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“My Yesterday of Today”: The Buhari-Abati-Jonathan movie” as directed by FFK

“My Yesterday of Today”: The Buhari-Abati-Jonathan movie” as directed by FFK

| On 29, Mar 2015

 It is doubtful if Mr Muhammadu Buhari cherishes being eulogised. He comes forth as someone who cares only about his integrity and his place in history. 

The attributes that everybody knows him for are his incorruptibility, his forthrightness and his readiness to take responsibility. Once it was said he voiced that Nigeria would be made ungovernable after loosing an election. He ignored the references until he decided to teach Mr Reuben Abati a lesson on the subject. Apparently for good purpose, the General sued Reuben Abati to Court. Abati begged to settle out of court and apologised. At least Abati’s head was used to prove that it was Lawal Kaita, and not Muhammadu Buhari, who talked of Nigeria being made ungovernable after the 2011 polls. And Lawal Kaita is a PDP Chieftain. Since the apology was published, Mr Buhari never mentioned nor responded to the issue again.

 

The full story was that Mr Reuben Abati on page 51 of the April 22, 2011, edition of The Guardian newspaper wrote an opinion article entitled “For the attention of General Buhari”. In it, he claimed that Buhari made an inciting statement which led to the post-election violence that rocked some parts of northern Nigeria. Mr Buhari regarded the publication as false, defamatory, intended to lower his integrity and to bring him into public ridicule. He consequently dragged Abati and The Guardian Newspaper to court and demanded N1billion damages from them. When the heat was turned full blast on Reuben Abati, President Goodluck Jonathan, Abati’s paymaster, reportedly begged Buhari to allow a settlement out of Court and Buhari obliged. The Guardian published an unreserved apology to Buhari in its edition of July 11, 2013.

 

But since Nigerians do not read, the same false quote keeps being used even up till today.

 

There is this matter of religious bigotry which source is difficult to put a finger on. There is hardly any picture we see of Mr Buhari going into or out of any mosque or roaming around with marabouts. Many of the negative things that campaign managers of Mr Goodluck Jonathan say regularly about Buhari, outside of his time in government as Head of State have no correct origin but they are popular beer parlour talks all the same. Mr Buhari never responds to them.

 

Buhari, 30 years ago, came to fight corruption but corruption fought back and defeated him and the guy who was used to oust him eventually institutionalised corruption into the Nigerian system. Yes Buhari’s government was draconian but who was he that loved Nigeria that would not be angry with the system especially for a government that shot its way to power? And talking about shooting ones way into power, Buhari did not actively participate in the coup that brought him to power. The story was that he was overseas on a training course while the coup took place and was invited to lead the government, once the coup makers decided to run things.

 

FFK should be able to do a character appraisal of Mr Muhammadu Buhari and it will make a good reading because that fellow is one hell of a writer of such scripts.

 

Hear him on Goodluck Jonathan the man who, several months after he made those comments, appointed him his campaign manager:

 

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“The problem that we have is Mr Goodluck Jonathan himself – a President who prides himself on his own weakness and incompetence and whose love of false prophets and strange women knows no bounds and has no end.

 

“A President who is as confused and as clueless as the comic character called Chancey Gardner in the celebrated 1970’s Peter Seller’s Hollywood blockbuster titled ”Being There”.

 

“A President who does not understand the meaning of the word “class” or “honesty” and who breaks his own word consistently.

 

“A President who has abdicated his responsibilities, destroyed his own political party, divided his own country, alienated his own friends, humiliated his own mentor, abandoned his own people, brought ridicule to his own faith, cowers before his own officials, betrays his own governors, scorns the international community and breaks his solemn oath to protect and defend the Nigerian people.

 

“A President who does not even have the nerve or the guts to call to order any of the numerous Jezebels that control him. He is the problem we have in our country today and until he resigns, is impeached or is voted out of power nothing will change and Nigeria will continue to go from bad to worse. That is what you get when you vote for a man who never wore shoes to school.

 

OBJ has finally closed GEJ’s chapter with his letter. Jonathan is finished- mark my words. Abati should shut up and let his boss speak for himself on this one.

 

The Ebora Owu has spoken and the issues that he has raised are too serious to be ignored or to be responded to with amateurish and cheeky insults and slurs from a mere staff of the Presidency.

 

The President should find the courage to personally answer the charges and address the message rather than get his aides to attack the messenger. As Baba said, Jonathan is “bleeding Nigeria to death”. It is time for change.

 

God used Obasanjo to put Jonathan in power and, by His grace, He will use that same Obasanjo to remove him.

 

“Under President Goodluck Jonathan, we have become a nation of vampires where the death of innocent children and youths means nothing and where we cannot even provide jobs or a decent standard of living for our young ones. Instead we attempt to scam them and to extort money from them. What a government! What a country!

 

“Whichever way it goes I have absolutely no doubt that the removal of the fuel subsidy on New Year’s day is the final straw: President Goodluck Jonathan, the King Rehoboam of our time, has hardened his heart unto destruction, just like Pharaoh once did, and he has fallen into the trap that has been set for him by God and by his enemies. May the Lord save Nigeria from this inexplicable and unpleasant mess and may the Nigerian people themselves wake up from their accursed slumber and take their destiny into their own hands. The smell of religious war, sectarian violence, regional and ethnic conflict, insecurity, untold suffering, rampant poverty and economic hardship is in the air. Nigerians are divided as never before and our country is slowly crumbling and dying before our very eyes. Who will save Nigeria? Who will stand up and say enough is enough? Who will pull us back from the brink? Who can we count on to take the bull by the horns and to do the right thing? Where is our deliverer and from whence will our Jehu come? When will our David with the heart of Cyrus arise? There must be a change. My God, let there be a change.

 

“The truth is that the vultures are already feeding fat on the rotting and decaying cadaver of the PDP and whether anyone likes to hear it or not, the truth is that the party can never be whole again. As I said eight months ago, it is a party that has been rejected by God and whose leaders are suffering God’s judgment for their unjust, gluttonous, wicked, foul and evil ways.”

Source: CyberNews Today