₦airaland Forum

Caveat: This piece is not for the intellectually blind and lazy people. It is for those who are blessed with comprehension and critical thinking abilities. Enjoy:


Our dear country, on account of its tremendous potentials in human and natural resources, was the envy of the Third World including neighbours Ghana, South Africa and the Asian Tigers, when you were born 72 years ago. As you grew up, you must have watched with high-tension indignation, like other zealous patriots, how those less-endowed competitors gradually but steadily overtook the fearsome-looking Nigeria, ultimately establishing a commanding, near-unassailable lead in the marathon race of national development. Such indignation has caused you to seek, on different platforms, the opportunity to put in your patriotic quota in reversing the ugly trend, typified, for example, by the callous manner Second Republic politicians compounded the nation’s woes between 1979 and 1983. But the agents and promoters of rot in uniform, agbada and babariga, pampered by intellectual gangsters, have always conspired to prevent you from doing for Nigeria what Jerry Rawlings, armed with your brand of zealous patriotism, courage, sincerity and discipline, did for Ghana.

In a similar letter of mine (Lamentations to Jeremiah of May, 2011) forwarded to “the best president Nigeria never had” in the great beyond, I lamented about how the woes of the country which he laboured hard for an opportunity to fix had worsened since he departed. You will recall that after his yet unsuccessful attempt at the opportunity in 1983, he told the nation he would not personally press for it again. Rather, “when Nigerians need me, they will call for me,” he had closed. Unfortunately, by the time Nigerians realized he was the best president they could have had, it was too late!

You will recall, also, the desperate attempts, before then, by those whose very essence and livelihood depended solely on profiting from the woes of their nation, to ensure he never smelt that opportunity to do for Nigeria what he did for the Western Region. Then, raw falsehood competed violently with pure treachery. If River Kaduna overflew its banks, sweeping away Aliyu’s hut, Emeka’s car failed to start in Abakaliki, or Aremu’s wife in Ogbomoso went into prolonged labour, Awolowo surely had a case to answer!

This is why I did not start by congratulating you on your overwhelming endorsement by your party for the 2015 presidential election. Already, you have become, more than ever, the object of similar mischief, falsehood and treachery coming from your opponents and those who provide the intellectual fillip on the opinion and other pages of newspapers. You are such an intimidating and fearsome “semi-illiterate” that the super literates in the land have had to go on grueling academic research in yet futile attempts to rubbish you.

They accuse you of once threatening to “make the country ungovernable,” even though those who actually made the particular statement at the time of a tragicomic internal succession war belonged to the camp of your opponents. You are desperately labeled sponsor of Boko Haram, even when those who have been able to capture evil resources large enough to sponsor terror are as close to them as they are distant from you. They describe you, with several Christians on your intimate personal staff, as “unrepentant religious bigot, Northern irredentist and political demagogue.” Yet the political heavyweight your military government packaged in a crate from London en-route Nigeria to answer for economic mutiny against the country was a fellow Northerner and fellow Muslim.

In other such attempts, they have found it a “visible fact” that you are not abreast of some imaginary “global issues of today and tomorrow.” Ordinary Nigerians on the streets however, know the global issues you are allergic to such as mindless looting of the treasury, insensitive cornering of people’s commonwealth and “gluttonous accumulation of wealth.”

You are described as one to whom “there are blue bloods and talakawas

whose place in life is hewing wood and drawing water”! If you who have refused to steal from the rich, the not-so-rich and the talakawas could be so described, how then do we describe the demonic gluttons who gleefully corner talakawas’ pension funds in hundreds of billions while they watch, callously, as the poor souls perish on the queues waiting for their rightful entitlements?

In fact, dear General, some plots have been about sheer trivialities, some so ridiculous they begin to border on intellectual idiocy. That it took you seven days to announce the identity of your running mate has become an issue of campaign of calumny, as if the time taken in making a choice is of greater significance than making a right choice. They say the firmness and activeness of your military government could only be credited to your Second-In-Command as he was actually in charge. But if your Deputy was actually the one in charge, why then was he Number Two? The truth of the matter, however, was that you were such a liberal and selfless leader who believed in sharing service and limelight with your Deputy. Hence you chose a man with similar sterling attributes, as you have done again, to do more of the interaction with the public.

To your detractors, you are by far the oldest human being ever to aspire to lead a nation. The global icon, Nelson Mandela, fresh from 27 years in prison, became South Africa’s president at 76. Americans who elected John Kennedy president at 41 were the same people that made Ronald Reagan president at 70. Tunisians, progenitors of the recent Arab Spring, have just elected an 88-year old uncle of yours as president in continuation of their revolution.

Unlike most Nigerian political leaders, past and present, you have not been moving in and out of hospitals on account of ill health. Yet they accuse you of lack of vibrancy. At 99, your mother (her first three children are all older than you),Yeye Oodua, Mama HID Awolowo, still bubbles with such inspiring vibrancy that she still coordinates the affairs of the descendants of Oduduwa.

General, your haters are not relenting. And they are not expected to relent even though, as fresh as their focus had been presented to be, they still have not been able to clear the cobwebs of economic rascality, institutional lawlessness and political brigandage in which the Nigerian nation has been entangled for decades. You should expect them to become even more desperate, dangerous and deadly in coming weeks. They will do all in their political and intellectual capacity to cajole and instigate the Nigerian people against you. But it is left for the people to decide not yours but their fate.

However as you go into this last attempt, just keep faith with the “best president Nigeria never had.” If Nigerians still decide they do not want you, either by fair or foul means, just walk away quietly into your deserved peaceful retirement. When Nigerians need you, they will call for you, hoping only that, unlike in the case of the late sage, by then, it will not be too late.

http://dailyindependentnig.com/2015/01/retirement-letter-general-muhammadu-buhari/


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He doesn't have Buhari's mailbox or email address?

When will you, younger Nigerians, stop being tools to satisfy the political libido of Nigerian politicians? When?

People utilize all forms of mind-games to campaign for their choice of leaders, and instead of carving a niche for yourself using your powers, you get tangled in their merciless net and are dragged along.

Look, Nigeria have had leaders in the past. They will have new ones this year. They will also have one next four years. And four years after that. It's an endless routine. So, why engage in this ruthlessly like you have no tomorrow; like your tomorrow cannot exist without the presence of a particular person in a particular position.

Take time to think. Politicians are busy strategizing how to win various seats. That is their future. We should be busy strategizing how to excel in our various occupations. That is our future.

If you do their work for them, they won't do yours for you. Time wasted.. Nothing gained.

DesChyko:
He doesn't have Buhari's mailbox or email address?

When will you, young Nigerians, stop being tools to satisfy the political libido of Nigerian politicians?

It is called an open letter. You will do yourself some good to read it if you care.

This is a masterpiece for the so-called TANoids and those still undecided about the next election. Blow the chance to rescue Nigeria and live in penury thereafter! But remember that your unborn generations will never forgive you.

rUbbish and nOnsense

Buhari should also be advised to addressed primary issues that the public want to know. For now, let Buhari show Nigerians his certificate first

JudismphD:
Buhari should also be advised to addressed primary issues that public want to know. For now, let Buhari show Nigerians his certificate first

He doesn't need to show you. Or have you seen Jonathan's?

Buhari only needs to satisfy INEC with it which they've said he has done. And if he must show them copies, the copies which the Nigerian Army have confirmed they are in possession of will do.

iamodenigbo1:
rUbbish and nOnsense

You were disappointed bah?

See how this writer wasted his education clamouring for someone who can not write half of what he has written to lead him. Therein lies the problem of Nigeria. The writer should tell us why with his level of education he can not raise his head high in the congregation of elite politicians to contest for president, to put Nigeria on the right track; but chose to remain a paper tiger, cheering on a semi-illiterate, without an SSCE certificate, to do the battle for him?

In saner climes, readers are leaders; but in Nigeria, readers are cowards and touts are leaders. The educated are commentators, fearfully making noise in their closets. I pity my country.

PassingShot:
It is called an open letter....But remember that your unborn generations will never forgive you.

Yes. What are open letters?
An address to a particular person? A bland show-off? A misplacement of priorities? Needless I must say.
If you must write an article, do so by all means. If you must write a letter, address it to whom it concerns.
They are as pointless as their oddity.

I will never tolerate any of my generation who can't take time to ponder the truth of things themselves but rely on the utterances of random individuals, especially biased minds.

PassingShot:
You were disappointed bah?

nope, Buhari and co are part of the problem,no amount of sermon cam turn him into a saint

jamace:
..but in Nigeria, readers are cowards and touts are leaders. The educated are commentators, fearfully making noise in their closets..

With the simplest of words, you have painted the situation in the country vividly.. The monster we need to slay.
But No! Instead of that, we are fighting the war for the country's enemies.
Some see emancipation of Nigeria this year. I can't see it in the PDP/APC exploitation experts we call leaders. I can't even see it in we, the masses.
Until we adopt the real 'CHANGE' in our mentality, not even a party's slogan can rescue Nigeria.

DesChyko:
He doesn't have Buhari's mailbox or email address?

When will you, younger Nigerians, stop being tools to satisfy the political libido of Nigerian politicians? When?

People utilize all forms of mind-games to campaign for their choice of leaders, and instead of carving a niche for yourself using your powers, you get tangled in their merciless net and are dragged along.

Look, Nigeria have had leaders in the past. They will have new ones this year. They will also have one next four years. And four years after that. It's an endless routine. So, why engage in this ruthlessly like you have no tomorrow; like your tomorrow cannot exist without the presence of a particular person in a particular position.

Take time to think. Politicians are busy strategizing how to win various seats. That is their future. We should be busy strategizing how to excel in our various occupations. That is our future.

If you do their work for them, they won't do yours for you. Time wasted.. Nothing gained.

With all due respect, I disagree with you especially at the bolded. To rescue Nigeria is a task for all of us to do. It is not about the politicians only. It is about doing the right thing to make Nigeria prosper once more; if the country is run aground as it is being done by the current cabals, soon ours will be worse than Zimbabwe or even Somalia! What can you achieve in a country where all the institutions than can grow it have been compromised and not functioning?

I cannot imagine another four years of this clueless regime. If Mr. Clueless is wins (or rigged in), we will be worse of in four years time because we were better than this in the last 6 years or so. The worst thing again will be to imagine him and PDP imposing another clueless man in Sambo over us for the next eight years. So how do we get out of the mess started by this PDP, advanced by the same PDP and being promoted to continue by PDP?

PassingShot:
To rescue Nigeria is a task for all of us to do... It is about doing the right thing to make Nigeria prosper once more.. If Mr. Clueless is wins..(or rigged in)..

I'm sorry, but you're not an objective person.
I am disappointed because in spite of your seemingly knowledgeable stance, you have failed to reason with an open mind, and look beyond your nose.
Calling a person who is the president of your country 'Mr Clueless' portrays you not as a patriotic citizen, but as a selfish individual in all ramifications.
Yes it is our task to rescue the nation from its fall. We are all clamoring for change. That doesn't mean we should be blind to how things are done or supposed to have been done. This has gone on for too long.
Handing over the country with a noticeably educated populace to a man who cannot even give an acceptable explanation for the whereabouts of one of the prerequisites for being voted in is an oversight that cannot be imagined.
Was he ever prepared or qualified for the job or was he using his position erstwhile to boycott the norm? Did you EVER follow this line of thought?

See long long post above me...


Anyway


GMB till patience Jonathan sabi english wella.

This piece made my day.

DesChyko:
I'm sorry, but you're not an objective person.
I am disappointed because in spite of your seemingly knowledgeable stance, you have failed to reason with an open mind, and look beyond your nose.
Calling a person who is the president of your country 'Mr Clueless' portrays you not as a patriotic citizen, but as a selfish individual in all ramifications.
Yes it is our task to rescue the nation from its fall. We are all clamoring for change. That doesn't mean we should be blind to how things are done or supposed to have been done. This has gone on for too long.
Handing over the country with a noticeably educated populace to a man who cannot even give an acceptable explanation for the whereabouts of one of the prerequisites for being voted in is an oversight that cannot be imagined.
Was he ever prepared or qualified for the job or was he using his position erstwhile to boycott the norm? Did you EVER follow this line of thought?

Mr. Patriotic, I see that you are not biased in your post hence you quoted a part of mine to spew the trash you just spewed.

It is an act of idiocy to want to continue with GEJ after almost six years of no tangible result. Only fools do that and expect a miracle within the next four years.

I call him clueless and I have no apologies for that because that is what he is known as the world over. If you doubt me, type clueless in Google and see what comes up.

You call Buhari an illiterate! Please check the meaning of illiterate and come back for further discussion.

PassingShot:
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You call Buhari an illiterate! Please check the meaning of illiterate and come back for further discussion.

Check every of my quotes on Nairaland and highlight where I called Buhari an illiterate or anything close.
You choose whom to vote for. And you do that in the right way. Painting an opponent black still doesn't improve your qualities. It is called 'envy' and it is detrimental, never positive.

I call him clueless and I have no apologies for that because that is what he is known as the world over. If you doubt me, type clueless in Google and see what comes up.

I can see the source of your 'knowledge', or should I say 'inspiration'. Perhaps it would be a little better for your image if you can do your thinking yourself and defend your opinions.

Caseless:
This piece made my day.

Mtcheeeew.