General Buhari, INEC & The PDP

It is a shame that this is where we are as a nation. INEC has just one job, one job only; conduct elections. Providing the means and platform of conducting election are all sub of the main function of INEC and in spite of all preparations, the federal government is subtly spreading the propaganda that INEC isn’t prepared to conduct the February 14th election, in spite of a four years preparatory period. The fact is that if the FG claims that INEC isn’t prepared, that is a vote of no confidence on INEC and more on the FG (their usual trademark in all aspects especially the economy of the country).

Supposing this whole election postponement is all a gimmick of the ruling party in the face of calamitous defeat in the hands of the main opposition, General Mohamadu Buhari. The PDP has been scheming deftly in the realisation of the little chances of their party to win the presidential election and have played all forms of cards in their deck and even very demeaning cards laden with devilish lies and deliberate twisting of historical facts. All these still somehow leading to the soaring popularity of General Mohamadu Buhari.

The various senseless cards that have been played against General Buhari has included:

(1) Religious Fanatics: out of the blues the PDP through clowns like Femi Fani Kayode and the other uncultured media advisers have been inundating hapless and ignorant Nigerians that Genaral buhari was going to Islamise Nigeria once he assumes the mantle of leadership and as such he should not be trusted and voted for. The noise of this theory was very loud that it might even confuse a few gullible southerners. No sooner had they labelled General Buhari as an Islamist that will Sharialise Nigeria that they took a volte-face to say he is a fake Muslim because he chose a Christian with 5000 churches as his running mate. This new theory was indeed stupid and senseless. As if to add insult into injury, the ruling party who constantly sound like the opposition came around to say General Buhari’s party is a Christian party and has more Christians as its components so, people should not vote for General Buhari. The people who concoct all these charades and childish ideas are they really using their brains at all, the answer is left to all sensible Nigerians to decide.

(2) The health/age factor: Nigerians and Africans are known globally to care most for the elderly and show respect too for the elderly especially in western Nigeria. But hey, politics is here and Genereal Buhari seem to be leading the poll as likely winner in the coming presidential election and as such cultural values and religious sacredness would have to be slaughtered on the platform of PDP. Then came a certain Fayose wishing death on General Buhari because he senses that he might be impeached if a sane candidate like General Buhari assumes presidency of Nigeria. Death wish was then a card played by PDP to the extent that the executive members of PDP started writing and tweeting on social media why it is wrong to vote for and elderly candidate. A very ridiculous doctor’s report that was doctored by a semi illiterate started circulating on social media that General Buhari had a terminal ailment from the Medical centre in Katsina. That is going too far, to wish someone death or terminal ailment because you want certain characters to remain in power albeit running the lot of the country. Of course, like other previously poorly scripted cards the PDP has played, the health/age card also failed woefully.

(3) The Documentary: among other schemes of the PDP, the malicious, false and very debilitating documentary aired by the appendages of PDP(AIT & NTA) to demonise General Buhari and describe him as a brutal dictator even worse that the inglorious General Abacha was a show of desperation. The documentary indicated that the PDP was fast loosing grounds and supporters with the “Sai Buhari” movement sweeping the country. The most disgusting part of the documentary was that it was riddled with lies and it shows the low level the Nigeria press/media can get because of money. There is no gainsaying that investigative journalism and professional journalism is dead in Nigeria. Not with all those Nigeria stations and the print media all trying to outdo themselves in the show of shame and denigration of the press. They compete daily to achieve a level of ridiculousness and retrogressions. Thank God for other good stations in South Africa, Ghana and Kenya that beam professional broadcast to the world to report Africa otherwise those who dissipate their time to watch eye sores like AIT, NTA and Siverbird TV will assume that we are animals in this part of the country. If not for CNN, BBC, Aljazeera and the likes, we would never have been updated about the things that are happening in Nigeria. Those tales by moonlight TV stations in Nigeria will never cease to beam nonsense and criminally insultive contents. In the midst of all these madness by Nigerian TV/Radio stations, one would ask, where is NBC….? Oh, you all should know the answer, they are experiencing hangover from too much ogogoro

(4) Serial Looser and others: The most painful part of all these drama being unfolded by the PDP towards casting aspersion on General Buhari, instead of reeling to Nigerians what the ruling PDP has done/achieved in the last six years, they accuse General buhari of being a serial looser. Under normal circumstances and apart from rigging, General Buhari would never have lost those elections he previously contested and even at that, the General is never a quitter like most of them and they label him a serial looser. Every sensible student of history will tell you about Abraham Lincoln who lost seven times before he eventually won to be one of the greatest presents in USA history. Also they have accused General Buhari that he is still a dictator and will be a dictator if he wins. Are these people all clueless too or they just want to perpetually be bereft of sensible ideas. From their various evaluations, the proponents of all these cards played against General Buhari has increased his popularity and they need to make some more drastic moves which brings us to:

(5) Certificate: These PDP folks have all come that a retired Brigadier General of the Nigerian army is not qualified to contest for elections. They have further said his documentation is faulty and he should be disqualified. Laughable. What are they afraid of? They are trying to use the court to place an injunction to postpone the elections so that more manipulations can be done against General Buhari. It will not work

From nowhere while they are trying to use the court to get postponement, they come up with the issue of PVC distribution, as if INEC was just established and tasked with that responsibility last week. The PDP schemers are clamouring that they don’t want Nigerians to be disenfranchised, as if they care about Nigerians like that. It’s all a big ruse, they have perceived and felt the defeat looming in their backyards and so they want postponement to give room for manipulations. It will not work.

I am convinced that the strategist of the APC, Kayode Fayemi, Raji Fashola, Atiku Abubakar, Rotimi Amaech and the Don Corleone Bola Ahmed Tinubu have insights into the level of craftiness that is hatched by the minute to forestall the inevitable change that will propel General Buhari as President so that the type of abracadabra that happened in Ekiti state will not befall Nigeria.

This piece is not to jump the gun but to pre-empt Nigerians to counter every moves by the PDP from throwing Nigeria into chaos with a criminally motivated intention of postponing the elections.

-This piece was written by Presley Akhigbe and culled from omojuwa.com