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Farouk Martins Aresa @oomoaresa
Nigeria has never recovered since the first Coup d’Etat. It turned out
as expected that the Army lacked the intelligence and intellectual
capacity for governance. A few went as far as saying the best military
rule is worse than the worst civilian rule. Well, many of us disagree.
Though Jerry Rawlings did a better job in Ghana in his first coming,
Ghana has since benefited from clean civilian rule. In Nigeria, we are
either recovering from military rule in uniform or in militrician rule
when they change their uniforms to agbada or designer suits.
One of the former stalwarts of the National Party of Nigeria boldly
stated in 1979 that there were two parties in Nigeria: the Military and
NPN. Both parties have mutated into different viruses, but these
leopards never changed their spots. If you take a good look at the
politicians in Nigeria, it will become clear that only Vagabonds, Army
and Thugs are left standing to get into the game of Do or Die. Their
only goal is to go in and loot the treasury. Their supporters that vote
them into power are thugs and hoodlums waiting for turns to loot.
So they hate peaceful activists. They would dare you to oppose them at
your own risk. Most of you must have heard about how harmless and
peaceful protesters of #ENDSARS were massacred. Even worse, the
Commander of the Army that led them, told the Tribunal he would execute
exactly the same Operation again. But once these same Protesters carry
Arms like Boko Haram, Niger Delta Force, OPC or MASSOB; their military
tactics would change to contracts, bribes, foreign scholarships and
political cronies.
It appears that since Babangida broke Buhari, he never recovered. So
scared to death, Buhari refused to change the Service Chiefs, still
figuring out how to prevent another coup d’etat against him. Even
Babangida that had worked against the Buhari Election is enjoying the
lack of retribution from Buhari or his kitchen cabinet. If kidnappers
were brave enough to take the cue from Boko Haram and kidnap another set
of school children right in Buhari’s State when he was at home on
vacation, they fear nobody. Could it have been staged for easy rescue?
Authorities that do not listen to peaceful protests, flame violence or
insurrection that make Revolution inevitable. It is an old adage some
reasonable governments learned from before or after the revolution.
Watch out for those children of the status quo that argue against change
as their country dug itself deeper into poverty. They have vested
interest in the oppression of peaceful demonstrators. They are the
Personal Assistants of the Oppressors located everywhere including the
social media. Even other Africans and people of goodwill worldwide
empathize with Nigerians. Not the children and supporters of these
Vagabonds-In-Power.
The indications are that Buhari has lost his grip on Power to his
kitchen cabinet. When his wife said Buhari did not know some of the
members of his wider cabinet, we doubted his wife since Buhari said she
belonged to the other room. She is not taking chances though. A few
sources claimed she has relocated to Dubai for security reasons. This is
why Nigerians are crying that if the wife of the President is not safe
in Nigeria, nobody can protect the common man. They wonder if Buhari is
really in control, has lost interest in Power or he is being used to
retain Power by ordained oligarchy Mafia; as they did under ailing
President Yar’Adua.
Most of us knew Buhari was a religious fanatic, but had instinctual
intolerance for corruption. Yet, we voted for him as a preference to a
worse evil, Jonathan that legalized corruption with a notion that it was
not necessarily a crime. As Buhari gets older, he has dropped religion,
an opium used to disguise cruelty of man against man. Buhari has also
embrace corruption as it provides comfort for him and his family, not
only in the Muslim world but in the Western world where he sends his
children to school and obtain medical treatment that cannot be provided
in his Country for his people; because he can afford them overseas on
his salary!
All the effort and brains, if they have any since taking over, that
should have been utilized to combat violence are diverted against those
that pointed out their obvious failures. Even Reverend Kuka that voiced
out the mind of most people in Nigeria had been declared a traitor.
Nothing Reverend Kuka said was different from that of the Sultan of
Sokoto that expressed the same caution as Reverend Kuka. So both must be
planning a coup as traitors then?
Buhari must be morally dead. The same man Boko Haram almost killed by a
suicide bomber in Kaduna before he became President, had been asked to
negotiate on their behalf with the Jonathan Government. When the
North-East and North-West boasted of violence on Christian churches and
Southerners anytime they dared contest for Presidency, they never
thought the same violence would gradually consume them.
The bottom line is that the “core” North is bleeding from self-inflicted
wounds and their leaders know it. But they hide their heads in the sand
for fear that they would be proven wrong by whoever tells them the
truth. A case of self perfection that fears correction from any quarter
that may expose the fact that they are moving in the wrong direction to
self-annihilation. Since reliance on foreign income, politicians plunged
the Country from African richest country before the curse of oil to the
world capital of Poverty after massive oil income. Whoever says money
can make you wealthy or rich has never heard of a country called
Nigeria.
Very soon the whole Country will be consumed by terrorists unless other
parts learn their lessons and prepare to defend their part of the
Country. As long as we have Southerners joining and flaming the
destruction of the Country because of personal greed for tokenism and
backing as candidates for Presidency instead of speaking the truth to
Power, we will all follow Borno violence down the drain. It is no longer
North v. South, the whole Country is threatened during the reign of
Buhari who got elected because another devil that sold his people,
relied on temporary income from the curse of oil as Paradise.
Nigeria known for its Army contribution to Peace in Africa and the world
is now at the mercy of local terrorists financed internally and by
international sects of religious terrorists in the name of God. Buhari
has turned deaf ears to reasonable voices in the North, even the Sultan
that claimed they have never seen so much carnage and destruction within
their own North. Indeed, the voices of reason of both Muslim and
Christian leaders has been branded a coup.
Who is ruling Nigeria? What a change from Buhari/Idiagbon that jailed
people for foreign currencies to this Buhari/Osinbajo that reverted to
cracking down on harmless nonviolent protesters but fear Boko Haram,
militias and coup plotters.
Nigeria has never recovered since the first Coup d’Etat. It turned out
as expected that the Army lacked the intelligence and intellectual
capacity for governance. A few went as far as saying the best military
rule is worse than the worst civilian rule. Well, many of us disagree.
Though Jerry Rawlings did a better job in Ghana in his first coming,
Ghana has since benefited from clean civilian rule. In Nigeria, we are
either recovering from military rule in uniform or in militrician rule
when they change their uniforms to agbada or designer suits.
One of the former stalwarts of the National Party of Nigeria boldly
stated in 1979 that there were two parties in Nigeria: the Military and
NPN. Both parties have mutated into different viruses, but these
leopards never changed their spots. If you take a good look at the
politicians in Nigeria, it will become clear that only Vagabonds, Army
and Thugs are left standing to get into the game of Do or Die. Their
only goal is to go in and loot the treasury. Their supporters that vote
them into power are thugs and hoodlums waiting for turns to loot.
So they hate peaceful activists. They would dare you to oppose them at
your own risk. Most of you must have heard about how harmless and
peaceful protesters of #ENDSARS were massacred. Even worse, the
Commander of the Army that led them, told the Tribunal he would execute
exactly the same Operation again. But once these same Protesters carry
Arms like Boko Haram, Niger Delta Force, OPC or MASSOB; their military
tactics would change to contracts, bribes, foreign scholarships and
political cronies.
It appears that since Babangida broke Buhari, he never recovered. So
scared to death, Buhari refused to change the Service Chiefs, still
figuring out how to prevent another coup d’etat against him. Even
Babangida that had worked against the Buhari Election is enjoying the
lack of retribution from Buhari or his kitchen cabinet. If kidnappers
were brave enough to take the cue from Boko Haram and kidnap another set
of school children right in Buhari’s State when he was at home on
vacation, they fear nobody. Could it have been staged for easy rescue?
Authorities that do not listen to peaceful protests, flame violence or
insurrection that make Revolution inevitable. It is an old adage some
reasonable governments learned from before or after the revolution.
Watch out for those children of the status quo that argue against change
as their country dug itself deeper into poverty. They have vested
interest in the oppression of peaceful demonstrators. They are the
Personal Assistants of the Oppressors located everywhere including the
social media. Even other Africans and people of goodwill worldwide
empathize with Nigerians. Not the children and supporters of these
Vagabonds-In-Power.
The indications are that Buhari has lost his grip on Power to his
kitchen cabinet. When his wife said Buhari did not know some of the
members of his wider cabinet, we doubted his wife since Buhari said she
belonged to the other room. She is not taking chances though. A few
sources claimed she has relocated to Dubai for security reasons. This is
why Nigerians are crying that if the wife of the President is not safe
in Nigeria, nobody can protect the common man. They wonder if Buhari is
really in control, has lost interest in Power or he is being used to
retain Power by ordained oligarchy Mafia; as they did under ailing
President Yar’Adua.
Most of us knew Buhari was a religious fanatic, but had instinctual
intolerance for corruption. Yet, we voted for him as a preference to a
worse evil, Jonathan that legalized corruption with a notion that it was
not necessarily a crime. As Buhari gets older, he has dropped religion,
an opium used to disguise cruelty of man against man. Buhari has also
embrace corruption as it provides comfort for him and his family, not
only in the Muslim world but in the Western world where he sends his
children to school and obtain medical treatment that cannot be provided
in his Country for his people; because he can afford them overseas on
his salary!
All the effort and brains, if they have any since taking over, that
should have been utilized to combat violence are diverted against those
that pointed out their obvious failures. Even Reverend Kuka that voiced
out the mind of most people in Nigeria had been declared a traitor.
Nothing Reverend Kuka said was different from that of the Sultan of
Sokoto that expressed the same caution as Reverend Kuka. So both must be
planning a coup as traitors then?
Buhari must be morally dead. The same man Boko Haram almost killed by a
suicide bomber in Kaduna before he became President, had been asked to
negotiate on their behalf with the Jonathan Government. When the
North-East and North-West boasted of violence on Christian churches and
Southerners anytime they dared contest for Presidency, they never
thought the same violence would gradually consume them.
The bottom line is that the “core” North is bleeding from self-inflicted
wounds and their leaders know it. But they hide their heads in the sand
for fear that they would be proven wrong by whoever tells them the
truth. A case of self perfection that fears correction from any quarter
that may expose the fact that they are moving in the wrong direction to
self-annihilation. Since reliance on foreign income, politicians plunged
the Country from African richest country before the curse of oil to the
world capital of Poverty after massive oil income. Whoever says money
can make you wealthy or rich has never heard of a country called
Nigeria.
Very soon the whole Country will be consumed by terrorists unless other
parts learn their lessons and prepare to defend their part of the
Country. As long as we have Southerners joining and flaming the
destruction of the Country because of personal greed for tokenism and
backing as candidates for Presidency instead of speaking the truth to
Power, we will all follow Borno violence down the drain. It is no longer
North v. South, the whole Country is threatened during the reign of
Buhari who got elected because another devil that sold his people,
relied on temporary income from the curse of oil as Paradise.
Nigeria known for its Army contribution to Peace in Africa and the world
is now at the mercy of local terrorists financed internally and by
international sects of religious terrorists in the name of God. Buhari
has turned deaf ears to reasonable voices in the North, even the Sultan
that claimed they have never seen so much carnage and destruction within
their own North. Indeed, the voices of reason of both Muslim and
Christian leaders has been branded a coup.
Who is ruling Nigeria? What a change from Buhari/Idiagbon that jailed
people for foreign currencies to this Buhari/Osinbajo that reverted to
cracking down on harmless nonviolent protesters but fear Boko Haram,
militias and coup plotters.