not be afraid to take tough decisions. He might be taking more tough decisions but my problem is that he is fighting some policies he encouraged. If he had not supported subsidy in 2011 maybe it would have been completely removed and we would have been used to it by now. They criticised Jonathan when he wanted to do it, assembled people at Ojota to demonstrate against it. In fact, they said there was no subsidy and the same subsidy he is removing.”
He then went on to ask, “is that not hypocrisy?”
