So, contrary to Ibrahim’s claim that it took Nigeria 66 years after independence to be elected chair of the UN Budget Committee, the country was actually chair within eleven years of its independence. Ibrahim followed this falsehood with the announcement that: “President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is making history by being able to receive this budget. He is the first Nigerian president in 66 years to receive the UN budget from the United Nations.” May Tinubu be the first and last Nigerian President to be subjected to this absurdity. The UN draft budget is not Nigeria’s budget. It is that of the 193 Member countries of the UN and is slated for deliberations at the UN Headquarters in New York, not in the Nigerian Presidency. So, what does Ibrahim want President Tinubu to do with the seven volumes? Sit down and read them? For what purpose? Can Tinubu amend, audit, veto or pass the UN budget? Why would Ibrahim’s publicity stunt be allowed to subject Nigeria to international ridicule?
Saving Nigeria from the increasingly absurd theatrics of Jimoh Ibrahim, By Owei Lakemfa
