WHY SHOULD THE OPPOSITION NOT BE CALLED TO ORDER? Why should they not be made to face the music for their earlier unguarded utterances? They must be called to order. It is this docile approach to governance that has made the opposition and most Nigerians to label GEJs government weak. Would they have been conducting themselves in the manner they currently do if there is true operation of rule of law? Does democracy allow politicians or anyone for that matter to get reckless in their utterances and conducts? Imagine Tinubu calling on APC members in Osun State and elsewhere in Nigeria a few weeks ago to go to polling booths with black magic, charms and amulets and he is still a free man. What a country? What a democracy? Where are the civil society groups? Where is the Nigerian Bar Association? Why have they remained silent? Why the deafening silence? When has Nigeria become another Haiti where black magic is the order of the day? What is the fate of Haiti in the comity of nations! Why must we tow that line? When the hurricane and backlash of GEJs silence will sweep across the country, no one, I mean no one would be spared. The North has lit the first fire of Boko Haram since 2009. Then no one took them serious. Today the fire has begun to burn in the whole of north east and Cameroon. Unashamedly, the same people that lit the fire is turning around to blame GEJ and even Ihejirika for doing so. What a shameless people? If these opposition elements are not called to order, they will still turn around tomorrow to blame GEJ for the disintegration of the country when they clearly have systematically begun the process. GEJ, its time you stood up as a man with enormous powers and confront your detractors who feel you are weak. Dont let them win because they have nothing but personal and selfish aggrandizement propelling them. As a patriot, stand up and defend your country GEJ. These men are all out to destroy this country. They have already said so: if they loose, they will form a parallel government. Amaechi who made that statement is still inexplicably a free man. What the heck is happening? Is Nigeria being gradually turned to a banana republic? Dont we have a government in place anymore? Why must we continue to condone such impunity and excesses? Must we remain a laughing stick in the comity of nations? The other day, it was the same Amaechi inciting the military to mutiny. When has it become Amaechis business to protect the interest of the military if not all in an attempt to cut his nose in order to spite his face? To make matters worse, the loquacious Lai (Lie) Mohammed (what a coincident) came out openly to defend Anaechi all in the name party affiliation. These impunities and excesses must end. Nigeria is no ones personal property. We cannot allow these avaricious and Dracula-like scoundrels to suck us dry. Enough is enough!!! The NBA apparently gets selective amnesia by not making any public statements as they readily and roundly did when the I.G was severely berated for the National Assembly fiasco. Why has the NBA suddenly gone deaf and dumb? Whose ambers are they fanning? Whose interest is the NBA protecting? What a lopsided and bi partisan approach to sensitive and delicate national issue? Why has the NBA been silent on the conduct and utterances of the opposition? Is the NBA telling Nigerians that they are for the opposition alone and not for a functional democracy? There should be a form of repercussion and recriminations for any excesses. The opposition is taking too much. As far as I am concerned, the government is belated in its threat to move against the conduct and utterances of the opposition from top to bottom. It is only in Nigeria that the opposition will be given such a free hand to engage in such recklessness. The government of GEJ has ascribed so much power ps and privileges to the opposition and I will end by cautioning them in the words of Lord Acton (1834-1902), British historian, in his Letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton dated, April 3, 1887, where he originally wrote: Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad man. GEJs government had better watch their steps before all these get out of hand. Nigerians will blame him if he could not restore sanity to the polity. The powerless opposition may be one too powerful if their excesses are not checked. A stitch in time they say, saves nine.
Posted on: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 08:56:27 +0000
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