It is instructive to intimate that Hyenas and Jackals have
become so powerful, they receive handshakes instead of handcuffs like looters
in the immediate past administration despite
engaging in the worse act of corruption.
Let me borrow from late Dr. Bala Mohammed who said: “if you are
emotionally attached to your tribe or political leaning to the point that truth
and justice become secondary considerations, your education is useless. Your
exposure is useless. If you cannot reason beyond petty sentiments, you are a
liability”. Buhari has allowed the Jackals, Hyenas take over his pride land.
His exposure, integrity, which endeared Nigerians to him has become a
liability, a burden many cannot wait to unbundle in 2019.
The All Progressive Congress has unsatisfactorily completed its
four years, reeking from odour of clannish leadership, chauvinistic development
approach, nepotism, tribalism, blame game and groping in the dark on leadership
mettle. Already the steam has started to grow hotter as the year 2018 speed
closer with attendant electioneering antics from all manner of political
gorgons. Sadly the lion king has been demystified, only the blind or the
unrepentant loyalists with his kind of mindset will continue to hoot after him.
Already the northern presidential candidates must reboot, present a better
alternative to save our democracy, our nation.
When Aisha Buhari declared that the Hyenas and Jackals would
flee once the lion king returns, most insightful Nigerians were hopeful,
thinking the direction of this administration will be programmed towards a more
patriotic, people-oriented leadership chores. Sadly, the jackals and hyenas
have finally taken over the pride land. It is indeed with incredulous stare
most Nigerians watch the scenery of the Buhari led administration flip into
grotesque images. His comment against military action on Boko Haram before
2015, his after election declaration to appoint based on vote cast, his
infamous Hausa broadcast after the Ramadan fast – regardless of other Muslims
who are non Hausa speaking, declaration of IPOB as a terrorist organization
among many more unsavory positions has placed him in the shadow of his rating
before 2015.
It is therefore with the greater uncertainty that Nigerians move
towards 2019, with waned hope for a leader to look up to, expectations for a
greater Nigeria continues to shrink. It is even worse for the North, as other
parts of the country are already sensing an agenda. Many express concern over
our continued existence as a country under Buhari or any other northerner. For
me, I feel Buhari had a mindset only echoed by the Hyenas and Jackals. If he is
under the strings of puppeteers, it’s even worse. The North has an army of
patriotic leaders who can sail the country away from the waterfall the Buhari
administration has moved the nation towards. May Buhari not contest 2019
election is the best prayers any well-meaning Nigerian should be fervent about.
Let the north be protected from stereotype based on these sad leadership experiences
in the past three years.
It is instructive to intimate that Hyenas and Jackals have
become so powerful, they receive handshakes instead of handcuffs like looters
in the immediate past administration despite engaging in the worse act of
corruption. We must realize that the invaders will never allow a free and fair
election in 2019. They know what it means for the bubble to burst under them
once another administration takes over government. It is indeed sad that
Nigerians have a president with a clannish mindset and platoon of people around
filled to the brim with unpatriotic agenda to carve a niche out of the Nigerian
state. Sadly, these clowns are intolerant of agitations. It is indeed certain,
2019 may be the year Nigerians must watch against prophecies of doom.
Buhari may not realize what he has allowed the invading hyenas
and jackals do to his image until he decides to run a check on his skewed
appointments, sectional utterances, blame based administrative approach which
has made him a leader only for the north. As a Nigerian from the north-central,
I am deeply saddened that an ugly precedence is already about. The north was
known for its leadership prowess and not for sectional, parochial agenda.
It is not yet Uhuru for Nigerians. I can only sum our present predicaments
through the views of Chinua Achebe, who insisted that ”the trouble with Nigeria
is simply and squarely a failure of leadership. There is nothing basically
wrong with the Nigerian character. There is nothing wrong with the land or
climate or water or air or anything else.
The Nigerian problem is the unwillingness or inability of its
leaders t rise to the responsibility; to the challenge of personal example
which are the hallmarks of the leadership.”
The Buhari administration has taken cronyism, unbridled
patronage, capitalism, elitism and clandestine graft to a whole new height.
With a policy of handshake for friends and handcuffs for perceived, imaginary
and real political enemies, the system is on high octane ready to explode. We
have seen that animals are equal but some are equal than the others. Already
leaders from the south are calling on their people to shun treatment from
soldiers on account of fear they may be infested with diseases.
On the wake of crocodile smile in south-south, python dance in
south-east and lion share in the north, this administration has in no small way
exhibited hate, intolerance which the hyenas and the jackals have helped our
dear president to endorse.
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By: Israel Ebije
from Abuja. E-mail: ebijeo5@gmail.com or Twitter: @ebijeisrael
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