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Open Letter To President Buhari. by Lastborn0074: 9:10pm On Aug 23, 2017 |
This one pass me o.
Who can help interprete Mr.
Ogbu grammar?
This Chap has made my day:
OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT
BUHARI.
By Charles Ogbu.
Mr President, Sir,
This open letter is necessitated
by issues of urgent national
importance not unconnected
with your 3 minute broadcast to
Nigerians this morning where
you stated that Nigeria's unity
is settled and not negotiable.
Mr President, Sir, I wasn't
exactly born with a talent for
political correctness so I like to
assume your permission to pay
you the courtesy of being
blunt.
First, I want to register my
displeasure that you, a mere
servant and employee of the
Nigerian people, could
derisively address your
employers and the same
people paying your salaries
even when you are hardly at
work, as "my dear citizens"
instead of "my fellow citizens".
That derisive opening line in
your speech lend more
credence to an already
established fact which is that
you are an arrogant victim of
messiah complex who sees his
people not as his employers
whose wishes he must harken
to but as lesser mortals and
slaves who are his to do as he
pleases. Even Emperor Nero
didn't address Romans in that
condescending manner.
Mr president sir, we are not
your citizens. We are not even
just your fellow citizens! We are
your employers! We are your
boss! We pay your bill. We feed
you, Mr president. Talk to us
with some respect!
Mr president, when you told us
how you discussed with Ojukwu
in 2003 and agreed that
Nigeria's unity is non
negotiable, what exactly did
you think the reference to the
late Biafra strong man would
achieve?
Did you think that line would
magically address all the
institutionalized grave
injustices in the system which
you've made worse with your
open display of tribal bigotry,
vindictiveness, raw hatred for
people from a particular
section of the country and
criminal disregard for the same
constitution you swore to
protect??
That you believe the unity of
over 180 million people is
something you, a Fulani man
and Ojukwu, an Igbo man, can
sit in your small sitting room
somewhere in your small
village of Daura and
conclusively discuss, says a
whole lot about how much
value you attach to the so
called unity.
As a free citizen of a free world
and one of those paying your
salaries, I find that statement
criminally offensive and
hopelessly disappointing. But
even more disappointing is the
fact that even after spending
billions of our tax money and
over 100 days treating an
undisclosed ailment abroad,
you seem not to have learnt
anything from your numerous
administrative blunders and
trailer load of un-presidential
utterances, actions and
inactions which in most part,
are responsible for the mess
we are in today.
Mr President sir, let me remind
you that you, it was, not
Nnamdi Kanu, who resuscitated
and fuelled the current Biafra
agitation. Even the activities of
the Niger Delta militants were
all birthed by your tact-less,
bigoted, vindictive and mostly
common-sensically bankrupt
utterances and actions.
And to prove that you are an
unteachable ethnic jingoist with
an iniquitious sense of national
unity and an atrocitious sense
of governance, all through your
3 minute address,
You didn't tell your employers
the kind of ailment that kept
you away from your duty post
for over 100 days and gulped
billions of tax payers' money.
You didn't announce measures
to resuscitate the economy
which your criminal ineptitude
and analogue economic plans
largely played a part in
destroying.
You didn't mention measures
you plan on taking towards
addressing the grievances of
the secessionist groups even
when you admitted some of
their grievances are genuine.
You didn't make any
assurances towards calming
freyed nerves considering the
mood of the country.
You didn't categorically
condemn the series of terror
your fulani brethren are visiting
on Nigerians. Instead, you
played it down as mere
herdsmen/farmers clashes.
You didn't even categorically
condemn your siblings (Arewa
Youths) for publicly threatening
genocide on Igbos living in the
North come October 1st, 2017.
You did none of the above.
Instead,
You spent almost 50% of your
broadcast threatening social
media users and aggrieved
citizens who are only asking
you to treat them as equal
stake-holders in the Nigeria
project or allow them quit this
oppressive union. The other
50% was wasted on tales about
your meeting with Ojukwu
where the duo of you
supposedly decided on behalf
of over 180 million of us that
the unity of Nigeria is non
negotiable.
In a nutshell, you spent over
100 days abroad on medical
tourism on tax payers' money
against your campaign
promises only to come back
with nothing but a trailer-load
of insult, derision and threats
for the same citizens who paid
and are still paying all your
hospital bill and salaries even
when you were hardly doing any
job??
Quite frankly, Mr President,
that speech would easily pass
off as one hell of comedy
except it was a tragedy.
You've simply proven that you
are a man far detached from
reality. It would seem you are
still stuck in 1985. Indeed, a
leopard never changes its skin.
Now, my dear president, as one
of your employers, Iet me gift
you with some piece of advise:
First, Nigeria is not a nation
unless we've all decided to
adopt a very confused and
lopsided understanding of the
term, "nation". More
importantly, our unity as a
people is a farce. It doesn't
exist. You cannot discuss the
negotiability or non-negotiabili
ty of a unity that only exist in
your imagination.
How can there be unity when
you, Mr President, went to a
foreign land and publicly
promised to discriminate
against those who didn't vote
you with your infamous 97%_
5% speech?
Where is the unity when you
were busy gifting boko haram
terrorists and the marauding
herdsmen with a juicy amnesty
package and military protection
respectively at the exact time
you were, and still are, visiting
the unarmed Biafra agitators
with festival of bullets?
Most importantly, Mr President,
mentioning "unity" and "non-
negotiable" in the same
sentence betrays a very poor
appreciation of the queen's
language. If it's unity, then the
powers that bind the parties
together must have been
birthed through negotiations. In
which case, any talk about the
non-negotiability of such unity
becomes the height of
conscientious idiocy bothering
on the fringes of lunacy. If it's
unity that was a product of
force, then it's no unity at all.
Mr President sir, the clause
"our unity is non-negotiable" is
an Oxymoronic expression.
You cannot threaten people of
diverse cultural, religious and
language background into
nationhood!!!!
Unity cannot be forced!
On your threats to agitators, Mr
President, you proved you lack
basic understanding of what
the issues are. It is not just the
southeast that is aggrieved,
both the south south, south
west and even the North, your
own region, are all aggrieved as
examplified by the October 1st
quit notice and threat of
genocide against Igbos living in
the North. Every section of the
country is aggrieved. Rather
than proving you are too
bloodthirsty for dialogue,
initiate a workable time-bound
plan towards restructuring this
country in such a way to
enthrone justice, fairness,
equity and merit.
Restructure this British
contraption now!
Or,
Watch the whole country
collapse under the weight of its
own internal contradictions.
The fastest way of escalating
an agitation is by trying to
suppress it rather than
addressing the issues that
birthed it.
Mr President, sir, I am not
unaware of the fact that in the
coming days, we are going to
be witnessing more killing of
the unarmed pro-Biafra
agitators and series of arrests,
abduction and incarceration
targeted at social media users
and your political opponents
but I have a message for you,
sir, just as we survived your
brutality between 1984-1986,
We Will Survive You!
This, too, shall pass!
I wish you exactly what you
wish Nigerians.
Love from
Charles Ogbu. |
Re: Open Letter To President Buhari. by paschu: 10:00pm On Aug 23, 2017 |
Re: Open Letter To President Buhari. by tutaboi(m): 10:20pm On Aug 23, 2017 |
He made a very big point tho.... |
Re: Open Letter To President Buhari. by philGeo(m): 11:53pm On Aug 23, 2017 |
Food for intelligent ones. |
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