Femi Fani-Kayode
“Their HATE for President Goodluck Jonathan justifies the
suffering in the land. Recession matters not. Hunger matters not. Loss
of jobs matter not. Polio matters not. Making a mess of the naira
matters not. Fulani Herdsmen matter not. High cost of foodstuffs matter
not. Chibok matters not. We have men consumed by their hate for Jonathan
and it matters not if Nigeria burns” – PRINCE HENRY NWAZURUAHU SHIELD, FACEBOOK, AUGUST 11th 2016.
How right Prince Shield is. His contribution is not only courageous
but also insightful and profound. The Buharists and the “lying liars”
are blinded by their hate for Jonathan and for those of us that have
chosen to stand by him.
It is so bad that if their wives were made pregnant by another man
they would say that it was Jonathan that was responsible. Yet their
record of governance is clear and there for all to see.
In one year and two months of President Buhari and his APC’s “Mai
Chanji”, Nigeria has become a very different place to what it was
before. Our nation has, so to speak, really been ”transformed”.
A few examples will suffice. One year two months ago we were the
largest producer of oil in Africa but thanks to “Mai Chanji” that is no
longer the case. One year and two months ago we were the number one
destination for foreign investment in Africa but thanks to “Mai Chanji”
that is no longer the case.
One year and two months ago we were the largest economy in Africa but thanks to “Mai Chanji” that is no longer the case. Sadly it gets worse.
In the space of one year and two months the naira has depreciated
from N160 Naira to $1 United States Dollar (USD) to N410 Naira to $1
USD.
If there is no change in fiscal amd monetary policy anytime soon
there is a consensus amongst economic and fiscal experts that by
Christmas the Naira would have depreciated to, at best, N500 Naira to $1
USD.
One year and two months ago Nigerians could buy a bag of rice for
N8000 naira but today they are paying N20,000 naira for that same bag of
rice.
As Pastor Reno Omokri, a former aide to President Jonathan said, if
the minimum wage is N18,000 naira where are the people meant to get the
money to buy rice and other basic food commodities for their families?
In one year and two months graduate and non-graduate unemployment
has soared, banks and companies are retrenching, manufacturers are
closing their factories and plants, industries are collapsing, farmers
are complaining and businessmen and traders are crying. That is “Mai Chanji” for you. Yet it gets worse.
One year and two months ago we were generating 5000 megawatts of
power for the electrical grid but today we are generating less than 2000
megawatts.
Again one year and two months ago we were making large sums of
money from the export of our crude oil but today oil production has been
reduced by one third and we we are importing crude oil and refined
products from the neighbouring nations of Niger and the Republic of
Chad.
One year and two months ago the Nigerian Stock Exchange was
recovering and on the rise and our banking sector was flourishing and
liquid. Today the Stock Exchange has lost 1.6 trillion naira in the last
14 months and our banks have become nothing but weak and barren
money-lender stalls and pawn shops. That is “Mai Chanji” for you.
In one year and two months our Air Force, once the pride of Afrcan
skies, has been reduced to nothing but a cow and sheep recovery agency.
In one year and two months our army, once one of the most
professional, feared, disciplined and respected in Africa, has been
turned into a civilian-killing machine which, on several occasions, has
been unleashed on the very people that they are paid to be protecting.
Just to give one example earlier this year they slaughtered over
1000 innocent Shiite Muslims in the streets of Zaria simply because they
blocked a road, they worship God in a different manner to others and
they are not Sunni Muslims. That is real “Mai Chanji” for you.
Again it doesn’t stop there. In one year and two months Boko Haram
has redefined itself, resurrected from the dead and acquired new, more
dangerous and more sophisticated leaders and weapons.
They have also established two equally ruthless factions and come
back bigger, stronger and more deadly than ever before. Gosh, don’t you
just love “Mai Chanji”?
In one year and two months well-armed government-sponsored and
government-protected Fulani militias, who pose as herdsmen, are raping
and killing innocent and defenceless Nigerians in the farms and towns of
the Middle Belt and the south.
In one year and two months the majority of Nigerians have been
cowered into silence out of fear of persecution and om trepidation of
being locked up indefinately by Buhari’s gestapo. That is “Mai Chanji” for you.
In one year and two months we have been turned from a democracy
where the freedom of speech once reigned and where the criticism of the
President and the government was welcome and even encouraged, into a
totalitarian police state where the press is muzzled, judges are muscled
and legislators are threatened and docked.
One year and two months ago judges were reverred, court orders were
honored and respected in the land and the rule of law prevailed.
Today court orders are violated and treated with contempt and
impunity, the rule of law has been reduced to an inconsequential and
empty mantra and members of the Judiciary are threatened with criminal
investigation, media trials and public witchunts, infantile probes and
baseless criminal prosecutions if they do not play ball and do the
bidding of the security agencies and the executive. That is real “Mai Chanji” for you.
One year and two months ago Nigeria had a cerebal, world-class and
outstanding Minister of Finance and a flourishing economy but today we
have a cockney-accented, hackney-eyed Minister of Finance who is not
only struggling but who is also clearly out of her depth and our economy
is “officially in recession”.
One year and two months ago President Goodluck Jonathan, his
government and indeed the people of Nigeria were desperately looking for
the Chibok girls and the Obi Ezekwesile and Hadiza Usman-led ‘Bring
Back Our Girls’ campaign was in full swing, marching, demonstrating and
criticising the government every day for not finding them.
Today the Chibok girls have more or less been abandoned and
forgotten, President Muhammadu Buhari appears to be indifferent to their
plight, the search for them has ground to a halt and the ‘Bring Back
Our Girls’ campaign has gone into a deep coma whilst some of its leaders
have been pacified and settled with juicy political appointments. That
is “Mai Chanji” for you.
Up until one year and two months ago a great and illustrious son of
Nigeria and a man who was a great source of pride to African football
by the name of Stephen Keshi was honored and celebrated by his President
and government on behalf of the people of Nigeria.
Yet one year and two months later when he passed on and when his
family needed all the comfort and support that they could get, our “Mai Chanji”
President and government did not give him a state burial, did not
participate in his funeral and did not see fit to honor him in death.
That is how encouraging and supportive “Mai Chanji” is.
Four years ago our sports men and women went to the London
Olympics with their heads held up high and with all the kit and
resources that they needed but today our sports men and women at the Rio
Olympics have been begging foreigners and Nigerians alike on the
internet for transportion, food, clothes and their allowances. That is ”Mai Chanji” for you.
One year two months ago the people of southern Nigeria lived in
relative peace and harmony with one another and with outsiders. Today a
Hausa/Fulani man insists on having sex with a young igbo girl in Imo
state.
She declines and, for safety, runs into the home of an old woman where she believes that she willl be safe.
The Hausa/Fulani man pursues her into that house, slaughters her
for denying him sex and proceeds to slaughter the old woman that dared
to give her refuge and that attempted to provide a safe sanctuary for
her.
The retaliation was swift and deadly. Within a few hours no less
than 6 Hausa/Fulani men were butchered in Imo state and hundreds more
would have been killed had it not been for the timely intervention of
the police.
Such division, hate, mindless violence and barbarity has not been
seen or experienced in the southern part of our country since the civil
war. That is “Mai Chanji” for you.
When one considers all this one wonders just how low we can go and just how bad things can get?
Is this not evidence of some kind of curse? Is it not God’s
judgement? Is this not a change (or “chanji”) from light to darkness? Is
this not what we warned Nigerians about before and during the election?
Is this not what we told them would happen if they gave the Haramites
power?
Did we not tell them that the APC broom was nothing but a symbol of
witchcraft and that their fanatical supporters had been put under a
terrible sorcerer’s spell?
Many of those that once supported President Buhari and his party
are now privately lamenting and publicly recanting in shame and bitter
pain. They are asking the nation to forgive them for their ignorance and
short-sightedness.
Some of them have even been locked up simply for having the courage
to criticise the government and party that they once worked for and
swore by. Yet the suffering has only just begun.
Things will get far worse before they get any better. This is
because the darkest part of the night always comes just before the
morning.
The truth is that this government is a plague. They have brought nothing but sickness, poverty and hardship.
They are an affliction that thrive on the suffering of the people.
They are the incubus and succubus spirits that feed on the nations glory
and that suck the life out of the people.
Their motivation is pure and unadulterated hate and their objective
is to impoverish Nigeria, to silence the opposition, to intimidate and
enslave the people, to satisfy their insatiable lust for power and to
impose a hideous and ungodly ethnic and religious agenda.
Wickedness is their forte, the abuse of power is their modus, brute
force is their language and lies, deceit and propaganda are their
weapons of warfare. They are nothing but bullies and fascists and like
all bullies and fascists their time will soon come to an end.
Permit me to conclude this contribution with a profound question.
Does anyone remember the the following submissions and have they not
proved to be prophetic?
The first came from the embattled IPOB leader Mr. Nnamdi Kanu who
has been in illegal detention for the better part of the last one year.
He said the following on Radio Biafra on the 6th of February 2014:
“They campaign vigorously for elections, you would think, they
are coming to grow the economy, enthrone justice, breed unity and
tolerance, love for one another.
"No, they are coming to enthrone Hausa Fulani supremacy, to
reposition the security agencies by sacking all competent hands and
replace them with their kinsmen in order to drive their ethnic
domination of the Biafrans, the Fulani herdsmen will be armed and
encouraged to slaughter us with impunity and their masters will protect
them.
"They are coming to ensure that my people are enslaved forever.
Those who do not believe me will soon see it happen before their very
own eyes”.
These are interesting words which have proved to be true. With what
is happening in Nigeria today it is clear that Mr. Kanu has not only
been proved right but he has also been vindicated.
The second came from none other than President Goodluck Jonathan
himself. In Abuja on Saturday, 10th December 2014 he said.the following:
“The choice before Nigerians in the coming elections is
simple: A choice between going forward or going backwards, between the
old ways and the new ways; between freedom and repression; between a
record of visible achievements and beneficial reforms and desperate
power-seekers with empty promises”.
Can anyone dispute the fact that both President Jonathan and Mr. Kanu are amongst the prophets?
Welcome to “Mai Chanji!”
About the Author:
Femi Fani-Kayode was former minister of aviation and spokesman for the Goodluck Jonathan Campaign Organisation.
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