Very interesting article by former presidential spokesperson,
Reuben Abati...read below...

“You look sleepy”

“My brother, let’s just say I slept at a fuel station, looking
for fuel.”

“For which of the women in your life, because I hear these
days, to please a woman in Nigeria, you must be ready to
supply the three major things lacking in the land: money,
fuel, and happiness.”

“Leave that matter, please. My condolences on the death of
your man, Governor Abubakar Audu”

“We thank God for his life. He played his part.”

"“To be so close to breasting the tape and then fall.”

“I know. I know. May be if he had not insisted on running again for
the office of Governor in Kogi state, he would still be alive today.”

“The man drove himself too hard, publicly and privately. He ran for
every Gubernatorial election in Kogi state since 1991. There must
be something special in being Governor for him.”

“Don’t speak ill of the dead, I beg you. Simple etiquette.”

“But you know now?”

“I don’t know nothing”

“Then the man went and married a young, 23-year old. If the
election had been concluded and the man had won, the First Lady
of Kogi state would have been a 23-year old lady! Those who seek
public office should always weigh their lifestyle and their health
against their ambition, but politicians act as if they are
superhuman.”

“Can you stop?”

“A 74-year old man, with a 23-year old wife. That alone is enough
to give anybody hypertension.”

“He was 68”

“Official age. He was 74, somebody told me.”

“Excuse me! Respect the dead, please. Abubakar Audu was a
democrat extraordinary, a courageous politician, a visionary,
selfless, man of the people, and his party’s popular choice.”

“My view is that it is not the election in Kogi that is inconclusive
per se, a supplementary election will be organized, a winner will
emerge; it is Audu’s death that is inconclusive considering the
many issues it has thrown up.”

“What kind of talk is that? Death is final. It is the cessation of all
things, a necessary end.”

“Nothing has ended with Abubakar Audu’s death oh. Did you not
see the desperate efforts made to get some Prophets to resurrect
him? And some people actually believed that he could be the
Lazarus of our time! They started jubilating.”

“That is concrete proof of his popularity. But I was shocked seeing
Nigerians will believe anything, and being so superstitious. Even
the grave diggers stopped digging, waiting for the prophets to
perform a miracle.”

“I hear there was a meeting of the Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC) on the Kogi election but the moment the
prophets waded in, even INEC suspended its meeting and did not
reconvene until the prophets failed.”

“Only in Africa!”

“When the Prophets didn’t deliver, people got angry. They could
have lynched those Prophets”

“Well, at least, some people will now know that the prophets are
not always right in the age of biology and science. Who could
have been behind such a hare-brained scheme?”

“The man’s in-laws, for example.

“Oh, come on”

“Or persons who may have been promised appointments and
contracts. Or it could be persons who invested in his candidacy.
Elections in Nigeria are business investments. The investors must
have thought of a last minute strategy to reverse the situation.
Simple economics. ”

“You and your theories. The same people will do business with
whoever eventually wins the election, anyway.”

“There is also the inconclusive matter of the 23-year old wife.
When the death was announced, many commentators on social
media were more concerned about the young widow. Comments
about how she will cope, what she would do next. One guy asked
for her phone numbers.”

“Stupid, callous fellow.”

“Another fellow actually said he was ready to inherit all of Audu’s
assets and liabilities in that regard.”

“Let him go ahead. Ole!”

“Besides, Audu’s death has turned everybody into a Constitutional
expert. What happens if a candidate dies in the course of an
inconclusive election? Who becomes the new candidate?”

“Simple. The APC will field another candidate, appeal to whoever is
aggrieved within the party to step down until an appropriate
candidate who definitely must be Igala, is identified. I don’t see the
APC fielding any candidate who will automatically make them lose
the election.”

“You think the APC candidate must still be Igala? But nothing is
ever that straightforward in Nigerian politics.”

“Of course, otherwise, it will be a walk-over for Governor Idris
Wada. The Igalas have the numbers. Politics is a game of
numbers. The stakes are high. I foresee many court cases”

“Let them field Audu’s young widow then”

“Are you out of your mind? Why are you so obsessed with this
lady?”

“Or may be his son. Does he have any son who is qualified? Let
them make it a family affair. If he had supported his son as a
candidate…But people just don’t know when to quit and hand over
to the next generation.”

“With a 23-year old wife, he was definitely committed to the next
generation.”

“Some people are of the view that his running mate should just run
with the mandate, but I don’t think the circumstances favour him.
He is from a minority group in Kogi state. He is a Christian, and the
party may not back him

“Poor James Faleke”

“Yeah, he must be troubled. What if he and Audu had won. And
they had been sworn in. But now, there are no guarantees.”

“God’s will is supreme. That is one lesson we all must learn from
all this. Remember Abacha? When it was time, God intervened. We
are all pencils in God’s hands. You can amass all the wealth in the
world, marry all the young women, misapply the people’s money,
get so close to Cannan, but you can then fall sick and die. In life,
things happen and all you have left is six feet, rich or poor, six
feet.”

“Six feet”
“I hope Robert Mugabe knows this. I hope Grace Mugabe knows.”
“Why Robert Mugabe?”

“Didn’t you read that story about 50-year old Grace Mugabe, First
Lady of Zimbabwe, buying her Robert, a special wheelchair?”

“The way you pronounced Robert, you make it sound like Robot”

“Isn’t that what the 91-year old President of Zimbabwe has
become, a Robot. Grace Mugabe’s Robot”

“Sad. In his days, Robert Mugabe, multiple degrees holder, was a
shining star. And now, his wife is pushing him around”

“She actually has a PhD, awarded in two months, without
examination or dissertation, by her Robert in his capacity as
Chancellor of the University of Zimbabwe!”

“Mugabe! A Pan-Africanist, who stood up to the British and neo-
colonial imperialism; today, he is falling down at public functions,
he reads the wrong speech in parliament, he is old and tired, and
yet he won’t quit.”

“He should. Zimbabwe already has the oldest President in the
world, and he has been in power since 1980- 35 years!”

“With a wife like “Dis Grace” Mugabe, he won’t. She says she is
ready to push the wheelchair herself, just in case anybody is in any
doubt.”

“I won’t put anything past that woman. Didn’t she once proclaim
that any woman who wears mini-skirt and gets raped should not
complain? Is that not the same woman who punched a journalist in
the face during a foreign visit?”


“Mugabe has stayed too long and has allowed a woman to destroy
his legacy. He is so smitten with “Dis-Grace”, he allegedly fired his
Chief of Defence Staff last year for staring at her derriere!”

“That’s madness.”

“But the woman get am oh. The thing dey; very seriously. And you
know in that part of Africa, the women don’t need to buy it and
enhance it like Kim Kardashian, the thing just dey and you can lose
your head.”

“I think someday in Africa, we’d have to start voting for these First
Ladies too. Voters should be given the right to choose the
President’s wife, or at least they should be screened by parliament.
In Africa, the wives wield so much influence.”

“They do in other places too. It is the man that matters.”

“When Mugabe sits in that wheelchair, Zimbabwe is finished!”

“For democracy to work, we need to worry about the leadership
recruitment process in Africa. How do we free democracy from a
debilitating sense and culture of entitlement. How do we get
persons who are still up to it, and who will not aspire to rule till
they are on wheelchair or life-long medication.”

““All men who play God and who aspire to be God, let them be
reminded, it is just six feet. In Cameroon, Paul Biya has been
sitting tight for 33 years, in Congo, Nguesso has been in power for
36 years, in Equitorial Guinea, Mbasogo is almost a god in human
form. And you have dos Santos in Angola (36 years) Bashir in
Sudan (22 years) Museveni in Uganda (29 years), Idris Deby in
Chad (25 years) and Jammeh in Gambia (21 years).”

“Six feet. Just six feet in the grave.”
“I hope they all know.”

“It is also a lesson for the poor, including those young ones who
play God with their talents.”

“Absolutely. There are people these days who play God with their
laptops, their pens and I-pads. Imagine some people jubilating
over other people’s misfortune.”

“Six feet, my brother, not an inch more nor less. In the grave, all
men are equal.”

www.lindaikejisblog.com/2015/11/audus-inconclusive-death-mugabes.html?m=1

Nice article

Reuben 'Noni' Abati, thanks for the re information, this are the things we know and out of sheer greed and or recklessness we despise it for nothingness and vanity. How i hope our greedy politicians will take a cue and imbibe this admonition.

Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. God shall bring every of our work, secret whether good or evil into judgement. Vanity of vanities, all is vanity... (6 feet no dey select )

“With a 23-year old wife, he was definitely committed to the next generation.”

A 91year old president....Africa is doomed

“God’s will is supreme. That is one lesson we all must learn from all this. Remember Abacha? When it was time, God intervened. We are all pencils in God’s hands. You can amass all the wealth in the world, marry all the young women, misapply the people’s money, get so close to Cannan, but you can then fall sick and die. In life, things happen and all you have left is six feet, rich or poor, six feet.”

Imagine some people jubilating over other people’s misfortune.

APC sadists and hate mongers take note

Ohhh! Abati is a genus. His words cracked me up but then and again, he has valid points

osazeeblue01:
“God’s will is supreme. That is one
lesson we all must learn from
all this. Remember Abacha? When it
was time, God intervened. We
are all pencils in God’s hands. You can
amass all the wealth in the world, marry all the young women,
misapply the people’s money,
get so close to Cannan, but you can
then fall sick and die. In life,
things happen and all you have left is
six feet, rich or poor, six feet.”

“The biggest communication problem is that we do not listen to understand, we listen to reply”

yahrant140:


“The biggest communication problem is that we do not listen to understand, we listen to reply”

THE BIGGEST OF ALL IS SOME US DON'T READ THE ARTICLE BEFORE REACTING TO COMMENT.

Let me go for my PHD