NEWS: President Buhari And The Rest Of Us – Charles Ogbu.
The country called Nigeria is currently being subjected to bottom-less
ridicule in the eye of the world, not necessarily because it is being
ruled by a ghost president but because it is equally peopled by ghost
citizens who are deaf, dumb, blind and completely life-less to their
basic duties and rights even when they yet breathe.
This is a shame,
really. A crying shame.
Make no mistake, the fact that Muhammadu Buhari yet retains the title
of “president” even when its been proven beyond every reasonable doubt
that he is gravely ill and in no condition to even rule himself, is to
our collective shame as a people. It is not your place as an employer to
prove that your employee is dead or alive.
It is your employee who must
prove he is alive and in good enough condition to continue working for
you. He must do this by reporting for duty.
If he is too sick that he must miss work for several months without
furnishing you with adequate information about his health, you owe it to
yourself to sack such an employee. If you fail to do so, the joke is no
longer on the employee but you the employer.
When criminals take over a society, it is not the criminals you
should blame because they are only living up to their tag as criminals.
It is the police the entire shame should be on because high rate of
crime only speaks to the criminal ineptitude of those whose duty is the
prevention of crime, the police.
In this case, the roguery of the disaster that is Buhari presidency
is a grave indictment on our collective resolve as a people. It
testifies to our complacency and political illiteracy. It speaks volume
about how mentally retarded we are with regards to our rights as a
people under a democracy.
According to John Locke in “The Consent Of The Governed”, a
government exists solely by the consent of the governed. In other words,
the government of Muhammadu Buhari exists only because you, the
citizens allow it. Muhammadu Buhari is nothing but an employee of the
Nigerian people.
It is you, the citizens that own the government, not the other way
round. By electing a few officials to run a govt, you are not
relinquishing your powers as citizens. You are only giving some of those
powers to the elected to hold IN TRUST and you can withdraw this power
whenever you feel that your trust has been abused. Your power as the
governed DOES NOT end in the ballot box. No! There is something called
“Residual Power”. You retain the power to dissent whenever you feel your
elected representatives have betrayed your trust.
Government is a social contract between the elected officials and the
governed. And this contract rests on the principle that the government
must ALWAYS protect and defend the peoples’ natural rights -right to
life, liberty and property, while the people must obey the law and pay
their tax. The moment a government fails in its basic duty of protecting
the lives and property of her citizens, such a government has broken
her own end of the social contract and as such, has no moral or legal
authority to continue to preside over your affairs. You owe no
obligation to such a sham masquerading as government.
In a world where honor still hold meaning, a government that has
proven incapable of protecting lives and property of her people would
voluntarily resign with a heartfelt apology to the citizens for failing
in her basic duty.
Now, let’s take a glance at the Muhammadu Buhari government:
As president, Buhari has not just failed woefully in protecting our
lives and property, he has played an active role in taking our lives.
A
government that kills the same people it exists mainly to protect while
protecting terrorists (marauding herdsmen and boko haram) it exist
mainly to kill is nothing but a rogue government. Following this basic
logic, the government of Muhammadu Buhari is a rogue government! It is a
murderous government led by a highly vindictive dark hearted death
merchant with zero respect to the sanctity of human lives.
As a Nigerian, if soldiers don’t shoot you with the gun bought with
your tax money, the police will help them out. If they both fail, don’t
rejoice yet because they may just have spared you not out of compassion
but out of respect for the principle of Division Of Labour seeing as the
marauding herdsmen might just be on their way to correct the
“oversight” of the security agencies. And trust me, the president you
elected to protect you won’t even say a word. If you push him too much,
he would blame you for provoking the security guys the same way he
blamed hundredS of Shiites massacred by his own army simply for blocking
the convoy of a solider who doubles as the army Chief.
We have swallowed all the lies, deceit and betrayal of this
government in quietude. We have watched as Buhari turned the presidency
into a tool for senseless vendetta. We all sat speechless and motionless
as he continued to run the affairs of over 180million people as though
he was running the affairs of his homosexual cows in Daura. All these we
have allowed, to our eternal shame.
Now, Muhammadu Buhari wants to rule us even as a Ghost President?
He wants to preside over our affairs even from the land of the half
dead. And we are allowing this? A country of over 180million people is
now being ruled by a president whose proof of life no one can vouch for
and no one is protesting this?
Are we really under a spell or what?
President Buhari spent number-less months in the hospital with his
employers who are paying the hospital bill being treated with criminal
disdain as to what ailment this president is suffering from. And we are
all maintaining deafening silence?
For months, the collection of clinical buffoons masquerading as the
President’s aides have been trying to outdo each other over who should
heap the highest insult on our collective intelligence. While Liar
Muhammadu has been living true to his name, ‘Liar’, with regards to
Buhari’s true status, Shehu Garba has been doing exceptionally well in
his job as the Asorock Chief Clown, for he, it was, who told us that
Muhammadu Buhari who officially handed over power to his Vice to act as
President, has given his permission for the same acting President to
sign the 2017 budget.
This is even as SaharaReporters just revealed that Buhari is down
with a medical condition suspected to be cancer and has since lost his
memory. According to the online media house, Aisha Buhari was denied
access to her husband, Buhari,during her recent visit to the U.K in a
desperate bid by Abba Kyari and co to keep Buhari’s health status a top
secret.
When a president has not addressed his employers for months, his
status is hidden from even his own wife, no one apart from the gang of
political terrorists known as the cabal know whether he’s dead or alive.
Yet, outrageous salaries and allowances are still being withdrawn in
his name and devilish instructions are purportedly emanating right there
from the land of the half dead where this president is, then it is time
we collectively reach a consensus that all those living within the
geographical space this president is laying claim to, deserve to bury
their heads in the poo-poo hole of this thing called #Shame!! In a
nutshell, all Nigerians should hide their head in shame.
Even a small country such as Sao Tome and Principel would never allow
a ghost president preside over their affairs. That it is happening here
in Nigeria is nothing short of a walking shame. The joke is on us as a
people, not on the so called Cabal.
Indeed, it is true that when you push a Nigerian to the wall, rather
than fight back, he will break the wall and bury himself therein.
Buhari is the perfect proof that no one really love Nigeria in the real sense of the word. There is not a single patriotic Nigerian. Awolowo was right. Nigeria is nothing short of a mere geographical entity.
Nothing more! Pay no heed to those wig-wearing cash-tivists
masquerading as lawyers for they speak not out of love for country but
out of need to exhibit their near-perfect appreciation of the queen’s
language.
For them, Ojota is no longer good enough to occupy. Their partners in
the pulpit are no different. For those ones, their pigeons no longer
fly. And their god who supposedly annointed Buhari is most probably on
Omugwo.
So much for the #SaveNigeriaGroup!
Sometimes, I’m tempted to think that mother nature happened Buhari on us just so we could see those men and women we hitherto held in high esteem for the Lilly livered double-faced Brutus they really are.
Sometimes, I’m tempted to think that mother nature happened Buhari on us just so we could see those men and women we hitherto held in high esteem for the Lilly livered double-faced Brutus they really are.
I will take solace in the fact that no man, no matter how powerful, can make a private bargain with history.
We have allowed history of being ruled by a ghost president from Katsina repeat itself.
This is nothing short of a Deja Vu of the Yar’Adua situation.
We have been fully Yar’Adualized again. To our collective shame!
Like Buhari, Like Yar’Adua!
Nature’s little game on mankind…… Nigerians!
Whether you want a Biafra republic, Oodua, Niger Delta Republic or a
Restructured Nigeria, Charles Ogbu has a message for you: You will get
neither of those if you don’t join hands to kick those devilish bunch
back to the bottomless pit where them came from.
Ghost president and
ghost Cabal cannot “gift” you with any of the above. Only real
government can.
Always remember this.
Can we really put behind our petty rivalries and resist these treasonous criminals who have successfully executed a bloodless but deadlier coup against the Nigerian people Or are we gonna keep fiddling like Emperor Nero while the soulless usurpers known as the Cabal keep playing Russian Roulette with our collective destiny and those of our unborn kids?
Can we really put behind our petty rivalries and resist these treasonous criminals who have successfully executed a bloodless but deadlier coup against the Nigerian people Or are we gonna keep fiddling like Emperor Nero while the soulless usurpers known as the Cabal keep playing Russian Roulette with our collective destiny and those of our unborn kids?
Time to decide that is now!
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