By Joe Igbokwe
I was shocked to the marrows when I heard that some APC
Senators asked the National Working Committee of the Party led by the National
Chairman of the Party Chief Odigie Oyegun to prevail on President Buhari to
drop all charges against Bukola Saraki at the Code of Conduct corruption trial
before they stop sabotaging the presidency. Words failed me when it dawned on
me that this potentially dangerous demand is coming from some APC Senators who
are supposed to be the agents of change
we promised Nigerians while seeking their mandate in 2015.
*Buhari, Tinubu and Saraki |
I reflected on the event of the
past 24years from 1993 when we elected Chief MKO Abiola to bring hope to
Nigerians and how he was crushed and decimated by demonic and satanic forces
after five years struggle to defend and sustain the mandate. Time and space
will not permit me to recall the quantum of energies expended to defend the
mandate for five years, the wars, on the streets, the casualties including MKO
Abiola and the late wife Kudirat Abiola, and many others, the damage to the
national project, the devastation of our economy, the balkanization of the
political entity called Nigeria, the alienation by the international community
making Nigeria a pariah nation, and the ethnic division it visited on Nigeria.
After killing Chief Abiola in July 7, 1998, the same
satanic and demonic forces still bent on decimating Nigeria further decided to foist
PDP and retired General Obasanjo on Nigerians. In sixteen years, from 1999 to
2015 the same forces wasted huge resources running into hundreds of billions of
dollars earned in times of oil boom. The unconscionable looters and unrepentant
thieves diverted and stashed away these huge resources into private pockets.
These funds have been traced to private accounts both at home and abroad,
traced to real estates both in Nigeria
and abroad, and traced to farms and some buried underground. The rest is now
history.
In 2015 Nigerians elected retired General Muhammadu
Buhari who promised to bring change
in the way we live, the way we work, the way we reason, the way we do business
and the way we manage our affairs as a nation. The real meat of what he is
bringing on table is to reduce corruption to the barest minimum. Before then
corruption had ruined and destroyed a country blessed with both human and
material resources.
By the time President Buhari took over in 2015 our
infrastructure was in ruins, our hospitals, our universities, our national
carriers were in ruins, our Power, Agricultural, and Manufacturing sectors went
underground. Now one way President Buhari planned to tackle these numerous
problems is checkmate corruption which remains the biggest problem facing Nigeria . The
dollars are no longer flowing in the way it used to be in the era of oil boom. Nigeria cannot
even meet the approved OPEC quota of pumping 2.2 million barrels of crude oil
per day due to vandalization of oil pipelines by Niger Delta militants.
As a consequence of all this, it now behoves on the
government to manage the little that we have but the satanic, demonic and greedy
Nigerian politicians will not allow the system to work. They are governors,
judges, law makers, Ministers, and political appointees, serving and retired
who do not want the system to work. They work together to circumvent and
destroy every step taken by the President to move Nigeria forward. Come to think of
it, President Buhari dissipated all the energies he would have deployed to
matters of governance, to run for the exalted office in 2003, 2007, 2011 and
2015(12 years). In fact, he cried in 2011 when he missed it again believing
that it is all over but man is not God.
God has a reason for making Buhari
the President at a time like this and at this present stage and age to begin to
reinvent and reposition Nigeria
but the forces that stopped Chief MKO Abiola in 1993 are at work again. For 24
years they held Nigeria
hostage. They stole all our money and they will not want to be investigated.
They bribe judges and lawyers to get their freedom. They present forged
certificates and false assets declaration and ask you to go to hell. They
decide how much they must earn and the type of vehicles they want. They
blackmail the President and try to twist the hands to yield to their criminal
demands forgetting that he has the mandate of 15million Nigerians. They steal
people’s money and ask you to go to hell. The satanic and demonic forces in Nigeria have no
conscience, no souls, no love, no hearts, no brains, no heads, no eyes, no
common sense, no life, and no shame.
They can still repeat what they did to MKO Abiola in
July 7 1998. They killed the hope 1993 project and they are ready to repeat the
shame with 2015 change project. The other day I saw Senators Saraki and Dino
Melaye in group photograph with the former President Babangida who democratized
corruption and corrupted our democracy since 1993. Instantly, I figured out
that the forces of darkness are gathering momentum again. IBB represents our
ugly past. To pose with Saraki and Dino Melaye, the known enemies of the Change mantra speaks volume that they
can repeat the ugly events of the past 24 years. The forces that arrested,
sabotaged and underdeveloped Nigeria
in the past 24 years are still on the prowl, ravaging and looking for whom to
devour. They can kill President Buhari just to have their way. The President
and his handlers must be very careful as we are dealing with reprobate minds,
these cultural savages and workers of iniquity.
Granted that we still have some small number of
responsive, responsible and accountable Senators in the 8th Senate, I still share
the opinion that the Red Chamber is no longer useful to Nigeria , all
things considered. It has become a den for treasury looters and unconscionable
characters. Nigeria must
borrow a leaf from Senegal
and Venezuela .
Given our dwindling resources and the monumental problems facing Nigeria as a
political entity, the Senate has become a burden and a house of cards. To all
intents and purposes and with every sense of responsibility I think that Nigeria can do
without the Senate. For now, the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is
of zero consequences. Let the Senate cease to exist.
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