This piece of advice is necessary because the spate of mindless killings in the land now seems to me a deliberate, planned and sustained action to obliterate the gains of the Buhari administration in the last three years and rubbish the man of the moment and get him consigned into the garbage can of infamy.
Will Buhari allow that? Isn’t he allowing that? Only Buhari can supply the answer. But as a firm believer in his integrity and honour, I suggest to him strongly that he shouldn’t allow that.
Perhaps, he’s set to change the growing perception in the minds of many that he had become weakened and had therefore surrendered his authority to the enemies of this country who are wreaking untoward havoc by the second, not anymore by the day.
The hint dropped by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, the other day he and the ubiquitous other President, (sorry I take that back), the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, were on a working visit to the Villa, that the nation’s security architecture was to be re-jigged, gives a ray of hope that our President is now fully conscious that the buck stops on his table, and no one else.
I once believed that herdsmen, once known to carry ordinary sticks, otherwise known as ‘sa-n-da’, but have now graduated to carrying sophisticated weapons like AK-47, were the killers on the prowl in the land but I’m beginning to have a re-think, given the latest clinical mowing down of some 100 people or thereabout in Plateau State.
Miyyeti Allah group was said to have claimed responsibility for the cold -blooded murder of innocent citizens. Perhaps so; in which case, those who go by that name should by now be cooling their heels in police custody, ready to answer charges of pre-meditated murder. Perhaps not, because that claim could be a deliberate plan to divert people’s minds and thoughts away from the direction from where this deadly action is actually coming from.
It is not going to be enough to re-draw the security architecture of the country by taking a look at the lopsidedness in the composition of the key commanders of the various security and intelligence formations, but it behoves this government to allay increasing fears that subtle but sustained efforts are afoot to Islamise this country.
I don’t believe in the postulation, but granted that it is on anybody’s cards, let it be said here unequivocally that the thought be perished, as it is a dream that cannot and will not come through, except some people don’t believe in the continued existence of a country called Nigeria. And, I want to trust in the patriotic and nationalistic blood running in President Buhari’s veins that he loves Nigeria to allow her Islamisation and inexorably her destruction.
Most of us love the mutual and cordial cohabitation of all the major religious faiths we profess in this country and have cemented this love over time with inter-tribal and inter-religious marriages; that should not be permitted to be suicidally sacrificed on the altar of religious experimentation and rabid fundamentalism.
The prayer of most Nigerians is that Buhari, having begun a good work of governance and restoration of vital values needed for meaningful socio-economic development, should successfully run out his term or terms in office. He should therefore not permit anyone or anything that will put spanners in his works, as the fallout from that will be too catastrophic to imagine.
