Who Writes Buhari’s Horrible, Error-Ridden Speeches?

[Farooq A. Kperogi]

Saturday, October 3, 2020

Who Writes Buhari’s Horrible, Error-Ridden Speeches?

 By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D.

Twitter: @farooqkperogi

A former minister called me a few days ago to say the focus of my columns on Muhammadu Buhari ignores my own 2018 disclosure that he is a captive of an irrecoverably degenerative mental decline that ensures that he doesn’t know what he says and does. “To criticize Buhari is to beat a carcass,” he said.

I see his point, but I disagree. It is the office, not necessarily the person, that is being criticized, although the person and the office converge. Anyway, the former minister said attention should be focused on the people who drive the policies of the regime, who write Buhari’s speeches, who babysit him.

He pointed out, for instance, that CBN governor Godwin Emefiele now almost singlehandedly steers the economic policies of the country without recourse to the presidency—or the presidential economic advisory council— because there is frankly no presidency. It’s just outright anarchy.

But, to get back to the subject matter of today’s column, who writes Buhari’s speeches? Why are the speeches often embarrassingly error-ridden, callous, shallow, cavalier, ignorant, and unpresidential? Buhari’s October 1 Independence Day Speech is perhaps the crowning encapsulation of his speech writers’ utter inner emptiness and cluelessness. I’ll come back to this point shortly.

I know that Mamman Daura and Education Minister Adamu Adamu wrote some Buhari’s signature speeches in his firm term. I know this because when I wrote a June 7, 2015 column in my now rested grammar column titled “A Grammatical and Rhetorical Analysis of President Buhari’s Inaugural Speech” where I both praised and called attention to the speech’s grammatical errors, I got a swift, defensive, ill-informed response from a “Mainasara” who used the majestic self-referential plural “we” in his response to me, which was published in the Sunday Trust of July 12, 2015.

Daura betrayed himself when he made reference to Dublin College Ireland as one of the guardians of the English language, which it isn’t, nor is there any. (He attended Dublin College!). I wrote a rejoinder to his rejoinder and shut him up. A senior person in Daily Trust later confided in me that “Mainasara” was Mamman Daura’s penname and that Daura took my criticism personally because he was one of the writers of the inaugural. 

Adamu Adamu, who had been Buhari’s speech writer before he was elected in 2015, also contributed to the 2015 inauguration speech, particularly the Shakespearean references in the speech. (Adamu Adamu is a Shakespearean enthusiast and wordsmith who probably wrote Buhari’s famous “I belong to everybody and I belong to nobody” line in the inaugural speech, which some people erroneously said was plagiarized.)

But I no longer see the rhetorical echoes of Adamu Adamu—or even Mamman Daura—in the recent speeches Buhari reads. Whatever disagreements I may have with the duo, I can’t help but concede that they are excellent writers. This is particularly true of Adamu Adamu, who is far and away one of Nigeria’s finest writers in the English language.

I don’t know who writes Buhari’s speeches now. Nor is it possible to tell because the tones and tenor of the speeches change dramatically from occasion to occasion, underscoring the chaos and anything-goes climate in the presidency. 

But whoever the speech writers are, they are illiterate doofuses who have zero appreciation of the power of what we call the rhetorical presidency in communication studies, which I have defined in a forthcoming book chapter as the symbolic and discursive powers of the presidency to frame, reframe, define, and redefine the contours of national conversations and identity formulations and reformulations.

As I pointed out on social media on October 1, Nigeria's Independence Day is supposed to be a solemn, august, introspective moment, and the speech of whoever claims to be president of the country should reflect the dignified seriousness of the moment. It should inspire hope for the future, enliven spirits, and renew faith in the country.

 But what did we see? Buhari’s speech writers chose the moment to visit rhetorical violence on Nigerians, to rile people and foul their mood, to annihilate people’s loyalty in the country, to fertilize hopelessness and despair, and to inspire disabling anxieties about the immediate future.

For instance, during his speech Buhari signaled that he'd yet again hike the price of petrol (and plunge Nigerians into even deeper misery than they're already in) by saying, "It makes no sense for oil to be cheaper in Nigeria than in Saudi Arabia." Which sane person writes that in an Independence Day Speech?

Well, it also makes no sense for the minimum wage in Saudi Arabia to be 3,000 riyals (which is equivalent to N305,149.30) while the minimum wage in Nigeria is a miserly N30,000, which hasn’t even been fully implemented in all states. Nor does it make sense for Saudi Arabia to have generous social safety nets for its citizens while the vast majority of Nigerians are crushed by biting deprivation. Or that Saudis have access to affordable public transportation, while Nigerians don’t.

To compare the petrol prices of various countries with Nigeria and ignore the sky-high differences in minimum wages and standards of living is beyond cruel. In any case, if the government claims it has fully “deregulated” the petrol industry, what business does it have again talking about the prices of petrol? In a deregulated economy, the government has no business fixing prices. That’s the prerogative of the private sector.

You are either deregulating or you are not. There is no in-between. Deregulation means freedom from government regulations. Yet, the government fixes the price of petrol. That’s insane. In a deregulated petrol price regime, the first government agency that should be disbanded outright is the fraudulent Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA).

I live in the United States where petrol prices are truly deregulated. Different states have different price regimes. In fact, in the same city, different gas stations have different prices. And prices fluctuate from time to time. Prices have been extremely low these past few months because of the slum in global oil prices. Ironically, government-engineered price hikes in Nigeria coincide with a time when prices are low everywhere else in the world.

But, as I've pointed out before, cruelty is now Buhari's official governing philosophy. Denying Nigerians the expectation of relatively cheaper petrol prices is like asking people to hold cream on their hands while their faces and bodies are dry. That’s cruelty. Most Nigerians would be at peace with high petrol prices if their country doesn’t produce oil.

A wealthy parent who starves his children and justifies his cruelty by pointing to the starvation of the children of his poor neighbors is an irresponsible parent who doesn’t deserve his children.

I think one error people keep making, including the former minister who spoke with me, is to forget that even before his dementia-fueled alienation from his government, Buhari had notoriety for sadism. In a response to a previous column, for instance, a Katsina man wrote that Buhari’s nickname as a youngster was "Danliti mugu," meaning "Danliti the sadist."

Another said most people in the Northwest have internalized the fact of Buhari’s sadism by coining the expression "Da sauran aiki; Buhari yaga mai rake da iPhone." Literally: "There's still more to be done; Buhari saw a sugarcane hawker with an iPhone!" In other words, the appearance of even a glimmer of prosperity in people activates Buhari’s sadistic instincts. So his government reflects his person, and his speech writers probably know this.

I wish you I could say, "Happy Independence Day" to Nigerians, but that would be heartless. There was nothing to make a song and dance about an Independence Day that was ruined by Buhari's sadism.

Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D.

School of Communication & Media

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Author of Glocal English: The Changing Face and Forms of Nigerian English in a Global World

Nigeria's Digital Diaspora: Citizen Media, Democracy, and Participation

"The nice thing about pessimism is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised." G. F. Will

[Chimalum Nwankwo]

 That sophomoric drivel is the biggest sign yet that all is not well and may never be well in Nigeria unless the  ennui deep in the national consciousness and the polity is attended to like the emergency which it is.Only an inebriate King Ubu could have written that disjointed and horribly organized laundry doodle. Does the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, with all the enormous resources available,not have an educated competent speech writer and public relations handlers to stitch together something more elegant and dignified for an Independence anniversary moment ? Such a forlorn show at a so-called "epochal"moment in history wailing for something heart-warming, robust and consoling.  Cry the beloved country...so very sad. I could not believe my eyes !!!

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[Femi Segun]

Thanks for this FK. My take on this is that speech writers and the makers care for the content of the speech only to the extent that they care for the listeners. President Buhari and his co-travellers have no respect for Nigerians. They care less how their messages are received. They carry on as if they are doing the country a favour. by living large on national resources in the name of governing the people. If they are in power for 100 years, they will continue to blame the previous governments for all their failures. Mediocrity and false propaganda are the defining features of this administration or as the Punch prefers to call it, this regime. 

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[Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju]

So, is Farooq, once seen by some as unrealistically critical of Buhari, now being seen as a perceptive voice by most?

Buhari's habitual defedeners on this group, your input is needed.

toyin

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[OLAYINKA AGBETUYI]

Toyin.

If Farooq Kperogi was seen in a certain negative way rose to the challenge of correcting such excesses, is anything wrong with acknowledging the new turn?  Or has Farooq to you reached the end of self critical improvement?

Are you, yourself, who you were when you first joined this forum?

OAA

Mr. President you swore an oath to rule according to the Constitution.  Where are the schools to promote the teaching of the nation's lingua francas?

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So, is Farooq, once seen by some as unrealistically critical of Buhari, now being seen as a perceptive voice by most?

Buhari's habitual defedeners on this group, your input is needed.

toyin

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[Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju]

Farooq's critique of Buhari has not changed since he began to subject the national ruler to deep scrutiny, the same scrutiny that led some to describe him as deluded, foolish or a time waster.

It seems that the Independence Day speech reached such a disturbing  depth that Farooq is being fully embraced.

That chap has no business in Aso Rock.

He is dangerous to Nigeria.

Farooq is insisting on him suffering dementia.

I see the chap as thoroughly sinister.

May it not take a catastrophe for people's eyes to be fully opened.

toyin

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[Salimonu Kadiri]

​The rhetorical question posed in the headline of Farooq Kperogi's essay is : Who Writes Buhari's Horrible, Error-Ridden Speeches? With that headline, the immediate expectation of a normal reader is that Farooq should proceed to state why Buhari's speeches are horrible and what constitutes error-ridden in his speeches. Instead, Farooq's error pointing in Buhari's speeches began thus - A former minister called me a few days ago to say the focus of my columns on Muhammadu Buhari ignores my own 2018 disclosure that he is a captive of an irrecoverably degenerative mental decline that ensures that he doesn't know what he says and does. "To criticize Buhari is to beat a carcass," he said. On reading the forecited part of Farooq Kperogi's essay, Iam reminded of a trait observed by psychiatrists in some people called paranoid personality. A paranoid personality, psychiatrists say, denies his real self because he sees it (his real self) as weak and inadequate. Consequently, he invents a grandiose (big) self and pretends to be it. He wears a mask of existential importance and want other people to see him as important. The paranoid personality trait in Farooq Kperogi's essay is self-illuminating if one asks, what has horrible, error-ridden Buhari's speeches, if they exist, got to do with a former minister calling him? Farooq Kperogi, consciously, invented the story of a former minister calling him to boost his personality before readers who otherwise might dismiss his essay as contemptible tale-telling. Putting words into the mouth of the unnamed former minister is an invented absurdity intended to support downright lie. 

Suffering myself to read through the incoherent, bombastic rant, full of extravagant metaphors without application, and destitute of meaning in the essay in order to find Buhari's horrible, error-ridden speeches, I finally discovered that the grouse of Farooq Kperogi is about item 48 in President Buhari's Independence Day Speech concerning petroleum price in Nigeria. Buhari had told the nation : Further afield, Egypt charges N211 per litre. Saudi Arabia charges 168 per litre. "It makes no sense for oil to be cheaper in Nigeria than in Saudi Arabia." To that, Farooq Kperogi fulminated, "Which sane person writes that in an Independence Day Speech?" Where truth and exactness are established there is a great difference between being a horrible person and an insane person. Farooq Kperogi shifted from a horrible speech to an insane speech but he failed to show why Buhari's Independence Day Speech constituted insanity for containing the price of petrol in Nigeria compared with Saudi Arabia. Attempting to play smart he then argued sarcastically that it does not make sense to pay minimum wage of N30,000 in Nigeria while minimum wage in Saudi Arabia is 3,000 Riyal which is equivalent to N303,149.30. The disparities between Nigeria's minimum wage in naira value as compared with Egypt (N60,000) and Saudi Arabia were already published by most Nigeria's online media in the evening of 1st October 2020. Thus, Farooq Kperogi is not the originator of comparisons of minimum wage between Nigeria and Saudi Arabia as he pretends to be. It is true and factual that the equivalent pump price of petrol in Saudi Arabia is higher than in Nigeria but I don't agree with Buhari that it does not make sense that Nigerians pay less than Saudi Arabia for petrol. The pump price of petrol in Saudi Arabia is relative to the total cost of refining crude oil in the country, including the cost of labour. Buhari's comparison is unreasonable and not insane or horrible.

Nigeria is the only crude oil producing and exporting country that imports refined oil. Yet Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has four refineries : 2 in Port Harcourt, and one each in Kaduna and Warri. The refineries were established to adequately supply and serve the needs for Liquified Petroleum Gas, Premium Motor Spirit (otherwise known as petrol), Dual Purpose Kerosine, Automotive Gas Oil, Low Pour Fuel Oil, High Pour Fuel Oil, and Aviation Turbine Kerosene. The refineries have total installed capacity to refine 445, 000 barrels per day. Between 2013 and 2015, $396 million (396 million dollars) was spent for what was called Turned Around Maintenance to obtain optimal productions from the refineries. Buhari's government has spent over 80 billion naira on the refineries which have not been refining crude oil. What Buhari should have done in his Independence Day Speech was to give faces to all Nigerian officials at NNPC, PPRA and the refineries who have failed the nation by not producing what they have been employed and highly paid to produce. Nigerian economic and industrial development has been relegated to the age of riding asses and donkeys by the educated elites. Therefore, we should be talking about prices of asses and donkeys instead of petrol. And Buhari should have exposed fictional academics at the NNPC, PPPRA, and Nigeria's crude oil refineries who are delivering imaginary and ghost petrol to Nigerians. Nigeria should not be importing petrol and its price should be determined by the cost of labour and production in Nigeria's oil refineries.

S. Kadiri  

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[Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju]

But,

I thought Farooq stated why he sees the content of the speech as horrible.

although i dont recall his addressing the errors.

Buhari made himself petroleum minister along with being head of state.

Some mischievous people, as i once mentioned here, hold this has more to do with oil prospecting licences than with reforming the sector.

it would be refreshing if buhari were to reveal the bad people preventing him from turning the country's refineries  around, even with his combined powers as  petroleum minister and national ruler.

thanks

toyin

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[Femi Segun]

I actually think Alagba Salimonu Kadiri and Omowe Farooq Kperogi are on the same page on this issue, at least for the first time: They both agreed it was unreasonable for President Buhari to compare oil price in Nigeria with Saudi Arabia. I think that is the gist of the matter. 

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[OLAYINKA AGBETUYI]

I repeat, Farooq is not the only person critical of Buhari and the Federal Government.  What others object to is the style of criticism ( that it does not degenerate to personal abuse)  and that criticisms be fair.  It is everyone's civic responsibility to criticise their government and leader.

You may not see any nuance of change others may do.  You may choose to project what is in your mind to his: subliminal attack on Buhari's ethnic base, which is at variance with Farooq's preoccupation.  Unlike you Farooq is a self-professed Muslim northerner.  Even the dead knows you are anti- Muslim North.

It is not always true that, 'my enemy's enemy is my friend.'

OAA.

Mr President you swore an oath to rule according to the Constitution. Where are the schools to promote the teaching of the country's lingua francas?

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Farooq's critique of Buhari has not changed since he began to subject the national ruler to deep scrutiny, the same scrutiny that led some to describe him as deluded, foolish or a time waster.

It seems that the Independence Day speech reached such a disturbing  depth that Farooq is being fully embraced.

That chap has no business in Aso Rock.

He is dangerous to Nigeria.

Farooq is insisting on him suffering dementia.

I see the chap as thoroughly sinister.

May it not take a catastrophe for people's eyes to be fully opened.

toyin

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[Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju]

na wa.

bros, why not stay on topic.

the focus is the growing universality of recognition of the horror that is the Buhari Presidency.

Farooq has amplified his description of Buhari as a sadist of suspect cognitive functioning and someone is trying to argue  that Farooq's earlier criticism of Buhari was personal abuse but his new stance is different and so is more broadly accepted.

I salute you sir.

toyin

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[OLAYINKA AGBETUYI]

And there we go again.  Who is not focused on the topic now.

Is Farooq a qualified psychiatrist or trained psychoanalyst to label his country's President as a 'sadist of suspect cognitive functioning?'

Isnt this a prime example of the personal abuse and insults mature journalism must stand clear of?  Isnt that an arrogant labeling?  The President may not have superior degrees,  many of his advisers do!  His rulership does not depend on his sole mental capability.

What we are saying is Farooq himself seems aware of this valid criticism of his work and some see signs he is gradually toning down on these.  It is their judgement to which they are perfectly  entitled, not yours.

OAA

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Where are the schools to promote the teaching of the country's lingua francas?

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na wa.

bros, why not stay on topic.

the focus is the growing universality of recognition of the horror that is the Buhari Presidency.

Farooq has amplified his description of Buhari as a sadist of suspect cognitive functioning and someone is trying to argue  that Farooq's earlier criticism of Buhari was personal abuse but his new stance is different and so is more broadly accepted.

I salute you sir.

toyin

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