I start this piece with
undisguised melancholy the issue that is as unnatural as it is un-African; the
absurdity and nude recklessness displayed by some political vampires who have wittingly
been singing a dirge for the living President of Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari.
Ordinarily, it is an act of mental corrosion for an individual to begin to
contemplate the estate of a testator when the owner is still alive. If such political greediness of this
unfathomable magnitude is allowed to fester in Nigeria, the ‘inherited estate’,
being Nigeria in this circumstance, will end up in obvious profligacy in the
hands of these estranged entities.
Recently, a political elite
representing an organization of the Northern extraction, in his ululation
warned the Acting President, Professor Yemi Obasanjo to make sure that he hands
over power to whoever the North chooses to run in 2019 general elections. He
stated categorically that the North will not condone the Doctrine of Necessity
coined by the National Assembly upon the death of Late Umaru Yar’Adua, which
made the then Acting President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, the substantive and
Executive President of the country thereby paving way for him to run the presidential
race in 2011, even when the tenure of the late President was truncated by death.
He was of the opinion that since to him President Buhari is as good as dead, Osibanjo has to
finish up the remaining two years and step down for the North, come 2019. This quickly reminded me of what Adams
Oshiomole said not too long ago, that some people wished Nnmadi Azikiwe dead
when he was sick at a time. Ironically, some of those who wished the man dead
were eventually outlived by the same Azikiwe. Dr Azikiwe even attended the
burial ceremonies of some his evil wishers. This is a good food for thought
even for the imbeciles in the society! Only God has the power and determines
life or death at any point in time.
I am yet to decipher the source
of the effrontery of these gamuts of political ignoramuses who have christened themselves
a ratified and working Nigerian constitution. The doctrine of necessity was introduced
into the constitution by the National Assembly to deal with the political
exigency of that time of the death of President Yar’Adua. No individual or
group has power above the constitution of Nigeria and cannot truncate the
collective will of the people nor obstruct the running of the constitution. At best,
the agitations of these evil wishers can only exist in the world of
esotericism, and not in Nigeria where the President obviously is alive and fast
recuperating. I can’t contemplate the otherwise for the President, therefore my
view in entirety is diagonally opposite the vain imaginations of these
putrescent brains. I wish the President of Nigeria quick recovery! Of course, reports
reaching me are indicative that the President has recovered enough and in high
spirits only awaiting the Doctor’s instruction before he flies back to Nigeria
to continue to rule the country in peace.
These set of politicians seem not
satisfied by their verbal attacks on Nigeria as a cooperate entity, reports so
far had it that these people have gone to the groves of the Indians and hired
the available physical demons to pray for the death of President Muhammadu
Buhari. I am of the strong belief that life belongs to God. The president is a
person with a family. Whoever does no longer want him as the president should
vote him out come 2019 general elections, as was the case of the former
President Goodluck Jonathan who was voted out of power in 2015 general
elections. It is evil to wish any human being dead, not to talk of the
President of the nation. Anyone can be sick especially as we thrive in mortal
entity. To be sick is neither an offence nor a crime, nor a constitutional
breach.
To crown the absurdity of this
crop of demented humans suffering from monumental dehydration of reasoning, some
elements of the Nigeria military had been caressed to carry out a nefarious coup
plot against a democratically-elected government (credit to rumours and
Newspaper reports). This informed the stern warning from the Chief of Army
Staff, Lt-General Tukur Yusuf Buratai warning soldiers from romancing with some
disgruntled politicians who may like to cease power unconstitutionally. To
these elements, President Buhari must die and his government toppled by hook or
by crook. I guess too that they may even like to shoot dead an imaginary Buhari
by going to Daura, his home-town. If not for that, why should the patriotic Army
set up a Command post there when the President does not even live in Daura, if he
was even in Nigeria. Buhari or his ‘ghost’ thereof has become their tormentors.
This is level of absurdity and degradation of the mortal soul of these evil
doers.
Am I a die-hard supporter of
President Buhari? Some persons may ask. I am entitled to my political leanings,
opinions and views. I have also the constitutional right to belong to any lawful
association or political party that appeals my interest. I may not support the
ruling party if I choose to, but I support human life and human rights. The President
has the right to live like any Nigerian. He can be denied the right to rule
Nigeria, yes, but it must be through constitutional means in its entirety. In
the build-up to the 2015 general elections, some political miscreants in high
places did not even want the then presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari to
live to contest the elections. They claimed that the President’s brain was
dead, that he could not spell his name, and he had no academic certificate. In
all objectivity, even if the President does not have a certificate, he has done
better than the one who was brandishing a Doctorate Degree in one hand and
institutionalizing corruption on the other thereby depleting the economy and
now plunging the entire nation into this present mess.
Nigeria is greater than any individual,
group or a section of this country. The civil rights and democracy is superior
to military laws and rule. Whoever is power-hungry can satisfy the urge, but
definitely not through any anomalous route. I stand with democracy, and I wish
the President of Nigeria speedy recovery and his quick return to this blessed
country of Nigeria.
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