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Letter to Mrs Aisha Buhari
Madam, this open letter to you is all about the salvation of your husband and treat most urgently. The urgency attached to it is taken from a wise proverb from the Urhobo people of the Niger Delta region. The proverb says: “Erako ro chewhru o’nyu urhuru ro orovworo o”. Fret not Madam, for l must interpret it to you. It simple means that the dog which is destined to go astray [or lost], does not harken [or listen] to the voice of the owner.
Your husband has become a sort of wonder within the last two and half years or thereabout. Yes, a wonder but not on the positive side of history. He is being less understood on daily basis. Interpretation of who Muhammadu Buhari really is, as human being and a leader, is becoming more complicated on daily basis. Of course, we are aware that the science of knowing what a man thinks in his heart has not metamorphosed yet, but sometimes we try to read the language of body movement in attempting to decode what next step a particular person, albeit a leader, is about to take.
Your husband’s body language; which was the only instrument of gauging his thought within the first six months of coming to power, has been permanently lost to the “thickness of the forest of the Aso Villa” where he had allowed the legacy of the all the other predators swallowed up his authority. Madam, you know the predators we are talking about because you once mentioned them accurately – the Tigers, Leopards, the Wolves and the Hyenas.
Ironically, these lesser animals in fearfulness, compared to the King Lion [that was how you described it the other day], thinking that they would be evicted from the notorious Nigerian Animal Kingdom when the Lion King woke up from his palatial sleeping domain in London, fortified themselves, awaiting the arrival of the Lion King. The Lion King did wake up from its sleeping bed in the United Kingdom, arrived the Zoo headquarters in the Presidential Villa in Abuja but with lesser vigor.
The predators; the Tigers, the Leopards, the Wolves and the Hyenas saw a weaker King Lion arriving from London. They took a firm decision against the King Lion and swallowed him up. Of course, the King Lion is still very visible in the Villa, pretending calling the shots. But reality is that its decision making mechanism has been taken away from him and taken into a coven where these predators have total command of authority.
In doing and achieving this feat, the predators cleverly avoided your area and domain of volatility. Madam, don’t forget that these “animals called human being” [that is the name former President Olusegun Obasanjo called them in one of his books] in the Villa know you very well. Hope you are not forgetting in hurry that they once referred to you as “that suicide bomber from Adamawa State” in one of their conversations when your husband was hospitalised in London? These people, still talking of “these animal called man”, being wiser people in their treachery, formed themselves into a very powerful “insulator” and thereafter “isolated” your husband from you.
This is where the game has become more dangerous because at the moment, through the manipulation of this cabal [oh, that is another name they are called], your husband is running faster and quicker out of his mind. Some Pastors would title their sermon, if this discussion on your husband were to be subject for a Sunday’s preaching, “Yoke of manipulation” [hope you will not ask Pastor Tunde Bakare about the sermon’s title?]. Yes, your beloved husband is being manipulated to do what, he otherwise, wouldn’t have done – the way some of us see it anyway. This is where he has become that proverbial “dog which is destined to go astray that never harkens to the voice of the owner”.
Madam, by the statement of your husband on the day he was sworn-in as President on May 29, 2015, where he said he “belongs to no one”, so many Nigerians are now finding it difficult to identify whom to report his latest embarrassing actions to. The difficulty of knowing whom to meet is made more complex by the fact that the Cabal [those animal predators] that captured him are almost faceless in one hand while in the other hand your husband is pretending that he is fully in charge of governance in Nigeria. This is the real debacle that begs for quick solution.
In another school of thought however, wisdom is dictating that we should report him to you because you are the wife. Given God’s injunction that what “He has put together, let no one put asunder”, according to the Holy Bible, you own him {Buhari] one hundred percent. But if this is juxtaposed against the background of his pronouncement in Germany sometimes ago that you belonged to his kitchen and the “other room”, it creates a devastative dilemma of knowing if he would ever listen to you. This makes it a walk in adventurism between the devil and the blue sea.
Yet a decision of who should [or ought to] be the rightful owner of President Buhari between yourself [Mrs Aisha Buhari] and the Predators that are leading him to the gallows, must be made. It is for the reason of this that we, in this exercise, have chosen to write to you, accepting and believing that you own him more than any other person on earth today. God joined you and this man together, ipso facto, it has become a matter of necessity, even of life and death, for you to take charge of your husband by rescuing him from the terrorism of those Aso Villa Predators
We started this discussion by saying that the whole exercise is about the salvation of your husband and we would urge you to take this assignment very seriously because if you fail to intervene in doing the needful, the end result of some of his present action might bring shame or regrets on you. Let us go to those things quickly.
First, the decision of taking the challenge of second tenure, come 2019, which is gaining ground is not his own. It is the decision of those that l call “the real suicide bombers” bombers around him. They are the Cabal. They are also called the Buharists. They are well known to you Madam but permit me to tell you something about these people. Yes, they are “suicide bombers” except that, unlike those kids/girls suicide bombers from the North/East that tied the suicide vest around themselves, this dangerous group of people would never tie suicide vest around themselves but instead tie it around your husband.
They are perfect in their evil work that while they are the full beneficiaries of their plans, your husband is the pre-arranged fallen guy. They are the ones shouting loudest that it is only Buhari that can do the work of rescuing Nigeria as such he must come out for the second term. God forbids bad thing, if anything should happen to this man along the line of this voyage into futility of life, these same people [the El-Rufai, the Abubakar Malami, the Kingibe, Abba Kyari, Ibikunle Amosu, the Rochas Okorocha and scores of others] would be the first to say that “his place let another take.”
Madam, you and your children would be left to wear the shoe with the pinching point of the shoe biting you harder. Hold the hand of your husband at the end of this tenure, and run away far from Abuja to Daura in Katsina State, for a befitting life-time rest. God has been good enough to your husband by delivering him from death. I may not be too sure that God delivered him from death because of a second term but instead, in my own limited wisdom though, to finish one-tenure and go to enjoy the remaining days of his life with you and the children in contentment. There is no any glory on earth that second tenure would add to your life Madam, but rush for a second tenure could bring gory to you. The choice is yours but l will urge you to walk away, in the words of Frank Edoho; a one-time television presenter of “who wants to be a millionaire”.
Two, his performances from May 2015, as president, has fallen below average, if the truth must be told. It is bad enough to be an average student because my village headmaster in the early 50s told us that “there is no hope for any average pupil because he belongs to no category”. If it is bad enough for the average student, where therefore is the accolade of the one that is below average? President Buhari failed all indexes of governance this time around. This is the obvious facts of evaluation, ditto the truth and reality of our times. Either at the economic front, the test of nepotism, political evaluation and all other perimeter of government scrutiny, your husband remains a colossal failure.
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s judgment on your husband performances in governance is not far from what l have just presented. In the first place, it is Obasanjo that told Nigerians that “Buhari is not hot in the economy”, and a few days ago he added, “Nigerians are not feeling Buhari’s CHANGE” [capital mine for emphasis]. And this is a man [Obasanjo] that endorsed and fought every inch of the battle to install your husband in 2015. There is nothing left for Buhari that he is bringing to the table for Nigeria. He should therefore leave before the ovation is totally buried. And it is your responsibility to take him away Madam, please.
I shall send you the second and final letter next week, God’s willing and l shall be telling you more things why you must save the situation. I shall also reveal to you how the Mafia around him, those “suicide bombers” or Cabal, were the real culprit of all the calamities being credited to your husband’s account for now.
Till next week Madam, please take care of yourself amongst those Sharks, Tigers, Leopards, Wolves and Hyenas at the Villa because you understand their wicked thoughts toward you. God will shield and protect you at all times.
Godwin Etakibuebu, a veteran journalist, wrote from Lagos.