Due to the limited time remaining for the incumbent government in Nigeria (local,State and federal level).There had been a lot of people from the four corners of the nation raising up their interest of becoming the next ruler at local, state and federal level.On this note, Wale Adebayo wrote an open letter to one of the Nigerian Formal Head of State, General Buhari.Read through the full message bellow,and make use of the comment box bellow to leave your comment on the open letter.Your words count and you comment is important.
Dear General Buhari,
I sincerely believe you should not contest next
year’s presidential election. Of course, if we are asking you to stay off,
NOBODY should even contemplate mentioning the name of Gen. Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida.
In a decent country, Babangida should be in jail or already hanged for multiple
murders. So, this letter is just about you, who some of us still consider a
very decent human being with some flaws.
You were an icon of moral rectitude and genuine
patriotism until your sojourn with the late despot, Gen. Sani Abacha, as
Chairman of the defunct Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF). While Abacha’s murderous
regime lasted, not for once did we hear you insist that the right things must
be done. You were there when Alhaja Kudirat Abiola was murdered. You propped
Abacha up when Pa Alfred Rewane was murdered in the comfort of his home. And
there were others like that including protesters who were killed for insisting
that the results of a democratic election be respected and the winner
announced.
As PTF Chairman, you were an ethnic champion with
the way projects under your supervision were executed. The Lagos/Ibadan
Expressway, Shagamu/Benin Expressway and their Ibadan/Ilorin counterpart became
death traps because you deliberately ignored these national arteries of
commerce and social mobilisation due to a myopic vision of ‘punishing’ the
Yoruba Nation for standing up to Abacha.
The restiveness in the Niger Delta region would
have been contained a bit if the funds under your supervision as PTF Chairman
were used effectively to put in place good infrastructure in the oil producing
areas, where you got the money from. Instead, between 80 – 90% of PTF’s
activities were concentrated in the North-West sub-region, which is your home
area. And in the South-East, the deplorable state of the federal roads there is
more than enough proof that the PTF under your watch was more interested in
other places. You did nothing there.
For a man who often takes on former President
Olusegun Obasanjo as an ethnic champion, your record in office as PTF Chairman
and Obasanjo’s eight years as president shows the Ota Chicken Farmer to be more
nationalistic than you in every ramification. Obasanjo left the Yoruba Nation in
2007 as he met it in 1999. The federal roads around us remain the same. Same
with other infrastructure, which is why residents along the banks of Ogun River
continue to suffer from the negative fallouts of overflow from the Federal
Government owned Oyan Dam in Ogun State.
Kindly note that one is not accusing you of being
corrupt. No. We want a leader who is acceptable to all segments of our society.
Such a leader must also be courageous enough to face the entrenched
Oligarchy/Godfathers who thrive on corruption and impunity to perpetually put
Nigeria in bondage. You have some of these qualities. But being an ethnic champion, you
cannot be the new face of Nigeria that this country desperately needs.
Hope you remember your ethnic trip to former Oyo State Governor, Alhaji Lam
Adesina, while the old man was still in office?
And don’t think I dislike you because of your
leadership of the Fulani cause across Nigeria and other parts of West Africa.
No. My best friend, Ahmadu Adamu, is a thoroughbred Fulani from Gembu Town in
Taraba State. If I die today, he is the first person who knows what to do about
my immediate family. And in Kaduna, which is my second home, some of the key
people I rely on in life are Fulanis. We are like blood relations. But in
matters like these, emotions should not be part of it. You should rest assured
that your candidacy will not fly in about 80 – 90% of Southern Nigeria.
General, you are a deeply religious person. And
despite your failings during the Abacha days, you are one of the few moral
icons Nigeria has today. I know the average Northern Talakawa holds you in very
high esteem. During my recent sojourn in Kaduna, Katsina, Kano, Sokoto, Kebbi
and Abuja, my usual destination for food was among these men who enjoy pap with
beans cake (kose/akara) spiced with ground pepper early in the morning. You
have a cult-like following among them. From my study, I know it has to do with
your moral uprightness.
But in the same places, the very opposite is true
among the upper class and majority of the middle class. A number of them
believe it has to do with your original status in life, in which they claim
(like the Indians) you should ‘know your place’. I do not agree with that at
all. But as pointed out earlier, I am a realist who does not use emotions to
take decisions. In your part of Nigeria, it is the upper class who directs
things. The middle and lower classes always fall in line. These decision makers
do not want a Buhari to be president for their own reasons.
However, the same people who are working against
your candidacy, respects Mr. Nuhu Ribadu. Their major worry is that like you,
he might want to stop their illicit running down of every segment of the
Northern society and Nigeria as a whole. But till date, at least, from my
findings, they have not been able to pin any negative ‘caste’ label on Ribadu. The
only issue remains Ribadu’s uncompromising stance against corruption, which
they fear could deny them their status if the man is elected president.
You have the same traits with Ribadu when it comes
to work and orientation about what a decent society should be like. The only
difference is that, Ribadu is very acceptable to Southerners and grudgingly so
among the upper class in Northern Nigeria. Ribadu’s acceptability among the
Northern middle class is also on the same level with the South. You control the
Talakawas there almost 100%. But you and I know that on election day in your
part of Nigeria, these downtrodden members of the society will vote and leave
voting centres which could be hundreds of miles apart. It is the middle and
upper classes who determine the results of elections in Northern Nigeria.
If you contest the presidential election, there is
no doubt the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will retain its stranglehold
on Northern Nigeria given the fact that your supporters cannot do the needful
on election day apart from voting and leaving the place. Of course, you should
not consider getting much support from the South because of the reasons
mentioned earlier. The fact is that you’ll lose! Unfortunately, if I read you
correctly, there is nothing dearer to your heart than a replacement of the current
corrupt and visionless Federal Government.
Given the above, I’ll strongly suggest you throw
your weight behind Ribadu as Nigeria’s next president. He is young, vibrant and
has the same orientation like yourself. What is more, he has enormous goodwill
in Southern Nigeria. Beyond the issue of personal ambition, I sincerely believe
you should not allow this opportunity to pass us by in 2011. You definitely
cannot win. But you can assist another, who is like you, to win. It is like
another battlefield. Soldiers often sacrifice themselves strategically for
their colleagues to achieve a difficult objective. Those are the real heroes of
war!
Wale Adedayo,
Okeliwo, Oke Ife,
Ijebu Ife,
Ogun State, Nigeria.
"Pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion. Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave, eats a bread it does not harvest, and drinks a wine that flows not from its own wine-press. Pity the nation that acclaims the bully as hero, and that deems the glittering conqueror bountiful. Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking. Pity the nation whose sages are dumb with years and whose strong men are yet in the cradle. - Khalil Gibran
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