Conspiracy of the Generals and the Kaduna Mafia
Nigeria's fallen President Ebele Nnamdi Jonathan, who came, saw and did not conquer.
Left alone...All alone in the world! This President fell despite his very strong belief in the Chicoco Theology, Amala Doctrinaire Inexactitude; Okupean Gross Irresponsibility and Stethoscopic Strategies; Fanikayodaean nihilistic Squealerism; Asarian Thuggery and Militancy; Tompolonic Surveillance faux pas; Clarkian expired sagacity; Patienceism crudity and impetuosity...Ambitious debt is paid, so let it be with Ebele. Pity! Pity! Pity, then! Pity! It were better this Goodluck were just a boatman on the creeks of the Niger Delta than ascending the Olumpus-undreamed-for mountain and after a good doze of Ogogoro and dog meat came crashing down like the fallen tortoise from the sky which only a great Dibia in Otuoke can put together the scattered pieces. What a great fall! And then echoes of Peter Tosh's "Downpresser man/Where you gonna run to/Downpresser man/Where you gonna run to/Downpresser man/Where you gonna run to/All along that day..." and as PMB reports for duty clutching to his chest a blueprint entitled: BUHARISM AND THE FIERCE URGENCY OF NOW: THE RETURN OF THE STATUS QUO & THE MAI KUNU-NGBATI ALLIANCE...with Fela's "Everything dey Disorganised pata pata... blaring very loudly throughout the NIBE Federation followed by "Authority Stealing: Thief, thief, thief! Rogue, rogue, rogue! Robber, robber! Catch am, catch am! Thief, thief, thief! Catch am, catch am! Rogue, rogue, rogue!" Then by "The Original Sufferhead"..."Beast of No Nation"..."Opposite People"..."Zombie", followed in a pulsating rhythm that reveberates across the country by "We Shall overcome...We Shall o-v-e-r-c-o-m-e...We shall overcome some day" and then the song of Nigeria: NIGERIA WILL RULE THE WORLD (! ) with President Buhari nodding his head constantly, tapping his feet and shaking like a reed to its sonorous rhythm displaying an air of satisfaction. But will President Jonathan this time round seize this golden opportunity, name and shame the creators/sponsors/financiers of Boko Haram and all those who had politically troubled his Government both at home and internationally or he will just return to Otuoke with his tail still between his legs for the good people of Otuoke to help him nurse the wounds arising from his great fall, subsequent shame and humiliation, courtesy of his unparalleled ineptitude and idiocy?
It will be recorded for posterity that President Jonathan was Buhari's best Campaign Manager for his non-performance, hence the people of Nigeria punished him by giving Muhammadu Buhari not their Victory Votes (VV) or Conviction Votes (CV), but Protest or Punishment Votes (PV/PV), just as in 2011, the great people of Nigeria gave him, not Convicton Votes, but their Sympathy Votes to force the North to abide by the spirit of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria instead of always resorting to gragra/violence to poach power from the South, and also, the 2011 votes were given to Jonathan for his use of simple psychology on Nigerians by his appeal to his boyhood days of having no shoes. In this type of Jonathan's proverbial 'monkey trick' or chicanery, millions of Nigerians saw that once shoeless boy in themselves, hence they gave him their votes in 2011, but punish him in the just concluded Presidential election having found him to be, not an honest man, but a deceiver of the worst order, worse than Jacob in the Bible! From our reckoning, he is leaving office not as the man with the Olive branch and an achiever of any grudging type, but a deceiver and a complete failure, promises breaker, dreams, joy killer and a destiny changer who must not get carried away by the false encomiums now pouring from every corner of the globe including the West who of course, formed part of the plot to get rid of him, and Jonathan MUST be very careful of being used later by them as a man of peace who will be used to protect their assets in the Niger Delta, as they will soon call for a Nobel Peace Prize for him.
Lest I forget, inventories of Government properties MUST be taken this week to prevent people from running away with them to their villages and neighbouring countries as is usually the case with Nigerians during any change of Government, where people so do and sell Government houses in Asokoro at a ridiculous price of N45xx, yes, just forty-five Naira!
Also, all failed political officials must surrender their international Passports and other travel documents immediately at the nearest police stations before they sneak out of Nigeria to neighbouring countries and Over Seas in various guises and for varied reasons to avoid being probed by the in-coming Government.
SCENE ONE
The Plot of the Matter
The Conspiracy of the Generals and the Kaduna Mafia
Pull him down!
I say pull him down,
He's a bloody civilian
Pull him down,
For weaning himself so early
Pull him down,
He's a bloody civilian and a traitor!
I say pull him down for daring the Messiah of Nigeria
Pull him down! Pull him d-o-w-n!
Pull him down for daring the Generals!
I say pull him down for daring the Garrisons Commanders.
He's a dangerous, untrusted outsider and a bloody civilian.
Pull him down, down for overreaching himself!
O pull him down for he's Ijaw and a minority;
Pull him down, down, down,
For he's Ijaw and a minority
I say pull him down right now
And make him sufffer the fate of Topsy!
SCENE TWO
The end of the Plot...
This elephant is neither the tetrarch of the jungle, nor of the Rock hence...
...but the the new egg is laid inside a dangerous cobweb
The world's proverbial bad loser and the heir returns to repossess the throne of his forebears having hitherto travelled to a far off land and bade his servants to merely OCCUPY TILL I COME, but blind to the smoke steaming beneath the hot seat entangled in a dangerous cobweb! No more spilling of dogs' and baboons' blood? Curious, Boko Haram seem to have forgotten this time round it's Easter, unlike in the last five Easters...is this just a happenstance? Haha! It's very curious and sends tongues wagging, you know!
The Matter of the Plot and the beginning of the New Moon
Pull him down immediately!
Pull him down for being Ijaw!
Pull him down for being a minority!
I say pull him down!
Drag him down from the Rock
And let the Prince repossess the throne of his ancestors!
***Reproduced from Vigilance of 16 February 2015.
POCKET COMPANION SERMON & MEDITATION FOR THE PRESIDENT-ELECT GENERAL MUHAMMADU BUHARI...VOICES OF CONSCIENCE AND REFLECTION
"What you do unto me shall be done unto you when your time cometh."
"What You Do Comes Back To You."
"YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW."
"Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a
man soweth, that shall he also reap." (Galatians 6:7 KJV)
"According to their way I will do to them, and according to
their own judgments I will judge them; and they shall know
that I am the LORD." (Ezekiel 7:27b RSV)
The Golden Rule
"TREAT OTHERS AS YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE TREATED."
"Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men
should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is
the law and the prophets." (Matthew 7:12 KJV)
"For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the
whirlwind:" (Hosea 8:7a KJV)
" . . they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness,
reap the same." (Job 4:8 KJV)
"He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he
that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword."
(Revelation 13:10a,b KJV)
"Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his
place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with
the sword." (Matthew 26:52 KJV)
"Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow
wickedness, reap the same." (Job 4:8 KJV)
"Whatever you do to others, God will eventually do to you. You reap what you sow."
"and I will give unto every one of you according
to your works." (Revelation 2:23c KJV)
MR RILWAN AKIOLU, STOP BULLYING AND THREATENING CITIZENS OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA...IGP, WAKE UP!
It has come to our notice that Mr Rilwan Akiolu an ex-Police Officer, a former Federal Officer of the Federal Republic of Nigeria who ought to be first and foremost, a shining light in respecting/obeying the laws of the land including upholding the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and all of its principles and those of INEC has been bullying and threatening them with death in the Lagoon if, especially, Ndigbo in Lagos, a former Federal Capital of Nigeria, which Mr Akiolu now claims he is the owner, thus makig himself God over Lagosians of all ethnic nationalities, do not vote for his annointed political son Akinwunmi Ambode.
By our reckoning and in consonnance with the entrenched provisions of the Constitution and the rules governing the establishment of INEC, Akiolu a lawyer and a former Police Officer who ought to know better has chosen to play Esau as a crony of the Oligarchic class who happens to be a Muslim himself has shown, not just unfavourable treatment by treating his fellow citizens from the East of the Niger as outcasts, social, economic and political pariahs not worthy of enjoying equal rights with him as to be entitled to their consciences and exercise their votes accodingly, but as dolomites, puppets and marionettes who should be controlled and teleguided like the Roman mobs, so be contantly harassed, bullied and treated like mere settlers in their own country. Mr Akiolu by displaying such superiority complex and arrogancy over his fellow citizens whom if he were worthy of that stool form part of his subjects as by being on that sacred seat of his ancestors, he is not just the Oba of the Yorubas in Lagos State, but the king of all persons - green or white, yellow or black, indigo or red from all realms and climes, but are now domiciled in his domain.
Mr Akiolu in his unearthly and inhuman zealotry has insulted Ndigbo as parasitic settlers who have merely escaped from their 'country' of poverty to come and prosper in Lagos. He has by this unpatriotic enterprise in trying to sow divisions amongst Nigerians capable of resulting in uncontainable chaos, sooner or later committed an arrestable offence and he is no longer able to protect other ethnic nationalities and foreigners and friends of Nigeria currently resident in his kingdom, so we move that Mr Akiolu is no longer worthy of that stool.
Mr Akiolu's unguarded utterances and crass irresponsibility show he is indeed, not Oba Adeyinka Oyekan of blessed memory, who was a supra-nationalist and all Lagosians enjoyed his fatherly love and unparalleled patriotism and he was a friend to all Nigerians and foreigners resident in his domain during his reign - Oba Oyekan in his days embraced NPP; as well as NPN; as well as UPN; as well as GNPP; as well as NAP; as well as PRP, blessing all members of these Parties as his 'children' without showing preferential treatment to any of them as he saw all of them as fellow Nigerians and he their father. The same could be said of Oba Adesoji Aderemi the very revered King of the Great Kingdom of Ile-Ife, who was another supra nationalist, the same could be said then of Ofala Okagbue the Obi of Onitsha. To be honest, we tend to be suspicious of Mr Akiolu's infantile zealotry, partisanship and his 'amorous' romance with the APC.
It will never be lost on us as we yet weep any time it is remembered that it was during the reign of Mr Akiolu that hapless Nigerians - again East of the Niger, were hurled at night in a garbage collection truck from Lagos and dumped in their 'country', yet this man is an ex-police officer. Mr Akiolu needs to revisit the events that led to the pogrom in the North, the coup of January 15, 1966 leading to the 30-month civil war. He should look for the coup speech of Major Kaduna Nzeogu, or we are happy to send him one.
In the last too decades, I have been cavassing the adoption of Lagos as a Special Federal Territory (SFT) instead of just a State, to which Mr Femi Okunu had countered in his reply to that proposal. I still hold onto this view after nearly two decades of that proposal, this should be extended to Kano, Kaduna, Calabar and Enugu.
Mr Akiolu has not sinned against just Nigerians and his ancestors by sowing the seed of discord and disregarding the laws of Nigeria and by so doing making himself the King of Nigeria, the King of Africa, the King of the world, and seeing himself also, as above the universal laws of all humanity.
This king of the world does not know that all Nigeria and indeed, the peoples of the world, and above all, the God of all humanity has entrusted in his care, every life that now lives in his domain.
Whilst we warn Mr Akiolu to keep off politics and be a father to all, which is his natural responsiblity, instead of becoming an Esau all because of a mess of pottage, he must buy advert spaces in all the mainstream newspapers of Nigeria and be on televisions this week to apologise to the good people of Nigeria, all persons of African ancestry who look up to Nigeria for directions for being so careless, grossly irresponsible and unpatriotic.
If Mr Akiolu henceforth, does not keep off politics and be a father to all, let him be assured that we shall scrutinise him from this side of the Atlantic like any crooks who pass for politicians in Nigeria.
Finally, Akiolu MUST know that the office of a king in Africa is too, too sacred to mingle it with partisan politics.
God bless Kabiyesi as he prepares to offer his apologies to the nation and become a father to all Nigerians, only then can he deserve 100% respect which his sacred throne commands from the world.
***John Odey Aduma, a British Chevening Scholar is the publisher of VIGILANCE-THE WORLD'S LEADING SECURITY MAGAZINE. He was formerly Chairman, Editorial Board of The Daily Times of Nigeria Plc, Executive Secretary, Foundry Association of Nigeria and Public Affairs Manager, The Pastoral Resolve, Southern Zone.