For those who know him, he’s
still the same man… For those who don’t, his name is Goodluck Ebele Jonathan
(GEJ), the presiding President of the United States of Nigeria.
It’s now a normal thing for bombs
and grenades to go off in certain parts of Nigeria as if it’s some
fire-crackers going off during Diwali celebration within the Indian communities
in Anthony, Lagos. It’s goes off here and there and everybody just walks by,
including the President, the Commander in Chief of all security agencies in the
federating states called Nigeria. It is becoming rather unbecoming and quite so
sad that the only people that are now affected by these incidents are the
victims and their families, even the governors have resolved to pointing to the
GEJ, who in turn turns his face the other way in what I will describe in street
language as “Ko Kanye”. The Yorubas will say, “Eni a mori I ba ku”
meaning “It only becomes my business when those affected are my own”. Fair
enough I would say but the last time I checked, every citizen of this beautiful
country is GEJ’s business, so if he chooses to ignore the plight of a single
citizen, he’s definitely ignoring the plight of every Nigerian citizen. Perhaps
he’s more concerned about the crude in the bowel of this great ship called
NIGERIA as the captain, and not the crew that makes the cheap move from bay to
bay.
I will reference a few incidents
that we are all aware of and I hope everybody reading this will agree with me
that at some point, we need to wake up and either boycott or cut out this
unholy situation by saying “Enough Is Enough” with a louder voice as Nigerians.
This administration started out
on an explosive note in 2010 and hasn’t stopped announcing its intentions with
explosions. MEND claimed responsibility for the Abuja bombing in 2010 prior to
his declaration but GEJ came out to defend MEND, he categorically stated that
it is impossible for MEND to be the culprit in a crime they claimed all by
themselves that they committed. The refusal of Henry Okah to get MEND to
retract the statement landed him in a South African jail, even with the amount
of evidence he presented to show how he was innocent, and how it was a faction
of MEND that perpetrated the crime under the defined request of GEJ in an
attempt to criminalize the north and present them as saboteurs to his
presidential ambitions. The interesting thing in that situation was that the
president was more concerned about the criminals than the victims of the crime;
his energy was more on exonerating his Ijaw brothers without dishing out
justice for the victims. He was complicity in the accusations and
counter-accusation so there was no way he was going to nail himself. The dead
went ahead and buried their dead and that was the last time he cared about
either the bombers or “bombee”.
Fast forward to the new era
bombers in boko haram, led by the undisputable Emir of the new caliphates of
the Nigeria North Eastern kingdom Shekau, it has been a more explosive
experience and since those claiming responsibility are those GEJ wants to be
responsible for the crime, neither the bombers, nor the victim are any of his
business. I will highlight a few examples that will delight you so you know how
uncaring GEJ got over the years. These are events you already know, open facts
that will solidify the present attitude of GEJ about the nation and her people.
Sometimes in April 2014, two bombs
went off in Abuja the capital city, it took the life of so many Nigerians and
we got lucky; GEJ visited the bomb site and paparazzi went wild. His campaign
in Kano was due a few days after, instead of showing some milk of human
kindness, even if it had to be pretense by canceling the Kano jamboree or something
in the class of the crocodile tears of Buhari in those years, but he couldn’t hold
his excitement. Naturally one would have taught that the tragic event that led
to the world wild campaign #BringBackOurGirls would have dampened his
excitement when it happened on April 14, it didn’t, by the next day, GEJ was in
Kano dancing “Shoki”. A wiser campaigner would have been remorseful about the
incident but “ko kanye mehn!” our dear president grooved under the umbrella
like 99. As far as he was concerned, no Ijaw girl was involved. See picture of
the dance moves of GEJ in concert below.
Fast forward again to the event
of the last few days. I read in the news today and on the official Facebook
page of the Nigerian Police Force that all roads leading to Eagles Square will
be on lock down because our Golden Son of Otueke GEJ will be declaring what we
know already, his intention to run and fail in the next election. The
interesting thing about it is that the way Shekau is going, boko might take
over Abuja before February 2015. However it is a paradox that the same thing is
repeating itself all over again. We’ve had two suicide bombs in Potiskum in
just seven days interval and our dear GEJ will not even beg to postpone his
declaration or show concern about the events, and rally round to make things
work out just better. No moves to improve or install securities at various
schools in Northern Nigeria, but every military and police apparatus is taking
the roads in Abuja 11/11/14.
There are no better words to
describe the action of our so-called president so far, he’s told us in all
Nigerian languages except Swahili that “It’s none of my business”, it is now
our choice to decide whether we will continue to make Aso rock his abode since he’s
no more interested in the people he’s supposed to represent form the Rock
Throne.
I hope you’ve registered to vote,
I hope you are ready to kick these bastards under the tattered umbrella out of
site. Let’s hope Shekau who has made it is business doesn’t
get there before we decide because while GEJ is preparing to declare, Maiha
Local Government Area in Adamawa State has been overtaken by Boko Haram
militants.
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