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September 7, 2020 | News
THE ONLY SIN OF PRESIDENT BUHARI
Without mincing words, it is daily becoming evident that the only sin committed by President Muhammadu Buhari since he came into office as the number One Citizen of the country, is his anti-corruption fight against high-profile and politically exposed persons. This has made him a target for all kinds of criticisms, and a gang up of ‘corrupt politicians’ and their fronts to resist President Buhari’s ant-corruption war to free Nigeria from the carefree corruption at all levels of government. This we believe, is the reason why they are using every possible action and political blackmail to frustrate him and every effort and action in governance.
These group of people have accused him of sponsoring the herdsmen killings across different parts of the country, especially the North, which is a way of trying to tarnish his name and also distract the polity and his government from the things that are important. But we have reiterated severally that, no leader in his thinking will sponsor the killings of the people he is meant to lead, especially those of his Northern stock. As a matter of fact, we believe these herdsmen killings are being sponsored by the mischief makers that are not happy with the ascension of President Buhari to Aso Rock, hence they are bent on trying to tarnish the image of the Buhari-led administration at all cost.
They have also blamed President Buhari for the country’s economic woes, including the so-called recession that hit the country, which we are almost at the point of coming out of. But if we are to tell ourselves the truth, we would see that the recession and whatever economic lapses that have bedeviled Nigeria in recent years, did not just happen. They were cumulatively caused by the actions/inactions of past ‘bad administrations’ of the country, particularly the immediate past administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan. In other words, the events that culminated to where we are today as a nation arguably started majorly from that administration.
This is because it was during that period that Nigeria experienced a ‘monumental increase in revenue from oil and gas exports’ when global oil price was over a hundred Dollar per barrel. But our then political leaders, rather than divest the Nigerian economy and invest in mass basic infrastructure and in sectors like agriculture, maritime, mining, power, aviation, land transportation, industrialization, etc., they preferred to stuff their private pockets/accounts to satisfy their insatiable greed with public funds, which they regarded as ‘free money’. It was during the immediate past government under Jonathan that Nigeria witnessed supposed public leaders who abused the demands of their office with their reckless lifestyles, indiscriminately printing and spending money with impunity, following a lot of shut-cuts rather than encouraging hard work and discipline in public service, etc. So, while this is not a blame game, neither are we trying to exonerate the Buhari administration from not doing somethings to try and address these myriads of problems, but it is important for us to understand the ‘realities’ that brought us to where we are as a nation.
Take the unemployment situation for instance. Though, this has always been a major problem in the country for decades now, but it was made worst during the 16 years of the PDP-led administration. It was during this period that big multinational oil giants like Shell (SPDC) divested their huge oil and gas investments onshore, especially in Delta State – leaving thousands of Nigerians unemployed. Then there is the non-functional Warri Sea Ports that have rendered the once commercial oil city of Warri a ghost of itself. In fact, some of the big known companies that folded up or relocated out of Nigeria under the PDP-led 16 years administration include: Kaduna Textiles, Iwopin Paper Mills, Jebba Paper Mills, NEPA (Privatized and about one million jobs lost), Nigerchin, Michelin, Leyland Motors, Oku Iboku Newsprint Paper Mill, Anambra Motor Manufacturing Company (ANAMCO), Volkswagen, Dunlop, Bacita Sugar, Nigeria Airways, Oshogho Steel Rolling Mill, Nigerian Telecommunications Limited (NITEL), Nigerian Shipping Company, Defence Industries Corporation of Nigeria (DICON), Alcon Pharmaceutical Nigeria Limited, National Fertilizer Company Nig. Ltd (NAFCON-private and hundreds of people lost their jobs), Peugeot Automobile Nigeria Limited (PAN), etc. in all, about some millions of Nigerians were said to have lost their jobs during this period. All of these happened during the 16 years PDP-led Governments, and not during the Buhari administration.
The insinuation that companies were withdrawing their investments from Nigeria because of President Buhari’s war on corruption as a result of Nigeria being corrupt, is wrong and unfounded. Shell (SPDC) and other companies listed have started divesting, folding up and relocating as the case may be, long before President Buhari came in. so, I disagree with this old propaganda by Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, which some critics of this government have resurfaced/recirculated to try and justify their blind argument. The blunt truth is that the unemployment situation in the country was caused and made worse by the then PDP administration and not President Buhari, as some critics who are obviously paid to write against the Buhari administration, are trying to make Nigerians believe. But we should ask ourselves, was it President Buhari that caused Shell (SPDC) and other companies to divest and or relocate out of some States and even out of the country? Was it President Buhari that caused the close up/fold up/relocation of companies like Dunlop, Michelin, PAN, Volkswagen Plants, etc.? Was it President Buhari that created the confusion and crises in the nation’s Power Sector, especially in Power Distribution, with a supposed Privatization exercise? Obviously not!
Some few years ago, Nigeria’s Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Godwin Emefiele was Quoted: “It is either I do not understand economics and how exchange rates work or a vast majority of us Nigerians still do not get how we have wrecked our country with our own curious choices. Just this morning, I was listening to the radio and the lady on air went on and on about how she thought CBN Governor was incompetent and should be sacked because the Naira was now exchanging at 309 or so to the USD. “That view pretty much echoes the sentiments expressed by many people I know and it amazes me that there are Nigerians who actually think there is some magic POLICY that can make the Naira strong in the near term. If my economics and my understanding of the way the world works are right, then that is as far from the truth. The simple fact of the matter is that apart from oil that accounts for over 90% of our revenues, we really do not have much of an economy. We hardly produce anything, we import even toothpicks, so exactly what policy is going to be implemented that will turn Nigeria into a top exporting economy in the near term? Where are our Apples, IBMs, Disneys, GMs, General Electrics, Coca Colas, Empire State buildings, Statues of Liberties, Lockheeds, Citibanks, JP Morgans, ExxonMobils, NBAs, Super Bowls etc? Let me bring that closer home.
“There was a time long ago when Nigeria had a truly strong economy and the naira was one to the dollar – even exchanged for higher than the USD, but that Nigeria is not this Nigeria. Sadly, that Nigeria was laid by the British, and this Nigeria (if you don’t believe in the nonsensical imperialist conspiracies like me) – fueled by the DAMAGING Indigenization Decree, has been the creation of us Nigerians. Back then we had a booming economy. We were either the top, or among the top exporters, of timbre, cocoa, groundnuts, rubber, palm oil, etc, in the world. Nigerians not only holidayed at home in their villages, at Yankari Games Reserve, at Obudu Cattle Ranch, at Oguta Lake, at Ikogosi springs, at Gurara Falls, at Mambilla Platueau, etc, we attracted international tourists who brought in loads of foreign exchange. Even Nigerian schools were foreign exchange earners because they attracted foreign students. We had different car assembly plants – Peugeot, Volkswagen, Anamco etc. Nigerian government officials only bought vehicles assembled in Nigeria for official cars. We had a thriving sports industry. We were not Man United or Chelsea fans, we were Rangers or IICC fans. We had the Nduka Odizors, people made money from sports. We also had companies like Lennards and Bata producing school shoes in their thousands, we had the thriving Nigerian Airways and the Aviation School in the north that produced some of the best pilots in the world. In those days if you were brilliant you were respected much more than the crass money-miss-road contractors of today. Most of the Aje Butters I knew had fathers who were university dons. Back then it meant something to ‘know book’. Our textile industry was alive and well. Just recently I watched a news report on the textile industry in Nigeria on CCTV News. Though the main focus was on the comatose status of the industry, I was stunned by the gigantic Kaduna Textile Mill built in 1957. I could go on and on. “Today however, no thanks to our parents (and we must call them out the way Wole Soyinka did his generation) and many of us (and we should be remembered for failing our children if we continue like this), we have destroyed everything. Today for instance Nigerian football (which comes easy to me obviously) doesn’t appeal to us, we have to fly across thousands of miles to watch ‘our’ clubs play. Every year we collectively burn billions of Naira being fans of clubs that give us nothing back, but some ‘entertainment value’ – simple pleasures for which we are ready to destroy the future of our children.
“Well people, payback time is here. Even with our ta-she-re money we all want to wear designer clothes and carry designer bags, Armani, Givenchy, Louis Vuitton etc. We all want to drive jeeps with American specs, our children must now school overseas and acquire the necessary accents to come back home and bamboozle their ‘bush and crass’ contemporaries that they left behind. Who holidays in Nigeria anymore, is there Disneyland here? No one buys made-in-Nigeria school bags for their children, after all no Superman or Incredible Hulk or Cinderella on them. We are no longer top exporters of anything and the demise of oil means we have zilch… zero. A country of 170M fashion- conscious people has no textile industry. We take delight in showing how our made-in- Switzerland Aso Ebi is different class to everyone else’s...
“Finally keep letting corrupt leaders who have looted your commonwealth and shipped all the monies overseas get away because to attack them does not fit your political narrative. Let us continue with the fine life, let us all continue to work for Oyinbo. Have birthday party in the air, under the sea, overseas, etc, just continue. You have to create record. But don’t forget that there is a payback time: Worth sharing again. I must equally add, there is nothing wrong in wearing designers but it's the misplaced priority over the lives of children and the economy of a whole nation.”
To add to the above statements said to be credited to Emefiele, Nigeria is over the years best known for only exporting raw natural gas and raw crude oil products to other countries at a ‘cheaper exchange rate’, and then later import ‘finished products/commodities’ made from the same natural gas and crude oil at a ‘higher exchange rate.’ There are over 6000 items/products that can derived from these natural resources, which Nigeria is yet to tap from. Although, the major use of these natural petroleum resources is as a fuel (petrol, jet fuel, heating oil, generate electricity, etc.), there are many other uses which, most of us, and those in Government are not even aware of. In fact, the list is too numerous to put down here. For instance, all plastic is made from petroleum and plastic is used almost everywhere: in cars, houses, toys, computers and clothing. Asphalt used in road construction is a petroleum product, as is the synthetic rubber in the tires. Paraffin wax comes from petroleum, as do fertilizer, pesticides, herbicides, detergents, phonograph records, photographic film, furniture, packaging materials, surfboards, paints, and artificial fibers used in clothing, upholstery, and carpet baking, Vitamin capsules, Roofing sheets, Combs, Fan belts, Shoes, Food preservatives, Crayons, Life jackets, Insect repellent, Tents, etc.
The saddest part is that these politicians that partook in the destruction of the Nigerian economy in that 16 years of the PDP-led Governments, are today, trying to come back into Government. The question is, what exactly are they coming to do?
Agreed that some Nigerians are disappointed with the President Buhari-led APC Government with its CHANGE Agenda, especially in the area of governance, insecurity and politicking, which they have not performed and lived up to the high expectations of Nigerians in general, but this is obviously as a result of the ‘Nigerian Factor’ – which we have discussed at length before now. But the fact still remains that the problems we see today in Nigeria, were created/caused by the PDP-led Governments in the last 16 years, hence it is unreasonable to expect President Buhari to address all of them within four years. There is no magic that he can perform to address these issues affecting the Nigerian populace within the few years he has been in office.
Obviously, because these politicians are scared of the possible re-election of President Buhari, and they are nursing the fear that his war against graft will eventually touch them; they have all queued up behind and in support of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, who is their kind, and who allegedly bought delegates’ votes with US Dollars to win the PDP flagbearer for the 2019 general election. This is so that they can continue with their past ‘carefree’ corrupt government at all levels.
According to a recent circulated post of a comment said to have been made by Balarebe Musa: “Nigerians risk having a fascist government under Atiku because of his open alignment with former heads of State and retired generals, who have some questions to answer. That is why I am highly disappointed at the illusion by some Nigerians that Atiku is better than Buhari. There is absolutely no comparison between Buhari and Atiku. Former Heads of State, retired generals and PDP are afraid of Buhari’s second term bid. These people and the PDP are mortally afraid that if Buhari returned, he would probe the criminal annulment of June 12 and wage a more ruthless war against corruption. They are clearly ganging up against Buhari not because they don’t know that Atiku is no match to him but because they are aware that Atiku will not revisit their past misdeeds.”
It has been said that, when you fight corruption, be prepared because corruption will fight you back, especially the sort of high-profile corruption that has kept Nigeria under the grips of some selected few. Corruption is fighting back President Buhari simply because of some ‘selfish interests’ of those in question. My conclusion here is that those teaming up to fight President Buhari are not doing so in the interest of the Nigerian masses, but they are fighting him, and calling him all sorts of unprintable names simply because they are afraid of that name – Buhari and what he represents – a no-nonsense disciplinarian that cannot be manipulated in the area of his stand against graft. Former President Olusegun Obasanjo who wrote clearly that Atiku is bad, all of a sudden made a U-turn to declare him a worthy Presidential aspirant. While there is nothing wrong to for Obasanjo to forgive Atiku, but there is everything wrong with Obasanjo urging Nigerians to vote for Atiku come 2019. That is asking Nigerians to do the impossible!
Zik Gbemre.
We Mobilize Others to Fight for Individual Causes as if Those Were Our Causes
Without mincing words, it is daily becoming evident that the only sin committed by President Muhammadu Buhari since he came into office as the number One Citizen of the country, is his anti-corruption fight against high-profile and politically exposed persons. This has made him a target for all kinds of criticisms, and a gang up of ‘corrupt politicians’ and their fronts to resist President Buhari’s ant-corruption war to free Nigeria from the carefree corruption at all levels of government. This we believe, is the reason why they are using every possible action and political blackmail to frustrate him and every effort and action in governance.
These group of people have accused him of sponsoring the herdsmen killings across different parts of the country, especially the North, which is a way of trying to tarnish his name and also distract the polity and his government from the things that are important. But we have reiterated severally that, no leader in his thinking will sponsor the killings of the people he is meant to lead, especially those of his Northern stock. As a matter of fact, we believe these herdsmen killings are being sponsored by the mischief makers that are not happy with the ascension of President Buhari to Aso Rock, hence they are bent on trying to tarnish the image of the Buhari-led administration at all cost.
They have also blamed President Buhari for the country’s economic woes, including the so-called recession that hit the country, which we are almost at the point of coming out of. But if we are to tell ourselves the truth, we would see that the recession and whatever economic lapses that have bedeviled Nigeria in recent years, did not just happen. They were cumulatively caused by the actions/inactions of past ‘bad administrations’ of the country, particularly the immediate past administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan. In other words, the events that culminated to where we are today as a nation arguably started majorly from that administration.
This is because it was during that period that Nigeria experienced a ‘monumental increase in revenue from oil and gas exports’ when global oil price was over a hundred Dollar per barrel. But our then political leaders, rather than divest the Nigerian economy and invest in mass basic infrastructure and in sectors like agriculture, maritime, mining, power, aviation, land transportation, industrialization, etc., they preferred to stuff their private pockets/accounts to satisfy their insatiable greed with public funds, which they regarded as ‘free money’. It was during the immediate past government under Jonathan that Nigeria witnessed supposed public leaders who abused the demands of their office with their reckless lifestyles, indiscriminately printing and spending money with impunity, following a lot of shut-cuts rather than encouraging hard work and discipline in public service, etc. So, while this is not a blame game, neither are we trying to exonerate the Buhari administration from not doing somethings to try and address these myriads of problems, but it is important for us to understand the ‘realities’ that brought us to where we are as a nation.
Take the unemployment situation for instance. Though, this has always been a major problem in the country for decades now, but it was made worst during the 16 years of the PDP-led administration. It was during this period that big multinational oil giants like Shell (SPDC) divested their huge oil and gas investments onshore, especially in Delta State – leaving thousands of Nigerians unemployed. Then there is the non-functional Warri Sea Ports that have rendered the once commercial oil city of Warri a ghost of itself. In fact, some of the big known companies that folded up or relocated out of Nigeria under the PDP-led 16 years administration include: Kaduna Textiles, Iwopin Paper Mills, Jebba Paper Mills, NEPA (Privatized and about one million jobs lost), Nigerchin, Michelin, Leyland Motors, Oku Iboku Newsprint Paper Mill, Anambra Motor Manufacturing Company (ANAMCO), Volkswagen, Dunlop, Bacita Sugar, Nigeria Airways, Oshogho Steel Rolling Mill, Nigerian Telecommunications Limited (NITEL), Nigerian Shipping Company, Defence Industries Corporation of Nigeria (DICON), Alcon Pharmaceutical Nigeria Limited, National Fertilizer Company Nig. Ltd (NAFCON-private and hundreds of people lost their jobs), Peugeot Automobile Nigeria Limited (PAN), etc. in all, about some millions of Nigerians were said to have lost their jobs during this period. All of these happened during the 16 years PDP-led Governments, and not during the Buhari administration.
The insinuation that companies were withdrawing their investments from Nigeria because of President Buhari’s war on corruption as a result of Nigeria being corrupt, is wrong and unfounded. Shell (SPDC) and other companies listed have started divesting, folding up and relocating as the case may be, long before President Buhari came in. so, I disagree with this old propaganda by Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, which some critics of this government have resurfaced/recirculated to try and justify their blind argument. The blunt truth is that the unemployment situation in the country was caused and made worse by the then PDP administration and not President Buhari, as some critics who are obviously paid to write against the Buhari administration, are trying to make Nigerians believe. But we should ask ourselves, was it President Buhari that caused Shell (SPDC) and other companies to divest and or relocate out of some States and even out of the country? Was it President Buhari that caused the close up/fold up/relocation of companies like Dunlop, Michelin, PAN, Volkswagen Plants, etc.? Was it President Buhari that created the confusion and crises in the nation’s Power Sector, especially in Power Distribution, with a supposed Privatization exercise? Obviously not!
Some few years ago, Nigeria’s Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Godwin Emefiele was Quoted: “It is either I do not understand economics and how exchange rates work or a vast majority of us Nigerians still do not get how we have wrecked our country with our own curious choices. Just this morning, I was listening to the radio and the lady on air went on and on about how she thought CBN Governor was incompetent and should be sacked because the Naira was now exchanging at 309 or so to the USD. “That view pretty much echoes the sentiments expressed by many people I know and it amazes me that there are Nigerians who actually think there is some magic POLICY that can make the Naira strong in the near term. If my economics and my understanding of the way the world works are right, then that is as far from the truth. The simple fact of the matter is that apart from oil that accounts for over 90% of our revenues, we really do not have much of an economy. We hardly produce anything, we import even toothpicks, so exactly what policy is going to be implemented that will turn Nigeria into a top exporting economy in the near term? Where are our Apples, IBMs, Disneys, GMs, General Electrics, Coca Colas, Empire State buildings, Statues of Liberties, Lockheeds, Citibanks, JP Morgans, ExxonMobils, NBAs, Super Bowls etc? Let me bring that closer home.
“There was a time long ago when Nigeria had a truly strong economy and the naira was one to the dollar – even exchanged for higher than the USD, but that Nigeria is not this Nigeria. Sadly, that Nigeria was laid by the British, and this Nigeria (if you don’t believe in the nonsensical imperialist conspiracies like me) – fueled by the DAMAGING Indigenization Decree, has been the creation of us Nigerians. Back then we had a booming economy. We were either the top, or among the top exporters, of timbre, cocoa, groundnuts, rubber, palm oil, etc, in the world. Nigerians not only holidayed at home in their villages, at Yankari Games Reserve, at Obudu Cattle Ranch, at Oguta Lake, at Ikogosi springs, at Gurara Falls, at Mambilla Platueau, etc, we attracted international tourists who brought in loads of foreign exchange. Even Nigerian schools were foreign exchange earners because they attracted foreign students. We had different car assembly plants – Peugeot, Volkswagen, Anamco etc. Nigerian government officials only bought vehicles assembled in Nigeria for official cars. We had a thriving sports industry. We were not Man United or Chelsea fans, we were Rangers or IICC fans. We had the Nduka Odizors, people made money from sports. We also had companies like Lennards and Bata producing school shoes in their thousands, we had the thriving Nigerian Airways and the Aviation School in the north that produced some of the best pilots in the world. In those days if you were brilliant you were respected much more than the crass money-miss-road contractors of today. Most of the Aje Butters I knew had fathers who were university dons. Back then it meant something to ‘know book’. Our textile industry was alive and well. Just recently I watched a news report on the textile industry in Nigeria on CCTV News. Though the main focus was on the comatose status of the industry, I was stunned by the gigantic Kaduna Textile Mill built in 1957. I could go on and on. “Today however, no thanks to our parents (and we must call them out the way Wole Soyinka did his generation) and many of us (and we should be remembered for failing our children if we continue like this), we have destroyed everything. Today for instance Nigerian football (which comes easy to me obviously) doesn’t appeal to us, we have to fly across thousands of miles to watch ‘our’ clubs play. Every year we collectively burn billions of Naira being fans of clubs that give us nothing back, but some ‘entertainment value’ – simple pleasures for which we are ready to destroy the future of our children.
“Well people, payback time is here. Even with our ta-she-re money we all want to wear designer clothes and carry designer bags, Armani, Givenchy, Louis Vuitton etc. We all want to drive jeeps with American specs, our children must now school overseas and acquire the necessary accents to come back home and bamboozle their ‘bush and crass’ contemporaries that they left behind. Who holidays in Nigeria anymore, is there Disneyland here? No one buys made-in-Nigeria school bags for their children, after all no Superman or Incredible Hulk or Cinderella on them. We are no longer top exporters of anything and the demise of oil means we have zilch… zero. A country of 170M fashion- conscious people has no textile industry. We take delight in showing how our made-in- Switzerland Aso Ebi is different class to everyone else’s...
“Finally keep letting corrupt leaders who have looted your commonwealth and shipped all the monies overseas get away because to attack them does not fit your political narrative. Let us continue with the fine life, let us all continue to work for Oyinbo. Have birthday party in the air, under the sea, overseas, etc, just continue. You have to create record. But don’t forget that there is a payback time: Worth sharing again. I must equally add, there is nothing wrong in wearing designers but it's the misplaced priority over the lives of children and the economy of a whole nation.”
To add to the above statements said to be credited to Emefiele, Nigeria is over the years best known for only exporting raw natural gas and raw crude oil products to other countries at a ‘cheaper exchange rate’, and then later import ‘finished products/commodities’ made from the same natural gas and crude oil at a ‘higher exchange rate.’ There are over 6000 items/products that can derived from these natural resources, which Nigeria is yet to tap from. Although, the major use of these natural petroleum resources is as a fuel (petrol, jet fuel, heating oil, generate electricity, etc.), there are many other uses which, most of us, and those in Government are not even aware of. In fact, the list is too numerous to put down here. For instance, all plastic is made from petroleum and plastic is used almost everywhere: in cars, houses, toys, computers and clothing. Asphalt used in road construction is a petroleum product, as is the synthetic rubber in the tires. Paraffin wax comes from petroleum, as do fertilizer, pesticides, herbicides, detergents, phonograph records, photographic film, furniture, packaging materials, surfboards, paints, and artificial fibers used in clothing, upholstery, and carpet baking, Vitamin capsules, Roofing sheets, Combs, Fan belts, Shoes, Food preservatives, Crayons, Life jackets, Insect repellent, Tents, etc.
The saddest part is that these politicians that partook in the destruction of the Nigerian economy in that 16 years of the PDP-led Governments, are today, trying to come back into Government. The question is, what exactly are they coming to do?
Agreed that some Nigerians are disappointed with the President Buhari-led APC Government with its CHANGE Agenda, especially in the area of governance, insecurity and politicking, which they have not performed and lived up to the high expectations of Nigerians in general, but this is obviously as a result of the ‘Nigerian Factor’ – which we have discussed at length before now. But the fact still remains that the problems we see today in Nigeria, were created/caused by the PDP-led Governments in the last 16 years, hence it is unreasonable to expect President Buhari to address all of them within four years. There is no magic that he can perform to address these issues affecting the Nigerian populace within the few years he has been in office.
Obviously, because these politicians are scared of the possible re-election of President Buhari, and they are nursing the fear that his war against graft will eventually touch them; they have all queued up behind and in support of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, who is their kind, and who allegedly bought delegates’ votes with US Dollars to win the PDP flagbearer for the 2019 general election. This is so that they can continue with their past ‘carefree’ corrupt government at all levels.
According to a recent circulated post of a comment said to have been made by Balarebe Musa: “Nigerians risk having a fascist government under Atiku because of his open alignment with former heads of State and retired generals, who have some questions to answer. That is why I am highly disappointed at the illusion by some Nigerians that Atiku is better than Buhari. There is absolutely no comparison between Buhari and Atiku. Former Heads of State, retired generals and PDP are afraid of Buhari’s second term bid. These people and the PDP are mortally afraid that if Buhari returned, he would probe the criminal annulment of June 12 and wage a more ruthless war against corruption. They are clearly ganging up against Buhari not because they don’t know that Atiku is no match to him but because they are aware that Atiku will not revisit their past misdeeds.”
It has been said that, when you fight corruption, be prepared because corruption will fight you back, especially the sort of high-profile corruption that has kept Nigeria under the grips of some selected few. Corruption is fighting back President Buhari simply because of some ‘selfish interests’ of those in question. My conclusion here is that those teaming up to fight President Buhari are not doing so in the interest of the Nigerian masses, but they are fighting him, and calling him all sorts of unprintable names simply because they are afraid of that name – Buhari and what he represents – a no-nonsense disciplinarian that cannot be manipulated in the area of his stand against graft. Former President Olusegun Obasanjo who wrote clearly that Atiku is bad, all of a sudden made a U-turn to declare him a worthy Presidential aspirant. While there is nothing wrong to for Obasanjo to forgive Atiku, but there is everything wrong with Obasanjo urging Nigerians to vote for Atiku come 2019. That is asking Nigerians to do the impossible!
Zik Gbemre.
We Mobilize Others to Fight for Individual Causes as if Those Were Our Causes