Presudent Buhari and APC defeated former President Jonathan and the PDP in
the epic, March 28 presidential election, the last few weeks were like
weeks of second death. For those who have embraced witless and headless
opposition to every action taken thus far by President Buhari to mend the
ship-wrecked Nigerian state that was writhing on the throes of death
before March 28, as a way of advertising their anger and shock for that
epochal defeat, the spate of recant their apex leaders in the fight to
sustain the Jonathan regime did last week added to the open sores of March
28. For those who have become popularly known in the Nigerian media as the
Wailing Wailers, the shock is so comprehensive that they have become
suddenly speechless.First was the Godfather of former President Jonathan who could pass for
the patron saint of PDP, Edwin Clark. He was the lodestar for the battle
to re-elect Jonathan and was a clearing house of sorts to the converging
tendencies that coalesced to sustain Jonathan in power after what was
generally seen as a dismal six years in power. For the re-election of
Jonathan, Edwin Clark fretted and threatened with so much force that
nothing and nobody, not even former President Obasanjo was spared of his
bile. He fell short of levying war against whosoever never saw the wisdom
in voting Jonathan in March and he was privy to gathering a motley crowd
of elderly PDP sympathizers in the South to form a Southern Elders Forum
that unabashedly campaigned for Jonathan and the PDP.
But it was another Edwin Clark who, last week not only disclaimed the PDP
but threw wholehearted support for President Buhari especially in his war
against corruption. Clark not only dismissed the charge of selective
prosecution of the anti corruption war, which the hirelings of the PDP has
made their daily catena but fell short of describing his godson, Jonathan
as a derelict that has no guts to fight corruption. Were the rabid
anti-Buharists shocked? No, they were shellacked! They were beaten flat
for here is their godfather, a general of the battle they are prolonging
by their syndicated hysteria, throwing them so pitiably under the bus and
also damning the man for whom they have so exerted themselves to support.
It was a red day for the Wailing Wailers.
If there is any woman that fits the feminine equivalent of Edwin Clark in
the order of reverence by the Wailing Wailers, it was the immediate past
Finance Minister and Coordinating Minister of the economy under Jonathan.
Even when most Nigerians feel this woman’s long stay as our economic
manager rubbed off very negatively in the lives of Nigerians, the
Jonathanians and PDP apologists; in fact the a wailing Wailers, deify her
as the next best thing God imbued on Nigerians after pure water. To them,
she is omniscient, beyond sin and reproach. They worship her every
footstep and she was dubbed the Prime Minister of the Jonathan regime.
Last week, and from nowhere, Okonjo Iweala was to pour encomiums on
President Buhari government like a nubile maiden serenading her newfound
lover. She not only praised Buhari’s conduct of statecraft but said her
decision to work under Jonathan might have been a mistake! She was
speaking on September 30 as a guest lecturer at the University of
Pennsylvania, United States,
Next was Stella Oduah, one of the poster girls of the Jonathan regime who
was implicated in a swathe if scandals as Minister of Aviation under
Jonathan but who was, nonetheless sponsored by the PDP to emerge senator
in Anambra State. In a recent interview, Oduah not only hailed what she
called the clear policy direction of the Buhari regime. Her points of
excitement were the firm intervention by the Buhari regime that ended the
coup in Burkina Faso and the plan of the regime to restore the national
carrier.
Then entered Godswill Akpabio, the guy who had an a-rating appearance in
all the shenanigans and intrigues launched to ensure PDP remains in
perpetual power. If Edwin Clark was the Commander in chief of the futile
PDP/Jonathan entrenchment efforts, Akpabio was the Chief of Staff. He was
the enforcer of the PDP will amongst PDP members and manned the gate of
the party, deciding who entered, who stays and who leaves. He was known to
leverage his state’s resources to the fight for the re-election of
Jonathan, among many other illegal fonts of funding that whetted that ill
fated battle. On the day he returned from hospitalization abroad after a
road accident in Abuja (many wonder why he did not patronize the so calked
world class hospital he lousily boasts of building in Akwa Ibom), this
enfant terrible of the Jonathanian PDP was to address his people, given
high marks to the Buhari regime’s government and policies do far.
For the Wailing Wailers, these are blasphemies issuing forth from the very
epicenter of their temple. They are crest fallen. They are heart broken.
They are still simmering in great shock that their leaders could so leave
them in the lurch; in the scorching sun and bolt. They are devastated that
those that led them to am embarrassing position where they have even
become embarrassing to themselves, struggling with the truth and his best
ways to deface it, have left them so high and dry- on the very crossroads.
They are still trying to gather their broken selves together to string
rabid responses to these earth-shaking disappointments. Gradually, they
are gathering violent words and abuses for Clark, Oknonjo iweala and
Oduah. They are bitter. They are frustrated and they are confused on who
else to follow.
For the avoidance of doubts, I had never been a dan of the four and will
never be despite their gallant efforts to admit the truth their marooned
followers will like them to hush. God so kind, we have a President who is
so indifferent to flattery and humour; a President that can smell jesting
and fawning from several miles off, a President that can never ever be
found to fund and reward flattery so trying to curry his favor through
such curtsying that is implied in the confessions of the pole leaders of
the PDP is an effort that in futility But I don’t think that in admitting
the truth, these and many other PDP leaders that have been wrestling with
their consciences since the well-applauded change in the polity happened,
were out for favor hunting. Theirs is such relief when after struggling
with the truth, you turn around to surrender for no one wins a war against
truth.
But in all these, the great pity is the withering club of Wailing Wailers
who pose as commissioned newspaper columnists, stranded politicians,
errant passengers in public buses, the ready-to-snap layabout, the
ubiquitous Facebook politicians and their ilk who have ran themselves into
the uncomfortable position where they are condemned to wail on every move
taken by President Buhari. The distraught, desolate, hurting and
inconsolable scoffers that have made a life business of scoffing at every
move by Buhari to cleanse the stable of rot he inherited on May 28 are the
worst hit by the gale of confessions hitting apex leaders of PDP lately.
Those that have forged ready-made wailing points on every issue since
March 28 because they lost their fonts of corrupt enrichment are the most
badly beaten in the ensuing political development that is emerging. They
have become distraught and confused orphans that are robbed of their
parentage by the battle with truth. They are presently hanging
precariously on the very alleyways of our politics as they try feverishly
to decipher what has hit their camps so early in the days of a regime that
has so inflicted deep gashes on them.
Peter Claver Oparah
Ikeja, Lagos.
E-mail: peterclaver2000@yahoo.com
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For those who have sentenced themselves to inconsolable wailing since
Presudent Buhari and APC defeated former President Jonathan and the PDP in
the epic, March 28 presidential election, the last few weeks were like
weeks of second death. For those who have embraced witless and headless
opposition to every action taken thus far by President Buhari to mend the
ship-wrecked Nigerian state that was writhing on the throes of death
before March 28, as a way of advertising their anger and shock for that
epochal defeat, the spate of recant their apex leaders in the fight to
sustain the Jonathan regime did last week added to the open sores of March
28. For those who have become popularly known in the Nigerian media as the
Wailing Wailers, the shock is so comprehensive that they have become
suddenly speechless.
First was the Godfather of former President Jonathan who could pass for
the patron saint of PDP, Edwin Clark. He was the lodestar for the battle
to re-elect Jonathan and was a clearing house of sorts to the converging
tendencies that coalesced to sustain Jonathan in power after what was
generally seen as a dismal six years in power. For the re-election of
Jonathan, Edwin Clark fretted and threatened with so much force that
nothing and nobody, not even former President Obasanjo was spared of his
bile. He fell short of levying war against whosoever never saw the wisdom
in voting Jonathan in March and he was privy to gathering a motley crowd
of elderly PDP sympathizers in the South to form a Southern Elders Forum
that unabashedly campaigned for Jonathan and the PDP.
But it was another Edwin Clark who, last week not only disclaimed the PDP
but threw wholehearted support for President Buhari especially in his war
against corruption. Clark not only dismissed the charge of selective
prosecution of the anti corruption war, which the hirelings of the PDP has
made their daily catena but fell short of describing his godson, Jonathan
as a derelict that has no guts to fight corruption. Were the rabid
anti-Buharists shocked? No, they were shellacked! They were beaten flat
for here is their godfather, a general of the battle they are prolonging
by their syndicated hysteria, throwing them so pitiably under the bus and
also damning the man for whom they have so exerted themselves to support.
It was a red day for the Wailing Wailers.
If there is any woman that fits the feminine equivalent of Edwin Clark in
the order of reverence by the Wailing Wailers, it was the immediate past
Finance Minister and Coordinating Minister of the economy under Jonathan.
Even when most Nigerians feel this woman’s long stay as our economic
manager rubbed off very negatively in the lives of Nigerians, the
Jonathanians and PDP apologists; in fact the a wailing Wailers, deify her
as the next best thing God imbued on Nigerians after pure water. To them,
she is omniscient, beyond sin and reproach. They worship her every
footstep and she was dubbed the Prime Minister of the Jonathan regime.
Last week, and from nowhere, Okonjo Iweala was to pour encomiums on
President Buhari government like a nubile maiden serenading her newfound
lover. She not only praised Buhari’s conduct of statecraft but said her
decision to work under Jonathan might have been a mistake! She was
speaking on September 30 as a guest lecturer at the University of
Pennsylvania, United States,
Next was Stella Oduah, one of the poster girls of the Jonathan regime who
was implicated in a swathe if scandals as Minister of Aviation under
Jonathan but who was, nonetheless sponsored by the PDP to emerge senator
in Anambra State. In a recent interview, Oduah not only hailed what she
called the clear policy direction of the Buhari regime. Her points of
excitement were the firm intervention by the Buhari regime that ended the
coup in Burkina Faso and the plan of the regime to restore the national
carrier.
Then entered Godswill Akpabio, the guy who had an a-rating appearance in
all the shenanigans and intrigues launched to ensure PDP remains in
perpetual power. If Edwin Clark was the Commander in chief of the futile
PDP/Jonathan entrenchment efforts, Akpabio was the Chief of Staff. He was
the enforcer of the PDP will amongst PDP members and manned the gate of
the party, deciding who entered, who stays and who leaves. He was known to
leverage his state’s resources to the fight for the re-election of
Jonathan, among many other illegal fonts of funding that whetted that ill
fated battle. On the day he returned from hospitalization abroad after a
road accident in Abuja (many wonder why he did not patronize the so calked
world class hospital he lousily boasts of building in Akwa Ibom), this
enfant terrible of the Jonathanian PDP was to address his people, given
high marks to the Buhari regime’s government and policies do far.
For the Wailing Wailers, these are blasphemies issuing forth from the very
epicenter of their temple. They are crest fallen. They are heart broken.
They are still simmering in great shock that their leaders could so leave
them in the lurch; in the scorching sun and bolt. They are devastated that
those that led them to am embarrassing position where they have even
become embarrassing to themselves, struggling with the truth and his best
ways to deface it, have left them so high and dry- on the very crossroads.
They are still trying to gather their broken selves together to string
rabid responses to these earth-shaking disappointments. Gradually, they
are gathering violent words and abuses for Clark, Oknonjo iweala and
Oduah. They are bitter. They are frustrated and they are confused on who
else to follow.
For the avoidance of doubts, I had never been a dan of the four and will
never be despite their gallant efforts to admit the truth their marooned
followers will like them to hush. God so kind, we have a President who is
so indifferent to flattery and humour; a President that can smell jesting
and fawning from several miles off, a President that can never ever be
found to fund and reward flattery so trying to curry his favor through
such curtsying that is implied in the confessions of the pole leaders of
the PDP is an effort that in futility But I don’t think that in admitting
the truth, these and many other PDP leaders that have been wrestling with
their consciences since the well-applauded change in the polity happened,
were out for favor hunting. Theirs is such relief when after struggling
with the truth, you turn around to surrender for no one wins a war against
truth.
But in all these, the great pity is the withering club of Wailing Wailers
who pose as commissioned newspaper columnists, stranded politicians,
errant passengers in public buses, the ready-to-snap layabout, the
ubiquitous Facebook politicians and their ilk who have ran themselves into
the uncomfortable position where they are condemned to wail on every move
taken by President Buhari. The distraught, desolate, hurting and
inconsolable scoffers that have made a life business of scoffing at every
move by Buhari to cleanse the stable of rot he inherited on May 28 are the
worst hit by the gale of confessions hitting apex leaders of PDP lately.
Those that have forged ready-made wailing points on every issue since
March 28 because they lost their fonts of corrupt enrichment are the most
badly beaten in the ensuing political development that is emerging. They
have become distraught and confused orphans that are robbed of their
parentage by the battle with truth. They are presently hanging
precariously on the very alleyways of our politics as they try feverishly
to decipher what has hit their camps so early in the days of a regime that
has so inflicted deep gashes on them.
Peter Claver Oparah
Ikeja, Lagos.
E-mail: peterclaver2000@yahoo.com
Sent from my iPad
Sent from my iPad