Almost a year ago, during the formative stages of APC, I had warned
Nigerians that PDP will not go down without a fight. I had written then
that PDP and its supporters will not go down without pulling down the
house if the need be. I remember I warmed APC leaders, to put their acts
together, gird their loins and prepare for the great task ahead.
Today, I know that what is playing itself out of the National Assembly
will not be a surprise to APC and I know they have the common sense to
defeat the remaining vestiges of the incubus of PDP built for 16 years in
Nigeria. I know also that PDP’s foot soldiers and supporters are still
crying and rolling on the ground cursing the day APC was formed, the day
President Buhari was born, the day he picked the ticket of APC, the day he
won the Presidential elections and the day he was sworn in as the
president of Nigeria. They did not in their wildest imagination believe
that APC will snatch the feeding bottles from their huge mouths .
Consequently these men and women of years of the locusts find it difficult
to come to terms that it is all over for them, and no longer business as
usual.
One man who has refused to accept the realities on the ground in Nigeria
of today is one Okey Ndibe from Anambra State who lives in the United
States. Okey is a well known sympathizer of PDP but he cleverly tries to
deceive the public by pretending to be neutral in matters of Nigeria
politics. On few occasions I have joined issues with Okey Ndibe to be a
man he should and take a stand. Okey believes that there are no
ideological differences between PDP and APC and concluded that APC and PDP
are the same. I remember I had challenged Okey Ndibe to come out clean and
tell the world that he works for PDP even though he pretends to be
neutral.
When Okey started derailing from joining the change agents to rescue
Nigeria, I noticed that he lost a lot of followers especially on Sahara
Reporters. When he was thorough and genuine he had many followers but the
moment Jonathan and Peter Obi’s Money began to flow in, this man started
dancing naked in the public, and gradually his admirers like my humble
self ran away with great speed. Regrettably I saw that his admirers
reduced to less than 20 from an Olympian height of sometimes more than 200
followers on Sahara Reporters.
In his latest latest piece with the caption, “Buhari Disappearing
Presidency” just about four weeks of Buhari’s Presidency Okey says
“President Buhari is dangerously close toleaving Nigerians disillusioned”
According to Okey: “It is remarkable that in one month as president, Mr
Buhari has not laid out a single policy proposal on any of the major
national issues that concerns Million who voted for him”
Now, Okey may not know this: What former president Jonathan failed to
achieve in six years, President Buhari has achieved in just two weeks.
Work started the day President Buhari was sworn and Okey cannot remain in
the United States and thinks he will know everything that is going on
here. A lot is going on here which this man who refused to relocate to
Nigeria to help may not know. For the mere fact that Buhari emerged the
President-Elect on March 28, 2015 changed a lot of things in Nigeria and
put spanner in the works for those who looted and destroyed Nigeria in the
past 16 years. In one fell swoop the International Community restored
confidence in Nigeria Leadership and asked President Buhari to come to the
G8 Summit with his shopping list. I am 100% sure he will get a lot of
help especially in the area of looted funds. Huge information on how we
got to this sorry pass and how we can get out of it has been released to
President Buhari by those who believe in him. The moment it became
obvious that Buhari is coming on stage the equation drastically changed in
Nigeria and as I write this, the leakages and loopholes within the system
are being plugged. Impunity and Corruption are gradually taken the back
seat because a good man is in the saddle. Some people are even returning
stolen funds to the presidency without anybody forcing them to do so. His
body language alone has send jitters to the corrupt people in Nigeria.
That Okey Ndibe is in a haste to begin to assess a government that is
barely just one month old is no news to me. What is news to me is that He
prefers Jonathan’s PDP than Buhari’s APC because he fed extensively on
PDP’s inept leadership. Okey pretended to be offering solutions to
Nigerian’s problems but in action and deeds he worked so hard to earn a
living. They tell me that Okey Ndibe is a professor and if it is indeed
true , I expect that he knows that there is no magic in governance
especially governing a complex country like Nigeria. Given the enormity
of the damage inflicted on Nigeria in the past 16 years by the PDP , I
expect that a professor of anything with full dose of Western education
should know better. Leaders’ hands are always heavy and people like Okey
should provide support at a time like this and not this unwarranted
criticism that cannot be separated from primordial sentiments. Okey Ndibe
is not alone if you go through the reactions from his latest article.
Lots and lots of those Jonathanians especially from the South East and
South are still bitter and angry that their Father Christmas (former
President Jonathan) lost the 2015 elections. They are still sulking and
whining and you can see it from the reactions in Okey’s piece. His fake
followers, I mean the losers 2015 presidential elections are on rampage
and this ‘professor’ should not see the shameful development as a plus.