{"id":50853,"date":"2016-07-01T17:04:42","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T16:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=50853"},"modified":"2016-07-01T17:04:42","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T16:04:42","slug":"state-nation-buhari-amin-reincarnate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/articles-opinions\/state-nation-buhari-amin-reincarnate\/","title":{"rendered":"State Of The Nation: Buhari , Amin reincarnate"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have found it absolutely necessary to write again after a long while having patiently and anxiously watched \u00a0distressing events as they \u00a0marvelously unfold in the course of our nation’s \u00a0history. I had before now not thought as complex \u00a0as \u00a0Nigeria is that one day a man who seemingly wields absolute powers would emerge using coercive state agents to crush dissenting voices such as we hear and experience today.
\nWe only read in history books about men who had and used absolute powers and one \u00a0never thought it would \u00a0be possible again after standing toe-to-toe with the military which ruled over Nigeria with a caprice but little did one \u00a0know one \u00a0was wallowing in the pool of ignorance. In fact, what I thought would never be possible in my homeland is what is playing out \u00a0today under the guise of prosecuting a selective anti-graft war.
\nDespots the world over often \u00a0adduce reasons for their despicable actions and that is what is at play in Nigeria today. Some Nigerians now live in perpetual fear not knowing on \u00a0whose turn the big stick wielded by Buhari would crushingly \u00a0descend \u00a0under the guise of \u00a0cleansing the proverbial Augean Stables.
\nCasting \u00a0a cursory glance at the \u00a0legendary \u00a0Solon who lived between 640 and 560 BCE, one would doubtless take his warning to heart about the ‘Signs of Dictatorship.’
\n”The power of hail and snow springs from a cloud,<\/em>
\nand thunder from the fire of lightning.<\/em>
\nStrong men destroy a city and a tyrant<\/em>
\nenslaves a people through their ignorance.<\/em>
\nA ship once out of port is hard to capture:<\/em>
\nknow this now before it is too late.”<\/em>
\nNear the end of his life, we read, \u00a0Solon warned the citizens that Peisistratus, the General in the final War for Salamis and leader of northeastern Attica, was becoming tyrannical. \u00a0Yet Solon’s warnings were \u00a0dismissed with a trivial hand as the rantings of a raving lunatic. But over time events proved him right when \u00a0Peisistratus did show his true tyrannical colors.
\nA similar scenario is dangerously unfolding in Nigeria, President Buhari has been found \u00a0consistently flouting the Nigerian law to favour him and members of his immediate constituency as he is often caught pants down on several occasions abusing political powers. He has made dangerous incursions lately on the legislative arm of government for the devil to pay and this is what we all resolutely resisted in the dark days of military rule in Nigeria that necessitated our sudden flight \u00a0from our homeland \u00a0as the state \u00a0coercive agents were sent after us at the period under sad review.
\nMany of us were cut down and some of us that survived that brutal repression who I had thought would chart a new course for Nigeria only \u00a0returned to scatter with a rake what took us oceans of time to gather with a spade by using state resources to enthrone a government whose coercive sword now hang over our heads like the ancient sword of Damocles.
\nWhat is more disturbing under the existing circumstances is that Nigeria and its pro-government media outlets consistently disseminate falsehood which their diehard partisans and apologists fall for hook, line, and sinker from \u00a0their mine of inexhaustible lies.
\nI would start here by drawing Nigerians’ attention to Bola Ahmed Tinubu who was one of NADECO chieftains. \u00a0The National Democratic Coalition, (NADECO), a pro-democracy group fought to end the tyrannical rule in Nigeria and Tinubu was at the forefront in the dark days of \u00a0this prodemocracy struggle. \u00a0As luck would have it , the forces of light triumphed and we carried the day. Tinubu fought doggedly to the admiration of all \u00a0and shortly after that fight began to yield the desired dividend he \u00a0entered a political alliance that brought about a change of government in Nigeria. We had hoped for a better life but only to discover that we have been caught in an agonizing web of an egocentric loner who is bent on none other than personal aggrandizement.
\nIn an attempt to cover up \u00a0his misdeeds and irredeemable mortal sins against Nigeria, we often see Tinubu running here and there justifying many harrowing blunders capable of triggering off a revolution knowing full well he would be hard hit as many Nigerians are tacitly filled with resentment for \u00a0his culpable and \u00a0ignominious role in the obviously sad situation Nigerians find themselves today.
\nI wonder how he will ever \u00a0extricate himself and \u00a0escape when this brewing resentment harboured against him \u00a0eventually snowballs into a full-blown political crisis in Nigeria. Homer, they say, sometimes nods. Much as this writer believes that Tinubu is human and could err in some of his actions , it is for him to openly confess his mistakes which now tell ominously on everyone and \u00a0Nigerians in the Diaspora inclusive. The cost of running our homes in Nigeria has tripled with little or nothing left with us here to settle our bills. Life has never been the same again over here since Buhari assumed the reins of power through the agency of Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
\nTinubu has made many provocative statements lately to cover up his culpable misdeeds against Nigeria via \u00a0clever blame game of the Jonathan administration. He has held that the previous administration is one vast empire of corruption. Casting a glance at Corruption Perception Index, \u00a0many \u00a0advanced nations still fight corruption to this day but that does not bring government business to a standstill without viable economic policies to reconstruct the country.
\nBefore the advent of \u00a0PDP \u00a0in 1999 Nigeria had been rocked by a massive corruption scandal which Buhari denied calling to mind the statement credited to him about \u00a0the billions of our taxpayers’ money Abacha stole and stashed away in foreign bank vaults. Buhari did \u00a0vehemently say Abacha did not steal but one wonders how he often comports himself when Abacha’s loot is increasingly being \u00a0released by foreign governments and returned to the country.
\nIn advanced democracies, that is enough for him to resign, if you ask me \u00a0as \u00a0that makes him an accessory after the fact of money laundering operations. How many Nigerians have dared chided him for this? No one has certainly done this \u00a0for fear of being thrown in stir on some trumped-up charges.
\nMost disturbing is the fact that Nigeria has never been this polarized before Buhari assumed office as Nigeria’s democratically ‘elected’ civilian president. Only recently it made news headlines when the Sultan of Sokoto raised an alarm that the ban on imported rice should be urgently lifted as hunger ravages Nigeria, Tinubu has never lent his voice to \u00a0calls like these \u00a0but often makes statements to assuage the ruffled feelings of \u00a0the pauperized masses \u00a0that Jonathan is responsible for the ”0-1-1, \u00a00-0- 1, and sometimes 1-0-1 frequency” on \u00a0which many homes operate in Nigeria these days \u00a0but we never had it this bad during Jonathan days!
\nTinubu would sooner \u00a0attribute this to the money stolen from the public till by the immediate past PDP government than incompetence and mediocrity of the ruling All Progressives Congress. Who were these politicians, if one may ask? Over 75% of them make up the ruling All Progressives Congress today. Little wonder the outgoing British Prime Minster described Nigeria as ”fantastically corrupt”. These same men dine and wine with Buhari who is laden with an \u00a0overinflated sense of self-worth.
\nIf Buhari is genuinely fighting corruption, the likes of Amaechi, Tinubu, Fashola , Okorocha and Oshiomhone, his Chief of Army Staff, to mention but a few \u00a0have no business being in a government that is supposedly prosecuting an anti-graft war if we need reminding.
\nThe \u00a0primary duty of any government is to develop the country by formulating viable economic policies. We have had economic recessions \u00a0in the past when the price of crude \u00a0oil fell sharply as a result of a glut in the international market. Nigeria returned to civil democratic rule in 1999 after the prodigal years of military rule. Obasanjo inherited a country saddled with a massive debt burden and without apportioning blames delve into work immediately \u00a0by assembling an \u00a0 economic team made up of competent technocrats, paid off Nigeria’s debts and built up the foreign reserves up to the tune of over $40 billion before \u00a0President Yar’Adua came to power who unfortunately died with \u00a0his boots on.
\nJonathan took over and carried on from where his predecessor stopped but that government was hijacked by tacit threats \u00a0from every quarter \u00a0so much so that serving \u00a0Ministers often refused orders from the man supposedly at the helm as part of the covert operations \u00a0to unseat an ”iniquitous regime” which was eventually achieved through the instrumentality of the ballot box via doctored election \u00a0results \u00a0particularly from the desert city of Kano allegedly \u00a0masterminded and hatched by \u00a0former Governor Rabiu Kwankwanso. This makes him an accomplice with Bola Tinubu for actively partaking in the ill-conceived plot to upturn and eventually bastardize the sovereign wishes of the Nigerian people which, I dare say, is tantamount to a civilian coup d’etat.
\nThere is no denying the fact that Nigerians lived better lives under the PDP-controlled federal government. Buhari had before now asserted that no Nigerian is above the law which he probably drew from his leftist ideology \u00a0but \u00a0we have learned to our dismay that he lied yet again because events playing out push us dangerously close to total despotism \u00a0because disingenuously \u00a0he claims that all is equal, but he actually decides who should establish the rules for this equality \u00a0as he singlehandedly controls the courts and all the security apparatuses. I wish to draw your attention to a \u00a0book entitled ”A Splendor of Letters”, authored by \u00a0Nicholas A. Basbanes which \u00a0reminds us of \u00a0 the totalitarian world of Orwell’s 1984 that, ”a morally corrupt government maintains absolute power by systematically depriving its subjects of their identities and by denying them any hope of a cultural legacy.”
\nToday in Nigeria , it is no \u00a0news that we have \u00a0lost the brisk pace of diversity and the genius of individual creativity. \u00a0A pauperized and hunger nation blessed with human and natural resources only prods \u00a0a pace set by centralized planning, red-tapism, rules without responsibility, and regimentation without recourse.
\nMany people have been arraigned by Nigeria’s anti-graft body, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) for diverting the money meant for arms procurement and for funding \u00a0PDP campaign with public funds in the run-up to the 2015 general election. While I support and throw my weight behind the \u00a0ongoing anti-graft war , I insist with all the emphasis at my command that this fight must be all inclusive if it is anything to go by. The source of Buhari campaign fund I had written before now must be probed in the true spirit of equality before the law, for everyman, they often say, is born free and therefore equal in right and dignity.
\nOur patience has been tested and over-stretched for too long and the need for the Buhari regime in Abuja \u00a0to do the needful keeps on coming like a recurring decimal no matter how surreptitiously he \u00a0tries to suppress this. If Buhari does not do it today , another person will \u00a0certainly revisit this crying ”sin” when Buhari leaves office before long for the \u00a0power you hold today \u00a0is like \u00a0a transient \u00a0cold spell. There is no restating the obvious that over 65% \u00a0Nigerians whose votes installed this government \u00a0has been \u00a0ruefully forced into a volte face.
\nNigerians cannot live normal lives, some have become endangered species in their places of nativity, since their whole existence is disrupted day by day \u00a0by the perverse nature of a regime which employs the propaganda machinery and the impunity of the political police, in a despotic version of socialism typical of a \u00a0totalitarian State that \u00a0ends up destroying private lives.
\nWe have had armed invasion of communities by armed herders leaving behind \u00a0scenes of sorrow , tears and blood and media campaigns to denounce these culpable acts spark off ill-feelings from natives of the region in power \u00a0calling to mind the recent invasion of Benue and Enugu communities where many villages were sacked and resident murdered in cold blood.
\nThere is no denying the fact that they are \u00a0emboldened to commit the dastardly acts because that who is \u00a0”our own” is at the helm . I remember the police anywhere in southern Nigeria pull the trigger once they discover you are in possession of a firearm during their routine \u00a0”Stop and Search” operations without waiting for any explanation. But these nomadic herders \u00a0go about armed \u00a0with automatic rifles \u00a0and carry out crimes of varying degrees \u00a0including armed robbery on which the police often turn a blind eye because ”their own” is at the helm.
\nThe Nigerian gullible public has been fed with heinous lies to extenuate their inability to perform. Like I said before at the beginning of this piece the Buhari-led government has resorted to playing the blame game to misrepresent facts employing the lying lips of Alhaji Lai Mohammed. The fact is that he finds himself failing at every turn because he has woefully failed to employ competent economic managers to run the economy. Buhari \u00a0is a man bound by oath to avenge the wrongs inflicted on the north \u00a0and, in pursuit of revenge, he will stop at nothing to until every dissenting voice is brutally crushed.
\nYou know as well as I know that for every lie told today to cover up one’s misdeed or incompetence, there is always an ‘expiry date’ and the propaganda machine becomes seized up \u00a0 once the \u00a0‘expiry \u00a0date’ appears on the horizon.
\nIf we must live together as one there are many ways to avoid conflicts but the black man’s language is a life characterized by \u00a0political \u00a0turbulence and violence like such we have in Nigeria today. Little wonder President Botha gave a graphic picture of \u00a0the black man which \u00a0people referred to as a hate speech. Be that as it may , \u00a0what is playing out in Nigeria today \u00a0is not different from the surreal imagery employed by the late white South African leader to describe the black man.
\nBelow is the speech allegedly made by former White South African President P.W Botha to his cabinet over two decades ago.
\nThe speech below:<\/em>
\n\u201d We are not obliged even the least to try to prove to anybody and to the blacks that we are superior people. We have demonstrated that to the blacks in 1001 ways. The Republic of South Africa that we know of today has not been created by wishful thinking. We have created it at the expenses of intelligence, sweat, and blood\u2026\u2026We do not pretend like other whites that we like the blacks<\/em>
\n”The fact that, blacks look like human beings and act like human beings do not necessarily make them sensible human beings. Hedgehogs are not porcupines and lizards are not crocodiles because they look alike. If God had wanted us to be equal to the blacks, he would have created us all of a uniform colour and intellect.<\/em>
\n”But he created us differently: Whites, Blacks, Yellow, Rulers and the ruled. Intellectually,we are superior to the Blacks; that has been proven beyond any reasonable doubt over the years. I believe that the Afrikaner is honest, God fearing person, who has demonstrated practically the right way of being. By now every one of us has seen it practically that the Blacks cannot rule themselves.<\/em>
\n”Give them guns and they will kill each other. They are good at nothing else but making a noise, dancing, marrying many wives and indulging in sex. Let us all accept that the Blackman is a symbol of poverty, mental inferiority, laziness and emotional incompetence.<\/em>
\n\u2026.. The average Black does not plan his life beyond a year\u201d.<\/em>
\nHow many Nigerian leaders , both past ,and, present , genuinely have the intention to lead? How many Nigerian leaders, both past, and present , have the will to render selfless service to regenerate the country? How many Nigerian leaders are genuinely committed to the unity of Nigeria? What we see is a particular region and tribe assuming superiority over other regions while they forget Nigeria was welded together by the amalgamation of different ethnic nationalities which of course, have the right for self-determination should they be no longer comfortable in the contraption.
\nAs powerful as the Soviet Union, it broke into fragmentary Republics when they discovered they could no more stay together. You can not \u00a0assume the role of a dictator and an overlord because you are in command of the nation’s \u00a0armory. Many dictators have their places in history and we know what befell them at various points in time.
\nWithout pause, President Buhari \u00a0deliberately and willfully undermines the Constitutional rights of \u00a0Nigerians that he has sworn to preserve, protect and defend. \u00a0Until we truly understand that his \u00a0lawlessness will lead to the complete dismantling of our rights, we will not be able to keep our liberties from being ravaged. Buhari convicts people from the Villa and thereafter \u00a0dishes out orders to the Judges like the late Idi Amin Dada \u00a0which they only read while giving their ruling calling to mind some detainees who have in fact been granted bail by courts of competent jurisdiction.
\nOnce this pattern of lawlessness becomes entrenched we can no longer “continue to be a Republic under the rule of law.” \u00a0Rather “we will be subject to Presidential Whim” and abuse by any future leader of any political party. \u00a0This is the true legacy of \u00a0Buhari but it has become increasingly necessary to read him the Riot Act by taking up the gauntlet and fighting back to resist his presidential Whims and Caprices before we all find ourselves in dishonorable graves.
\n*Why does Buhari persist in this feudal and backward way of thinking as soon as it turns to talking \u00a0about restructuring Nigeria…….?<\/em>
\nFind out in part 2 of this article.<\/em>
\n*Iyoha John Darlington is a social critic, political analyst, and public commentator on national and global issues.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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