President Muhammadu Buhari
BMO
President Muhammadu Buhari
BMO Rejects Appointment of Onigbinde for Criticising
Buhari in the Past
The Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) has rejected the purported
appointment of Seun Onigbinde, an arch critic of President
Muhammadu Buhari, as Technical Adviser to the Minister of Budget
and National Planning.
BMO says the appointment is a travesty that desecrates the
characters of honour and integrity which are the hallmarks of
President Muhammadu Buhari and those who are called to serve in his
government.
The appointment had for days attracted widespread reactions from
supporters of the Buhari administration, many of whom totally
condemned the move.
In a statement signed by Niyi Akinsiju and Cassidy Madueke,
BMO’s Chairman and Secretary respectively, the group wondered how
“an imbalanced caustic denigrator of the government of President
Buhari would be called to serve in the same administration he had
described in the most unpalatable terms.
“Seun Onigbinde lacks honour and integrity, which are characters
known of President Buhari, and thus could not be in the same team
with him.
“He has severally described the President with the most
distasteful terms, and has shown, especially on social media, that
he sees nothing good in the administration of President Buhari.
“Onigbinde had also gone to the shameful extent of describing
those who support the President and his administration as ‘ethnic
jingoists’. He once referred to the President as ‘incompetent’, and
accused him of being a dictator committing illegality.
“We cannot but wonder that this same man accepted an appointment
to serve in this same administration he has described in the most
odious terms. It shows he lacks honour.
“He perhaps was browbeating all the while so he could achieve
some notice and be sneaked in at night into the same government he
publicly threw invectives at”.
BMO added that Mr Onigbinde lacked decency and morality to
reject the said appointment if indeed he believed in those insults
he had publicly hurled at Buhari and his administration
“We believe that a man must stand for something, and live by it.
If Seun was called by anyone to take an appointment in a government
he ridiculed and called illegal and dictatorial, he should have
turned it down, if he had any decency or morals.
“Does he now want to serve in this same government and become
part of what he had called an illegality and dictatorship?” the
group asked.
“He went as far as deleting his Twitter account so that his
ridiculous and denigrating posts against the President Buhari
administration would not be recalled. That is enough evidence of
Seun Onigbinde’s lack of character.”
The group also called on the All Progressives Congress (APC) as
a party, to reject the appointment of Seun Onigbinde and call for
his ouster from the government.
It said: “There are countless supporters of the President who
have more powerful backgrounds and records, who are better
qualified, and who would offer better professional and intellectual
support to the attainment of the President’s ideals and goals,
which they believe in – which Seun has said he does not.
“These the ones the government should engage, not imbalanced
critics with unstable morality.
“We do not expect a man to rain curses at the conductor of an
orchestra for the music he is playing, and yet still seek to play
an instrument in that same orchestra. That is a travesty of
integrity. It must not stand.”
Niyi Akinsiju
Chairman, BMO