Loading ...I have chosen to write on these individuals because they have
controlled the affairs of the entity or mere geographical expression
called NIGERIA and will continue to do so in the next four years.
As a human being and a journalist there are four principles that
guide me anytime I tried to do a story or an opinion article. And that
is the FOUR PRINCIPLES of Rotary club. Am not a member of any
Rotary club, but I was a Rotaractor growing up those days in school.
The four principles include
(a) Is it the Trust
(b) Is it fair to all concerned
(c) Will it bring goodwill and better friendship
(d) Is it beneficial to all concerned.
These principles have guided me in whatever I do or write even as I
do this write up on Buhari, Bola Tinubu and Nigeria.
In doing this I want to first of all appeal to the International
community to continue to show interest in Nigeria as a member of the
International community and should not fail to strike when the need
arises. Do not listen to the vampires of the regime that will tell
you that Nigeria is a sovereign nation. So they said in the 60’s
during the Nigerian civil war and the world watched a so called
sovereign nation killed two million Biafrans unchallenged. Since
then Nigeria has not made any progress as a nation.
I had watched someone like BOLA AHMED TINUBU for a long time and came
to the conclusion that if we ignore this man at our own risk. Don’t
make any mistake about the fact that he is very rich and has a large
followers. One of the reasons why he has a large followers is because
he is very generous. He take some decisions that many Nigerian
politicians may never take. For instance I can still remember that
Gani Fawehinmi , the late Nigeria’s legal luminary once dragged
Bola Tinubu to court for certificate forgery. Most of the schools
that Bola Tinubu claimed to have attended like Ibadan Grammar School
or Ibadan boys high school and the University he claimed he attended
in America all denied that he was ever their student. Gani was
following the case in court until he died. But guess what, Tinubu
offered to pay Gani’s medical bills in hospital. You see what I
mean. How many politician in Nigeria could do that.
Tinubu is generous but also very dangerous. During the struggle
for the actualization of June 12, 1993 election believed to have been
won by Chief Moshood Kashimawo Abiola, Bola Tinubu a Senator then
played a very prominent role. One of the roles I remembered very
vividly is that he hired two Igbo boys to bomb NNPC depot in
Ejigbo, in Lagos. This was during Abacha regime and Buhari was the
chairman of PTF then. The Igbo boys were arrested and probably
confessed. The Army declared Tinubu wanted and he fled the country
to America following NADECO route. That in itself signaled the
beginning of Terrorism in Nigeria. It did not matter that if they had
succeeded many Yorubas who lived and owned properties in Ejigbo
would have been the biggest victims.
As the nation return to civil rule or DIARCHY in 1999 Bola Ahmed
Tinubu is still playing an active role. A Yoruba social cultural
organization the AFENIFERE formed a political party known as the
Alliance for Democracy (AD). During the primaries to decide their
governorship candidate for Lagos Funsho Williams defeated Tinubu.
Afenifere overruled the decision of the majority and handed the
ticket to Tinubu. Their reasons then was that he funded NADECO from
his base in America, it was a way of compensating him to recoup his
money. Today Tinubu hate AFENIFERE like snake. The Afenifere
were elders who do things on principle. But they had no money or were
not generous like Tinubu. Tinubu dumped Afenifere and the AD and
formed his owned political party known as Action Congress (AC) ,
FORMED an alliance with ATIKU to produce ACD, pulled out of ACD
to form another party known as ACTION Congress of Nigeria (ACN)
from where he entered another alliance with Buhari’s Congress of
Progressives Change ( CPC) to form APC.
Nigeria’s electoral body the Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC) has claimed Buhari won the election. I
CONGRATULATE HIM . So Buhari and Tinubu will certainly direct
the affairs of the country for the next four years.
I make bold to say that most of the tension brewing in the country
UNDER BUHARI’S FIRST TERM IN OFFICE was caused by Tinubu. The
selective fight against corruption was Tinubu idea, the arraignment
of Senate President Bukola Saraki was Tinubu’s idea, the Executive/
Legislature face off is his idea, the Onnoghen ordeal is Tinubu’s
idea, the attack on Igbo in Lagos over the Presidential election is
Tinubu’s idea. He was really not protecting Yorubas interest but his
private estate. Nothing wrong in that But at what cost.
I Remember Chief Obafemi Awolowo. When a strong man of Ibadan
politics Chief Adedibu was given former governor of Oyo state
governor Chief Bola Ige problems, Chief Awolowo told the nation
that he warned Bola Ige not to bring Adedibu into his government.
Awolowo said there are people you will always use to win election,
after election pay them off and let them go. If you bring them to
government they will kill the government. TINUBU IS ONE OF SUCH
PEOPLE. Thank God for the cabal, they saved Nigeria and Buhari
from Tinubu.
As for MUHAMMADU BUHARI I understand the fact that many people
worship him as their idol. There is freedom of Religion in Nigeria
and freedom of worship. I also respect the right of those who
worship him, but they also must not forget the fact that he is the
President of Nigeria. Nigerians have the right to criticize their
President. Criticizing Buhari should not be treated as sacrilege.
Buhari got his popularity during the launching of SHARIA in the
North DURING Obasanjo ‘s regime. He was the only Northerner who
came out openly to support SHARIA and warned the government and
Christians to stay away from SHARIA which he said was for Muslims.
That is the cause of his popularity among the Northern poor.
When the Sharia issue came up between 2000 and 2003 I witnessed
everything because I was a reporter in Kano then. The Sharia legal
system appealed to most of the poor in the North. They were told
that sharia would end poverty, corruption , there will be no more
ALMAJIRI, and there will be paradise on earth. The first governor
that took the bold step to launch Sharia then was Ahmed Sani of
Zamfara state. the day sharia was launched in Zamfara many
people who could not afford to pay for transport trekked from Kano
to Gusau to witness the launching. There were pressures on the
then governor of Kano state Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso to launch Sharia
in Kano, which he did. About 12 states in the North followed suit.
Nineteen years after the launching of Sharia how far. Poverty
has not ended anywhere in Nigeria, Almajiri system still in place
more in number than before, poverty level on the increase, Nigeria
now poverty headquarters in the world, worst still Terrorism now
in Nigeria. Killing in the name God. The hotbed of Boko Haram
terrorism in Nigeria Borno state used to be regarded as the Land
of Peace. States in the Northwest now under attack by bandits from
outside the country, Most of the governors who launched sharia
then are currently in court facing one corruption charges of the
other. i swear if there had been progress, in terms of political
stability and economic development in the states under Sharia, many
states in the South would have followed suit to launch it.
I WISH MY PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI A SUCCESSFUL TENURE
