In
the concluding part of this interesting write, Femi Fani-Kayode has
called on the do the needful concerning the plight of innocent people
being killed in the land.
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President Muhammadu Buhari
Permit me to begin the second part of this essay with a word from
Dr. Shuaib Musa Zaria, who is a leading member of the Shiite Islamic
Movement of Nigeria (IMN) and who is a close confidante and associate of
Sheik El Zak Zaky, the wounded and detained leader of the Shiite Muslim
community in Nigeria.
I have his permission to share his thoughts and words. On 4th March 2017 he wrote,
"Since the brutal clampdown on innocent people of the Islamic
Movement of Nigeria in December 2015, things went out of Buhari's hands.
The economy went haywire and everything deteriorated. In December 2016
the court declared that Sheikh Zak Zaky's detention was unconstitutional
and he must be set free. Rather than order for his immediate release,
the court gave 45 days within which he must be released. At the time
many of us felt it was an unnecessary delay. The grace period
nevertheless slowly passed and elapsed on the 16th of January 2017. Now
Buhari didn't comply with the court order. We reached out through
well-meaning people but the tyrant would not concede. He was quoted as
saying "either him or me", reference to the fact that it would be
only over his dead body that Sheikh Zakzaky would be free. Now note that
from the very day the grace period given by the Court elapsed, Buhari
never functioned as the President again. It ended on a Monday. Even the
Federal Executive Council meeting of the18th never held.
He was flown out the following day, where he remained incommunicado
as well. The blood of over a thousand innocent Shiite Muslim citizens
that he massacred and buried in mass graves is haunting him. He will
never know peace. He will never be well. Vengeance is of the Lord
indeed".
This is a frightful testimony and contribution and it is indeed
food for thought. One wonders what lessons we can learn from Dr. Shuaib
Musa Zaria's profound insight and moving account. Surely there are many.
Again one wonders what lessons we can learn from the story of the
great Julius Caesar's pitiful end as our President is struck down by a
strange, undisclosed and unidentified illness and lies incapacitated,
incommunicado and indefinately in a London hospital as we approach the
ides of March?
In this case it appears that it is not Marcus Brutus and the sixty
treacherous Roman Senators that have plunged their knives into an ageing
body but rather the angels of the Living God.
It happened to others that ruled our country in the past who had a
similar dictatorial disposition to President Buhari and who trod the
same vicious and ruinous path.
Yet sadly few will remember that because few read history in Nigeria and even fewer are ready to learn from its lessons.
It also happened to Herod, Sennacherub, Nebuchadnezzar, Pharaoh,
Jezebel and countless other kings and queens in Middle Eastern and
Jewish history and the Holy Bible.
The principle is simple and clear: if you touch the annointed of
the Lord or His people or if you seek to thwart His plan for our nation
He will either kill you immediately or He will turn you into a zombie
and a walking dead. That is the awesomeness of His power: no man can
stand against Him.
Today in Nigeria the Angel of Death stalks our very own tyrant like
a vulture stalks rotting meat, yet despite that the demons that control
his underlings, lackeys and minions refuse to relent and are still
baying for the blood of the weak, the defenceless, the innocent and all
those that oppose him.
I am not Spurinna: I am neither a seer nor a soothsayer. Yet today I
am constrained to publicly proclaim a divinely-inspired admonition to
our President and that admonition is as follows: I urge and warn him to
beware the ides of March AND THEREAFTER.
I am led by the Holy Spirit of the Living God to tell him that March is a month of make or break for him.
In order to make his peace with God before going into eternity he
must desist from his wickedness, he must repent of his evil, he must
forgo his tyrannical ways and he must make his peace with ALL the people
of Nigeria and with the God of Heaven.
He must remove all bitterness and hate from his heart and He must
forgive ALL those that he believes have offended him over the last 80
years of his long and eventful life so that he too may be forgiven of
his many sins by God.
He must appease the souls of his many victims and reach out to the
families of those whose breadwinners, wives and children were murdered
and destroyed under his watch either as a war-time military commander,
military Head of State or civilian President.
He must bring to a halt the hideous ethnic cleansing and evil
religious agenda that has been set in motion and that has indeed
flourished ever since he came to power in 2015.
He must order the arrest, disarming, distmantling, destruction and
indeed total annihilation of the bloodthirsty vampires, the demons from
hell and the barbaric beasts that have come to be known as the Fulani
herdsmen and the Fulani militias.
He must free himself from and permanently eschew all forms of
secret association and covert ties with radical Islamist terror groups.
He must free ALL dissenters, opposition figures, political
prisoners and prisoners of conscience, including Colonel Sambo Dasuki,
Sheik El Zak Zaky and Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
He must stop persecuting his perceived enemies and he must desist
from ALL politically-motivated and baseless criminal prosecutions.
He must respect the judiciary and the legislature, he must stop
intimidating the press and he must allow the opposition to flourish and
operate in a free and fair atmosphere and environment.
This is an admonition and warning borne out of a genuine concern
and what we Pentecostal Christians call "agape" love for a fellow human
being who is facing the biggest challenge of his life.
It comes from a humble compatriot who wants nothing from the
President, who has no fear of his government, who reverres and fears
only the Living God, who has faith in the power of that God, who is
ready to speak the truth no matter what the consequences may be and yet
who views him with compassion and who considers him to be a worthy
adversary.
The bitter truth is that President Muhammadu Buhari is literally
fighting for his life and sadly he is surrounded by many Marcus Brutus'
and dozens of treacherous political sons and daughters today.
Many of those that he loves and that are close to him are already
talking about his death in hushed and whispered tones behind his back.
They are already contemplating their future and their prospects in a
Nigeria that is without him.
Their hidden knives are not only laced with the most potent and powerful poison but they are also very long and very sharp.
That is the disposition and mindset of the numerous Marcus Brutus'
that plague and surround Buhari today as he lies on his sickbed battling
the demons of infirmity.
Some of them are even hoping and praying to be appointed as the new Vice President when and if he passes on.
Others are already publicly declaring their interest in running for
the Presidency in 2019 and they are quietly preparing their arsenal and
building up their war-chest for the next elections.
Their behaviour reminds me of how Alexander the Greats' generals
gathered like vultures around his deathbed, squabbling over his massive
estate and the vast Greek empire as he lay there helplessly dying.
Buhari's men are already sharing his political empire, his power of
patronage, his properties, his chattels and his clothes amongst
themselves even though they constantly make public statements pledging
their support for and loyalty to him and even though they keep wishing
him well before the world.
The truth is that deep down only few of them really care. What most
of them are interested in is holding on to their various positions if
the President returns to his job or in doing a deal with his successor
and heir apparant if he does not.
These court jesters are just pretending to love him. They are
operating in deceit and they are merely counting his days because they
believe that those days are numbered.
They have no loyalty to President Buhari and they have no honor,
integrity or decency in them. They do not love him but instead they love
what he can do for them or give to them.
That is the reality of the power game, politics and life generally
and it is a truism that all men of power and those that are in the
corridors of power have to accept and live with whether they like it or
not.
Meanwhile we are approaching the ides of March and much will happen then or soon thereafter.
I hope that the President gets well and that he returns back to
Nigeria because the truth is that Acting President Yemi Osinbajo is
making the job of those of us in the opposition a little more difficult
because he is getting a few things right.
I pray that God touches Buhari's heart and opens his eyes to the
folly of persecution and tyranny. After all he is a human being and he
deserves a measure of mercy.
I pray that he receives the same level of compassion and mercy from
God as he gives to others, particularly his perceived enemies.
I pray that God's counsel will stand and that Nigeria will breath
again with or without him. I pray that he will not end like Julius
Caesar and that the Marcus Brutus' around him do not have their way.
(CONCLUDED).
-Written by Femi Fani-Kayode.
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