The 2015 electoral campaign exposed
the Peoples Democratic Party for what it is – a party peopled by bigots, thieves,
irredentists and people without honour or decency. It also exposed the chieftains of the party
as liars and shameless. The campaigns
further exposed the rest of Nigerians as cowards who deserve the PDP. Since the beginning of the campaign,
Nigerians have been inundated with uncouth speeches, outright lies, blackmail
and harassment of opposition politicians and hallucinatory fable tales by
certified schizophrenics. We have been
bombarded with hate-filled documentaries on respected individuals by a party in
the throes of death. A section of the
country was ridiculed and insulted by a woman who cannot even spell the word
‘refinement’ and may not even recognise it where it is written for her. In all this, we kept quiet.
Were General Muhammadu Buhari not
to emerge as the presidential candidate of the All Peoples Congress (APC), I
don’t know how PDP’s campaign was going to be because their whole campaign is
centred on the APC candidate. The whole
machinery of the party and Jonathan’s campaign organisation are deployed towards
destroying the hard-earned reputation of the ascetic General. Nigerians were treated to what can only be
politely described as a pack of lies by a group whose stock-in-trade is
becoming clear to all of us to be no more than irredentism. The fulcrum of their campaign has been Buhari
from the get-go and it remained so throughout the campaign period. Telling lies comes naturally to these people
and impugning the character or reputation is no big deal to them because they
neither know the meanings of the words nor do they possess the qualities. Their god is lucre and they believe the same
for all of us.
The latest attempt to malign Buhari
and may be turn him into a hate-figure to his millions of supporters is the
ridiculous charge that he promised four western countries to scrap the Anti-Gay
law passed by the National Assembly. The
irony is lost on those making this patently false accusation that they were the
ones who accused Buhari of being an Islamic fundamentalist and that both the dominant
religions practised in Nigeria clearly prohibits same-sex marriage and the
punishment for doing so explicitly spelt out in the holy books. It is the likes of Funny Kayode, who made the accusation that opposed the Act in the
first place, while wearing the borrowed robes of human rights activism. So if Buhari is an Islamic fundamentalist,
how could he have promised to scrap a law that to all intents and purposes conformed
to the dictates of the Shari’ah Law they accused him of intending to implement
on the country once he is elected. How
low can these people go in their desperation to cling to power? Actually, do they have a ‘low’?
As if attacking Buhari and the
opposition is not enough, the president and the PDP have now resorted to
attacking national institutions.
Attahiru Jega, the Chairman of Independent (?) National Electoral
Commission (INEC) is pilloried on a daily basis for insisting to not only go
ahead with the rescheduled elections, but to also use Card Readers in the
authentication of voters. In their
desperation to scuttle the elections, Jonathan and his party are not loath to
attacking the very fabric of our unity.
Not being satisfied with the verbal assaults targeted on hapless
Nigerians, they released the uncouth wife of the president on us, who in her
verbal diarrhoea cannot differentiate between the good, the bad and the
ugly. In an unusual clarity, she
unwittingly let out the nation how northerners are perceived in the Aso Villa,
yet some unscrupulous politicians are asking us to support the PDP. Patience and her husband take pleasure in
denigrating our cultures, customs and institutions and they do this in a period
when they need us most – at least our votes to help legitimise their misrule
and kleptocracy. The tell whoever care
to listen that our Emirs and Chiefs, the very custodians of these cultures and
customs, are there to be bought and sold by the highest bidders and to prove
this insult, Jonathan has been going round the country and allegedly dropping
huge amounts of money in the various palaces where he is received.
The clearest indication that
Jonathan and his PDP doesn’t care if Nigeria will break up today is their
resort to ethnic champions (militias, for lack of a better word). These are men and women who took up arms
against their fatherland for personal gains and not for any altruistic cause as
they are now exposed for what they are.
We have seen the likes of the Niger Delta militants forgo any pretence
to environmental protection once the amnesty allowance began trickling into
their bank accounts. “Pipeline protection contracts” and other juicy add-ons
were given to sweeten the ‘sweetheart’ deals between these blue collar
criminals and their white collar colleagues in government.
Thank God for the Moroccans, the Gooddluck
Jonathan gang have been exposed for what they are – a bunch of thieving
liars. Knowing fully well that Jonathan
did not speak on phone to the Moroccan monarch, they went to town with a story
that a phone conversation took place between Jonathan and King Mohammed
VI. The no nonsense King ordered the
immediate recall of his country’s Ambassador to Nigeria and issued a press
statement, which in essence, called the Nigerian ruler a liar. Shame of a nation! We may soon see a press statement from Funny Kayode accusing the opposition APC
of orchestrating this national embarrassment.
Since they are used to lying to Nigerians without being forcefully
challenged to substantiate the wild allegations they constantly make, they
believe they will get away with their lies on the international forum because
of diplomatic ‘correctness’. All
discerning Nigerians should “shine their eyes” and know them for what they are.
To further compound their
stupidity, General Martin Luther Agwai was fired from his position as SURE-P
Chairman for daring to tell the president that change is inevitable. This is the president who recently bemoaned
that “80%” of his advisers give him bad advice.
Do you wonder why they give him bad advice? With the help of treasonable felons like
Uwazuruike, Gani Adams, Edwin Clark and co. Jonathan is lining up Jega for the
Agwai treatment and all you hear from Nigerians is a deafening silence. Jonathan and gang got away with suspending
Ayo Salami; they practically bundled Sanusi Lamido Sanusi from office for
calling them thieves and they fired Agwai via a press statement for failing to
harken to Patience’s admonishing of not uttering the word change at the pain of
being stoned – so he got stoned by her husband.
Still we kept quiet.
Now they are organising protests in
collaboration with their ‘contractors’ against Jega conducting the 2015 general
elections – which they have morbid fear for.
The chick of it. We are behaving
like mumus in the face of this assault against common sense and decency. May be we all deserve the PDP.
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