{"id":71807,"date":"2020-02-17T03:34:18","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T02:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=71807"},"modified":"2020-02-17T03:34:18","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T02:34:18","slug":"an-open-letter-to-president-muhammadu-buhari-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/articles-opinions\/an-open-letter-to-president-muhammadu-buhari-2\/","title":{"rendered":"AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By: Femi Fani-Kayode<\/p>\n

Mr. President, many believe that you cannot read and those that believe
\nthat you can claim that you cannot go beyond three lines. They say
\noutside of that you can only comprehend cartoons.<\/p>\n

I do not share either view. I know you well enough to concede that when
\nyou consider a literary submission of sufficient importance you have the
\nprescence of mind, discipline, health, intelligence and ability to read
\nthrough it very slowly and very carefully weighing up every word.\u00a0 And
\nthat is precisely as it should be.<\/p>\n

The first open letter that I wrote to you was in December 2015 and the
\nfollowing serves as the second.<\/p>\n

You will forgive me because this is a long letter and I am fully aware
\nthat your attention span or ability to retain too much information in
\none fell swoop may not be as good as it used to be.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless I urge you to do your best to muster the courage, energy
\nand intellectual stamina to stay the course and to find the time out of
\nyour busy schedule to read it from beginning to end.<\/p>\n

I have written it because our nation is entering into dangerous and
\nprecarious waters and I sense that something will give very soon. I am
\ntherefore\u00a0 constrained to use this medium to bring my observations to
\nyour attention.<\/p>\n

Be rest assured that I speak out of nothing but love and concern for the
\nwelfare of the Nigerian people and it is not my intention to insult you
\nor undermine and disrespect your office but rather to shine the light of
\ntruth on all your activities with a view to assisting and encouraging
\nyou to change your ways.<\/p>\n

You will agree with me that, no matter how bitter it may be, that truth
\nmust be told. This is a sacred obligation on our part as leaders and a
\nmatter of duty and honor.<\/p>\n

I owe you, the Nigerian people and posterity that much and I have little
\ndoubt that no matter how badly you may feel after reading it, history
\nwill vindicate me and prove me right and one day you will acknowledge
\nand recognise the profundity, wisdom and foresight in my constant and
\nconsistent criticisms, admonitions and counsel.<\/p>\n

Outside of that it is my earnest prayer that the God of Heaven, whose I
\nam and whom I serve, will judge between you and I.<\/p>\n

Your Excellency, kindly note and consider the following.<\/p>\n

You released hundreds of Boko Haram fighters from prison claiming that
\nthey are reformed and a few days later 30 of your citizens are blown up
\nby the same Boko Haram in Borno state.<\/p>\n

Worse still on that same day 16 members of the same family and four
\nothers were herded into a room and burnt alive by Fulani militants in
\nKaduna state.<\/p>\n

After these terrible events instead of rushing back home to stand with
\nyour people, you stayed in Addis Ababa, lamenting and crying about the
\nsecurity situation in Libya and you sent your Vice to a funeral in
\nNairobi. Such insensitivity, even by your own standards, is rarely seen.<\/p>\n

It took you three long days to finally see fit to leave your foreign
\nfriends, leave Addis Ababa and fly directly to Maiduguri to express your
\ncondolences to the Governor and people of Borno.<\/p>\n

Even then you could not muster the courage to go to the town of Auno
\nwhere the bombing took place but only to Maiduguri, the capital of the
\nstate.<\/p>\n

Understandably you were received with boos, jeers and shouts of “ba ma
\nso” (meaning “we dont want”) by the crowds that lined the streets and
\nthis was an eloquent testimony to the fact that the entire nation,
\nincluding the north that you claim to represent and be a champion of, is
\nfed up with you and can no longer bear your incompetence and inability
\nto run the affairs of our nation.<\/p>\n

Worst still hours after your condolence visit Boko Haram attacked
\nMaiduguri itself hitting one of its suburbs called Jidari Polo.<\/p>\n

Their leader, a cowardly creature that can best be described as a
\npsychopathic, delusional, sociopathic, mentally-deranged, murderous,
\nbloodthirsty, bloodlusting and unconciable monster by the name of Sheik
\nAbubakar Shekau, even had the nerve to send you a public warning in a
\nrecorded message that was released to the public after you left in which
\nhe arrogantly and boastfully declared that you must never come back to
\nBorno again or you would be attacked and that you “should fear and serve
\nGod and not cows”. He added the following,<\/p>\n

“Buhari thinks he is a general but God says he is nothing. He hasn’t
\nachieved anything in the sight of God. Buhari is deceiving the people
\nand playing to the gallery”.<\/p>\n

Mr. President he has sent his message to you and to Nigeria and we have
\nheard him loud and clear.<\/p>\n

Yet most disturbing was not his sheer effontry but the fact that the
\nonly thing that you had to offer the leaders and people of Borno state
\nwhen you got there was a lame and self-debasing question which was “I
\nwonder how Boko Haram still survives?”<\/p>\n

You went further by blaming them for “not taking care of local security”
\nforgetting that that is meant to be your job and not theirs.<\/p>\n

In your so-called condolence visit you refused to take responsibility
\nfor your own inaction and failure and instead you sought to pass the
\nbuck to the very victims of terror that you claim to have come to mourn!<\/p>\n

You refused to inspire and encourage them and instead you accused them
\nof, at best, rresponsible behaviour and, at worst, collusion with the
\nenemy.<\/p>\n

This is not just a case of rubbing salt in their wounds but it is more
\nlike blowing them up and killing them all over again. Worse still as you
\nspoke your Minister of Defence, who sat just a few feet away from you,
\nfell fast asleep!<\/p>\n

Mr. President I really do wonder whether you have any feeling or any
\ncompassion at all? Has the milk of human kindness stopped flowing
\nthrough your veins?<\/p>\n

Do you know that young students, women, infants and babies were amongst
\nthose that were blown up in the Auno atrocity?<\/p>\n

Yes you issued a statement immediately but you didn’t show up till three
\ndays later and your Vice, who was in the country the day it happened,
\nnever showed up at all and instead jetted out to President Arap Moi’s
\nburial in Nairobi!<\/p>\n

Kindly tell me what the Nigerian people have done to deserve this level
\nof contempt? Or is there more to it than meets the eye?<\/p>\n

Forgive me Mr. President but I am constrained to ask, why do you love
\nterrorism, bloodshed and violence so much? Why do you find it so easy to
\nforgive terrorists that are slaughtering your own people? Are you
\nfeeding your spiritual foundation and getting your power from the
\nspilling of innocent blood?<\/p>\n

Meanwhile your own Chief of Army Staff has told us today that<\/p>\n

“we have defeated insurgency but we are facing the challenge of
\nterrorism. There is no-where you will not find Boko Haram, even in Lagos
\nhere, there are Boko Haram. In Kaduna there are Boko Haram. There are
\nmore across the North East. Many have been arrested here in Lagos. We
\nhave been tracking them. We arrest them and take them into custody”.<\/p>\n

I commend the Chief of Army Staff for his admission of failure but what
\nhe didn’t add was that after taking them “into custody” you ordered him
\nto release them and even draft some of them into the Nigerian Army on
\nthe spurious grounds that they have repented and that they have been
\nreformed.<\/p>\n

Again the truth is that neither you or him ever “defeated insugency” or
\nanything else. Instead you encouraged and supported it!\u00a0 Both of you
\nhave failed the Nigerian people just as I predicted that you would and
\nif you had any decency or honor you would BOTH resign.<\/p>\n

Aside that it takes a very mean, callous, wicked and cruel President and
\nCommander-in-Chief to release 1,400 terrorists who have murdered,
\nbutchered, slaughtered, tortured and maimed his soldiers and terrorised
\nhis people over the last 5 years.<\/p>\n

Mr. President I am constrained to tell you that some believe that you
\nare a sadist! They believe that your heart is as hard as stone and your
\nsoul is as black as night.<\/p>\n

Relevant and instructive are the words of Mr. Charles Ogbu, a brilliant
\nwriter and essayist who has consistently proved that he is not only
\ninsightful but also deeply profound. Three days after the Auno bombing
\nhe wrote the following:<\/p>\n

“Those who are asking for the sack of the Service Chiefs as a solution
\nto the upsurge in Boko Haram terrorism are missing the point.<\/p>\n

Nigeria is not currently being overrun by terrorists because we have a
\nset of incompetent service Chiefs or soldiers who cannot fight the
\nterrorists. Not at all.
\nThe only reason the Boko Haram terrorists are having a field day is
\nbecause we have a President and a Commander in Chief who shares the same
\nideology as the terrorists and as a result prefers pandering to them as
\nopposed to fighting them”.<\/p>\n

He went further by writing,<\/p>\n

“In fact a betting man would bet that the only difference between the
\nBoko Haram terrorists killing, maiming and beheading Nigerians in the
\nNortheast and our President and Commander-In-Chief is in their name and
\nlocation. One is named “Boko Haram” and operates from the bush while the
\nother one is named “Muhammadu Buhari” and operates from Aso Rock. If we
\nwere to remove the cloak of fear of detention by state oppressive
\nforces, we would all admit they are both pursuing the same goal and
\ndoing a very good job of it. You that is reading this, you know this is
\nexactly what is happening even if you may not want to publicly say it
\nfor whatever reason”.<\/p>\n

He concluded by asking,<\/p>\n

“Who ‘rehabilitates’ and releases captured terrorists back into the wild
\nat a time the terrorists are still visiting death and destruction on his
\ncountry? Even America with her sophisticated military doesn’t release
\narrested terrorists in the heat of the war because the chances of these
\nterrorists going back into the wild to continue killing are very high”.<\/p>\n

Mr. President, forgive me for saying so but the verdict is out and Mr.
\nOgbu has made a valid point. This calls for much soul-searching on your
\npart.<\/p>\n

I urge you to bear in mind that trading in the blood of your own people
\nand indulging in all manner of barbarity, suppression of dissent,
\npersecution of your perceived enemies and evil comes with a heavy price.<\/p>\n

Every Pharaoh, Sennacherub, Herod, Jezebel and Nebuchadnezzar has a bad
\nend.<\/p>\n

Every tyrant, no matter how powerful and highly-placed, will eventually
\naccount to God and the people for his brutality and wickedness. Yours
\nwill be no different.<\/p>\n

Anyone that doubts that should consider the plight of the Sudan’s former
\nPresident, General Al Bashir. As\u00a0 the great black American Nation of
\nIslam leader and one of my favourite heroes, Malcom X,\u00a0 once said “the
\nchickens have finally come home to roost”. This has always been the case
\nand it will always be the case. It is only a matter of time.<\/p>\n

Over the last 5 years hundreds of thousands have died under your watch
\nand virtually all have been killed by those from your core northern
\nregion. You turned a blind eye to it and even encouraged it.<\/p>\n

Today belongs to you but let me assure you that tomorrow belongs to
\nthose of us that you have killed, persecuted, oppressed and treated with
\ndisdain and contempt.<\/p>\n

On the 11th of February, at the burial ceremony of the 18 year old
\nChristian martyr Nnandi Michael (the Seminarean that was abducted and
\nlater murdered by Fulani herdsmen) the respected Catholic cleric Bishop
\nMatthew Hassan Kukah, a man of immense moral authority and intellectual
\nvigour, courageously admonished you before the entire world, spoke the
\nbitter truth and reflected the thoughts of millions from all over the
\ncountry. Amongst many other things he said the following:<\/p>\n

“This President has displayed the greatest degree of insensitivity in
\nmanaging our country\u2019s rich diversity.
\nHe has subordinated the larger interests of the country to the hegemonic
\ninterests of his co-religionists and clansmen and women. The impression
\ncreated now is that, to hold a key and strategic position in Nigeria
\ntoday, it is more important to be a northern Muslim than a Nigerian.\u201d<\/p>\n

He did not stop there but went on to say,<\/p>\n

“We are being told that this situation has nothing to do with Religion.
\nReally? It is what happens when politicians use religion to extend the
\nfrontiers of their ambition and power. Are we to believe that simply
\nbecause Boko Haram kills Muslims too, they wear no religious garb? Are
\nwe to deny the evidence before us, of kidnappers separating Muslims from
\ninfidels or compelling Christians to convert or die? If your son steals
\nfrom me, do you solve the problem by saying he also steals from you?”<\/p>\n

He then said,<\/p>\n

“The Fulani, his (President Muhammadu Buhari) innocent kinsmen, have
\nbecome the subject of opprobrium, ridicule, defamation, calumny and
\nobloquy. His north has become one large grave yard, a valley of dry
\nbones, the nastiest and the most brutish part of our dear country”.<\/p>\n

He added,<\/p>\n

“Today, our years of hypocrisy, duplicity, fabricated integrity, false
\npiety, empty morality, fraud and Pharisaism have caught up with us.
\nNigeria is on the crossroads and its future hangs precariously in a
\nbalance. This is a wakeup call for us. As St. Paul reminds us; The night
\nis far spent, and the day is at hand. Therefore, let us cast away the
\nworks of darkness and put on the armour of light. It is time to confront
\nand dispel the clouds of evil that hover over us.”<\/p>\n

He concludes by saying,<\/p>\n

“On our part, I believe that this is a defining moment for Christians
\nand Christianity in Nigeria. We Christians must be honest enough to
\naccept that we have taken so much for granted and made so much sacrifice
\nin the name of nation building. We accepted President Buhari when he
\ncame with General Idiagbon, two Muslims and two northerners. We accepted
\nAbiola and Kingibe, thinking that we had crossed the path of religion,
\nbut we were grossly mistaken. When Jonathan became President, and
\nSenator David Mark remained Senate President while Patricia Ette was
\nchosen by the South West became a Speaker. The Muslim members revolted
\nand forced her resignation with lies and forgery. The same House would
\nshamelessly say that they had no records of her indictment. Today, we
\nare living with a Senate whose entire leadership is in the hands of
\nMuslims. Christians have continued to support them. For how long shall
\nwe continue on this road with different ambitions? Christians must rise
\nup and defend their faith with all the moral weapons they have”.<\/p>\n

I assure you that these were not the words of Bishop Kukah alone but
\nrather the Holy Spirit speaking through him. He spoke the mind and the
\noracles of the Living God and you would do well to humble yourself, take
\nheed and appreciate the Lord’s admonition and counsel.<\/p>\n

Let us hope that you disregard the advice of the hardliners around you,
\nlearn from these words and change your dastardly ways though I doubt
\nthat you will.<\/p>\n

Whatever the case and whatever you choose to do or not to do, know this:
\nthe die is cast, Caesar has crossed the Rubicorn, the horse has bolted
\nfrom the stable, the cat is out of the bag, our eyes have been opened,
\nwe have lost all sense of fear and Nigeria can NEVER be the same again.<\/p>\n

Mr. President, here ends my counsel to you but permit me to conclude
\nthis contribution with a closer look at the north that you love so much
\nand that you seek to empower and enthrone forever.<\/p>\n

According to the World Bank “87% of poor people in Nigeria are in the
\nNorth”.<\/p>\n

One wonders what 58 years of northern oppression, tyranny, aggression,
\nmanipulation and hegemony over Nigeria has actually done for the
\nnorthern masses.<\/p>\n

Since indendence mass poverty, terrorism, religious bigotry, ethnic
\nhegemony, Islamic fundamentalism, arrogance, born to rule syndrome, the
\nworship of cows, ignorance, disease, hate, racism, feudalism,
\npedophilia, child marriage, VVF, gender inequality, male chauvinism, the
\npersecution of Christians, the suppression of women, corruption, deceit,
\ngreed, ingratitude, a sense of entitlement, tyranny, insensitivity,
\nbloodshed, genocide, ethnic cleansing, mass murder and gratuitous
\nviolence have all been deeply embedded in and associated with the core
\nnorth.<\/p>\n

Worse still, according to UNICEF, if Nigeria were to ever break up the
\ncore north would be the poorest spot on planet Earth.<\/p>\n

I guess this is why northerners keep screaming “one Nigeria” and
\nthreatening the lives and liberty of those that do not share their view.
\nWithout Nigeria they would be groping in the dark, wobbling on their
\nfeet and literally starve to death.<\/p>\n

All this yet they insist that they were “born to rule” and that
\nsoutherners and Middle Belters were “born to serve” them and be their
\nslaves!<\/p>\n

Professor Yusuf Dankofa of the Faculty of Law at Ahmadu Bello University
\nwho happens to be a northerner himself put it in very clear terms and
\nspoke the bitter truth when he wrote the following:<\/p>\n

“I think the north is only interested in power and\u00a0 nothing more.The
\nsweetness of power and the allure it brings is what appeals to them and
\nnot work. If not, how can a region be so decimated by its own internal
\ncontradictions and trudge on as if the region is not regressing. In the
\nface of calamity, what you see is eerie silence, since power is with
\ntheir elites who are thoroughly dependent on public treasury to
\nsurvive.The poor too draws happiness from the fact that power is in the
\nhands of their elites even if they will\u00a0 die of poverty and insurgency.
\nWe are happy that power is with us even though we don’t know what to do
\nwith it.This mindset will definitely lead others to seek to move out of
\nthe union. You can’t slow down your own progress and those of others
\nand expect them to clap for you”.<\/p>\n

Dankofa is absolutely right! What a people! What a country!<\/p>\n

Yet I do not blame the core northeners: I blame southern and Middle Belt
\npoliticians and leaders who have refused to unite and who have failed to
\nresist them and stand up to them over the last 58 years.<\/p>\n

The history of our nation records that there were a few\u00a0 great men of
\nremarkable courage, extraordinary fortitude and immense valour that not
\nonly did their best but were also gallant, fearless, selfless and
\noutstanding in their quest to deliver our people.<\/p>\n

Some of them were martyred and others were jailed whilst all suffered an
\nunprecedented and unbearable level of humiliation and persecution. Yet
\ndespite it all they continued the struggle.<\/p>\n

They identified and understood the problem and fought hard in their
\nrespective ways to fix it and deliver our people from northern hegemony,
\ndomination and bondage but sadly they all failed.<\/p>\n

The new generation of southern and Middle Belt leaders must NOT fail
\nbecause this is the final lap. For our generation failure is NOT an
\noption.<\/p>\n

We have no choice but to use all lawful and non-violent means to break
\nthe yoke of subjugation, servitude, slavery and bondage and to succeed
\nin our quest for total liberation. If we fail to do so future
\ngenerations of our people shall NEVER be free again.<\/p>\n

We need the prayers of the saints and the fastings and supplications of
\nthe intercessors, the Prophets, the men and women of God and the Body of
\nChrist!<\/p>\n

We need the Holy Spirit of the Living God: the El Shaddai, the Elohim
\nand the Adonai.<\/p>\n

We need the Man of War, the Comforter, the Lord of Hosts and the Ancient
\nof Days!<\/p>\n

We need a great deliverer: a Moses, a Joshua, a Caleb, a David, a Cyrus,
\na Samson, a Gideon, a Jeptha, an Esther and a Jehu all rolled into one.<\/p>\n

We need men and women of courage to pick up the gauntlet, take up the
\nchallenge and lead us in this great and cataclysmic battle and this
\nmonumental struggle.<\/p>\n

We need to close ranks, build bridges amongst ourselves and forget past
\nhurts, past disputes and past disagreements and agree to be totally and
\ncompletely united.<\/p>\n

Finally we need to look within ourselves and firmly resolve that it
\nwould be better to live a short life and die as free men than live a
\nlong one and live as slaves.<\/p>\n

We fight not for ourselves but for future generations of our family, our
\nlineage, our loved ones and our compatriots.<\/p>\n

God forbid that they should have to live through the hell that we had to
\nsuffer called Nigeria: a land where the accursed rule over the blessed
\nand where slaves ride on horseback whilst Princes and Kings walk around
\nin bare feet.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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