Who is afraid of Buhari?

Who is afraid of Buhari?
By Jide Oluwajuyitan 03/05/2012 00:00:00
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Anyone giving his vote to Jonathan gives him the permission to serve the PDP, to protect its army of crooks and looters and to spend the federal treasury until it is empty' - Sonala Olumhense March 13, 2011
We ignored Sonala's warning to our eternal damnation. But last week, Buhari said he is 'still in until the polity is sanitized and people enjoy the fruits of democracy at all levels of government'. There is no doubt the nation is in a dire need of a messiah. And for now, the only one that fits the bill is Buhari, the author of 'Nigerians have no other place besides Nigeria.' I guess we can start counting the chicks before the eggs are hatched. This is precisely because PDP has made change inevitable 13 years after its war that has left the nation prostrate. 
Besides, we have learnt our lessons. Jonathan seduced us with his shoeless-school-boy claim, his kneeling down like a lamb about to be slaughtered before Pastor Enoch Adeboye, and his appeal to ethnicity. And with our eyes wide open, we voted for a man, who for close to four years, never demonstrated he had any vision as to how the national question problem could be tackled, and a man who represented PDP that has raped our nation for 12 years. And with his oil sorcerers in Diezani Alison Madueke, the NNPC and PPPRA still in office several days after the Farouk Lawan's damning report, we now know Jonathan is working for PDP and not Nigeria. Or was it not this same President that sacked Justice Isa Salami on a Saturday even while the man's case was still in court? 
But for a start let me advise Buhari to restrict himself to his area of comparative advantage - sanitization and regimentation of our chaotic society. He should perish the thought about democracy which was the source of his anguish in his previous three outings. Since he is not a democrat, he cannot give what he has not got. He doesn't understand democracy is a game of compromise by elites, especially the Nigerian PDP variant, that live on the sweat and blood of others. In America, where democracy is the reigning god, it is not for nothing it is called government of big corporations. 
We have seen this past 13 years that democracy is the government of PDP for PDP. All the sordid revelations from the various probes involved PDP. All the indicted former Senate Presidents, House Speakers, jailed governors and those ex governors on the run from justice are PDP members.  Alison-Madueke and General Ahmadu Ali, are PDP members. It was PDP Minister of Finance, Okonjo-Iweala, noted more for her PDP "aso ebi" and her dancing prowess  at PDP convention that disingenuously tried to rationalize the frittering away of  N2.56 trillion as fuel subsidy as against  N240 billion allocated for that heading in the budget. That was before the release of the earth shaking Lawan Farouk's report that gave graphic details of PDP conspiracy against Nigeria.
Before this latest revelations, Nasir El Rufai, former BPE chairman and former minister for Abuja Territory, told us what PDP did to our nation in the name of privatization and commercialization, two devices through which PDP members shared our national patrimony. 
I sympathise with some of our colleagues who are apprehensive about the possible regimentation of society by Buhari after 2015. After all, journalists and drug pushers were the greatest victim of Buhari's aborted revolution in 1984. But from insight, we can see Buhari was an angel during his reign compared to those that succeeded him.
 
It would be recalled that our endless craving for freedom without responsibility exposed him to the vagaries of fuel and wheat importers and their foreign partners who replaced him with Babangida. The result of  Babangida's SAP was the collapse of all our budding textile, pharmaceutical, tyre industries; importation of rice, meat and fish and our today's exchange rate of N170 to $1 from about N1 to $1 in 1982.
Buharis's derailed ethical revolution consumed only two drug pushers who he said were giving our country a bad name.   Since then, hundreds of Nigerian drug pushers have been beheaded in China, or quietly killed and buried unsung in Malaysia and other parts of Asia.  Buhari jailed only two journalists for embarrassing government officials.  The press promptly de-legitimised his regime and made him easy target for a palace coup. For its price, the press got their new friend, Babangida to  expunge Buhari's obnoxious Decree Four from statute books, pardoned their jailed colleagues, appointed one of their shining stars, Chief Duro Onabule his Chief Press Secretary and Prince Tony Momoh, former editor of the Daily Times as minister, who specialized in letter writing to Nigerians while Babangida perpetrated evil.
Before journalists, the incurable pessimists, forced their self-proclaiming greatest lover to step aside following his 'transition without end' fiasco in 1993, journalists were known to have been parcel-bombed by suspected agents of state. Some disappeared from the streets in broad day. Many were assassinated inside their houses.   
Let me also remind our award dispensing colleagues that there is no nation that has developed without one form of regimentation or the other. The West that criticizes China is herself a police state. On every single day, an individual that ventures outside his home has his picture taken by secret cameras more than 20 times depending on how long his outing takes. If you throw trash on the street thinking no one is watching, a ticket will be waiting for you at home.
Buhari has told us, his new converts, that the least of his worries when he comes in 2015, is unlikely to be the struggling journalist who survives on crumbs from   recipients of their meaningless awards, notably   governors and bankers that the press, as 'the fourth estate of the realm', should monitor. Our fate as a nation is under threat by a clueless President, his PDP, and to borrow the President's Chief Intelligence Officer, Owoye Azazi'z innuendos, PDP-inspired Boko Haram. Journalists or drug pushers who in any case already have their nemesis in China and Malaysia, will amount to a distraction.
Buhari has proved he is capable. In eight months we did not import fuel, neither did we import wheat. We produced more grain than we needed.  Our problem then was that of storage facility.  Buhari has no friend when it comes to crime against his country. He once defied Shehu Shagari to tame the rag-tag army of an unfriendly neighbor county. 
We will be taken seriously by the international community.  We will not have an Okonjo-Iweala who, while supervising the monumental fraud by her PDP party members, will be begging the West to give us loan for agriculture.  He will deal decisively with economic saboteurs. He will control his wife to prevent state resources from being wasted on first Lady jamborees.
My advice is that all those who love our nation must now join Buhari's train. We must start the negotiation and the taming now so that he can see the importance of restructuring of the nation in a way that every group including Boko Haram that has been let loose on us can develop at their own pace without posing a threat to others. 

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