Most
columnists, writers and public commentators have shied away from doing
so but today yours truly will treat a matter and pose a question that is
in the hearts and minds of many both within and outside Nigeria.
The question is whether President
Muhammadu Buhari (remember him?) is actually dead or still alive. And,
assuming that he is still alive, is he lost to the world in a vegetative
state and deep coma, is he suffering from an extreme and crippling form
of dementia or is he lucid, functional, rational and clear-thinking?
These are the relevant and poignant
questions that many are seeking answers to yet this whole matter and
everything that flows from it, for some strange and inexplicable reason,
is shrouded in the utmost secrecy and subterfuge.
The Presidency has told us that Buhari has travelled out of the country yet no-one has seen pictures or footage of him going out of Nigeria or arriving in his preferred destination in a foreign land.
Assuming that he really did travel out
one wonders which country he was ferried to, whether he went there on
his feet or on his back and whether he is presently on admission in a
hospital or resides in a private or official residence.
The Presidency claims that he is still alive and we sincerely hope that this is the case.
Yet many have their doubts simply
because it has been proved over and over again that the Federal
Government are nothing but a nest of vipers and a brood of pernicious
and pathological liars.
They lie as if there is no tomorrow and
consequently few believe anything that they say including the assertion
that the President is still alive or that he is running the affairs of
our nation from his sickbed in the United Kingdom.
The truth is that if the Presidency or
the Federal Government told us that it was day outside most of us would
be forced to assume that it was night.
That is how skeptical the more discerning amongst us are about what those in power tell us.
Between the rulers and the ruled in Nigeria today there is no trust.
Consequently we are under no obligation,
given their compulsive and sociopathic affinity for mendacities and
deceit, to believe anything that the Buhari administration or the
Presidency tells us.
The bottom line is this: if the
President is dead, stop playing games, tell us the truth, bury him with
dignity and let his soul rest in peace.
If he is alive let us know exactly what
has afflicted him, what his condition is, where he is, how he is doing
and, most important of all, give us PROOF OF LIFE.
Anything short of treading one of these
two paths is not only dishonorable but also utterly reprehensible and
amounts to nothing less than a glaring and singular insult to the
collective sensibilities of the Nigerian people. Simply put, we have a
right to know the truth.
The usage of lies, deceit, secrecy,
subterfuge and disinformation in the administration of governance
coupled with the promotion of indiscipline, the encouragement of
impunity, the disobedience of court orders, the undermining of the rule
of law, the destruction of democratic institutions and the lack of
fairness and justice are the worst forms of corruption.
Sadly this government, more than any
other in the history of our country, is guilty of each and everyone of
these grave charges. This is deeply troubling and it gives us cause not
only for concern but also deep introspection.
Meanwhile we congratulate Acting
President Yemi Osinbajo for finally signing the 2017 budget. Even though
we are already half way through the year, as they say, it is better
late than never.
This is a step in the right direction
and it is worthy of applause and commendation. However what causes some
consternation and beggars belief is the asinine and childish assertion
by Mr. Shehu Garbage of the Presidency that President Buhari “gave his
permission” for the Acting President to sign it.
Honestly when I heard this contribution I
didn’t know whether to laugh or to cry. I was constrained to ask when
the Presidency had transformed from being Nigeria’s most powerful and
exalted seat of power into a theater of comedy and a home for second
rate comedians.
These people will do and say anything to
hide or distort the truth and to humiliate and undermine the authority
and standing of Acting President Osinbajo.
And the fact that Osinbajo allows them
to get away with it is an eloquent testimony to his nauseating weakness
and inability to take control and administer power in the way that he is
expected to do.
After all we do not operate a
monarchical system of government in Nigeria and Buhari is not a king. He
does not have any “divine rights” and he is not a deity or a ruler with
absolute powers.
He is simply a democratically-elected
President who is bound by the rules and conventions of the constitution
and who is meant to be nothing more than a servant of the people.
In this context the question that needs to be answered is simple and clear and that question is as follows.
Does an Acting President need the
permission of a sick, AWOL and bed-ridden President, who has been
compelled by his debilitating ill-health to formally hand over power to
his second-in-command as the constitution dictates, to sign the budget?
The answer is a resounding “no”.
This is especially so when we have been
intimidated and informed by an excitable, well-known and rabidly
pro-government and fanatically pro-APC online medium known as
Saharareporters that the President is in a “vegetative state” and that
he “cannot speak to those around him or recognise his environment”.
If the president’s friends and
supporters can write and publish such things about his medical condition
what are the rest of us supposed to think or believe?
We have been assured by that medium that
his situation is so critical that even his wife was barred from seeing
him when she travelled all the way to the United Kingdom to do so.
If this is true (and up until the time
that I am writing this contribution it has not been publicly refuted or
denied) it raises some very serious questions and the first one of those
questions is why the Presidency and the Federal Government deem it
appropriate to hide the truth from the Nigerian people?
Yet it does not stop there. Mr. Eric
Joyce, the well-known British ex-military, ex-Member of Parliament and
serving MI6 operative who has always had a special interest in Nigeria
and who has always been an ardent supporter and friend of the President
and his government has come out boldly to suggest that Buhari is dead and he has challenged the Nigerian people to ask the Presidency for proof of life. His words:
“For now, with no sight nor sound of the
President and no proof even of life for some time, it seems that in a
bid to manage the succession the Presidency may be lying to the public
about the president’s health or even life, and making Nigeria’s
democratic status a mockery into the bargain”.
If we choose to reject Joyce’s
suggestion that Buhari is dead and instead we accept the narrative that
he is still alive but bed-ridden and critically ill, the assertion that
he is in a position to “give permission” for the budget to be signed
remains equally childish and absurd.
And the truth is that the Villa rats
that made that astounding assertion are talking and behaving like second
rate actors and low-level performers in an X-rated, sleazy and seedy
Parisian porn film and Swedish blue movie.
All you hear from them are animal-like grunts and groans and loud, fake orgasms.
This is corpsocracy in its most glaring,
repugnant, primitive and repulsive form. It is a squalid and sordid
attempt to impose a godless and alien system of governance which can be
best described as the “rulership of the living by the dead” on the
Nigerian people.
Nigeria cannot be ruled from the grave.
She cannot and must not be ruled by the dark and faceless agents and
sinister emissaries of a shrouded and embalmed Egyptian-like entombed
mummy or the surrogates of a corpse that is either stone-cold dead or is
dead to to the world and barely alive.
We deserve far better than that and we have the right to be told the truth no matter how bitter that truth may be.
The fact of the matter is that anyone that believes anything that this evil government tells them is truly lost.
The truth is that it was not Buhari that
gave Osinbajo permission to sign the budget but rather evil mafia and
dark cabal that runs this country in his name.
If those that put that statement out
were not utterly shameless how can they even say publicly that an Acting
President who is more than capable of running the country has to wait
for permission or for backing from a sick President that no-one has seen
or heard from in weeks to sign a budget six months into the fiscal
year.
Clearly these people are drunk on power
and it has affected their ability to reason properly or think straight.
Clearly Nigeria is in a precarious position right now.
Our government is a government of liars who are sustained by lies, who live by lies and who will die by lies.
Their spiritual foundation and the very essence of their being is built on nothing but perfidy and mendacity.
Their souls are dark, their spirits are corrupt and their consciences are seared beyond redemption.
The shedding of human blood is their
delight, the sacrifice of the innocents is their pleasure and the
administration of disaster, hardship and misery is their joy.
They are nothing but sadists whose declared intention is to keep us in bondage and rule for another “two hundred years”.
And even as our people are dying of
hunger and being slaughtered on a daily basis by Fulani herdsmen and
Boko Haram they offer no apology for their shameful and glaring
incompetence and neither do they display any remorse for their inability
to protect the people that they were elected to serve and defend.
Instead of doing that all they do is
just tell us one lie after the other. For example when asked about
Buhari’s medical condition the Minister of Information, Mr. Lai
Mohammed, had the effrontery and nerve to tell Channels Television that
“President Buhari is alive and well and he talks to Acting President Osinbajo every day!”
If anyone believes that hogwash they
will believe anything! And the minute Lai said it his already big, fat
and oversized nose grew ten inches longer.
What a terrible plague and affliction
has befallen our nation. That plague and affliction is known as
Muhammadu Buhari and his clandestine cabal of sinister and byzantian
tormentors.
May God deliver Nigeria from their evil claws and mendacious clutches.
Femi
Fani-Kayode is a lawyer, a Nigerian politician, an evangelical
christian, an essayist, a poet and he was the Special Assistant (Public
Affairs) to President Olusegun Obasanjo from July 2003 until June 2006.
He was the minister of culture and tourism of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria from June 22nd to Nov 7th 2006 and as the minister of Aviation
from Nov 7th 2006 to May 29th 2007. He tweets from@realFFK.
The opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the author.
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