By BASHIR ADEFAKA
“Tough times in our country, but President Muhammadu Buhari assures that the ravening cloud shall not long be victorious. “They shall not long possess the sky.” I left his office with buoyed hopes, with the joy kiln kindled in my heart afresh. Nigeria will surely get there. And soon, too.
“Baba o Baba o Baba o, Olorun da Baba si fun wa…”
These were the words of hope and continued good things to happen to Nigeria under the watch of President Muhammadu Buhari, as dropped by the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, on his Facebook social media handle at the weekend.
Mr. Adesina was saying this while the political elites in the country were warned against their politics of destruction and allow the good things of life being provided by President Buhari to see the light of the day by stopping their sponsorship of insecurity.
The DEFENDER reports that the likes of Senator Isa Kachako and Senator Babafemi Ojudu have never hidden their concerns about how Nigerians have not been appreciating good leaders until they them, only to regret later.
In an interview published in Vanguard some years back, Kachako, who spoke from his Taraoni home in Kano, said Nigerian leaders, since after the First Republic, has not been lucky to have good people either as government or presidential aides or as nation’s people supporting their government policies for their own good.
The retired Army Colonel spoke about the Shehu Aliyu Usman Shagari administration up to Sani Abacha military regime and from there to Umar Musa Yar’Adua civilian Administration, as at time of the interview, saying there had been no Nigerian leader without good policies and programmes but that the political class should have themselves to blame for the woes of the country, despite its resources.
As for Ojudu, in a media interview held in his National Assembly office as an opposition senator during the Goodluck Ebele Jonathan-led Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) administration, had alluded to the fact that situation in Nigeria would continue to come up as bad until the people change from bad attitude to good.
He said “Nigeria will be good only when the yesterday of the country is no longer expected to be better than today but its today is better than its yesterday.”
Senator Ojudu, who is currently the Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Political Matter, was not in good mood to see that Nigerians don’t appreciate good leaders until they have lost them.
A respondent, who spoke on related topic under demand for anonymity, said: “We said this during the first tenure of President Buhari that the President would need to hold firm to his own ground, if he would not want to end with Nigerians like those who came after and before him.”
Responding to questions he said: “Yes, Nigerians are difficult people in terms of being unable to cooperate with their leaders for making their own country better. If they are not, how come they prefer to steal the wealths of their abundantly blessed Nigeria and stack away in Dubai, knowing well that people of United Arab Emirates, who saw their land as desert but transformed it to greatness, are human beings like them?
“The West, to whom you enslave yourselves and serve as agents of destruction to your own country, based on the dollars that you take, they know that if they have 20 percent of the resources that God gave you in Nigeria, they would not remember to colonize you in the first place. Why would you Nigerians not think to really know that colonialism is the very offshoot of the fact that the west lack resources as Africa, mainly Nigeria? To be able to control and take these black nations’ resources without being questioned, they needed to colonize and, in most cases, wage wars against you? When will your eyes open?
“Now, President Muhammadu Buhari took you from West-Nigeria partnership that brought no development but had been causing the nation to be self-ruined by giving foreign aids to some few individuals in the disguise of media and NGOs, who support all evils against the country. He took us to all possible development partners such as China, Saudi Arabia and Russia. We see what we have gained in being in partnership with China. Development.
“Therefore, it is sad that political elites in Nigeria, since they lost power in 2015, have made sure that all the good things President Buhari has done and is doing socio-economically to transform the country to greatness are not visible. This they do with the insecurity they sponsor. Unfortunately and so sad also, France and other foreign collaborators are part of the insecurity because they use so called humanitarian workers and their own media to support the Boko Haram, IPOB and bandits that have been threatening national security in Nigeria.
“I have a good news for patriotic Nigerians and sad news for those that collaborate with the enemies of Nigeria. The good news, like Mr. Femi Adesina said, is that we will surely get there. The sad news for the enemies is to say that their days are numbered,” he said.
