Lagos State Publicity Secretary
of the All Progressives Congress, Mr. Joe Igbokwe is
calling for maximum security for General Buhari, thinking that history might
just repeat itself in 2015 as of the case of MKO Abiola.
Read shocking revelation:
I
am shouting from the rooftop, I am screaming from Mount Everest, I am speaking
to anybody who care to listen that maximum security should be provided for
General Muhammadu Buhari, the Presidential candidate of APC to avoid the
tragedy that struck us in 1998 when Chief MKO Abiola was poisoned and his June
12 1993 mandate crushed after a bitter struggle. This country and leaders of
APC must not take things for granted as there are unrepentant and murderous
thieves at the door. PDP and its heartless handlers can never go down without a
fight. I want APC leaders to manage the little gains we have to prepare for the
worst. Whatever we can do to protect Buhari, let us do it. If it means hiring
Security personnel from America, Israel, France, UK and Germany, let us do so.
I repeat PDP and its reckless leaders cannot give up without pulling the house
down. Once GMB is taken out of the way, the predators and cultural savages will
return and this time, they will become more ferocious and dangerous.
When
General Abacha died suddenly in 1998 my friends celebrated and celebrated and
even drank themselves to stupor. I did not join them to celebrate because my
mind told me that something sinister may happen to Chief MKO Abiola. I told my
friend that the killing of Abacha is to prepare ground for physical elimination
of Chief MKO Abiola. I have read many books on the struggle for power in other
climes especially in the South Americas in the 70s. I knew then that the
killing of Abacha is to gauge the feelings and reactions of the people of
Nigeria especially from the South knowing that they will celebrate. Their
calculations and permutations then was that they will go for Chief Abiola and
consequently settle the matter.
Bearing
this in mind I went to a prominent Newspaper in Lagos to alert them. There, one
of the Editors threw two sheets of paper to me to state my case. I filled the
two pages and left. Now, was it published? No! As I left the Newspaper House, I
guess they threw the papers into the waste basket. A month later, Chief MKO was
poisoned by those who felt that the only way to solve the June 12 1993 saga is
to kill both the offender and the offended. They succeeded and the era of the
bonafide winner of June 12 1993 presidential election, adjudged as the freest
and fairest election ever conducted in Nigeria, ended abruptly. We were shot in
the legs and we cried and cried. The agitation for the June 12
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mandate died down when the symbol of that hope was killed.
We
lost everything. Hundreds died, including Chief Abiola’s wife Alhaja Kudirat
Abiola, Alhaja Suliat Adedeji, Admiral Babatunde Elegbede, Ogoni 9, Alfred
Rewane, Bagauda Kaltho, Dr Sola Omatshola, Commodore Olu Omotehinwa, Alhaji
Shehu Yar’Adua, Toyin Onagoruwa, and many others. We did not only lose these
prominent Nigerians including the symbol and hundreds of other unknown
Nigerians, we lost in the struggle to reposition Nigeria for the better. Hope
1993 became hopeless and unrealistic with the murder of Chief MKO Abiola.
Today,
16years after 1998 we are still paying the price of killing Abiola and his
mandate. All the gains we made politically were totally decimated, desecrated
and rendered desolate and the centre could no longer hold as forces of darkness
took control once again even till date. From 1993 to 2014 is now 21years. 21
years of Barbers Chair Syndrome, 21 years of beating about the bush, 21 years
of political corruption, mediocrity and impunity, 21 years of idiocy, 21years
of mass murder, 21years of retarded growth, 21years of waste, 21years of
reckless plunder and pillage of our common patrimony and 21years of shame.
After
21years the agents of change are gathering again to rework the knocked engines
of Nigeria. After so much pains and division the agents of change in Nigeria
are at work again to re-fix a battered, plundered, sucked and bled nation. They
are gathering again to check where the rains started beating and to take stock.
God
in his infinite mercies has given us General Muhammadu Buhari once again to see
if we are now wiser. We have been given a second chance to redeem our subdued
and humiliated country and if we bungle this, woe betide us. I submit that we
must not be foolish again as we were from 1993 to 1998. I believe we have
learnt sufficient lessons of history and shed enough tears to know that
opportunities do not come all the time. We have to grow up now before history
which neither personal wealth nor power can suppress passes terrible judgment
on us.
Imagine
what would have happened if Chief Abiola had been alive. Imagine where this
country would have been today if Chief Abiola had been allowed to rule Nigeria.
Imagine what would have been that state of our economy if this world class
chartered Accountant had been allowed to rule Nigeria. We lost Chief Abiola and
lost 21 years to brigands and nitwits.
This
is decision time. This is our chance. General Muhammadu Buhari must live to
deal with Nigeria’s pandemic problems. GMB must live to clear the Augean
stable. GMB must live to fight corruption and impunity in Nigeria. He must live
to do what he is known to have done before. GMB needs to live to restore hope
and confidence in Nigeria. Protect him now!
Joe
Igbokwe
Lagos
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