Eminent Canada-based Nigerian academic, Prof Pius Adesanmi has analysed the implications of Senate President Bukola Saraki’s confession that he sponsored President Muhammadu Buhari’s 2015 presidential election in 30 states.
Taking to his verified Twitter handle, Adesanmi said the confession, while further exposing the character of Saraki, has also dented the image of Buhari.
He said, “I have now listened to Bukola Saraki’s soundcloud audio of an address in Yoruba to his supporters in Ilorin. It is indeed a galling tell-all, a compelling compendium of his grievances and animus against President Buhari.
“Predictably, Buharideens are gushing all over Facebook and Twitter. I suppose they see this in their usual one-track way: Saraki implicating himself. Evidently, they have not thought through the full implications: they never think through the implications of anything concerning Buhari.
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“There is nothing Saraki reveals about himself that we don’t already know: cold, calculating, and irredeemably corrupt, with a warped perspectivization of Nigeria as food to be dished out in a gourmandizing system of patronage. His grievance? Buhari is blocking the yam and the knife.
“The level of self-implication and corruption is why Buharideens are gushing. Of 36 states, Bukola Saraki boasts, I funded Buhari’s election in 30, excluding only d Southwest. I gave N200m, N300m, even N400million to some states, personally phoning bank managers for disbursement.
“This is not Bukola’s father’s money. It is Nigeria’s money that this irresponsible man is claiming to have so wantonly distributed to buy an election for Buhari. Only for things to turn sour after election: all the appointments he hoped to corner for his cronies were denied him.
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“To the Buharideens gushing all over the place, where in this audio clip did Bukola Saraki indicate that your god, Mr. Integrity, Mr. No Corruption, rejected this massive but illicit spending of Nigeria’s funds in his behalf? Remember the saying about the giver and receiver of loot?
“Buhari does not come out smelling of roses. Like Saraki, he comes out smelling of shit. You people must always make Buhari the victim. Consider Adeosun. When she resigned, you whined that she embarrassed Baba by hanging on for too long. Why did your Baba condone illegality for so long?”