TRACKING>>The Initiative to Save Democracy, ISD, has warned Reno Omokri to desist from attacking vice president Yemi Osinbajo.
A statement issued by the group’s publicity secretary, Peter Oladele, the group called on Reno Omokri to stop his call for the vice president to stand up to President Buhari over claims that the president ordered all his ministers to go through his Chief of staff, Abba Kyari, before they can communicate with him.
According to them, the call he Reno Omokri shows he lacks understanding of how government is run and that his call is a reflection of how the government was run in the Goodluck Jonathan-led administration which he was part of.
“We have read Reno Omokri’s constant attempt to politicise governance processes, especially his recent tirade at the vice president. In our view, Omokri has opened himself, the government of Jonathan where he served and his party up to the perfect counter-uppercut.
“Because by lambasting the president’s instruction to streamline administrative processes in adherence to global democratic executive standards, they are once again exposing and celebrating their own wayward governance systems of old in which presidential governance was a jungle-like wilderness where everyone who could whisper to the president could adjust his actions or inactions, which is largely responsible for the massive corruption and underdevelopment known of their administration which we are still dealing with.”
The Initiative to Save Democracy went further to state that the instruction given to ministers to have all correspondences and schedules for meetings go through the chief of staff was to ensure there was order and guided flow of the president’s activities.
“Does one expect the president to receive his ministers anytime and whenever they want to? Would that not be a recipe for chaos and insanity?” The group asked.
“There must follow a pattern in every institution, in which the head of the institution is accessed, correspondences sent and meetings scheduled. This was clearly not the case with the Jonathan administration.”
