Message well taken but messenger must be thrown overboard

Message well taken but messenger must be thrown overboard

This is a pure case of grandchild who is a product of a daughter’s rapist, a pure case of delicious fruit of evilly poisonous tree, a pure case of moral text authored by morally bankrupted person, a pure case of Kettle calling pot black. Who says chimps are not smart?

Excerpt “May God save leaders from sycophants. They know what you want to hear and they feed you with it essentially for their own selfish interest. As far as you and Nigeria are concerned, they are wreckers. Where were they when God used others to achieve His will in your life. ‘They possess you now for their interest.’”

The question is who or what is possessing this leader of three year military dictatorship, 8 year failed and grossly corrupted presidency and a seeker of illegal wasteful ( in public wealth) failed third term presidential ambition. Perhaps Obasanjo incarceration in Yola prison under brutal Abacha regime still clogs his memory. This chimp that led Nigeria for 11 years and had nothing and I mean nothing to show for it is either still living in fool’s paradise or still suffering from the trauma of his Abacha incarceration or still holding fast to his self-exaggerated worth, ego and self- importance.

How could this Obasanjo forget that the turmoil in PDP under his leadership was astronomically higher than anything that is happening today in the Party. If the president is the leader of his Party by simple logic the vice president is the number 2 leader of the Party and of the country. If Obasanjo as president and Atiku the vice president were so deeply embroiled in dispute that the vice president decamped to another party in the middle of his vice presidential term, does this not completely impeaches Obasanjo’s sermon on political party harmony and on nationalism? What could be more dangerous to a nation and or to Political Party than an open political warfare between a sitting president and his vice of the same Party? Obasanjo’s failed third presidential ambition with flagrant disregard of the constitution said it all, of his character and integrity.

His anointment of Yar’dua to the office of the presidency at the expense of due process and transparency was the worst of it kind anywhere in the world. It was the worst that could happen to a democracy and to a nation. There were many high profile political assassinations recorded under Obasanjo’s 8 years of failed corrupt presidency (the assassination Bola Ige for example) and none so far under the current administration. And I do not mean to sing the praise of Jonathan’s administration because this current administration is as corrupt as the past ones. However, corrupt, incompetent, cowardly Obasanjo should be the last person to lecture Nigerians and or Jonathan on leadership, good governance, accountability, corruption, trust, integrity, patriotism, and honor. The allegation that any body and much more the presidency would hire a convicted well known assassin,
Hamza in a plot to murder 1000 political opponent is ridiculous and as stupid as it’s childish. Why Hamza, because there is dearth of political thugs and hirable assassins in Nigeria?

Yes, he twice handed power to his successors and this is true but lack facts. Fact is that Obasanjo did not want to hand over power after 8 years of corrupt failed presidency and this was the genesis of the war between him and his deputy. The tens of billions of Naira Obasanjo used to prosecute is illegal third term ambition could have been better used to improve Nigeria and Nigerians. Obasanjo handed over only after strong resistance from both good and worse Nigerians. Fact, the first handover to Shagari though a welcomed development was made possible by his cowardly disposition. Remember how he came to power in 1976. Obasanjo was never comfortable in that position because just 6 years after the civil war that decimated a good chunk of senior military officers, that was preceded by coups and counter coups he knew he was leading under the watchful eye and eager-to-strike Hausa/ Fulani military hegemony. So in one power transfer (to Shagari) Obasanjo was compelled by anxiety and fears within and without; while to Yar’dua he was compelled by political force without.

There are two things guiding Obasanjo in his un-presidential-like, un-elderly-like, and un-statesman-like open letter and open opposition to Jonathan. One, driven by ego and exaggerated self-importance Obasanjo wants to demonstrate that he is the indispensable political godfather in Nigeria. He wants to show that his hands must anoint who and when Nigerian becomes the president provided his appointee and political positions fits well with Hausa/Fulani script. If Obasanjo oppose a Hausa/Fulani he find another Hausa/Fulani to anoint and this is how he anointed among them the sickly Yar’dua which gave rise to Jonathan’s presidency. If Obasanjo opposes none Hausa/Fulani he tries to anoint Hausa/Fulani and counts on the group’s support for his sycophancy to them. Sycophancy which Obasanjo accuses Jonathan’s aides of, is actually what guides his own politics except that, his is only to the Hausa/Fulani. Obasanjo’s sycophancy to Hausa/Fulani is never out of love or like for this group or for the country but for his selfish political survival, safety, relevance and ego.

The only reason political turmoil in PDP and in the country would appear unusual to Obasanjo today may be because under the current administration unlike Obasanjo’s eras there is more freedom of expression and right to dissent, the level never seen before in Nigeria and thanks in part to FOI which for 11 years of his leadership Obasanjo did not sign but was signed into law by Jonathan under three years of his presidency. Secondly Obasanjo is the brain behind this turmoil when in his usual sycophancy to the Hausa/Fulani he went public with his anointment of Limado when he has not consulted with Jonathan to know if Jonathan was abiding by his so-called one term agreement. We all recall that Obasanjo went public with his Limado anointment when it was everywhere in private and public domain that Jonathan may seek a second term. With Jonathan’s second term rumor everywhere shouldn’t it  have been appropriate for Obasanjo to be 100% certain that Jonathan was not going for another term before he went public with another presidential anointment in Limado? Obasanjo of all persons should have known that political promise unlike honesty, rule of the law, accountability, equity, fairness, fidelity private and public, is only a political promise and has little or nothing to do with integrity, honor and patriotism. In his bid to appease his Hausa/Fulani masters and maintain his political relevancy and ego Obasanjo deafly head-on to his Limado nomination without Jonathan’s knowledge and consent just to ambush Jonathan’s legally allowed second term right. His attempt to ambush, muscle Jonathan presidency failed as Jonathan increasingly became his own man at Obasanjo’s surprise, dismay and political irrelevancy. The questions are when will this chimp leave the political stages? Aren’t we tired of his beauty?

If any turmoil exists, there is no gainsaying that Obasanjo is not only responsible for any such turmoil in PDP and in the country today but his 11 years of corrupt and failed leadership was the precursors of today’s decay in Nigeria. If Obasanjo truly has the interest of Nigeria at heart he must allow this President from the minority group peace, time and politically conducive environment to complete his term be it 4, 8 or 10 years for the simple facts; 1: except Gowon's 9 years dictatorship, Hausa/Fulani and Obasanjo group, pretty much have ruled this country for the remainder of the 53 years of independence. 2: the oily blood that sustained this country through 44 years of Hausa/Fulani/ Obasanjo misrule came from the president's backyard. 3. By the old three political regions of West, East, and North, North have led for 34 years, West led for 11 years and East have led only for 6 months before Jonathan. In as much as I would like to agree that leadership should not be about region or religion yet Obasanjo is acting on the premise that it is the turn of the North and not just North but the turn of Hausa/Fulani to lead. Yet he would want us to believe his is detribalized and this is true for him as long as he and Hausa/Fulani continues to lead and share Niger Delta oil wealth. If Obasanjo is a just man as he claims today why didn't him anoint Ibo Man as deputy to Yar'dua? He knows fully well that Igbo is one of the three major tribes, perhaps more populous than Yoruba. If he Obasanjo believed in fairness and justice as he claims today shouldn't he have known that after his 8 years of corrupt leadership he ought to have allowed Ibo man as Yar'dua's deputy in preparation for Ibo leadership of the country after Yar'dua's administration? I say this not because am  jealous of Jonathan being President but just to prove that Obasanjo either lacks or have no sense of fairness or perhaps his is ignorant of the true meaning of fairness.

But I ask, would Hausa/Fulani Obasanjo opportunists ruin, push this country to the brink of extinction or disintegration; the same country they have benefitted most, benefitted more than any other group. If reason and sanity are the guide of these two groups they should be the ones hedging Jonathan's presidency with every drop of their blood and sweat.

If the national conference did not achieve any other thing it must ensure absolute fiscal federalism in this way the rabid quest for the center by duo of Hausa/Fulani -Obasanjo would have be completely discouraged and the nation saved from disintegration