Xymera:
Dear President Mohammadu Buhari,
Lee Kuan Yew, One of the most respected
leaders of our time, a first class Cambridge
genius, and a former president per excellence,
who ruled Singapore from from 1959 to 1990
once said and I quote “Between being loved
and being feared, I have always believed
Machiavelli was right. If nobody is afraid of
me, I’m meaningless.” . Mr. President I start
with this quote because in Nigeria if people do
not fear you, I can bet you, you sir, would be
meaningless. If the globally-respected Lee
Kuan Yew can say this, and we see what
Singapore has become, who are we not to
follow a model that has worked?
Sir, while some see you as a tyrant, we see
you as a gallant, charismatic, stern, focused
and effective leader. I believe that breaking
the so called rule of law sometimes to achieve
a country where discipline, decorum, and the
fear of stealing or mismanaging public funds
is instilled is by far better than any goodies
the "rule of law" can bring. Those that call
you tyrant still turn a blind eye, to the first
objective blinded-question presidential media
chat we have ever witnessed in our country.
By now, Mr. President, you must have been
inundated with the rantings of several people
like Femi Fani Kayode, who for many years
has basked in the hay of corruption and crass
impunity that has characterized previous
administrations. As Mallam Nuhu Ribadu would
say "When you fight corruption, it fights
back" That assertion is true in this case.
Mr. President, Nigeria is the only country
where the likes of Femi Fani-Kayode would
keep quoting the Bible, calling on God, but yet
is a man that is presently in his 4th marriage
(or would I say co-habitation?), a man known
to be a alleged to be addicted to crack; a man
who failed to recognize his daughter's
wedding; a man accused to have sexually
abused his female staff while as a minister; a
man who publicly boasted about his sexual
escapades with igbo women on national
newspaper; a man accused of physical
brutality and hostage-taking of his older
brother, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, who died
eventually; a man who speaks for the APC
today, and tomorrow join and eat his vomit in
the PDP; An unstable man, a man of low moral
compass. A man who is so lost that the word
vagabond fails to do justice to his character.
Sir, would any one pay attention to such a
man? See Rwanda, is Paul Kigame playing by
the rule of law to make Rwanda what it is
today? Did Gadafi play by rule of law to make
Libya the best country by all standards prior
to the West's destruction? Did Ahmadinejad,
the former President of Iran play by the rule
of law to make Iran what it is today? Did
Vladimir Putin play by the rule of law to make
it become a second world power? Even the
ALMIGHTY USA broke the rule of law for many
years before their institutions came to what
what they are today. All these leaders I have
mentioned, have one thing in common, and Sir,
that is people in their country fear and
respect them. Without reverence for a leader
in a developing nation with weak institutions,
the country becomes a free for all - a
situation exemplified by the impunity and the
stealing-is-not-corruption-attitude that
became the trade mark of the past
administration.
Mr President, for the first time in many years
we have a leader in you that do not believe in
rewarding and elevating thieves. No matter
what the numerous crackheads we have in
Nigeria writes no matter what they say or do,
be rest assured that I and millions of
Nigerians, know better - you would never
become as weak, clueless, wicked, insensitive,
soft and corrupt. We know sir, that you would
stand tall in every angle of morality integrity
and sincerity of purpose. You would NEVER let
the goats who ate our yams, or who threaten
our sovereignty go scot free, even if it means
breaking the already corrupted "rule of law".
We are solidly behind you sir.
Permit me to end by quoting the great
American President, Franklin D Roosevelt who
said and I quote "The only thing we have to
fear is fear itself". For those of us that are
behind you, we would not fear. Those that
cannot fear their own fear only have one
thing they are afraid of - the guilt and
consequences of putting our country on the
path of destruction.
God Bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Source:;Cramjones 2 Likes 1 Share |
