DECLARATION: I STAND WITH MUHAMMADU BUHARI “Once upon a time, I presumed that General Muhammadu Buhari familiarized Nigeria with the Organization of the Islamic Conference, OIC, when the nation was (and remains) a secular state with diverse creeds. Now, it appears he wasn’t much of a religious chauvinist as I thought. His regime executed three Nigerian youths on drug related convictions, on the basis of a retroactive decree. Those who knew what transpired in General Buhari’s regime have attested that the lethal decision was made by the Supreme Military Council – and not by the head of state, who could be ousted for rebuffing the esprit de Corps. Buhari was faulted for ousting an elected civil government. In reality, most Nigerians, didn’t mind because the so called civil government of that period was one of the most unethical in the annals of civic rule. Furthermore, Buhari was censured for being the head of a junta that browbeat opposition. In truth, we all knew that Nigeria needed a resolute regime to thrash the devil out of the immoral and obstinate society. More than ever, Nigeria needed the ‘War Against Indiscipline’ (WAI) declared by the Buhari regime. Like the other heads of state before and after him, General Buhari defiled the Nigerian civil rights code. Conversely, the uncertainties and irregularities of that period dictated much of the actions pursued by that regime. Providentially, the conditions that allowed a military head of state to be dictatorial won’t flourish in a civil dispensation. It appears like President Buhari would be different from General Buhari. The nation’s political compass currently points towards a ‘stubborn’ Muhammadu Buhari and an irredeemably corrupt President Goodluck Jonathan. The former’s ‘devil’ is truthful than the latter’s angel. The urgency for a tenacious pathfinder to lead Nigeria out of the jungles of corruption, nepotism, sectionalism, inanity, and spiritual chauvinism trumps the debate over what Buhari did right or wrong as a military head of state. We are all living witnesses to how the civilly elected President Goodluck Jonathan has demoted Nigeria from the Giant of Africa to the Charlatan of Africa by institutionalizing and celebrating corruption – like a few before him. President Jonathan is a fellow Christian, but he has appended his nomenclature to all that Jesus Christ, the founder of Christianity, eschewed. The current Nigerian president is a fellow southerner, but he has desecrated what the cultured southerner stood for. The man is a fellow scholar, yet he has become a disgrace to the intellectual world. On the above-mentioned grounds, I declare my support for the next president of Nigeria – Muhammadu Buhari.” – DELE AJAJA
Posted on: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 04:50:51 +0000
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