LEAVE PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN ALONE!
Did I just say "Leave President Jonathan alone"? Yes! I think I said that for real. Hmmm, when the news filtered last week, precisely on Friday, 6th September, that the Presidency in "connivance" with the Tukur-led faction of the People's Democratic Party-PDP, otherwise dubbed the "old PDP" (oPDP) had ordered the seal off of the newly acquired Secretariat of the breakaway Baraje-led "new PDP" (nPDP), and to that end, armoured personnel were deployed to the said new office located at Plot 320, off Onyi River Crescent, Maitama, Abuja, I was one of the few persons that quickly took to the social media to condemn such horrendous and barbaric "gesture". My reason for this albeit is not far-fetched. Every sane individual will agree with me that such obnoxious demeanour amounts to pervert of fair play within the purview of Crisis Management and as such, the instruction thereto from whoever is tantamount to gibberish.
However, a further look at history and events of the past gave me some inklings that President Jonathan may be justified after all. I remember on June 9, 2006, when Baba Òta, Ębora Òwu himself, chief Olúségun Òkìkíolá Obásanjó still held sway as the garrison commander, a group led by the party’s founding chairman, Solomon Lar from North Central and Middle Belt, and a former Deputy National Chairman, Alhaji Shuaib Oyedokun from the South West, Osun state had broken away to form a parallel faction after accusing the then Ahmadu Ali-led leadership of sidelining many leading founding members. The group then proceeded to open a new secretariat: a one-storey building of four flats ostentatiously decorated with flags of the party located in the Jabi District of Abuja. The development terribly rattled the then President Olusegun Obasanjo who promptly deployed security agents to forcefully seal the parallel secretariat.
By the following day, the Nigerian Police had closed the new secretariat and stationed 20 of its men at the complex to prevent members of the Lar group from gaining entry. The then Commissioner of Police for Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Lawrence Alobi, explained at that time that his men were asked to seal the secretariat to forestall an outbreak of violence. The development terribly irked the Lar group and sparked off a war of words between the two camps. The Lar group asked the then Inspector General of Police, Sunday Ehindero, to withdraw his men from its secretariat, threatening that it would forcefully chase the Ali-led group away from the Wadata Plaza National Secretariat of the party if the police failed to allow it to operate from the Mabushi secretariat. Then, I ask rhetorically "Could President Jonny, oh, sorry Jona not be following 'precedence'?", even though Baba Obasanjo action that time might not have fallen within the modus vivendi of stoical harmony.
And I will want to reiterate once more that President Goodluck should be left alone to deal with the current polarization that has be-deviled the largest political party in Africa, and per adventure the largest in black populated world! After all his kinsman and obstreperous self-appointed spokesman, Mujahid Asari Dokubo said, in an interview granted to Channels TV last night that "There is no crisis in PDP", and which also was corroborated by his excellency, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan in his around-12am speech during the stupendous Post PDP Convention Dinner held at the Presidential Villa last night and aired by the country's national television, NTA, that what PDP is facing now is mere difference which of course is expected, even within families. This, I concur but what probably instigates my curiosity further is for how long do we continue to fool and hoodwink ourselves, behaving as if all was well, when in actual fact, the country is in disarray and drifting towards disintegration.
I heard yet again this attention-seeker in person of Asari Dokubo saying with or without elections, President Jonathan must stay beyond 2015, otherwise all hell will let lose and I subtly ask, even when there is no more Nigeria? Or how can somebody still retain his position as the number 1 citizen when such country seizes or ceases to exist? There're more troubles at hand for President Jonathan to cope with and these are daily exacerbated by inflammatory statements from his plethora of seeming-incorrigible aides as well as self-pointed spokespersons. Is it the bad news that the Baraje-led faction has the party's Certificate of Registration which is grave enough to cause him migraine or the various salvos that have hitherto taunted the bizarre purchase of a private BOMBADIER jet (worth of $13.3million equivalent to #2.12billion) by one of his loyalists, a Niger Delta militia and warlord, Government Oweizide Ekpemupolo (a.k.a Tompolo)? Abeg, leave matter for Mathias, that na story for another day. Catch you guys next time by His grace abundant.
Czar Wisdom Omógbóláhàn Kòkúmó Mofòlúwasó Baba-CFR
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