{"id":64911,"date":"2019-02-20T16:11:29","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T15:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=64911"},"modified":"2019-02-20T16:11:29","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T15:11:29","slug":"yes-oshiomhole-no-mr-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/articles-opinions\/yes-oshiomhole-no-mr-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes Oshiomhole, No Mr. President!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m-9100843359893831806\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \">\n<p>By Sufuyan Ojeifo<\/p>\n<p>In Monday\u2019s opening ceremony of the caucus meeting of the All Progressives<br \/>\nCongress (APC), broadcast live from the party\u2019s national secretariat,<br \/>\nAbuja, President Muhammadu Buhari reacted fully to the Independent<br \/>\nNational Electoral Commission\u2019s (INEC) postponement of the presidential<br \/>\nand national assembly election, 48 hours earlier.<\/p>\n<p>The convergence of top-echelon APC members provided a very good<br \/>\nopportunity for Mr. President to ventilate his disappointment and anger at<br \/>\nwhat he read as incompetent management of the critical electoral process<br \/>\nby the Commission.\u00a0It was clear that Buhari spoke to the issue of<br \/>\npostponement from his heart.<\/p>\n<p>Dropping his prepared speech, he spoke ex-tempore, after the national<br \/>\nchairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, had rambunctiously taken the electoral<br \/>\nbody and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the cleaners.<br \/>\nAs chairman of the ruling party and a critical stakeholder in the<br \/>\nelection, Oshiomhole, in his trademark, compelling oratory identified and<br \/>\ndealt with the issues.<\/p>\n<p>Oshiomhole took on the INEC whom he accused of colluding with the PDP to<br \/>\nabort the February 16 presidential and national assembly election. That<br \/>\nwas not all. He accused the electoral body of plotting to manipulate the<br \/>\ngeneral election against the APC.<\/p>\n<p>For, instance, he claimed the Commission gave prior notice of the<br \/>\npostponement of the February 16 election to the PDP. These were all grave<br \/>\nallegations.\u00a0 Nobody should fault Oshiomhole for leveling these serious<br \/>\nallegations, especially if there is no specific evidence to conclusively<br \/>\ncounter them.<\/p>\n<p>I have read the quick riposte by the Speaker of the House of<br \/>\nRepresentatives, Yakubu Dogara, wherein he said: \u201cThis is a very<br \/>\nsurprising statement considering the fact that the Federal Government<br \/>\ncontrols every institution and agency involved in the electoral process,<br \/>\nincluding the CBN, Nigerian Air Force, and Aviation authorities, among<br \/>\nothers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dogara had continued: \u201cWe are also very familiar with the pressure brought<br \/>\non INEC by top government officials and APC leaders to go ahead with the<br \/>\nelections despite not being adequately prepared\u2026. We are also aware the<br \/>\nAPC wanted the INEC chairman to conduct elections in some States and<br \/>\npostpone in other States so as to have staggered elections.\u00a0 It should<br \/>\nalso be noted that the areas that would have been affected by inadequate<br \/>\ndelivery of materials were PDP strongholds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These accusations and counter accusations are the stuff that political<br \/>\nconfrontations are made of. Oshiomhole was right to throw his devastating<br \/>\npunches at the PDP while Dogara was in apple-pie order to deliver his<br \/>\ncounter punches at the APC. The development has tweaked and livened up the<br \/>\npolitical terrain.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, it appears that 2015 events are repeating themselves.\u00a0 Then the<br \/>\nruling PDP was accusing the opposition APC of collaborating with the INEC<br \/>\nand enjoying the electoral body\u2019s sympathy. The Jonathan administration<br \/>\nwas even pressured to remove the then INEC Chairman, Professor Attahiru<br \/>\nJega, just as Buhari had been called upon to sack Professor Mahmoud<br \/>\nYakubu.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, many Nigerians have not forgotten the shameful protest by Elder<br \/>\nGodsday Orubebe (then a cabinet minister) at the collation centre,<br \/>\naccusing Jega of bias for APC\u2019s candidate (Buhari). It does appear all<br \/>\nthose scenarios are being re-enacted. How so similar! How so real! The<br \/>\neventual bigger picture could just end up being a classic replay of the<br \/>\n2015 electoral saga, from the way things are panning out.<\/p>\n<p>With the goodwill the APC enjoyed then as an underdog or whipping boy in<br \/>\n2015, the goodwill the PDP, as opposition or underdog, appears to be<br \/>\nenjoying, Oshiomhole was right to take on the INEC and the PDP in the<br \/>\nmanner he did, sparing no jabs. But to those who are not politically<br \/>\ndiscerning or versed in the dynamics of electoral contests, Oshiomhole<br \/>\nwas, perhaps, only crying wolf where none existed.<\/p>\n<p>I do not think Oshiomhole was playing to the gallery or putting up an act<br \/>\nto veil APC and the Presidency\u2019s actual feelings or positions.\u00a0 I think<br \/>\nOshiomhole was serious about his claims. And, I think he was right to have<br \/>\nverbalized them the way he did. This is a power game where winners take no<br \/>\nprisoners. If I had doubted the sincerity of Oshiomhole\u2019s histrionics,<br \/>\nevery modicum of doubts dissipated immediately Buhari began to ventilate<br \/>\nhis anger.<\/p>\n<p>It was clear Buhari was going to be frank and obtrusive when he chose to<br \/>\nspeak ex-tempore.\u00a0 He had effectively adopted and deployed the speech of<br \/>\nOshiomhole as an anchor to further harangue the opposition parties and<br \/>\nthose who had perfected plots to perpetrate electoral malpractices during<br \/>\nthe rescheduled series of election.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently unconvinced by the reasons offered by INEC in postponing the<br \/>\nFebruary 16 election a few hours to the commencement of the exercise, the<br \/>\npresident who noted that all funds required by the commission were made<br \/>\navailable, assured that the development, which led to the poll<br \/>\npostponement would be investigated at the end of the election.<\/p>\n<p>While I don\u2019t see anything wrong in that or in the declaration by the<br \/>\npresident that he was disappointed at the seeming incompetence of the<br \/>\nelectoral body, as it was within his constitutional powers to cause<br \/>\ninvestigation of INEC\u2019s perceived failure and within his rights to comment<br \/>\non how he feels about the let-down by government agencies to deliver on<br \/>\ntheir mandates, there were areas of the president\u2019s speech which I<br \/>\nconsider extreme and tendentious.<\/p>\n<p>The declaration to expressly direct the nation\u2019s security agencies to be<br \/>\nruthless against ballot box snatchers or the threat to influential<br \/>\npolitical leaders who attempt to lead their supporters to snatch ballot<br \/>\nboxes during the election that they should be ready to do that at the<br \/>\nexpense of their life is, to me, a resort to jungle justice. That part of<br \/>\nthe speech and other similar aspects that tended to reinforce the theme of<br \/>\njungle justice was not presidential or statesmanlike.<\/p>\n<p>I say no to Mr. President on that outlandish declaration.\u00a0 I can<br \/>\nunderstand his pains and frustrations at electoral manipulations.\u00a0 I<br \/>\nremember the fate that he suffered on that score in the 2003, 2007 and<br \/>\n2011 presidential elections until 2015 when he won, defeating an incumbent<br \/>\nto clinch the presidential prize. I remember the statement credited to him<br \/>\nahead of the 2015 election to the effect that the dog and the baboon would<br \/>\nbe soaked in their blood if what happened (rigging) in the 2011<br \/>\npresidential election was allowed to repeat itself in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>I know the celebrated statement was a product of frustration with a<br \/>\ncompromised system that could not deliver justice.\u00a0 And, having had the<br \/>\nopportunity to be president, I had expected Mr. President to encourage a<br \/>\nprocess that would have culminated in a reform of our nation\u2019s electoral<br \/>\nsystem in all its ramifications.\u00a0 For instance, the Electoral Act<br \/>\nAmendment Bill, making the use of card readers mandatory should have been<br \/>\nsigned into an Act.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, the INEC must be commended for administratively making it<br \/>\nobligatory for only holders of recognizable permanent voter cards to vote<br \/>\non Election Day. It is part of effort to bolster the integrity of the<br \/>\nprocess. This will make it easy for winners and losers of the series of<br \/>\nelection to accept the outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>This is the ultimate, reasonable expectation from the electoral process.<br \/>\nAny mischief that circumvents this reasonable expectation should be cured<br \/>\nthrough the laid-down procedures circumscribed by extant laws.\u00a0 Nobody is<br \/>\npermissible or justifiable to issue illegal order that ballot snatchers<br \/>\nshould be shot on sight. Mr. President lost me on that score.<\/p>\n<p>There are laws to take care of electoral malpractice, especially<br \/>\nSectionn129(4) of the Constitution which prescribes a two-year<br \/>\nimprisonment for offenders. What the president should have done or said<br \/>\nwas to declare that he would deploy the power of his office to ensure that<br \/>\nperpetrators of electoral malpractices are expeditiously prosecuted and<br \/>\nsanctioned. Anything short of this is a retreat to Hobessian state of<br \/>\nnature and a resort to unconscionable and desperate illegality, as Mr.<br \/>\nPresident had indicated in his speech at the APC caucus meeting. I hope he<br \/>\nwill not keep fidelity with his avowed intention or directive.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Ojeifo contributed this piece via\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:ojwonderngr@yahoo.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ojwonderngr@yahoo.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sufuyan Ojeifo In Monday\u2019s opening ceremony of the caucus meeting of the All Progressives Congress (APC), broadcast live from the party\u2019s national secretariat, Abuja, President Muhammadu Buhari reacted fully&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles-opinions"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Yes Oshiomhole, No Mr. President! 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