President Muhammadu Buhari welcomes at Aso Rock on his return to Nigeria
on March 10, 2017 after returning from 50-day sick leave in London |
State House Photo
The
day before yesterday we were told by the first lady of Nigeria, Mrs.
Aisha Buhari, that her husband was not as ill as most of us believed and
that despite his obvious challenges he has continued to “carry out his
responsibilities”.
On the same day the media went to great lengths to convince us, without providing any pictures, that the president had resumed work
and that he had had a series of fruitful and productive meetings with
his Minister of Justice and the Managing Director of the Nigerian
National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) respectively.
They assured us that he would definitely
preside over the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting which was
scheduled to hold the following day.
All of these assertions proved to be false. Buhari has now missed his FOURTH Federal Executive Council meeting in a row due to his chronic and debilitating ill health.
Whoever is holding this poor, frail,
sick and elderly man to ransom and keeping him in the Presidential
Villa, probably against his will, is wicked and ungodly and he or she is
committing a grave sin against God and the Nigerian people.
It is clear that the President is no
longer fit to govern. It is obvious that his time is almost up. It is
self-evident that for him the bell is tolling.
It is incontrovertible that those around
him have held him captive and are indulging in what I once described in
an essay that I wrote seven years during the last days of President
Umaru Yar’adua as “corpsocracy”. The essay was titled ”Corpocracy: A Gift From Umaru To The Modern World”.
Simply put corpsocracy means the
rulership of the living by the dead. It is the art of hiding a walking
corpse, a comatose zombie or what some have described as the “living
dead” in a cupboard in the Presidential Villa, telling the world that it
is hale and hearty and then ruling and running the country in its name.
This is what happened during Yar’adua’s
last four months on earth whilst he still had one foot in the land of
the living and it is happening to Buhari today.
Such was the ruthless and cold-blooded
deception that Yar’adua’s inner circle brought into the equation that
they managed to convince the Nigerian people and indeed the entire world
that a President that was totally comatose and literally brain-dead
managed to sign the 2010 budget all the way from dream-land.
They also managed to conjure up a fake
but convincing telephone interview with the BBC television service which
millions of unsuspecting viewers, including yours truly, watched and
listened to from all over the world.
Such was the angst of the management of
the BBC when the truth was unearthed and they finally discovered that
they had been misled, conned, duped and used that the northern Nigerian
woman that organised the so-called “interview”, passing off Yar’adua’s
brother’s voice as Yar’adua himself, was expeditiously and
unceremoniously sacked.
Her name was Jamilah Tangaza and she was
the head of the BBC Hausa service at the time. She was also a double
agent of both the MI6, the United Kingdom’s secretive international spy
agency and Nigeria’s external spy agency known as the National
Intelligence Agency (NIA). One is constrained to ask: what have the
Nigerian people not been subjected to or seen?
All these dirty games conducted in a
squalid and sordid attempt to hold on to power at all costs. Yet worse
of all are the nauseating mendacities that the Minister of Information,
Lai Mohammed, keeps churning out. Yesterday he told us that Buhari did
not attend the FEC meeting this week because he was “still resting”.
Equally amusing was the absurd assertion
from the Minister of Transport, the pot-bellied creek-Haramite known as
Rotimi Amaechi, who claims that he “is not corrupt” and that he “does
not like money” and who told Nigerians that Buhari was now “putting on
weight”, was “much better” and that he was “fit enough to run for the
Presidency in 2019”.
Honestly one wonders if these creatures
have any genuine love and compassion for their principal because if they
did instead of telling us lies about his medical condition they would
simply get on their knees and beg him to resign.
One wonders if they have any shame. It
is very clear to me that they are all under an accursed hex or
Luciferian spell. They have been bound and blinded in body, spirit and
soul.
This is a classic case of the Living God
hardening Pharaoh’s heart unto destruction. Yet sadly those in power,
including Buhari himself, are so obsessed with that power that they
cannot see it.
Instead of letting God’s people go and
bringing to an end the wickedness, persecution, slaughter and
destruction of their perceived enemies, the Buhari administration has
gone into full throttle and unleashed even more havoc on members of the
opposition and those that they hate.
A few examples will suffice.
A couple of weeks ago when my younger
brother Mr. Deji Adeyanju, the stormy petrel of Nigerian political
activism, together with his equally dynamic colleague Mr. Ariyo Dare
Atoye, organised protest marches across the country demanding for the
release of the great Biafran leader and irrepressible Igbo nationalist
Prince Nnamdi Kanu, they were both promptly arrested and briefly
detained by the police.
The same thing happened to them again in
Abuja a few days later after they organised yet another demonstration,
this time calling for the release of two online bloggers and
journalists, Mr. Austin Okai and Miss Kemi Omololu-Olunloyo.
It didn’t stop there. Two days ago the
Southern Kaduna’s Peoples Union (SOKAPU) went on a march in Unity
Square, Abuja protesting about the continued mass murder, genocide,
butchering and ethnic cleansing of their Christian brothers and sisters
and people by Buhari’s kinsmen, the Fulani militias and herdsmen.
Amongst their ranks was the courageous,
refreshing, young, articulate, brilliant and bright rising star of
Nigeria’s Middle Belt zone, Miss Ndi Kato.
Sadly instead of being treated with
sensitivity and compassion and being given assurances that the killings
would stop and the killers would be brought to justice, they were
insulted, beaten, brutalised and dispersed with batons and tear gas by
the Nigerian police.
When elements of the Bring Back Our
Girls (BBOG) group led by Mrs. Aisha Yesufu joined them as a mark of
solidarity, they were brutalised and dispersed as well.
Worse still Aliyu Babangida, the former
Governor of Niger State, Sule Lamido, the former Governor of Jigawa
state, Ibrahim El Zak Zaky, the leader of Nigeria’s Shiite Muslims,
Sambo Dasuki, the former National Security Advisor to President Goodluck
Jonathan and countless other opposition leaders and opponents of the
government remain languishing in detention cells and prisons all over
the country whilst plans are afoot to frame up and arrest numerous
others like the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu.
This is clearly a government and a
President of “no going back”. Like Shakespeare’s Macbeth they are “so
far steeped in blood that should they wade no more, returning would be
as tedious as to go over”.
Yet the price for their chosen path, their sheer cruelty and callousness and their sanguine disposition is very high.
It is not just a matter of Buhari
possibly dying in office as a consequence of whatever it is that has
afflicted him but also what the aftermath of his death will bring.
Baba Bisi Akande, a leading member of
the APC and one of the most revered and credible figures in the country,
has already fired a warning shot on behalf of the Vice President and
the south-west by saying that nobody should mistake 2017 for 1993.
For those that are too young to know
what he is saying is that if Buhari dies no-one should dream of
scuttling Professor Yemi Osinbajo’s succession and thereby deprive the
south-west of the Presidency like they did in 1993 when Chief MKO
Abiola’s mandate was annulled by the northern military simply because
they did not want a southern President.
This is a timely and useful intervention
by Baba Akande but sadly it has fallen on deaf ears. The cabal and the
ultra-conservative core north (which is the constituency that Buhari
represents) has already made up its mind.
As a matter of fact the spokesman of the
Northern Patriotic Assembly issued a prompt response to him yesterday
and warned him and other “leaders from the south-west” to desist from
making what they described as “such immoral and despicable statements”.
Again at the instance of the northern
elders and leaders, the APC Youth Wing issued an even sterner warning
and advised Akande to “go for a psychiatric test” for suggesting that
the ill health of the President was taking its toll on the nation.
As far as these people are concerned the
Presidency of Nigeria belongs to the north and whether Buhari lives or
dies, it must stay there.
Worse still their view is that if they
cannot have it then nobody will. That is the beastly mindset of those
that we are contending with. And those that suffer from it will
certainly come to an equally beastly end.
The truth is that President Muhammadu
Buhari, his evil administration and those that they represent are venal
and malevolent. They have been rejected by the Living God.
His is a government of compulsive liars,
sadistic tyrants, blood-thirsty psychopaths, closet kleptomaniacs,
ethnic supremacists, radical Islamists, skull and bone diviners and
voodoo merchants.
The fact of the matter is that whether
they like it or not we are entering the endgame. Everything is coming to
a head. The next few months will be instructive and critical and much
will happen that will surprise and shock the world and the Nigerian
people.
To the spiritually sensitive and
discerning one thing is clear: this dispensation is almost over. The
beast is dying. The flesh is rotting. The vultures are gathering. The
sky has turned black and a new era approaches.
Yet even in sickness, death and decay
the tyrant and his followers revel in deception, treachery, doublespeak,
blood-lust and wickedness.
My advice to them is to humble themselves and FEAR GOD before it is too late!
My counsel to them is to let this sick
and elderly man resign in peace and allow him to go home to take care of
his health and make his peace with God.
My appeal to them is to be sensitive to
the Spirit and to recognise the fact that he has been struck and
mortally wounded by the sword of the Lord.
My prayer to them is to accept the fact
that he has been pierced with the arrow of God, he has been hit by the
east wind of destruction, he has been afflicted with a deep spiritual
wound and he is suffering from God’s judgement: it is time for him to
GO!
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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