If I were to be President Muhammadu Buhari, I would make a nationwide broadcast and tell Nigerian people: “These are the people who brought shame to your life system as a people. They are the few who say nothing must happen in Nigeria except with their consent yet in the last 16 years before we came they had failed persistently to make any good thing happen to you and in the last three years that we have started to change the existing order they have waged war seriously against our doing so. They are the ones who say anybody can loot, kill and damage our collective economy and go scot free without being brought to justice so far they are the godfathers of such person. Today, I have begun to deal with them based on verifiable facts, no matter how great or influential they are. You have asked me to do this and I am prepared to do it and so, I have started going on with it, so, let’s go.”
The ongoing tall, tough and top decisions being made by President Muhammadu Buhari on high profile cases in the country is commendable. Surely those decisions would expectedly attract the kind of uproars coming from the retired Generals and other political elites who are crying woes and shedding the crocodile tears over the ghost threats to lives and frame-up they are talking about.
It would be observed that each time each of these elites would raise alarm, it is either they know that something is being done over their atrocities so as to scuttle the process or that they want to cause confusion to turn attention away from those atrocities so they can hang the report against their collective enemy lately President Buhari or they note something great has just happened by the President which is making them lose popularity the more while President’s popularity soars.
Recall how Dino Melaye raised alarm over attempted murder of him just to hang it on innocent Governor Yahya Bello only for the secret to be discovered by the Police that he had actually lied thereby misinforming the police. Our further investigation revealed Melaye scripted the shooting of his own car, which he claimed to be inside of, by himself and against himself. That was one.
Two, Melaye sponsored destabilisation of a whole federating unit of of the country that Kogi represents calling it extension of herdsmen killings from Benue to Kogi state. Since those sponsored thugs of his were arrested by the Polic,e there has been relative peace in that North Central state.
There was another alarm by Senate President Abubakar Bukola Saraki only to know that Saraki actually funded and kitted the Offa banks robbers with prohibited arms and even with cars and money as his thugs. He has tried to bamboozle the Inspector-General of Police Ibrahim Kpotun Idris to distract and whip stigma against him over the case but he failed.
For refusing therefore to stop the IGP’s investigations of cases involving those top officers of the Nigeria’s Federal Republic particularly from the Legislative Quarters, suddenly, we began to see that there is a bloc in the merger of All Progressives Congress (APC) which is called the nPDP and they have threatened heavens and earths to quit APC to make Buhari fail to win in 2019, which has never touched the President for moment.
Recall Buhari they discredited had got South West and entire nation’s hearts over his declaration to recognise June 12 as Nigeria’s Democracy Day and honouring of MKO Abiola with the highest title of GCFR, thereby pushing the leader of coalition against his 2019 re-election, Olusegun Obasanjo, to shame.
To help himself out of the extreme integrity damage and shame that declaration caused him and his colleagues in the Nigeria’s Mafiaism, Obasanjo needed to do something and he raised the alarm over some concocted threats to his life so as to draw attention of Nigerians away from the joy of the presidential declaration on June 12 and MKO Abiola, Baba Gana Kingibe and Gani Fawehinmi’s honours thinking it will stop the added popularity the President was already garnering. Yet he knew he was being investigated for his past misdeeds and that was why he needed sympathy.
Then the nPDP takes one side wanting to stampede Buhari and APC to taking hard decisions that will eventually push him to doing cap-in-hand with them in matter of politics of 2019. That also failed as the President, characteristically, became unwavering. Now to quit APC they can’t. Stay back and cooperate with the government they can’t. That became glaring in conspicuous absence of all of the actors of the Obasanjo’s coalition including the Senate President, Saraki, and House of Reps Speaker, Yakubu Dogara, at the investiture on Tuesday. Some Nigerians said under no circumstances should they not have be absent at such august occasion that was held to finally activate the process for the unstoppable unification of Nigerians for love, peace and development of the nation.
So what has happened is that Buhari has succeeded in outlawing thuggery as political tool in Nigerian politics and he has set the pace for destruction of do-or-die politics of blood as created by Obasanjo. He has made it clear that there is nobody that cannot be handled by the law. This is reason they are now making insincere cries over unreal threats to lives and gagging of opposition who have contrary views to those of the President. That was why I was disappointed, although acceptable by the context of the moment, when former Senate President Iyorchia Ayu was telling the President that President Buhari should know that those in opposition are not his enemies but that it was people around the President who are making it look like that. I disagree with Dr. Ayu, who I respect so much. It will therefore mean that he believes in the words of people who say the travails of Saraki and Melaye, for instance, are politically motivated by the Buhari’s Presidency. I continue to hold this against Dr. Iyorchia Ayu until he clarifies that position he expressed.
Therefore, if I were to be President Muhammadu Buhari, I would make a nationwide broadcast and tell Nigerian people: “These are the people who brought shame to your life system as a people. They are the few who say nothing must happen in Nigeria except with their consent yet in the last 16 years before we came they had failed persistently to make any good thing happen to you and in the last three years that we have started to change the existing order they have waged war seriously against our doing so. They are the ones who say anybody can loot, kill and damage our collective economy and go scot free without being brought to justice so far they are the godfathers of such person. Today, I have begun to deal with them based on verifiable facts, no matter how great or influential they are. You have asked me to do this and I am prepared to do it and so, I have started going on with it, so, let’s go.”
If I were Mr. President, knowing that all that have happened by Obasanjo and all his fellow elements of the Third Force coalition are nothing but shedding crocodile tears to get sympathy of the same Nigerian people whose lives they have ruined for long, this is what I will do and then I will, without looking back, pick them who had or have run foul of the law, no matter how loud their voices could be, and clamp them into where they should be by the dictate of the law.
This is how, to me, President Buhari can actualise that philosophical statement he made on May 29, 2015 that “I am for everybody, I am for nobody”.
Thank you.
