Letter To Mr. President:
Act Now Or Resign January 1, 2011 - 22:35 — siteadmin By Ehimai Ohiozebau Dear Mr. President: Happy
New Year. How time flies.
I remember this time last
year; we played a
different music, a
different song. Our dance as a country was to a
different rhyme. We kept
vigil for Nigeria because
we didn ’t know where the then President Musa
Yar ’adua was. Mr. Umar Farouk
Abdulmutallab repainted
our lovely green white
green with colour red. The
paint stuck and stunk in
our emblem but with the water of patriotism, we
erased every spatter and
splatter. This time last
year Mr. President, our
very dear feminine justice
that gave the common man hope was raped to
stupor in the glaring eyes
of all Nigerians by the
very custodians of it. He
even declared President
Yar ’adua fit to rule from “anywhere ”. We rallied round to support you. We
fought your adversaries.
We matched and with
holy inspiration, we
prayed. We bombarded
the air and cyber space with the call for your
upgrade. It was an
amazing phenomenon, for
once; Nigerians had a
symbolic leader beloved
by the people, highly popular, sovereign and
highly enameled with
grace and humility. This
was personified in you. Nigeria’s dirge ululating moment ironically became
the time of its sonority,
exhilaration and jubilation
when the divine
arbitrator decided to step
in and settle the discourse - of who was the actual
President of Nigeria- in
favour of the common
man. You emerged with
hope and promises of a
better tomorrow, a better power supply, better
security, better economy,
a free and fair election and
host of other salivating
promises. For once, the
hopes of all Nigerians were rekindled and in
that moment and time,
you became one of the
most popular leaders of
Africa and possibly,
second only to few like Nelson Mandela of South
Africa and Kwame
Nkrumah of Ghana. Mr. President, it is almost a
year now. Can we as a
people say you have done
well? Can we shout here is
the man with whom
there is no blemish? Can you look into our eyes
first and vow you ’ve not dance naked in the
Parthenon of dangerous
compromise? I heard you
are a gentle man with a
kind heart but what good
is kindness and gentility when your people are
dying? Since you are a
Christian, I will love to
share a story with you
from the bible. It is from
the book of 1Samuel 17: 34-37. David was tending
his father ’s sheep in a dangerous terrain and at
different times, a lion and
a bear attacked his sheep.
These wilds didn ’t attack him but one from his lots.
It may interest you to
know that David had
large flocks at his
possession. He could have
easily compromised one for many but you know
what David did? He went
after the Lion and the bear
and killed them for
trespassing his domain.
Little would one wonder why David was called a
man after God ’s heart for he valued life and
understood
accountability. I heard kidnap increased
greatly this past year.
What is mostly surprising
is how these cycles of
kidnap, ransom and
released were done with impunity. I would have
loved to congratulate you
because most of those
who were kidnapped last
year were released but
Mr. President, are we going to keep celebrating
indulgence. Who is
investigating these
corporate crimes? Have
we looked inwards to fish
out collaborators? If as a nation, we don ’t do a proper job in
investigating this money
milking machine and nip it
at the bud, this will grow
into a monstrous entity
and degenerate Nigeria to a banana republic where
anybody including you
can be kidnap someday. Mr. President, you promise
you will fight corruption
and give us a free and fair
election. I still believe you
on the latter seeing that
you have appointed an INEC chairman whom
many believe to be of
high integrity and
character in terms of
precedence. However Mr. President, in
terms of the former, how
can we trust you? You
and I know that the
corruption that is pillaging
Nigeria today is a high level corruption. Is there
any “big name” that was at least charged to court in
your dispensation? I hope
Mr. President you
wouldn ’t start telling me of the charged and
convicted bank moguls?
With all respect Mr.
President, those were not
your spoils. Let ’s give that credit to mallam Joseph
Sanusi and this all started
before you came into
office sir. Chief James
Ibori is not your spoil
either. I give you credence that you chased him out
of Nigeria but how about
his unweaned son Dr.
Emmanuel Uduaghan
whom you have
personally decided to breast-feed? Did you
inoculate his corruption-
laden mouth through the
judicial process before you
placed your nipple of
compromise in him? I leant you are on an
endorsement spree in
your party the PDP-
Almost all the PDP
governors, the senators,
house of Reps and the “big boys ” of your party have endorsed you-If this
is the case, how do you
want to fight corruption
Mr. President. Please spare
me a moment and let ’s engage in some logic
reasoning. If the PDP has
been ruling the nation for
about 12years now and
we have witness such
monumental corruption in this period who is the
culprit? Your party has
the most corrupt
governors in the country
who then appoints
corrupt heads of agencies and parastatals. Also, you
party has over two third
representatives to the
national assembly and
these “representatives ” are so corrupt that they
yank home over 25% of
the entire nation ’s overhead budget. Now,
since all these have come
together to support you
for 2011 presidency, how
do you want to “fight corruption ”. Well, you will find it difficult to convince
us that your end will
justify your means but
we will watch and see.
With Jotrick, anything can
happen right? Now Mr. President, there
is an issue that is most
disturbing. I heard and
read that some eminent
and prominent Nigerians
have been threatening your legitimacy as
president. What are you
doing about that? Some
have even threatened to
make the nation
ungovernable for you and others talk of making
violent change inevitable.
Hope you are not taking
this as a PDP “family affair ”? It seems you are taking this personal and
handling it in your usual
gentleman way. Mr.
President that is
treasonable felony in your
part you see. May I remind you that you are
no longer your own. You
are now the property of
Nigeria. Let me give you
an analogy, if for instance
as an average citizen, you and your wife engaged in
domestic dispute, now
that you are the
president, she is not
allowed to engage in such
frivolity with you. If she does, she poses a security
threat to the nation and
thus must be arrested. I
leant you are engaging in
clandestine compromise
meetings with those who have vowed to make the
nation ungovernable. If
this is true Mr. President,
that would be a bridge of
trust and thus, you should
resign your position as the President of Nigeria. By
your inactions on such
conspicuous and obvious
security threats, you are
placing the lives of an
average Nigerian at risk and thus, you should
resign from your position
sir. I will love to state a little
history before I end this
letter sir. In the early
sixties in this country
(Nigeria), Chief Obafemi
Awolowo engaged in a supremacy battle with
the then Prime Minister
Tafa Balewa. This was
condole by the later as a
mere political intrigue but
when Awolowo and his Action Group (AG) crew
crossed the line and
started engaging in certain
clandestine meeting that
posed security concern to
the country, they were arrested and tried. When
found guilty, he and
others were sentenced to
life imprisonment. Yes,
there are many school of
thoughts that claim Awolowo and his AG
were innocent and I being
his distant protégé am
from such school of
thoughts but the lesson
from this example is that you do not sacrifice
national security on the
alter of party
compromise. In Nigeria
today, the line has been
crossed, the Rubicon has been broken and the soul
of Nigeria is threatened. Mr. President, I know you
are a busy man and seem
to have lots to do but
perhaps if your relative
were killed on the Abuja
New Year ’s Eve bomb blast, you would act fast.
If your wife ’s hands were amongst those amputated
on the Jos Christmas eve
bomb blast, you would
ambulate with eagerness
and if your son had died in
the October 1st Abuja bomb blast, you would
have declared wanted
those overtly and
covertly responsible for
this heinous crime. Bomb
in gorilla warfare is anathema to Nigerian
culture and must be
nipped in its bud. Before you sleep Mr
President, please
remember that: Those
dead boys in the
Independence Day blast
are children of fathers; those maimed women in
Christmas blast in Jos are
wives husbands. Mr.
President, those dead men
from 31st December 2010
bomb blast at Abuja are husbands of wives who
are now widows and
fathers of children who
are now orphans. Mr
President, act now or
resign. Sincerely,
Ehimai Ohiozebau
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Who resigns in any African "voodoo" politics?

No mind dem ma broda. All bla bla talk wey d man write for d leta na tory especialy wen baba OBJ don make d business do or die affair.

^^ nigerian politics has always being a do or die ever since the first republic.

He'll resign when Mugabe or Gbagbo does

The writer is right,mr president should wake up in his responsibilities,the security and defence personnel are not doing anything,they need a total overhauling.