Buhari Insulted And Threatened Nigerians On His Speech This Morning - Fast9ja
THE PRESIDENT'S MORNING BROADCAST
During his throughly
uninspiring six minute broadcast this morning instead of appealing to
Nigerians for patience and understanding and instead of apologising to
them for the ineptitude and sheer incompetence that his government has
displayed over the last 2 years, President Muhammadu Buhari has returned
home after 105 days on his sick bed in the United Kingdom and not only
insulted Nigerians but also threatened them.
He made no attempt
to reach out to the people, to build bridges and to calm the troubled
waters in what is clearly a traumatised and divided nation and instead
he sought to intimidate and talk down on our people and his perceived
enemies.
The President appears to have failed to appreciate the
fact that times have changed and that he cannot impose his will on
others.
He claims that his views represents the thinking of
the majority of Nigerians yet he refuses to accept the idea or
acknowledge the legitimacy of a national referendum.
He is meant to be a servant leader and a democratically-elected President and not a military dictator, a Caliph or a King.
If
he wants to enhance national unity, which is of course a noble and
righteous venture, and if he really wants Nigeria to remain one then he
must desist from his dangerous and provocative rhetoric, he must treat
all Nigerians like human beings and as equals, he must exhibit a much
higher degree of sobriety and accomodation of contrary and dissenting
views and he must display far more sensitivity, understanding and
restraint in his interactions and discourse with the opposition and
those that do not agree with him.
Failing that and without a
quick recourse to the devolution of power from the centre and the neat
and timely restructuring of what is essentially a fake pseudo-federation
and a functional unitary state, the agitation for emancipation will
become more pronounced, the various ethnic nationalities in this country
will eventually exercise their right of self-determination and our
nation will eventually break.
The fault lines are there and they
are visible for all to see. We must recognise our differences,
acknowledge our fears, concerns and anxieties, sooth frayed nerves,
bridge the gap, make the necessary concessions and heal the wounds or we
must prepare for the very worse in the not too distant future. That is
the way forward and that is the only way to ensure and guarantee lasting
peace and unity.
Since the President mentioned the late and
reverred Chief Emeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, the Ikemba Nnewi, the former Head
of State of the old Biafra and the Eze Gburugburu of the Igbo, in his
morning address let me add the following.
If this great man were
still alive today to witness what his Igbo people have been subjected to
over the last two years under the Buhari administration he would have
been the first to insist on Biafra all over again.
And the truth
is that Ojukwu, Major Chukwuemeka Kaduna Nzeogwu and the great Zik of
Africa, the Owelle of Onitsha, Chief Nnamdi Azikiwe have collectively
resurrected in a young lion from the east called Nnamdi Kanu who he must
handle with the utmost care.
What the President is unable to
grasp and fails to comprehend is this: we are not children, we are not
animals and we refuse to be second class citizens.
Simply put we
would rather die as free men, standing on our feet and resisting evil,
tyranny and subjugation than live as servile slaves and pliant bonded
servants with bowed heads and on bended knee.
All Mr. President's
sinister and inappropiate talk about "red lines" and his insidious
threats of bloodshed and bloodflow cannot change that and neither is
anyone intimidated. Such talk is reckless, dangerous, irresponsible and
inappropiate.
Worse of all other than saying that every Nigerian
has the right to live in any part of the country, which in itself is
undoubtedly a welcome and gratifying assertion, he refused to order the
arrest or threaten to cage and bring to justice those that gave the Igbo
people a chilling quit notice and that have promised to unleash
genocide, ethnic cleansing and mass murder on them if they refused to
abide by it and leave the north by October 1st..
This strange
omission and instructive refusal by Mr. President is unacceptable and it
feeds into the narrative that there may well be some kind of frightful
hidden agenda unfolding.
It was also a missed opportunity to
allay the legitimate fears and genuine concerns of many Igbos and
southerners that live in the north.
I sincerely hope that history does not repeat itself in this regard.
Finally the President expressed his concerns about the social media.
The
truth is that the internet has always been the nightmare of tyrants and
dictators all over the world ever since it came into existence.
This is because it is designed to ensure the free flow of information and to expose their excesses and atrocities.
Now
that our President has acknowledged his disdain and hate for this
medium we will increase our efforts to make life more difficult for his
government through it.
We will keep them on their toes and hold
them to account by utilising the social and traditional media all the
more. What he wishes to hide shall be made manifest and known to all.
His
morning address was shallow, insensitive, uninspiring and divisive and,
judging from what I saw, I believe that he should resign, go home and
take care of his health.
That would be the best thing that he could do for Nigeria and that would be the best way to enhance national cohesion and unity.
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