You are on it again! I thought you agreed with me that a military
government is not a Tea Party. It is not the best of times. A military regime
brooks no dissension and opposition. I thought we agreed that the matter is res
judicate, settled. You are going back. This is inconsistency. You made a
massive volte face by citing the stale commentary of Dominic Ogbonna. Dominic
Ogbonna is a propagandist for PDP. He a
master sophist. He writes rubbish and plain lies with his superb mastery of
prose. Sometimes he lies plainly. Take whatever he writes with a pinch of the
salt. Is he not the guy who told us in these fora that Buhari was suffering
from a terminal ailment? However it turned out to be a massive lie. He suffers
from what I call “Buhari phobia". I
thought you will think differently. What must you take stock and barrel what
comes out of the stable of a subjective and emotional commentator like Dominic
Ogbonna? It is surprising you are a lawyer! We are trained to be objective not
emotional and sentimental.
Buhari’s government did a lot of positive things within one year of its existence.
There is nothing wrong with enforcing the law to the hilt. Have you not read the
confession of a top shot of the Nigerian Medical Association that protest of
the Doctors during Buhari’s time was instigated by reactionaries in the Military
like IBB and David Mark! Why did Labour instigate all those crises in the
country when the same labour lost it voice during IBB time? IBB was even more
dictatorial. He banned media houses; proscribed Academic Staff Union of Nigeria
Universities, National Association of Nigerian Students; executed officers over
phantom coups, masterminded the military clash that led to the whipping out of
an entire generation of officers in the military and exacerbated religious
bigotry by taking Nigeria to the Islamic Conference Organization; banned all
politicians; decreed and created two political parties; used the Police to
shoot student demonstrators; increased the price of petrol; divide and rule to
play one section of the government against the other; institutionalised
impunity, settlement and corruption but IBB is a good man while Buhari who
tried to clean up the country is a villain!
Ekwueme is not a clean man. He was even indicted by a Commission of
Inquiry concerning the Nigerian Railway of the yore over a contract scam. As
Vice President he awarded contract for the design of the Low Housing Projects
of the Shagari government to his own architectural firm. Ekwueme is a Member of
Every Government in Power. Have you ever heard him condemning the debauchery of
the PDP controlled Federal Government? Shagari was not a corrupt man. He did
not steal although he was never in charge. If Umaru Dikko was put in crate and
so what? Why did he escape from justice? If Umaru Dikko was clean why didn’t he
surrender himself to the government? He would have stayed in the country to
account for his stewardship in government. This is a man who arrogantly said
that Nigerians are not poor because they have not started eating from the dust
bin?
In Buhari's time there was no sacred cow. Everybody who stole was made
to face the music. Governors who stole under the guise of "security
votes" were jailed. It was the first time in our country when the criminal
law process was democratised. The wealthy, privileged and the poor were made to
be equal before the law. It is only the reprobates and the corrupt that
begrudges Buhari because he enforced the Law to the letter. It was not only
Babatope who was incarcerated.
All leading politicians were arrested and incarcerated to give account
of their stewardship. My maternal Uncle,Chief Eteng Okoi-Obuli who was Minister
of Agriculture (He was also Minister of State for Communication) was arrested
and incarcerated for almost Two years until he was released by IBB. I am amazed,
your swallowed the lie that Buhari was Head of State for Two Years! I wonder
aloud how a Lawyer of your Standing would manifest such ignorance of the
constitutional History of the country. Buhari toppled the Shagari government on
the 31st December, 1983. Buhari became Head of State on the 1st
January 1984 and was toppled by IBB in August 1985, so where is the two years
coming from.
A lot of damning lies have been contrived and told about Buhari. One of them was that Buhari said Muslims must vote Muslims only. However when the Reporter whom the story was attributed was confronted he was unable to substantiate what he reported! Another lie was that Buhari during his tenure as Head of the Petroleum Trust Fund developed only the North. I was a young lawyer in Calabar, Cross River State during that period I saw PTF funded drugs in hospitals in Calabar. I saw mass transit buses bought with grants from PTF to assist the poor move from one part of the country to the other in Calabar. My relation was then a Transporter benefited. He is not Fulani (like Buhari). I saw buildings in the University of Calabar constructed by the PTF. I know as a fact that Calabar-Ugep-Ikom-Ogoja-Katsina-Ala Federal Highway was rehabilitated. Since PDP came to power no single road has been constructed in that Axis. Have you travelled from Uyo (Akwa Ibom State) along the Calabar-Uyo-Ikot Ekpene-Aba Federal High way recently?
We do not need to lie about Buhari if we do not like him. We should not
be mean. We should talk lies in our frenzy to demonize Buhari. It is not fair!
This how the Federal Government and PDP encourage the propangda that Buhari was
behind BOKO HARAM but the truth has glaringly come out. History Shall Always Vindicate
the Just. Why are Nigerians so gullible?
It is amazing even elites who are supposed to know better. We must live above
ethnic and sectional considerations. This is one of the reasons why our country
is in the nadir! Chief Nkereudofia, open your eyes!
OKOI OBONO-OBLA
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