{"id":33271,"date":"2014-11-18T23:10:47","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T22:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=33271"},"modified":"2014-11-18T23:10:47","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T22:10:47","slug":"asiwaju-nourishing-vipers-bosom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/articles-opinions\/asiwaju-nourishing-vipers-bosom\/","title":{"rendered":"Asiwaju\u00a0 Nourishing\u00a0\u00a0 Vipers\u00a0\u00a0In His Bosom."},"content":{"rendered":"
Time was when few men arrogated\u00a0 power to themselves via putsch,\u00a0 had\u00a0 our inalienable\u00a0 rights\u00a0 trampled upon.\u00a0 Time was when we all kept sealed lips for the\u00a0 fear of the unknown on account\u00a0 of\u00a0 tsarist repressions.\u00a0 Time was\u00a0 when our gentlemen of the press were clamped down on ,\u00a0 hounded, harassed and thrown\u00a0 into jail.\u00a0 Time was when perceived critics of the military junta\u00a0 were diabolically \u00a0made after , tracked down and sometimes \u00a0 hit\u00a0 before our return to civil democratic rule.\u00a0 Time was when National Democratic Coalition\u00a0 (NADECO) chieftains hurriedly left Nigeria in droves. These were doubtless the\u00a0dark \u00a0days when Nigeria was under the jackboots\u00a0 of the military.<\/div>\n
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These , if I dare say again , were\u00a0 difficult and trying times in varying ways Nigeria went through during the military era under Generals\u00a0 Muhammadu Buhari, Ibrahim Babangida, Sani Abacha and Abdulsalami Abubarkar\u00a0 until the uncrowned winner of 1993 presidential election in Nigeria had to inevitably \u00a0pay the supreme price while claiming his mandate.\u00a0The freest \u00a0and fairest presidential election \u00a0ever in Nigeria hotly contested on a Muslim-Muslim ticket basis\u00a0 like a marriage was annulled and had\u00a0\u00a0the issue \u00a0 bastardized – \u00a0the sovereign wishes of over 160 million Nigerians at the period under sad review.<\/div>\n
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General Muhammadu Buhari\u00a0\u00a0 overthrew a democratically elected civilian government in December 1983 while promising to clear the Augean Stables.\u00a0 From Dodan Barracks in Lagos , Nigeria went out decrees among \u00a0which was the obnoxious Decree Number Four that empowered the \u00a0junta \u00a0to detain Nigerians without trial. Like I did say before rights were curtailed , Nigerians were imprisoned at the drop of a hat \u00a0and the power to\u00a0arrange \u00a0state-sponsored\u00a0and \u00a0organized crimes held sway in Nigeria and this \u00a0was\u00a0exported \u00a0abroad in collaboration with \u00a0international criminal organisations calling to mind the drugging of late \u00a0Dr. Dikko who was\u00a0discovered \u00a0in a large wooden crate\u00a0 at London Stansted\u00a0\u00a0en route to Nigeria, a crime he committed then\u00a0 for which he\u00a0ought to\u00a0have stood trial\u00a0and jailed on losing immunity\u00a0as the\u00a0then\u00a0Head\u00a0of the Federal Military Government.<\/div>\n
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Enough blood has been shed under the watch of the former Head of State who wants to return to power\u00a0probably to round off \u00a0his reign of terror. The Presidential election of 2011 divided the country along ethnic and religious lines.\u00a0Apparently in sympathy with the above-named prior to the elections that brought the present administration four years ago \u00a0Dr Kaita was quoted as saying that \u00a0they will make the country ungovernable for\u00a0 Dr Ebelle Goodluck Jonathan if he wins the presidential election and as luck would have it he really did win. This threat which was initially dismissed with\u00a0 a trivial hand\u00a0 soon after a moment\u00a0 began\u00a0to rear \u00a0its ugly head on the ascending order of magnitude via protests across northern towns and cities \u00a0as election results trickled in on April 17th , 2011\u00a0 and it became\u00a0 clear Buhari had lost, his supporters while \u00a0alleging \u00a0rigging of results , went wild\u00a0, killing , maiming and destroying \u00a0property\u00a0 in protest with no word from the General to call his foot soldiers to order. Well, that is bygone now but\u00a0 that harrowing incident\u00a0 still leaves\u00a0 a scar of distress indelibly\u00a0 on our hearts.<\/p>\n

In modern democracies there\u00a0 is nothing wrong\u00a0 with a formdable opposition in place to check the excesses and constructively\u00a0 criticize the policies of the ruling party. This is normal and not under contention\u00a0 but what obtains in Nigeria today\u00a0 could be better imagined than real. We find\u00a0 nothing short of politics of hate and bitterness at play\u00a0 by the\u00a0 political gladiators who want to see their opponents annihiliated and humiliated out of power and every means is employed to achieve this including sabotage.<\/p>\n

The most popular man today in the mainstream opposition is none other than the Asiwaju of the Yoruba race. This is a man I admire , a political strategist and tactician who has been in the forefront of\u00a0 pro-democracy struggle for many years during the\u00a0 trying days of military rule in Nigeria.\u00a0 He fought doggedly along with other prodemocracy activitists to kick the military out of power and he if you ask me deserves a pat on the back for this. This alone makes him one of Nigeria’s foremost democrats who\u00a0I\u00a0 hold in high esteem. He contested the Lagos State \u00a0 gubernatorial\u00a0 seat which he won resoundingly and that put\u00a0 him at the helm in Lagos for eight calendar years. From there his party the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) rose to capture other states in the South West namely Ogun, Oyo, Osun, and the defunct Midwest now Edo State before the historic merger that eventually\u00a0paved the way for \u00a0the All Progressives Congress (APC).<\/p>\n

Now let us carefully examine the All Progressives \u00a0Congress and the calibre of men in the party’s heirachy who aspire to be the most powerful men in Nigeria. General Muhhamadu Buhari readily comes to mind and we have it on good authority that the former has shown interest in the nation’s plum job and made a declaration again in that regard\u00a0 having failed in three or more \u00a0consecutive \u00a0attempts. On corruption he is often given a clean bill of health by\u00a0his apologists \u00a0who are of the opinion that he alone could pull down certain high-ups from their Olympian heights. Right on cue let us see\u00a0\u00a0 the hackneyed old saying ”first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye”. The embarassing disappearance of\u00a0 $2.9\u00a0<\/span>bn from\u00a0 NNPC Midland\u00a0 bank\u00a0account in London is a cause for concern. We are not also unaware of the missing money under his watch as PTF chairman. Buhari , reports say, said Abacha did not steal Nigeria’s money but we are all aware of the missing billions that have\u00a0 been coming in\u00a0 from Switzerland and this alone makes him an accomplice .\u00a0 While his then second-in-command late General Tunde Idiagbon\u00a0retired \u00a0to Illorin and led a sedentary life until his last days Buhari a morally bankrupt critic kept on romancing with the late dictator Gen. Sani Abacha via\u00a0 juicy contracts and appointments. These \u00a0 are verifiable facts with\u00a0 glaring evidence\u00a0\u00a0 and Buhari can not extricate himself from these culpable corrupt practices.<\/p>\n

There is a question here\u00a0begging \u00a0for an answer which borders on insecurity ravaging the country’s north which should also be\u00a0 addressed. On whom do we blame the insecurity ravaging the north east? \u00a0 Buhari , reports say , has been fundamentally opposed to our military campaign in the region together with his apologists. That again calls his sincerity in question thereby making him one\u00a0 declared protagonist of violence. His extremist views on the religion of Islam is also not under contention. Buhari , we were told , opined that Sharia should be introduced throughout the nooks and crannies of Nigeria in a supposedly secular nation. This ought not to be after all.\u00a0 Is Nigeria heading\u00a0 for\u00a0 a state religion? This is one question that has been agitating me for quite sometime now considering \u00a0 his sympathy which lay \u00a0with the Islamist sect and a good number of other Muslims of northern extraction.<\/p>\n

He , they often say , who wants to sup with the devil must have a long spoon. I stand firm in my conviction that Buhari is a man that could never be trusted all this considered and this is what I wish I could\u00a0 call\u00a0 the\u00a0 Asiwaju’s attention to. Amid the ongoing insurgency he went ahead and declared his intention to contest the presidency without a\u00a0 gun shot in the embattled region. Atiku did and the whole of north east was as silent as the graveyard but the reverse became the case when President Jonathan made a similar declaration sometimes last week.\u00a0 In a renewed fight Chibok was invaded\u00a0 resulting in\u00a0 killings and mass murders and\u00a0many \u00a0women were also abducted by the randy armed terrorist gang. These are eerie happenings which are worth reflecting upon.<\/p>\n

That Buhari has some loyalists in the army whose \u00a0sympathies lay\u00a0 with the Islamist militants\u00a0is not in dispute \u00a0under the existing circumstances. We here in the Diaspora have been watching behind the scenes and great minds ,\u00a0 they say, are no nuisance. Nigerian Army Amour Personnel Carriers \u00a0were burnt\u00a0 to ashes not by\u00a0 the unlawful\u00a0 belligerents\u00a0 – Boko Haram – but by our\u00a0 comrade-in-arms\u00a0\u00a0 that were despatched to battle the militants\u00a0 in a bid to dislodge them from the captured towns. This , if I dare say , is the height of sabotage and this is tantamount to treason which carries\u00a0 nothing short of capital forfeit. These are brood of vipers and it is\u00a0only unfortunate that these are \u00a0the kind of people the Asiwaju romances\u00a0 with. \u00a0 Frankly someone out\u00a0 there has got to bring\u00a0 the Bourdillion Overlord to his senses in order to restore the waning\u00a0 confidence\u00a0of \u00a0Nigerians \u00a0in his party , the ”All Progressives Congress”.<\/p>\n

At this juncture , \u00a0the Asiwaju\u00a0would be better advised to look beyond his nose in the selection of a presidential flagbearer for his party. Thus\u00a0 I ask here, \u00a0 has he forgootten the dangers inherent in romancing with a man who only speaks in the appearance \u00a0of Esau but in the deceptive voice of Jacob?\u00a0 Ay, \u00a0true democrats are born but not made, there is nothing to suggest that Buhari is one neither\u00a0 is\u00a0 there\u00a0 anything\u00a0 to suggest that he is on the royal road to becoming one. Since he staged a comeback Nigeria has never known peace but bloodshed calling to mind\u00a0 the post election violence that engulfed parts of Northern Nigeria , scores of Nigerian notably corp members numbering eleven\u00a0 were killed\u00a0at \u00a0their duty posts in the presidential\u00a0 election he hotly contested with incumbent President Jonathan and the fire of the pre-election threat that they made\u00a0 is raging to this day\u00a0which \u00a0has claimed thousands of lives.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Iyoha John Darlington, aka Lington Donovan writes from Turin, Italy.<\/div>\n
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