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@80: Buhari Last Birthday In Office, Wike, Kukah, Fayose, Fani-Kayode, Others Actions Remembered
Dec 16, 2022
@80: Buhari Last Birthday In Office, Wike, Kukah, Fayose, Fani-Kayode, Others Actions, Wishes Remembered ~ OsazuwaAkonedo #birthday #Buhari #Fani-Kayode #Fayose #Kukah #Muhammadu #OsazuwaAkonedo #Wike https://osazuwaakonedo.news/80-buhari-last-birthday-in-office-wike-kukah-fayose-fani-kayode-others-actions-wishes-remembered/16/12/2022/ By Femi Adesina
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by femi adesina
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Dash
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let me start with a story told by an
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unrepentant critic of one of our former
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presidents there was no love lost
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between the two and the antipathy was
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Mutual that former president is a rather
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forceful personality and loves to have
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his way it's either his way or no way
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one day while he still occupied the
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presidential Villa some group of people
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were invited to pay a visit the
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unrelenting critic was among
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the president was shaking his guess one
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after the other and because it was a
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breakfast meeting he had a cup of tea in
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one hand you know what he did when he
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saw that his adversary was next in line
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he separated the teacup and the saucer
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holding one in each hand so he couldn't
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shake the next person pretending that
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his hands were full
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when he got to the next person he
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returned the teacup into the saucer and
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gave the person a handshake the Wily man
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had cleverly avoided someone he
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considered an enemy
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this story came to mind as I reflect on
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President muhammadu buhari's 80th
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birthday December 17 2022 this is a man
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I have served for almost eight years and
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it never ceases to baffle me how
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large-hearted he is particularly to
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those who have arrayed themselves
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against him and how he responds to them
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when they meet
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some examples
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perhaps the governor who has excoriated
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the president most is Nissan wike of
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Rivers State until very recently when he
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showed some conciliation he had accused
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buhari of Everything Under the Sun
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including attempted murder if there were
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rival wives sharing a husband it
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couldn't have been worse
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but there was the president simply
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minding his business and ignoring the
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much younger man in Rivers State he
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still gave the state everything that was
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its do
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some weeks ago the president was invited
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to commission the newly built
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ultra-modern complex of the body of
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ventures in Abuja as a member of the
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organization governor wike was on the
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receiving line face to face with one of
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his harshest critics what would the
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president do would he separate his
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teacup and saucer and walk by but now
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buhari shook the governor warmly when
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two enemies shake hands a suffering Soul
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shoots out of purgatory wrote someone
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whose name I can't readily Recall now
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but for president buhari This Man simply
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has no enemy wike is just a governor of
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one of the federation's units in the
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country and deserves his respect amazing
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how about ayotheos the aromily Ethereal
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spirit that eats jollof rice the former
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akiti State Governor had taken a stand
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against buhari since 2014 during the
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campaigns there was that Infamous
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advertisement he placed in newspapers
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displaying a coffin and insinuating that
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if buhari was elected he would not last
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the distance fayose's party was beaten
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black and blue and entered president
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buhari
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what would an average vengeful person
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have done if he were in the mold of the
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man with the teacup and saucer when
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buhari came the akiti House of Assembly
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was largely populated by APC members
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whom fayose had inherited what to do
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just give a directive remove that
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Governor within a week and he directs
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the Inspector General of police to lock
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down the assembly chamber but not buhari
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why because he has no malicious bone in
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his body Theo served out his term and I
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remember the president giving him a warm
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handshake during a council of State
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meeting at the presidential Villa
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Matthew Hassan Kaka the Catholic bishop
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of sokoto diocese what has he not thrown
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at the president everything including
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the kitchen sink in fact he uses
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language you wouldn't expect an altar
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boy to employ he has been after not just
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the president even we his spokesman have
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not been spared he had opened fire on me
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and my colleague malam garbushu trust us
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we return fire for fire till we decided
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to ignore him
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and there came Bishop Kika to the Villa
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some weeks ago with the peace committee
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headed by former head of state general
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Abdul salami abubakar trust the teacup
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and saucer man the bishop would not have
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got a handshake but what did buhari do
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he exchanged banters with Kaka and they
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were caught on camera laughing together
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when the cleric should have gotten a
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blow to the solar plexus LOL
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femi-funny coyote my friend brother and
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Kinsmen what has the president not
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suffered in his hands tons of abuses
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maladiction the will but when the latter
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had his Damascus Road experience and
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found his way back to the APC who
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received him at the presidential Villa
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kohari I tell you this man has no
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malicious bone in his body
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how about Governor Samuel ordom and many
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others story for another day
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I see some people on television in the
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morning abusing both the father and
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mother of the president and I get to his
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residence at dinner time to see those
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people at dinner table with him how
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large-hearted can a person be
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I'm sure God must have considered all
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the virtues muhammadu buhari has and
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thus decided to spare him he that has
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Clean Hands will grow stronger and
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stronger says the good book Job 17 9
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this buhari not only has Clean Hands he
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also has a clean heart
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imagine year 2017 when the president had
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severe health challenges between January
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and August of that year he was in and
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out of the country many times attending
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to his health he could have been a goner
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but God said no and God has the final
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say no matter what man may wish or
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desire and same buhari is now 80. simply
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amazing glory be to God
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by the grace of God in another five
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months the president will land safely
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and he will take his well-deserved rest
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playing with his grandchildren and
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great-grandchildren in his Dora Hometown
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he's the man God has shown Mercy
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happy birthday sir
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at View's exclusive rights femi adesina
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special adviser to president buhari on
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media and publicity December 15 2022
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