Why I will vote for buhari… For the simple reason that Buhari is not responsible for the collapse of basic infrastructure in the country, I will cast my ballot for him in the next election. I will ignore the rantings of ill-educated Internet activists and proclaim to those who are capable of reasoning that he remains the only one at the moment who can look Obasanjo straight in the face and tell him to prepare for the hottest part of hell. I will ask the youths of this country whose future has been mortgaged by these thieving politicians to join others in ensuring that Buhari is elected as the next president to arrest the current drift. I will not fail to tell the carpetbaggers and their acolytes that Buhari is not as averse to modernity and human progress as they who ask the youths to ignore science and embrace miracles. Buhari supervised the construction of at least two refineries while serving as a Federal Commissioner. No refinery is functioning today. Jonathan and the World Bank prefect in Nigeria, Aunty Ngozi, consider the current madness wherein our crude oil is taken to even Niger Republic and brought back as an imported product to justify the monumental scam currently going on under the name of fuel subsidy. In 1981, Buhari displayed his unwavering commitment to the preservation of the territorial integrity of the country when he pushed back the Chadian soldiers who had invaded some parts of the north, taking away our women and children. Buhari moved right into Ndjamena until the OAU intervened. That was the last time they ever came. The inept and corrupt government of Shehu Shagari reportedly came to an expected end partly because of that episode. The current scandalous practice wherein the security of our pipelines is given to Asari Dokubo, Tompolo, Ateke Tom and other glorified miscreants while the armed forces are starved of the necessary equipment with which to realize their mandate to secure and protect the territorial integrity of the country as well as maintain internal peace cannot happen under a Buhari Presidency. The noise of Asari Dokubo can better be appreciated along this line of thought. A former minister, Musiliu Obanikoro, confirmed that the Nigerian army was last equipped twenty five years ago in spite of yearly humongous budgetary allocations. Boko Haram has established its own Caliphate on Nigerian soil and this government is completely clueless. I will tell anyone who cares to listen that his name has not featured in the list of the beneficiaries of import duty waivers, some of whom are the prosperity pastors on the expressway. I will proclaim to the whole world that I rever the name of Fela more than those of the imported prophets of the transposed and imposed religions from the Middle East, that I felt pained when Buhari jailed him to prove a point, that I cursed the day he was born and hated everything that he represented at that time. I will also not fail to mention that as Remo indigenes, Awo to many of us is a god. His person remains, even in death, inviolate and sacrosanct. The offspring of Awos adversaries, the children of the bankrupt Agbonmagbes of this world, the notorious descendants of the exponent of maul e, which became corrupted as Molue, a progenitor of the power- mongering band, and other indolent votaries at the altar of power, will do everything to obliterate the memories of inglorious past of their forbears. No mortal will seek to desecrate that cherished memory, the abiding legacies of the legendary Awo, and still enjoy the respect of true sons and daughters of Remo, nay Ijebu and indeed Yoruba. Even at that, we concede to this man of exemplary character who was accused of master-minding the invasion and violation of that hallowed space. I personally still find it strange that Buhari will be on the same podium as many of these characters whose sordid deeds have brought us to this sorry pass. Short of asking him to inherit the carcass of the fraudulent template employed by Mimiko and Dan Iwuanyanwu to fleece the people of Ondo, or to team up with Baba Oodua, Frederick Faseuns Unity Party or, better still, Olu Falaes SDP, the only credible alternative to PDP is its other half, APC. Voting for Buhari and engaging the political merchants in his party afterwards is the only viable alternative. The other is to resign to fate and allow the Jonathans transformation train crush the polity. Doyin Odebowale, PhD, LLB (Hons) BL
Posted on: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 19:19:11 +0000
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