If the United Kingdom’s Foreign Minister, Boris Johnson, can describe the
\nLeader of the Opposition Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, as a “mutton-headed
\nold mugwump” and an “Islington herbivore” how on earth should we describe
\nour very own President Muhammadu Buhari in Nigeria?<\/p>\n
As each day passes he looks more and more like the colourful creature
\ncalled Golum in J.R. Tolkien’s ‘Lord of the Rings’ and behaves more and
\nmore like the goblyns and orcs in that same book.<\/p>\n
This is a man who came back from the United Kingdom as an ailing and
\nfading ghost and who, despite all entreties and pleas from men and women
\nof goodwill, has refused to resign.<\/p>\n
Since he came back he has not been seen in any public function, apart from Worse still when his high profile and once very powerful Secretary to the I worked in the Villa as spokesman to President Olusegun Obasanjo 13 years Simply put the SGF was asking the journaliat that put the question to him That is how badly things have degenerated in Buhari’s government as Again three curious events took place in the last few days which all Firstly a Punch Newspaper\u00a0 reporter was marched out of the Villa by the Secondly as many as 20 Ministers and the President’s Chief of Staff This begs the following questions: was this a well-orchestrated protest Thirdly the lying Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, happily told He also said that from now on all files that needed to be treated should Do we need to hear anything else before we can safely come to the Whilst all this was going on and the confusion continued to brew another This is of course the deadly, venomous and utterly shameful snake fight of With accusations and counter-accusations from all sides they are all This is indeed bedlam in its fullest and most pristine form. It is worse A situation where the intelligence and security agencies are merrily The bottom line is that the Presidency is in utter disarray and confusion Last week one rather bold commentator went as far as to describe him as Many, including some of those around him, are wondering why he does not Does he find it so difficult to let go? Has his desire to hold on to power Does our country not deserve to have a president that is physically and The fact of the matter is that for those of us that are not in the The truth is that the consequeces of such confusion and turbulence for a Yet sadly it gets even worse. The most troubling assertion that is making We are told that consequently the country is now being run by a small band When one marries this explosive cocktail to the fact that many are fully That fear is compounded by the utterly chilling and callous public A few days ago he said that Buhari had been “poisoned by his enemies” His assertion and threat, made openly and publicly on his Facebook page, The truth is that Biu’s words betray the mindset and reflects the thinking There are literally millions of murderous and genocidal maniacs like Biu Sadly all this sounds familiar.<\/p>\n Does anyone remember what sparked off the genocide that took place in It all started when the Hutu President was killed in a plane crash and the The result was that in the space of one month close to one million Tutsis The rhetoric of people like Biu points in this direction. Only they will The truth is that we are sitting on a keg of gunpowder in this country and If this happens we will have the historic opportunity to organise This is because the cabal and Buhari’s hard-line supporters and If the President dies whilst on the throne there will be chaos, carnage What they fail to appreciate is that if that were to happen there will be It is unfortunate that things have come to this but let no-one make any We are ready for the very worse and whether anyone likes it or not Gone are the days that our people will be butchered at will in the morbid We pray for our President: that God will forgive him of his many sins, May God help us all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If the United Kingdom’s Foreign Minister, Boris Johnson, can describe the Leader of the Opposition Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, as a “mutton-headed old mugwump” and an “Islington herbivore” how on…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles-opinions"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nthe usual friday<\/span><\/span> mosque prayers, and he has not presided over or been able
\nto attend any of the weekly National Executive Council meetings in the
\nlast three weeks.<\/p>\n
\nFederal Government,\u00a0 Babachir “the Grasscutter” Lawal was asked what his
\nreaction was to the fact that he had just been suspended and stripped of
\nhis job by the Presidency, he asked, in a contemptous and condescending
\nmanner, “who is the Presidency?”<\/p>\n
\nago for three good years before I was appointed as a Minister and joined
\nhis cabinet and I recognise the import of that loaded question.<\/p>\n
\nwho exactly had suspended him in the Presidency because, as far as he was
\nconcerned, the President was no longer in control and other individuals
\nare now making unauthorised decisions in his name and on his behalf
\nwithout his knowledge.<\/p>\n
\ndifferent forces and factions are attempting to grab the space and fill
\nthe widening power vacuum.<\/p>\n
\nconfirm this dangerous state of affairs.<\/p>\n
\nPresident’s Chief Security Officer, without any reference to the
\nPresident’s media team or aides, simply because he wrote a story
\nsuggesting that the President’s ailment was getting worse.<\/p>\n
\nrefused to attend the last Federal Executive Council meeting which was
\npresided over by Professor Yemi Osinbajo, the Vice President.<\/p>\n
\nand boycott or was it just holiday-time for all those Ministers that were
\nabsent?<\/p>\n
\nNigerians that the President “needed to rest” and would henceforth “not
\natted NEC meetings” but would instead be “working from home”.<\/p>\n
\nbe sent to the Presidents sitting room!<\/p>\n
\nconclusion that our President is no longer himself and is indeed on his
\nway out?<\/p>\n
\ncomplicated and dangerous mess was silently unfolding in the background.<\/p>\n
\ndouble-speak, treachery and betrayal that is going on between Ibrahim Magu
\nand his EFCC on the one hand and Ayo Oke and his NIA on the other with the
\nNational Security Advisor, Babagana Mongunu, dancing somewhere in between.<\/p>\n
\ndancing naked in the streets like madmen and bringing shame and opprobium
\nto the institutions that they lead and to our nation and people.<\/p>\n
\nthan the cacaphony of the loud, strange and divided tongues that bellowed
\nand screeched from the biblical Tower of Babel.<\/p>\n
\n“Tarkaring” and “Daboing” themselves before the entire world and exposing
\none anothers dirty little secrets all in a squalid attempt to gain the
\nupper hand in an unfolding internal struggle for power and supremacy, is
\nnot good for the country and is even worse for the government that they
\nall claim to serve.<\/p>\n
\nand the health of the President, despite all pretentions, is obviously
\ngetting far worse and is degenerating by the day.<\/p>\n
\nlooking like a “bag of skin and bones” and described him as a “walking
\nghost”.<\/p>\n
\njust resign, hand over the reigns of power to his Vice President and go
\nback to Daura to take care of his health.<\/p>\n
\nat all costs become as obsessive, compelling and all-consumming as Golum’s
\n“precious ring?”<\/p>\n
\nmentally fit and that is hale and hearty?<\/p>\n
\ncorridors of power but that are in the know, all this is very disturbing.<\/p>\n
\nnation that is not only suffering the worst economic recession in its
\nhistory but that is also going through the greatest pain, trauma,
\ndivision, strife, butchery, hardship and suffering since its civil war,
\nare dangerous and unimaginable.<\/p>\n
\nthe rounds is that the President has lost it to such a degree and that he
\nis so incapacitated by his health challenges that he is hardly ever lucid.<\/p>\n
\nof unelected, dark and evil men and an obsessive, paranoid, unstable,
\ndangerous, volatile, ruthless, power-obsessed, ethnic and religious
\nultra-conservative cabal who have simply refused to let him resign in
\npeace and who are covertly making all the decisions and are actually
\nrunning the country.<\/p>\n
\naware of what will happen in our country if Buhari dies whilst on the
\nthrone it is enough to give us all sleepless nights about the future.<\/p>\n
\ncomments made by one Inusa Saidu Biu who claims to be an officer in the
\nNigerian Police Force.<\/p>\n
\n(meaning southerners and Christians) and that if the President dies he
\nwould personally “shoot 200 people dead”.<\/p>\n
\nin full police uniform whilst carrying weapons and hardware, says a lot
\nand invokes deep concern.<\/p>\n
\nof millions of people from Buhari’s core northern constituency, who think
\nlike him, who do not give a damn about anything or anyone other than
\nBuhari, who see the President as their god and who are ready to kill for
\nhim at the drop of a hat.<\/p>\n
\ncrawling all over the landscape and under the woodwork of the core north
\nand who are waiting to vent their spleen and anger and shed oceans of
\ninnocent blood in the event of anything untoward happening to the
\nPresident.<\/p>\n
\nRwanda in the 1990’s?<\/p>\n
\nHutus were told that the plane had been shot down by their rival Tutsis.<\/p>\n
\nwere hacked to death and butchered in their homes by Hutu mobs who were
\nmotivated by nothing but hate and a desire to effect revenge.<\/p>\n
\nkill far more than one million if given half a chance.<\/p>\n
\nI sincerely hope and pray that the Presidents health improves and some
\nmeasure of order, predictability, sanity, peace and stability is restored.<\/p>\n
\nourselves and vote the APC out in a peaceful election in 2019 but if it
\ndoes not and Buhari dies before the end of his tenure, no-one in his right
\nmind should expect a smooth transition of power to the Vice President.<\/p>\n
\nfootsoldiers simply despise him and will not allow it to happen.<\/p>\n
\nand destruction on an unprecedented and massive scale in our country
\nbecause his core northern support- base will unleash mayhem on Nigeria and
\nparticulary on southerners and Christians that reside in the north.<\/p>\n
\nan equally massive and unprecedented retaliation from the south and from
\nthe people of the Middle Belt and Nigeria will not survive it.<\/p>\n
\nmistake: the will of the south must not be tested.<\/p>\n
\nsouthern unity and solidarity is on the rise.<\/p>\n
\nquest for northern Muslim power and in an attempt to perpetuate
\nHausa-Fulani hegemony without a robust and equally devastating response.<\/p>\n
\ngrant him good health and spare his life but we also warn those that are
\nplanning to harm our people to sheath their swords before they set off a
\nchain of events that will cause an unprecedented, historic and massive
\nconflagration on the African continent, the likes of which have never been
\nseen before.<\/p>\n