According to Napoleon Bonaparte that in politics, stupidity is not a handicap. It is on this premise that we are stating that Nigerians are yet to know their enemies. We hope at the end of this piece, our readers will be able to do justice to the question raised above.

Without any prevarication, politicians in our clime are bunch of heartless stakeholders who take delight in sucking treasury of this country to empty in daylight. They are all commonwealth robbers that have no iota of honesty as they are portraying. They play on our intelligence and insult our sensibility at will. They took loans that ended up in their pockets. In Nigeria, when a governor constructed 1km of road he has constructed 10km in his pocket. But for how long will this country continue to meander from reality of good governance.

We are not surprise, that the current anti-graft war will not be different from what we witnessed in the days of Olusegun Obasanjo. Except for those who want to look the other way, handwriting is already on the wall that this ongoing crusade will not only be half-hearted but selective for perceived political enemies.

We are not trying to back the wrong horse at this point, if PDP is bad then APC is worse and if PDP is corrupt then APC is a fraud. We have not changed our position that APC and PDP are just acronyms for same people who have brought down our national image to a sorry pass. Our
facts do not need a rocket scientist to discern, as without those PDP bigwigs that joined APC either by proxy or shadow, Buhari would not have been dinning in Aso villa as President.

In fact, the chief commander in this war is not only lame with leprosy in the school of integrity but had sold out his conscience on several occasions. Who can imagine that Buhari could teamed up with same people he once referred to as corrupt politicians. If this is not hypocrisy then what should it be? Buhari knew that without joining these commonwealth robbers his quest to be President will remain a day dream.

May be we should ask him why he turned Obasanjo to political god and Tinubu to a political saviour. Has he forgot the man who built self library with N360millon from treasury of 36states and the founder of election of do or die affair?. Should we say it in Hausa for him to know the richest politician in Africa without elective post or appointment. The man who controls Lagos IGR through a proxy company, Alpha Beta and solely own all the continentals(from RC to TVC to hotel to Consat). May be we should sound to his ear that same man bought private jet leased out for his campaign and own stakes in Shoprite. We are talking of same man that spent dollars for delegates in APC presidential primary election.

Is Buhari looking the other way, that he cannot remember those Governors who took N50billion bond and $600million loan on behalf of their States to fund his campaign? May be some cases have expiry dates, if not Buhari should know that the man who donated N50million and 10 hummer buses to his campaign got it from Haliburton's loot.

With government institutions such as DSS violating the rule of law at will and Buhari turning deaf ear to commend or condemn their acts. If the man who acknowledged roles of social media in his odyssey to Aso villa is now clamping down his critics on same platform, then we should not doubt what to be expected in days to come.

Furthermore, is Buhari not aware of Lagos-Ibadan expressway's media outfits and Sahara reporter that specialise in demonise immediate past administration. Before May 29, 2015, Boko Haram attacks usually be at their front pages but now foreign media outfits usually report before such before them.

It is quite disheartening that it is only in this clime that prosecution of corrupt omen are hinged on political persecution. Even Buhari attested to this fact in the case of Sanusi Lamido VS GEJ. Also, Oyegun and APC asserted it in the cases of Nyako VS GEJ and Saraki VS GEJ. For Buhari to turn blind eyes to moral deficiency
behind Sanusi Lamido running to court to stop investigating and prosecuting him raises question on kind of moral pedestal Buhari is
standing on. In fact, it is not only morally bankrupt but an assault on sensibility of well meaning Nigerians.

Therefore, if Saraki is tagging his trial as political persecution, then we should not blame him as he got the clue from those icons above. What many Nigerians have failed to understand is that politicians are right by tagging their prosecutions as persecutions. This is not far fetch as they all know they are thieves sitting in corridors of power. Hence single them out as devil poses unfair treatment.

At this juncture, we will like to summarize stocks of prosecution on corrupt omen in our political landscape so far. We believed many can still remember Tafa Adebayo Balogun, an ex-IGP. His crucifixion was the most uncivilised and inhumane in this land and he linked it to Obasanjo. It was revealed that he purported to be Govenor of Osun State under AC and aligned to Atiku while PDP was still his paymaster.
Today, all his confiscated assets are still rotten in EFCC custody with recovered loot yet to be accounted for. His ordeal was followed by N55million bribe of Adolphus Wabara and Fabian Osuji which up till this hour nobody know its where about.

Another film was Diepreye Solomon Peter Alamieyeseigha who was purported to be Vice-President aspirant to Atiku for 2007. DPS still believes that he was persecuted as he was not the only Governor that used back to carry taxpayers money to the other side of the sea. Truly, others were caught but covered by Ebora Owu, they later used part of theirs to purchase buses for NURTW in their respective states. If Nigerians can still remember the era buses in South West. However, if DPS case did not involve foreign hands may be recovered loot would have been in same vein with Tafa Balogun.

Let us move to National ID card scam of S. M. Afolabi, one time Minister of Interior under Olusegun Obasanjo. He was hanged for supporting Atiku bid for president and later killed himself as reported. We know Atiku will still be fresh in our memory, but after the brouhaha was he jailed or was any asset or loot recovered.

Now to Mr GEJ, who persecuted Dimeji Bankole for not supporting his bid to be President but after the latter bowed to him what happen to the case. GEJ only remembered Nyako dirty linen when he migrated to APC.

Our questions are simple, if these people were in same political terms of reference would they have been prosecuted? If Saraki was APC candidate for Senate President, was this brouhaha would have come up? If Saraki decide to step down from his seat tomorrow will his case not be swept under carpet? If Fashola was not eyeing a seat at Federal level do we have heard N78 million website? Lastly, if this war is for the masses then where are all looted asset? Truly if it is not persecution then what it is.

To many who are thinking that 2019 is far, that is not true in the calendar of politicians, 2019 is nearer than tomorrow.

According to a former boss of EFCC, Nuhu Ribadu, "there are worse people than James Ibori in Nigeria. I think probably James was not the smartest one among them. There are some crooks worse than James, I still see them. Some of them are even been celebrated right now in the country".

We will like to pitch tent with Nuhu Ribadu submission that anti graft war in Nigeria is for those who crossed political lines, as those people parading as national saviours should have been in jail.

Finally, we will advise all political commentators to do their home work with all sincerity. APC should stop assaulting Nigerians’ sensibility by claiming some people have hijacked their change. If APC can withdraw corrupt case against Timipre Sylva and handover their Gubernatorial tickets to people with corrupt cases on their necks in Kogi and Bayelsa, then this claiming change is not only questionable but handicap. There is no change as long as Buhari is still dinning with same corrupt omen that brought us to where we are today.

Show me your friends and I will tell you the kind of person you are.


To be continued............


Al-Farouk Issa

From Daura, Katsina State
Good Governance Advocates
goodgovernanceadv@gmail.com

Nice

d electorates who mortgaged dia vote for jux a singe bag of expired rice r d REAL FOOL.

Well its so sad that a large chunk of the electorates are poor mentally and thats why they cant sense the hypocrisy in these politicians

sentiments and Tribalism is always the order of the day when its comes to election

I dont even know what to type again.
But seriously, when will Nigeria be free of these corrupt people? How can we know the right people to put there? Even if we put the right people there, are they not going to be pressurized by these past corrupt leader?

Buhari that we've known to be a man of integrity is truly doing what doesnt please us. Now i'm doubting him.
We call him Baba slow, but is this how he will be slow till 4yrs is over whereby we will not gain anything? It is now about 4months sine he got there, he is still going slow.

As for Saraki, he should have known that these will happen since he has emerged has the Speaker. And the only cure to this for him, and i'm not sure it's possible now, is to claim APC.

"if Buhari is still dinning with the past corrupt leaders, the real change is truly FADING, and the other change will BREAKFORTH"

WE HAVE BEEN FOOLED!
WHEN WILL THE TRUE PERSON COME?

orontogorah:
d electorates who mortgaged dia vote for jux a singe bag of expired rice r d REAL FOOL.

The politician,because the end product of people whom they are rulling badly will always hunt them at the end
Example....Plane crashes
Motor accident
Arm robbery
Kidnapping
Bad health care system
Olu falae is enjoying the law of karma now

I hope the most sophisticated slaves down south can now see that they have been scammed.