Most columnists, writers and public
commentators have shied away from doing so but today yours
truly will treat a matter and pose a question that is in the
hearts and minds of many both within and outside Nigeria.
The question is whether President
Muhammadu Buhari (remember him?) is actually dead or still
alive. And, assuming that he is still alive, is he lost to
the world in a vegetative state and deep coma, is he
suffering from an extreeme and crippling form of dementia or
is he lucid, functional, rational and clear-thinking?
These are the relevant and poignant
questions that many are seeking answers to yet this whole
matter and everything that flows from it, for some strange
and inexplicable reason, is shrouded in the utmost secrecy
and subtefuge.
The Presidency has told us that Buhari
has travelled out of the country yet no-one has seen
pictures or footage of him going out of Nigeria or arriving
in his preferred destination in a foreign land.
Assuming that he really did travel out
one wonders which country he was ferried to, whether
he went there on his feet or on his back and whether he is
presently on admission in a hospital or resides in a private
or official residence.
The Presidency claims that he is still
alive and we sincerely hope that this is the case.
Yet many have their doubts simply
because it has been proved over and over again that the
Federal Government are nothing but a nest of vipers and a
brood of pernicous and pathological liars.
They lie as if there is no tomorrow and
consequently few believe anything that they say including
the assertion that the President is still alive or that he
is running the affairs of our nation from his sick bed in
the United Kingdom.
The truth is that if the Presidency or
the Federal Government told us that it was day outside most
of us would be forced to assume that it was night.
That is how skeptical the more
discerning amongst us are about what those in power tell us.
Between the rulers and the ruled in
Nigeria today there is no trust.
Consequently we are under no
obligation, given their compulsive and sociopathic affinity
for mendacities and deceit, to believe anything that the
Buhari admnistration or the Presidency tells us.
The bottom line is this: if the
President is dead, stop playing games, tell us the truth,
bury him with dignity and let his soul rest in peace.
If he is alive let us know exactly what
has afflicted him, what his condition is, where he is, how
he is doing and, most important of all, give us PROOF OF
LIFE.
Anything short of treading one of these
two paths is not only dishonorable but also utterly
reprehensible and amounts to nothing less than a glaring and
singular insult to the collective sensibilities of the
Nigerian people. Simply put, we have a right to know the
truth.
The usage of lies, deceit, secrecy,
subterfuge and disinformation in the administration of
governance coupled with the promotion of indiscipline, the
encouragement of impunity, the disobedience of court orders,
the undermining of the rule of law, the destruction of
democratic institutions and the lack of fairness and justice
are the worst forms of corruption.
Sadly this govermment, more than any
other in the history of our country, is guilty of each and
everyone of these grave charges. This is deeply troubling
and it gives us cause not only for concern but also deep
introspection.
Meanwhile we congratulate Acting
President Yemi Osinbajo for finally signing the 2017 budget.
Even though we are already half way through the year, as
they say, it is better late than never.
This is a step in the right direction
and it is worthy of applause and commendation. However what
causes some consternation and beggars belief is the asinine
and childish assertion by Mr. Shehu Garbage of the
Presidency that President Buhari “gave his permission” for
the Acting President to sign it.
Honestly when I heard this contribution
I didn’t know whether to laugh or to cry. I was constrained
to ask when the Presidency had transformed from being
Nigeria’s most powerful and exalted seat of power into a
theater of comedy and a home for second rate comedians.
These people will do and say anything
to hide or distort the truth and to humiliate and undermine
the authority and standing of Acting President Osinbajo.
And the fact that Osinbajo allows them
to get away with it is an eloquent testimony to his
nauseating weakness and inability to take control and
administer power in the way that he is expected to do.
After all we do not operate a
monarchial system of government in Nigeria and Buhari is not
a King. He does not have any “divine rights” and he is not a
deity or a ruler with absolute powers.
He is simply a democratically-elected
President who is bound by the rules and conventions of the
constitution and who is meant to be nothing more than a
servant of the people.
In this context the question that needs
to be answered is simple and clear and that question is as
follows.
Does an Acting President need the
permission of a sick, AWOL and bed-ridden President, who has
been compelled by his debilitating ill-health to formally
hand over power to his second-in-command as the constitution
dictates, to sign the budget? The answer is a resounding
“no”.
This is especially so when we have been
intimated and informed by an exciteable, well-known and
rabidly pro-government and fanatically pro-APC online medium
known as Saharareporters that the President is in a
“vegetative state” and that he “cannot speak to those around
him or recognise his environment”.
If the Presidents friends and
supporters can write and publish such things about his
medical condition what are the rest of us supposed to think
or believe?
We have been assured by that medium
that his situation is so critical that even his wife was
barred from seeing him when she travelled all the way to the
United Kingdom to do so.
If this is true (and up until the time
that I am writing this contribution it has not been publicly
refuted or denied) it raises some very serious questions and
the first one of those questions is why the Presidency and
the Federal Government deem it appropiate to hide the truth
from the Nigerian people?
Yet it does not stop there. Mr. Eric
Joyce, the well-known British ex-military, ex-Member of
Parliament and serving MI6 operative who has always had a
special interest in Nigeria and who has always been an
ardent supporter and friend of the President and his
government has come out boldly to suggest that Buhari is
dead and he has challenged the Nigerian people to ask the
Presidency for proof of life. His words:
“For now, with no sight nor sound of
the President and no proof even of life for some time, it
seems that in a bid to manage the succession the Presidency
may be lying to the public about the Presidents health or
even life, and making Nigeria’s democratic status a
mockery into the bargain”.
If we choose to reject Joyce’s
suggestion that Buhari is dead and instead we accept the
narrative that he is still alive but bed-ridden and
critically ill, the assertion that he is in a position to
“give permission” for the budget to be signed remains
equally childish and absurd.
And the truth is that the Villa rats
that made that astounding assertion are talking and behaving
like second rate actors and low-level performers in an
X-rated, sleazy and seedy Parisian porn film and Swedish
blue movie.
All you hear from them are animal-like
grunts and groans and loud, fake orgasms.
This is corpsocracy in its most
glaring, repugnant, primitive and repulsive form. It is a
squalid and sordid attempt to impose a godless and alien
system of governance which can be best described as the
“rulership of the living by the dead” on the Nigerian
people.
Nigeria cannot be ruled from the grave.
She cannot and must not be ruled by the dark and faceless
agents and sinister emissaries of a shrouded and embalmed
Egyptian-like entombed mummy or the surrogates of a corpse
that is either stone-cold dead or is dead to to the world
and barely alive.
We deserve far better than that and we
have the right to be told the truth no matter how bitter
that truth may be.
The fact of the matter is that anyone
that believes anything that this evil government tells them
is truly lost.
The truth is that it was not Buhari
that gave Osinbajo permission to sign the budget but rather
evil mafia and dark cabal that runs this country in his
name.
If those that put that statement out
were not utterly shameless how can they even say publicly
that an Acting President who is more than capable of running
the country has to wait for permission or for backing from a
sick President that no-one has seen or heard from in weeks
to sign a budget six months into the fiscal year.
Clearly these people are drunk on power
and it has affected their ability to reason properly or
think straight. Clearly Nigeria is in a precarious position
right now.
Our government is a government of liars
who are sustained by lies, who live by lies and who will die
by lies.
Their spiritual foundation and the very
essence of their being is built on nothing but perfidy and
mendacity.
Their souls are dark, their spirits are
corrupt and their consciences are seared beyond redemption.
The shedding of human blood is their
delight, the sacrifice of the innocents is their pleasure
and the administration of disaster, hardship and misery is
their joy.
They are nothing but sadists whose
declared intention is to keep us in bondage and rule for
another “two hundred years”.
And even as our people are dying of
hunger and being slaughtered on a daily basis by Fulani
herdsmen and Boko Haram they offer no apology for their
shameful and glaring incompetence and neither do they
display any remorse for their inability to protect the
people that they were elected to serve and defend.
Instead of doing that all they do is
just tell us one lie after the other. For example when asked
about Buhari’s medical condition the Minister of
Information, Mr. Lai Mohammed, had the effontry and nerve to
tell Channels Television that
“President Buhari is alive and well and
he talks to Acting President Osinbajo every day!”
If anyone believes that hogwash they
will believe anything! And the minute Lai said it his
already big, fat and oversized nose grew ten inches longer.
What a terrible plague and affliction
has befallen our nation. That plague and affliction is known
as Muhammadu Buhari and his clandestine cabal of sinister
and byzantian tormentors.
May God deliver Nigeria from their evil
claws and mendacious clutches.