harmeyd:
The conspiracies against President Goodluck
Jonathan are no longer hidden from the public
glare. These plots started several months ago, even
before INEC fixed the election time table. Foremost
amongst the plotters are : 1) General Olusegun
Obasanjo, (1) Sanusi Lamido Sanusi (3) The
Northern Elders Forum (4) Boko Haram and now
Chukwuma Soludo, among others. These people or
group of persons have not hidden their hatred for
GEJ and the Federal Government.
They all have their parochial reasons for
participating in the plot. Obasanjo began the
execution of the plan by his infamous “Letter to the
President’ where he accused GEJ government
amongst other things, of training snipers to
assassinate over 1000 prominent Nigerians,
(unsubstantiated); massive corruption, etc.
He followed that letter with several attacks on GEJ on
every occasion. Sanusi Lamido Sanusi continued
from OBJ letter by writing his own letter accusing
NNPC of having not remitted over $49.8billion which
he later scaled down to $10.8 billion and then
upgraded to $20billion. Forensic Audits by world
class audit firm, Price Water House Coopers, has
shown that no such money was ever missing or
unremitted. Boko Haram has always struck when
GEJ has something to celebrate.
Even when Jonathan was to declare for Presidency,
Boko Haram struck in a school in the North-east,
killing over 50 students. This was intended to
prevent GEJ from declaring. Of course APC latched
on to that unfortunate incident to condemn the
President for going ahead to declare for President
when students had just been killed.
Nigerians and indeed the world should note that in
all Buhari’s endeavors and political maneuverings
including all APC’s activities, Boko Haram has never
disrupted their franchises. Now Soludo has come up
with another voodoo N30trillions missing.
On his part, the D-G, Buhari campaign organization,
Governor Rotimi Amaechi recently accused pastors
of collecting N6billion as bribe to support Jonathan.
The clandestine activities of the Northern Elders
Forum is obvious to all Nigerians. These plots are all
about stopping President Jonathan from being re-
elected.
The vitriolic pursuits of ‘Stop Jonathan at all Costs’
using the instrumentality of corruption and Boko
Haram have been casting aspersions on the integrity
and image of Nigeria. Nigeria is being demonized
before the world as a corrupt country, with corrupt
and incapable military, because of false allegations
of spurious stolen monies.
These actors do not mind if Nigeria’s image is
completely denigrated. These plotters are
completely jaundiced to the gains of the Jonathan
administration. Their goal is to delude Nigerians and
the international community into believing that the
government of Jonathan is not only monumentally
corrupt, but weak, clueless and don’t have the nerve
to tackle Boko Haram.
Unfortunately many Nigerian and foreign countries
and their press are buying into these diabolic plots.
It is either Jonathan and his men were deliberately
ignoring these shenanigans or they are oblivious of
the fact that these people were targeting his re
election bid. Part of their grand design is to weaken
the credibility of the Jonathan administration.
PDP as a party has been slow to react coherently to
all the falsehood that APC and their sympathizers
have been churning out. PDP and its presidential
candidate have been too gentlemanly. Olisa Metu,
the publicity Secretary of PDP has not matched the
loquaciousness of Lai Mohammed, his APC
counterpart.
Lai Mohammed is a tough malevolent alarmist. Ditto
the national chairman of APC, John Oyegun. These
people raise alarm on any thing from the ridiculous
to the profane. Chairman of PDP, Alhaji Muazu
rarely grant press conference. PDP Publicity
Secretary is more like a pastor admonishing the
Elders and Deacons of his church when addressing
the Press. These PDP people don’t spit fire like their
counterpart in APC. Even the APC governors are not
different. Adams Oshiomhole is full of
showmanship. Amaechi another noisy governor.
Take his theory of APC forming a parallel
government if they lose. Buhari, of course is of the
same stock aka, ‘baboon and the dog being soaked
in blood’.
If PDP and the President want to avoid these well
aimed plots to frustrate their victory at the polls,
they should reduce the smiles on their faces and
add a little bit of frowns. They should learn not only
to talk tough, but coherently. PDP should project the
achievements of the Jonathan administration with
some steel.
This is because APC is a reactionary and alarmist
party. If the Buhari’s certificate saga had been that of
any PDP candidate, Tinubu and his APC gang would
have led mass protest to INEC headquarters to
disqualify the candidate.
Dr. Odinaka Chukwuka writes from Oleh