₦airaland Forum

For Praising Buhari on Budget..
I read the press statement of one of our most
respected leaders, Senator David Mark,
commending president Buhari and urging
Nigerians to give him time, and I ask, when did we
all become cowards in this nation? Suddenly, the
respected David Mark, who has been a senator
since the advent of democracy in 1999 and two
time Senate President of our great nation, is
suddenly afraid that if he does not patronize
president Buhari and sing his praises he might not
win the re-run election for his Benue South
senatorial district.
It is disheartening to read some of the comments
by people who are supposed to be strong
opposition figures in our nation. What these our
leaders do not seem to understand is that you do
not patronize dictators or appeal to them. You
challenge them, you dare them to their faces. You
face them squarely. Dictators get emboldened
when they see that you are afraid of them. It is the
collective responsibility of the oppressed and the
victimized to challenge every dictator and see to
the quick change of such dictatorial regimes
through any legal means possible and not to be
begging and appealing to them.
The other day, it was Senators Stella Oduah and
Ben Murray Bruce who were singing the praises of
Buhari over the budget presentation. A budget
that failed to meet the expectations of Nigerians,
address core issues of the economy,
unemployment and insecurity; an unrealistic
budget, and a budget that has been termed a fraud
by our great party, the PDP, but only for our
elected senators to take a disparagingly different
view from the official position of the party and turn
around to praise the president.
Some people have said Senators Stella Oduah and
Ben Murray Bruce have the right to express their
personal opinions on the budget and other
national issues but I disagree with this assertion
completely. Will a Republican or Labor party
senator in the United States of America or United
Kingdom disagree with the official position of his
party on a fundamental issue such as this and
make it public? The answer is never! Senators Ben
Bruce and Stella Oduah are no longer private
citizens but elected members of the National
Assembly on the platform of the People’s
Democratic Party. They would not have become
senators if not for the party on whose platform
they contested and won the election.
No elected member of the PDP should publicly go
against the official position of the party because
this is the worst form of indiscipline a politician
can demonstrate. Since independent candidacy is
not recognized in our constitution, political parties
are the vehicles by which many aspirants ride to
power and as such these politicians can not
continue to deride the platform on which they got
to power.
Have you ever seen or read any APC member
going against the official position of their party? If
you are afraid of Buhari because you embezzled
public funds or have some skeletons in your
cupboard while you were in government and
cannot speak boldly like an opposition member,
why do you not just go and join Buhari in APC
like Rotimi Amaechi and others who today have
immunity from prosecution because they defected
to APC?
If you really like the leadership style of Buhari
why not go and join him in the APC? You should
not be in our great party and be demoralizing our
teeming members and supporters.
The Olisa Metuhs, Ayo Fayoses and Femi Fani-
Kayodes’ way is the only way to go. Face the
dictator, look at him straight in the eyes and tell
him to go straight to hell where he rightly
belongs. When a terrorist group like the Boko
Haram apprehends someone they believe to be an
unbeliever, “kafir”, and they want to behead him,
it would make absolutely no sense to start
begging or appealing to them. What is expected of
you to do is to look them straight in the eyes and
spit on their ugly faces, then face death bravely
and courageously knowing full well that you are
going to meet your Heavenly Father, and that
angels would rejoice when they see you. It will be
despicable of you to be in that ugly situation, then
you deny the faith, you begin to beg them, start
appealing and accept their own belief. No matter
the volume of your tears, pleadings and
compromise, they would still behead you.
I therefore urge the leadership of the People’s
Democratic Party, to henceforth, sound a clear
note of warning to every elected member of our
party never to go against the official position of
the party and be ready to take disciplinary
measures against anyone that flouts this warning.
Political parties can not be administered without
party discipline.
Merry Christmas to all our members and
supporters.

amtaken:
APC has failed woefully.


PDP don't let the propagandists come between you.


Negative changers.

Allow this APC at the center for 4years before you start this shameful name calling.

StepTwo:
kodded so you no fit arrange this thing well abi

if i land you 1500 recharge now Mods go gimme compulsory study leave

modath:
What is wrong with wailing with "commonsense "

Would have taken this seriously till I saw it's the alleged murder who later changed his identity to Deji Adeyanju that penned it...

Political jobber extraordinaire ..

kodded:
wetin

Iroh88:
Sister, I'd advice you don't make any sensible comment on this. Remember, it's coming from thebreakingtimes. I mean- TheBreakingTimes!

RockMaxi:

Allow this APC at the center for 4years before you start this shameful name calling.