According to Joe Igbokwe, the fear of the All Progressives
Congress’ presidential candidate is the beginning of wisdom.
Rtd. Gen. Buhari
Joe Igbokwe who is a writer, and principal officer at the
Lagos State Infrastructure, Maintenance And Regulatory Agency, LASIMRA in this
opinion piece has talked on the detailed travails of Buhari. How the retired
General tried all he could from 2003 to 2007 to 2011 all to no avail but in
2015, he gained popularity with Nigerians.
Read the opinion piece below:
The fear of candidate Buhari is now the beginning of wisdom
in Nigeria today. Buhari was no serious contender in the eyes of ordinary
Nigerians in the contest for the Presidency in 2003, 2007, 2011 but in 2015
Buhari has become a serious issue, a volcano, an avatar, a hurricane, a force
and a thunder to reckon with.
The event that changed everything was when
General Buhari was nominated as the presidential candidate of the All
Progressives Congress, APC in a 48-hour non-stop event at Teslim Balogun
stadium in Surulere. Few days after a cerebral scholar and Pastor in the finest
tradition Professor Yemi Osinbajo was picked as his running mate, the momentum
changed, permutations changed and calculations changed. The very stone which
the builder rejected has become the head of the corner and all and sundry have
come far and near to admire the edifice.
But Buhari’s rise to fame in Nigeria did not come so easy.
Like Abraham Lincoln who through power of consistent consistency rose to become
the president of the United States after several attempts, Buhari waded through
pains and tears to get to where he is today.
I have since learnt a lot through
Buhari’s power of not losing his head when others are losing theirs in a
country where politics of the stomach holds sway. Through Buhari’s life I have
learnt that there is hope for a man who is not easily defeated even when the
person seems to have lost everything. I have learnt that the world and
everything that is in it belongs to those who try to drill the deepest well.
This is the reason why the thieves, the corrupt, the demons,
jezebels and all the monsters in Nigeria will not sleep until Buhari is out of
the way for them to continue the business as usual. Check the newspapers, the
TV stations, radio stations etc and you will at once notice that the common
project is to find everything that is bad under the sun and hang it on the neck
of the retired general.
They all have a thousand and one reasons to demonize
and pull down candidate Buhari so that the business will continue as usual.
They place adverts and documentaries that make no meaning to anybody except
those placing them. When there are no lies to use against Buhari, they
try to manufacture as many as possible and dish it out to to the political
space.
The more they do this the more it becomes obvious that Nigeria needs a
Buhari to rise again. The more those who seek to destroy Buhari work, the more
his popularity grows a million times. The more they throw mud at him the more
cleaner the man becomes in the eyes of the ordinary Nigerians who desire change
at all cost.
If you have listened to the audio and the transcript of how
Ayo Fayose, Obanikoro, Omisore, Olubolade, Chris Ubah, Nigerian army, the
police, DSS, the presidency etc conspired to steal Ekiti state from APC, you
will then realize why Ayo Fayose wants Buhari dead by all means.
If you know
how much crude oil is stolen in Nigeria on a daily basis or how some importers
of petroleum products have shortchanged the country, you will then realize why
they are fighting tooth and nail to maintain the status quo. If you know the
privileges Asari Dokubo, Edwin Clark, Tompolo and others enjoy today under
president Jonathan you will at once understand why they are threatening fire
and brimstone should Jonathan lose this election.
If you are privileged to know
the billions going to the pastors and the so called Men of God, you may not go
too far to understand why they are falling over themselves to accuse Buhari of
planning to Islamize Nigeria if elected president.
If your eyes are wider
enough to see the rot some government officials especially at the federal level
have brought to the land, you will at once understand why they want the soft
and weak Jonathan to continue in office.
If you are clever enough to know the
billions of dollars Jonathan’s administration has invested in the power sector
without anything to show for it in sixteen years ,you will then realize why the
fear of candidate Buhari is now the beginning of wisdom in Nigeria. If you know
the level of corruption being condoned by this administration in Abuja, you
will further understand why they want president Jonathan to continue forever.
But the thieves have stolen enough for the owners to take
notice. They have taken enough for themselves, for their children, their grand
children and great grand children and yet they cannot say enough is enough.
Candidate Buhari is coming to put a stop to this endless corruption and
impunity. Buhari is coming to build the battered and badly managed Nigerian
Army which was once one of the best standing Armies in Africa. Buhari is coming
to unite Nigerians, president Jonathan has divided along ethnic and religious
lines.
Candidate Buhari is coming to restore sanity in the land. He is coming
to stop the oil thieves and the political traders in the seat of power. The
retired general is coming to restore the dignity of Nigeria and Nigerians in
the comity of nations. He is coming to rebuild our decayed infrastructure and
democratic institutions. He is coming to restore hope to the hopeless. He is
coming to secure the land.
Today, the money changers, the money doublers, the wheel
dealers, marabouts, sorcerers, foolish constituencies, foolish gerontocrats,
merciless and unconscionable oil dealers ritualists,who thrives under President
Jonathan have become desperate, hysterical, confused, dumbfounded, and in total
disarray about the coming of candidate Buhari. They are looking for time to
regroup but cannot find the time.
They want their Jonathan to be re-elected and
yet they do not want an election. They have placed confused Advertorials to
fight Buhari but they end up fighting themselves. They created a thousand lies
to cover a lie and yet the truth stands out like the rock of Gibraltar.
There is a finger of God in this fourth coming of candidate
Buhari in 2015.
Students of the Bible know that Cyrus in Isaiah 45 did not know
God and yet God blessed him and used him. God is not man. God’s ways are not
man’s ways. He sees beyond all of us in the world put together. I want Buhari
to win this election so that these scavengers, contractors, ritualists,
kidnappers, armed robbers, and oil dealers who call themselves Bishops,
Pastors, Men of Gof will return to the scriptures. You cannot serve God and
mammon.
When the ordinary Nigerians call Buhari Mai Gaskiya, do we
understand the meaning? A good man can be found in the church, in the mosque
and in other religions. One honest man is worth more to the society than all
ruffians that ever existed. Buhari is the next President of Nigeria. Case
rested!
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