The Speaker of the Nigerian House of Reps is a DOUCHEBAG

I am not sure how many of you actually showed up to hear Dimeji Bankole a.k.a. "Douchebag" talk, but I was driven to alcohol by the rubbish that he was saying. I had to remove myself from the room sometimes to refrain from shouting insults at him (and possibly ending up on a Nigerian terrorist watch list). Mr. Bankole was condescending, arrogant, rude, and annoying to listen to with his "British accent". I am happy to report that many of us reunion-ites were not impressed by him--of course there are "sheeple" everywhere and he had some supporters in the room.

The part that pissed me off the most is that when he was asked questions about what the Nigerian government is doing to make the country better, he asked what we in the diaspora are doing. When he was faced with the answer that many abroad have tried to make change in Nigeria to no avail because they don't have "connections" his response was basically to say that proposals for Nigeria must benefit certain people in office or they will not work. This is not a surprising answer for someone who was part of a N2.3billion car purchase scandal.


Dimeji Bankole thinking up even more dickish ways to answer questions.

He engaged in the sort of back and forth you expect from two secondary school girls fighting over a boy. If the speaker of the US House of Representatives had dared behave the way he did, she would have been swept out of office immediately. Instead of answering questions, he would throw the question back at the person asking the question and even went as far as saying that people should not ask certain questions until he had left. When someone came up to ask him a question, he turned his back on the person as if the individual was an annoying insect wasting his time. If Mr. Bankole did not want to be there, then he should not have come! People in the crowd got so fed up with his non-responses and constant bullsh*t (excuse my french) that at one point they began to yell "answer the question!" when he tried to dodge yet another question.

Mr. Bankole might be a shining star in Nigerian politics, but many of us at the reunion were not impressed.