Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - TRUMPLAND:. Not I! (Whodunnit? (Anonymous Opinion - "I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration"

Farooq Kperogi:

In my almost 25 years now as a public intellectual in these Nigerian forums, starting from the Abacha/PDM years , no one has EVER  accused the positions that I take as "knee jerk",  because I have ALWAYS  defended my positions with facts and figures and reasoning.  You may not agree with my position, but you know where I stand - and I don't sit on the fence.  

Now my motive may be questioned, but that is the prerogative of the reader.  I always make clear why I take my positions.

Let me make my pro-Buhari sentiments clear to you once more:.  I have been writing about corruption in Nigeria for the past 20 years as being the greatest single reason for Nigeria's arrested development.   You can pull up all my writings on anti-corription.  They  did not start with Buhari.

 I went to Nigeria in 2011 to 2016 as a University Execo (and Government appointee) and witnessed it first hand, and its detrimental effect even in the hometown of the then President GEJ.   I see Buhari as a man of impeccable integrity who abhors corruption as I do, and has been willing to do some things about it as President, despite the challenges around him and his own other challenges.  I am in particular gladdened by the implementation of the TSA, which has stemmed the Grand Corruption in the Civil Service, whereby CEOs of 900 federsl MDAs are no longer able to open on average 20 bank accounts in our 22 private DMBs with upwatds of N5.5 trillion floating around. 80 percent of Nigeria bleeding is through the Civil Service and collusion with banks.

So, yes, that is what I am suspect of - supposrting a fellow who is tackling one major problem that. I have identified.  I hope he succreds to institutionally tackle it, so that whoever is his successor can tackle some other matters more focusedly.

And there you have it 

Bolaji Aluko

On Friday, September 7, 2018, Farooq A. Kperogi <farooqkperogi@gmail.com> wrote:

This is equally true: To be a knee-jerk pro-regime apologist in Buhari's Nigeria with all of the Buhari regme's recklessness and incompetence is to be suspect of something.

Farooq

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On Fri, Sep 7, 2018, 11:22 AM Mobolaji Aluko <alukome@gmail.com> wrote:

Victor:

To be an Independent in the Age of Trump - or to be indifferent to Trump - is to be a suspect of something.

And there you have it.

Bolaji Aluko

On Friday, September 7, 2018, Victor Okafor <vokafor@emich.edu> wrote:

Friends:

Is it possible that the real author of the Op-Ed does not work within President Trump's administration and that the essay, ahead of the upcoming US midterm elections, is a made-up story--a political fiction designed to both cause a disequilibrium within that administration and deepen mass disaffection with this presidency? In this age of higher frequencies of fake news within both the social and traditional media, anything is possible. Fake news, more commonly known as gossip, has always been part of the human experience across human cultures, but emergent social media, which have diminished the role of gate-keepers in traditional news media, have exacerbated that phenomenon.

 

If this Op-Ed turns out to be fake, would that be a first time that a newspaper, anywhere, has published a material that's entirely made-up? Of course, no. I am not a fan of anonymously authored materials. In general, anonymously authored materials are suspect and they must be regarded with a grain of salt.

 

Human gullibility, which predisposes us to believe the worst about fellow human beings that we dislike, may also be at play here.

 

In the context of US politics, I am a quintessential Independent, and so, sometimes, I am able to look at political currents from a non-partisan perspective.

On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 4:32 AM, Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM <chidi.opara@gmail.com> wrote:

What if there is no "writer"(that is someone from Trump's cabinet)? Is that perspective impossible?

CAO.

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Eastern Michigan University

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