The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says Nigerians, particularly, the younger generation, are thoroughly disappointed in Vice President Yemi Osinbajo for allowing himself to be used as the poster boy for diversion of public attention from the impunity and corruption that saturate the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led Federal Government.
As a professor of law, and an occupant of the exalted seat of the Vice President of our country, Prof. Osinbajo should know better than allowing himself to be used to bandy figures and make unguarded statements at public events, such as his comments at the APC ward congress in Lagos, where he described everyone else as “thieves”.
We note that Vice President Osinbajo has refused to heed wise counsel and accord respect to his office by desisting from such unguarded comments only because he has been sucked in and entangled in the propaganda, deception, impunity and sleazes that not only brought their administration to power, but have become its trademarks in the last three years.
We specifically invite Nigerians to note that all assertions by the Vice President, especially on the performance of the Buhari administration as well as his allegations and bandying of figures against the opposition, have remained unsubstantiated.
Moreover, Nigerians have noted that Prof. Osinbajo, in his ‘sanctimony’, has been silent on the exposed corruption under the Buhari administration, including the leaked memo detailing N9 trillion corrupt oil contracts at the NNPC, exposed sleazes in oil subsidy deals, diversion of Internally Displaces Persons (IDP) intervention funds, which includes the probe of a misappropriated N18bn in National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) under his direct supervision as well as other looting in government agencies such as the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS).
The Vice President is also ominously silent about the prevailing high-handedness and human rights violations and the aloofness of government resulting in daily bloodletting in various parts of our country.
Finally, we urge Prof. Osinbajo to take heed, retreat to the inner room, and conduct a soul searching before the great cloud of witnesses. He should also note that propaganda and, particularly, false accusations are not only abhorred by the Holy Books, but will also not deliver the APC and its incompetent administration from the resolve of Nigerians to kick them out, come 2019.
“All the suspects are cooperating with the Police in the investigation into the incident. Currently, some of the other gang leaders and principal suspects at large are being identified and their pictures obtained for further investigation. Other sister security and safety agencies are equally implored to arrest them and hand over to the nearest Police Station or Formation across the country or avail the Police with any information they may have or come across about these suspects” he saidThe police asked for public help to apprehend the gangsters still at large and said they have also been placed on INTERPOL Watch list and Red Alert.
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UPS mistakenly delivered this package to the wrong house. The address on the package is for a house just a block over, so we are waiting for UPS to pick up the package and deliver it to the right house.
“But Sean, why wouldn’t you be a decent person and just take the package to your neighbor? Or better yet, you have teenage sons. Send one of them. That’s the perk of having teenagers — free menial labor.”
The answer is because we’re black. And it’s extremely unsafe to send our boys to the home of any family that we don’t know in this predominantly white neighborhood.
Why? Because there is a realistic chance that one of my neighbors will see my boy as a threat and call the police or even pull a gun on him. And if you think I’m being ridiculous or paranoid, Google “Brennan Walker,” a 14 yo black boy who earlier this month, missed the bus and tried to walk to school. He got lost and approached a house to ask for directions.
The owners of this home were convinced that this 14 yo BOY had come to kill them (in broad daylight), causing the husband to pull out his gun and open fire on the fleeing BOY.
THAT is why this fucking package will be sitting on my porch until UPS retrieves it. Because I can’t trust that my white neighbors won’t see me, a Harvard-educated lawyer (or my 14 yo honor student son) as a roaming homicidal maniac.
To my beloved white Fam,
I need your help understanding something. As some of you know, on Friday, I posted about being afraid to send my teenage sons over to the next block to deliver an Amazon package that had been mistakenly delivered to our house. My fear arises from the fact that one of my white neighbors might become frightened by seeing a black male approaching their house and call the police or even pull a gun on them in “self-defense.”
As a result of this post, I estimate that I received 10 THOUSAND comments from white folks calling me everything but a child of God. I was called a “racist,” “asshole,” “pussy” (by men AND women), “cuck” and SEVERAL words and phrases that rhyme with the latter term.
So why the vitriol? Because I am afraid for my children? And? Even if my fear was completely irrational, is that a reason for anger and hatred? If a stranger on FB posted about having arachnophobia, I can’t imagine that 10,000 folks would go out of their way to comment, “It’s just a spider, you dipshit! Grow a pair!”
So what accounted for this somewhat bizarre reaction to a black person expressing fear of his white neighbors, particularly in this context? After all, I did not suggest that my neighbors were “blood-thirsty savages” just looking to pounce on anyone with a package (“Free package time, Cleetus!”). I simply suggested that they might see my black sons as a threat (something that has been documented REPEATEDLY ... white Americans find black males threatening and have an exaggerated fear of us).
And once again, I can understand how someone might disagree with my risk/reward calculus and suggest that I should have acted differently. But where did the hatred arise? Because my calculation is off? Because I have poor math skills (like almost every other American)?
Seriously, does anyone have any ideas as to what caused such an intensely negative reaction from so many white folks? And I’m not asking why they thought I was wrong. I can read too (like almost every other American — barely).
I’m trying to understand where the visceral reaction comes from? What they found offensive? And why do I want to know? Because pissing off that many white people at one time was the realization of a lifelong dream and I want to be able to do it again next week.
P.S. There will be people (I’m feeling generous in using that term) who crawl into this conversation and write stupid, racist things. It’s called the Internet, Fam. So try not to get distracted by them and instead, help me understand this dynamic. After all, Friday is only 4 days away and I’ve set a goal to piss off 25,000 white folks next weekend, so I need you to help me perfect the “secret formula.”
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