CredoWriters:Wakdok,Samuel Stephen.
The first President of Nigeria’s fourth republic lost his wife and went on to complete his term without a replacement to the office of the first lady. The second President of Nigeria’s fourth republic lost his life and his deputy who was in acting capacity has replaced him sending the immediate past first lady packing. This means that the office of the first lady is hinged on the husband’s position. There can be a president without a first lady but never will there be a first lady without a president. For those who turned the immediate past first lady into a demi god this is a lesson that the cult like status of the first lady must never be allowed to repeat it self . The funds raised by the immediate first lady for the International Cancer Centre should be handed over to a Joint Cancer Commission who should execute that project. Whether it was the so called cabal that enforced the former first lady or it was the first lady that reinforced the cabal to bring out one of the strongest conspiracy in the nation’s history, we demand an investigation into the manner the health of the late President was mismanaged and used to pursue inordinate ambitions at the expense of the generality of the populace. The disgraced attorney general who argued that the late President can rule from anywhere should defend if indeed the President can still rule from beyond. The way the hawks handled the issue of the man’s illness wiped out all the good deeds and intention of a man no one accused of corruption or other vices associated with Nigerian leaders.
“Yar’adua was a good man.” That is the verdict of most if not all Nigerians but the verdict went on to say he was surrounded by bad people. Can good wine in a dirty cup still remain hygienic for drinking? If we have to pour away the sweet but contaminated wine, we ought to go further and wash the cup or dispose it and get a clean cup; else any other wine poured will still get contaminated by the dirty cup. The Mamluks had strong power in Eygpt, in 1805 when Muhammed Ali seized power in Egypt, he saw the mamluks who once were slaves but had steadily gained control of Egypt as a major threat to his rule. He invited them to his palace for discussions over luncheon and had all of them slaughtered. The Nigerian mamluks who we know as the cabal must be slaughtered politically so that the nation will move forward.
Karol Wojtyla was 58 years old when he became the Pope John Paul ii and he went on to become one of the longest serving pontiffs in his about 26 years papacy. Yar”Adua died at just 58 years old. When Pope John Paul was sick, we all knew his illness and he was seen around the world. He changed in our very eyes from the skiing Pope to a man who walked with stick and finally on wheel chair. It got so bad that he could hardly bring his hands together while celebrating the Holy mass at the transubstantiation of the bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ. Yet we saw our pope and the world shared in his pains while he suffered and grieved when he died. Nigerians were not privileged to see their Presidents when he was terminally ill. The cabal held our President as a prisoner, a pun to be used in a game of chess. When Maradona was suffering from his drug induced sickness only a few years back, thousands of Argentines kept vigil in the hospital lawn praying with their lit candles, today Maradona is on his way to South Africa as the Coach of his world cup squad. Fidel Castro who led the Cuban revolution in 1959 took seriously ill and at the eve of the revolution’s 50th anniversary in 2008, he relinquished power to his brother Raul, yet Cubans see their ailing hero on national TV who has been indisposed since 2008 and read his speeches on the internet.
My faith does not allow me to believe in reincarnation even if I wanted to, but if I have a wish, it would be that the man UMY or Umaru Musa Yar’Adua reincarnates to learn all that happened in his last months on earth. How in his semi-conscious and unconscious state; his wife leading a cabal or a cabal led by his wife held him as a toy cat to call the mice to order. They played a game where a toy cat with electronic sound was used to chase the wandering mice. Each time the rats get close the sound is triggered and the rats run back only to discover the cat didn’t chase after them. That is because the cat is not real, it was just a decoy.
Nigeria does not cease to beat my fancy and Nigerians do not cease to amaze me. The late President, who got a score card of below average, nick named Mr. Go Slow, suddenly becomes a national hero. I dare say he was a good man, but as far as governance is concerned we did not see or feel the dividends. Out of the seven points agenda only Niger Delta is said to have been a success, not that it was concluded. That will be like getting half over seven; to me is a fail. The promise of 6,000 mega watts of electricity was a sham and a fraud at that. Land reforms saw Aleiro transforming from Kebbi to becoming the mayor of Abuja where choice lands were allocated to cronies. The electoral reforms committee he promised was so delayed and ultimately when the Uwais panel submitted its report; his government set up a committee under Aondoaka to tinker with the report. Little or nothing was heard about the human capital development. The dredging of the Niger was only flagged off before he was flown to Jeddah on the eve of Nigeria’s 49th Independence just to have an achievement to state during the Independence Day broadcast. The funniest was the spate of policy reversals and speeches by the man and even his aides. If we have to be sincere to ourselves, Yar’Adua did not deliver on his promises, there was no guarantee that he would have won a second term except in Nigeria where elections are not free and fair. Four years were all he had on his hands to make the impact and he had spent close to three years, about 65% of his tenure without any tangible impact. Intention to pass exam is not the same as passing the exam, he meant well but my question is; did he do well?
Now that Yar’Adua’s death has forced him into Glory, and a choir has emerged in the land singing his achievements or rather good intentions, will it be out of place to pray he reincarnates and listens to the sweet song of all the good deeds he did which have only come to limelight after his demise? In the event this is impossible; his death, his burial in a simple grave and the vanity of power should warn all the living Yar’Aduas (People in power and authority) that they only have one life to live and serve their country men and women. Their wealth and power in the final analysis do not and will not count, only their good deeds will immortalize them in the people’s hearts and give them a place in the people’s hall of fame.
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