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Association with other people corrupts our character (Friedrich Nietzsche)We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself (Charles Lamb)
Make good choices. The environment in which you dwell can have a high influence on what you will achieve. Friends you associate yourself with have the potential to reduce or upgrade your brand (Israelmore Ayivor)
You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay? (Jim Rohn)
Can Buhari still look Nigerians in the eyes and defend Abacha?
igerians are yet to understand that Buhari is not the messiah he claims to be, because, everything about him is fraud. Remember that in Part 20 of this article (March 9), I wrote that "Buhari in Feb. 2011 described the allegations of looting against Abacha as "baseless", because according to him, "ten years after Abacha, those allegations remain unproven because of lack of facts", despite the fact that foreign countries are returning some of the stolen money back to Nigeria. Is this the man who would fight corruption for Nigeria?" Then, on March 18, 2015, The Citizen Ng informed Nigerians that "Switzerland will return to Nigeria some $380m (£260m) allegedly looted by ex-military ruler Sani Abacha. The transfer, to be conducted under the supervision of the World Bank, will end a 16-year case against the Abacha family. Switzerland has already returned $700m, following appeals from Nigeria. Abacha ruled the oil-rich West African state with an iron fist from 1993 until his death in 1998. Soon thereafter, Nigeria's new rulers asked Switzerland to help it recover $2.2bn that he had reportedly stashed in European bank accounts. The $380m was seized in 2006 in Luxembourg, following a request from Swiss authorities, the Geneva prosecutor's office said in a statement. The World Bank has been asked to oversee the return of the latest money, presumably to add a degree of transparency".
What evidence do we need again to know that Buhari is a hypocrite, and can't be an impartial corruption buster? Although Buhari may feel that he's toiling amain to get himself elected, but, he might not stir up victory, because of his ugly past.
Buhari as a political liability (All his previous running mates lost relevance thereafter)
Now, I understand why Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582) wrote that "Much harm may result from bad company", and, why Jarod Kintz (1982) asked "Is the company you keep keeping you back?" What Nigerians haven't thought of yet is that Buhari is a political liability for anyone who gets closer to him. Think of all those who were Buhari's running mates and what happened to them thereafter. There's something in Buhari that kills those who associates with him politically. Just as Publilius Syrus (46 BC-29 BC) wrote, "To take refuge with an inferior is to betray one's self"; those who ran as Buhari's running mates never remain the same thereafter. I wonder why people are not learning from other people's experiences, just as Israelmore Ayivor is advising you to "Keep negative people long meters away from you; their presence is a threat to your high self-esteem or job"
In 2003, Buhari's running mate was the late Dr. Chuba Wilberforce Okadigbo (1941-2003), the Oyi of Oyi (from Oyi LGA in Anambra State). Okadigbo was once the President of the Senate of Nigeria. In 2002, Okadigbo decamped from PDP to the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), and became Muhammadu Buhari's running mate in the 2003 Presidential elections, but they lost to Obasanjo/Atiku of PDP. Okadigbo died few months later, and his death was not unconnected to his association with Buhari, as it was alleged that he was manhandled by the police, during a rally, for a reason not well explained even till now, and he never recovered from that ordeal. Okadigbo, who with his ex-wife, Miriam Ikejiani, were my lecturers in UNN, was a political juggernaut, and also, an intellectual colossus as far as Political Science was concerned. That was why he was called the Political Iroko Tree - the political mathematician, and, the encyclopedia of political jargon, due to his florid use of political words. But his association with Buhari diminished all those qualities of his. From the time they (Buhari/Okadigbo) lost the election till his death, Chuba Okadigbo lost his aura and eminence; he also lost the beamish smile he was known for, just as Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) said that "It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it".
In 2007, Buhari ran with Late Chief Edwin Ume-Ezeoke (1935-2011), who was a lawyer from Amichi, Nnewi, Anambra State, was also the powerful Speaker of the House of Representatives during the Second Republic. He was then a member of NPP that went into political coalition with the ruling NPN. In 1999, Ume-Ezeoke joined the ANPP and contested as Buhari's running mate. Ume-Ezeoke forgot that Proverbs 13:20 says that "He who walks with wise men will be wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm". After losing to Yar'Adua/Jonathan, Ume-Ezeoke as the chairman of ANPP, took his party to join President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua's government of national unity, and died few years later. This was what Ume-Ezeoke said about Buhari after they lost the election; after Buhari left the party on its platform he contested the then presidential election: "As a former Head of State, I give him his respect, but I dare say that he had no electoral worth in ANPP. He is the only one who has left. I am still here. I was his vice-presidential candidate and all those who nominated him and worked for his candidature are still in the party. All the ANPP top notches are still in the party. We are not missing him at all". Ume-Ezeoke later defected to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Ume-Ezeoke's experience as Buhari's running mate can be summed up in the words of George Washington (1732-1799) that you should "Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company".
In 2011, Buhari ran with Pastor Tunde Bakare, a Nigerian Prophetic-Apostolic pastor. This was what Nairaland wrote: "He has received national and international attention for his televangelism, which has sometimes been critical of the Nigerian government. [1] He was reportedly arrested in March 2002 after preaching sermons critical of then-president Olusegun Obasanjo. He has appeared as a preacher on AIT television. The Nigerian presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, on Monday, 31 January, (2011) announced Pastor Tunde Bakare of the Latter Rain Assembly, Lagos, as his running mate for the 2011 Nigerian presidential election, which he accepted. CPC lost the presidential election to PDP, and Pastor Bakare remains a fierce critic of the Nigerian government and leadership. He is currently confused and abused". Nobody is surprised about Bakare's fate now, as 1 Corinthians 15:33 says "Do not be deceived: "Bad Company corrupts good morals."
According to Oprah Winfrey (1954) "Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher"! Since Bakare accepted to be Buhari's running mate till now, he has lost his fiery nature and clout. Nobody recognizes him again the way it was prior to 2011. Associating himself with Buhari made mincemeat of him, just in tune with the words of Hitopadesa that "No one should form an acquaintance with one who has an evil character; a piece of coal, if it is hot burns, and if it's cold, blackens the hands". Pastor Tunde Bakare, who is the General Overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly, said on Tuesday, March 17, 2015, that "I believe in contact without contamination," and that he may trust Buhari but not his environment. Cyril Anyanwu wrote: "Buhari is a political suicide for anybody. Who has ever survived such a curse politically? Bakare had more political clout and relevance until he made the mistake of condescending to Buhari's running mate. Guess what has become of him politically?"
Bakare, as a pastor, should have known that Psalm 1:1 says "How blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand in the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers"! Let's not forget that Pastor Bakare said that Buhari tried, but, failed to force him to sign a resignation letter, even before the 2011 election, that would have made it possible for another preferred candidate to take over his place, as the vice president, if Buhari had won the 2011 election. The Global Reporters wrote that "A shocking video has emerged of Pastor Tunde Bakare of Latter Rain Assembly openly admitting that he refused to sign a resignation letter that would have seen him hand over his vice presidential position had General Buhari been successful in his presidential campaign in 2011" Read the complete story below.
Buhari's current running mate is Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, who according to Nairaland is the senior partner at SimmonsCooper Partners. He is a Professor of Law and a former Attorney-General of Lagos State and Commissioner for Justice. He is also a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN). Prof. Yemi Osinbajo was educated at the University of Lagos, Nigeria (LLB, 1978) and the London School of Economics (LLM, 1980). He was admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of Nigeria in 1979. He has authored several books on civil procedure in Nigerian superior courts, rules of evidence and justice reform. Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has more than 31 years of litigation experience including significant trial and appellate work. Prof. Yemi Osinbajo supervises the commercial litigation group at SimmonsCooper Partners (SCP), a leading commercial litigation and corporate commercial firm in Nigeria. The campaign is still in progress and the election is slated for 28th March2015". Proverbs 12:26 says "The righteous is a guide to his neighbor, but the way of the wicked leads them astray". What will be Yemi Osibanjo's own story after 2015?
To be continued!
Ken wrote:
*Buhari is a political liability, he and his supporters will be quick to remind us of Christians that he has picked to run as his running mate but they have not told us what become of those candidates after having anything to do with Buhari politically.
*The truth is that Pastor Tunde Bakare was a somewhat force to reckon with politically, before he messed himself up joining a liability called Buhari, and since that political romance with Buhari, Tunde Bakare has become irrelevant, nobody listens to him politically, people see him as part of Buhari who can easily fan the embers of destruction if they did not win an election.
*Undeniable truth is that if Tunde Bakare has personally vied for political office prior to messing himself up with Buhari, that is, something like vying for senatorial seat, member of the house of reps etc, he would have made a tangible impression, but after tainting himself with the political liability known as Buhari, he will not win a councillorship in his ward, his name has become something that people avoids politically.
*How about other candidates that has romanced politically with Buhari? Check their political status today and you will find out that they have all become irrelevant politically with one even gone to the great beyond while in the course of political romance with the man known as liability.
*If I'm a politician, I will not touch Buhari with a hundred pole finger, will not even belong in same party with him because he taints every party he got involved with, then he will run away to join another. I imagine a presidential candidate whose mantra or his qualification to become a president is because he has been governor over six good times, but he refused to tell the audience one thing he achieved those six different times.
*Not even one example of how he fought corruption during those six different times he was governor. Sometimes I just laugh at the hypocrisy of both Buhari and his supporters, Buhari recently came back from overseas medical checkup which he has been embarking upon every time, and this is a man that has been governor over six different times, he was not able to build a good hospital where he would be able to have his annual checkup, but he will be quick to tell us that he cares for the poor people of Nigeria, who is this man deceiving if I may ask?
*What of the poor people he claims to be identifying with as he also claims that he is poor; those poor people are using the available hospitals in Nigeria and many of them dying in the states where Buhari was governor six good times due to lack of good hospital and medical attention, but the "poor identifier" has to sneak out through the back door, abandon his "poor" colleagues and jet out to western country to have his check up.
*If Buhari did not consider Nigerians "Mmuu" he wouldn't even come out in the place to tell them that after robbing them at gun point and disrupting and truncating their democracy, that they should now hand democracy over to him to oversee.
*If not that Nigerians has known Buhari as a liability, I would have suggested that people should drive for funds and place constant advert on the media to sensitive every nook and cranny of Nigeria that Buhari is a liability whom no one should soil his political and non political nature with. A man under whose nose billions of Naira disappeared when he was the PTF boss as his corruption fighting ability totally left him.
*A man who was there with Abacha as Abacha trampled on Nigeria and almost transformed himself to a civilian president with Buhari saying nothing but colluding with him and till today, got the temerity to continue to say that Abacha was not corrupt even when money stashed away by Abacha has continue to be returned to Nigeria.
*Poor Pastor Tunde Bakare! The man has totally become irrelevant, no thanks to Buhari, even his preaching has been effected, I remember he used to be a firebrand preacher whom people listen to each time he stand in the pulpit but as soon as he ate his words and tainted himself with Buhari, a man he once stated that doesn't have anything to offer Nigeria, which he even claimed as a prophecy, but sooner than he said that, did Buhari came knocking on his door to destroy his political aspiration, sad enough that the man fell for it and today his political future is history.
*It seems that nothing kills political future and aspiration faster than associating with Buhari politically. APC party is just a shadow, it is counting and marking time before it is emerged into another party, if you doubt go and check other parties that Buhari has associated with, he has to use a different party for any of his presidential runs and yet, people are not seeing through it. Can anyone tell me of a candidate who has run for same office on the platform of a different party each time he is about to vie for an office? Maybe the last party he will use to vie for the office of the president before he finally retires from politics and go back to attend his cows is, "WEIS" party which stands for, "Western Education Is Sin"
*Finally, the open truth is that, if not for election rigging perpetrated by Buhari and his supporters in the north, the man will not have up to three million votes in any of the past elections he contested. We read how his northern rascal supporters ransacked polling booths, seized all election materials and stuffed them with votes of their choice, today nobody is talking about that because Buhari was fast enough to threaten blood of dogs and baboon, this took people's concentration away.
*We recently read about a popular Imam calling on Buhari to quit running for the presidency, that he don't have anything to offer Nigeria pertaining to leadership, and you want to tell me that Buhari got followers more than the Imam? No way, the Imam's followers would subsequently disassociate themselves from Buhari, so tell me where Buhari will get his votes if not for rigging in the north?
*Nigerians know that Buhari is neither humble nor discipline as he tends to claim, he thumbed his nose at Oputa panel when he was called to come and explain things, it was an opportunity to defend and clear himself, but the saying goes that, "Guilty Conscience Fears Accusation", thus the fake Mr. Discipline threw discipline out the window and thumbed his nose at Nigerians.
*Nigerians has not forgotten the bigot-motivated treatment of Alex Ekwueme; Nigerians has not forgotten the 55 suitcases that passed through Nigerian customs under the watch of Buhari as he was tying three men to the stake based on retroactive laws and shot them dead.
*Nigerians has not forgotten the biases that reigned during PTF project when Buhari concentrated about 70% of his project in the north. Nigerians has not forgotten the reportedly $2 billion that grew wings and flew away under Buhari's watch as petroleum minister as he continue to sing as a choir master that "he is yet to touch kobo".
*Nigerians has not forgotten, "Dogs and Baboon would be soaked in blood", a threat by Buhari because he did not win an election, thus stoking the fire to consume the same poor people he claims he is associating with.
*Nigerians has not forgotten Buhari's threat during the last presidential election that got Youth Corpers killed in mass in northern Nigeria, when Buhari saw that he was losing the election. I don't know how somebody will think that few votes he gets in the north will win him a national election.
*Nigerians has not forgotten that Buhari lost his first presidential election with more than ten million votes, lost his second one with more than ten millions votes and consequently lost his third one with more than ten million votes.
*Nigerians has not forgotten that after Buhari lost the last election, he cried and promised the whole world that he would not present himself again for presidential election.
*Nigerians has not forgotten that Buhari is not a man of his word, Buhari spits and licked back.
*Nigerians has not forgotten that discipline and dishonor of one's promise can never live under one roof, thus it is pure lie for Buhari to claim that he is discipline even when he will not be disciplined enough to keep his words.
*Nigerians has not forgotten that Buhari is a political liability whom they have rejected three times, in fact four times because they rejected him in 1983 when he struck and stole Nigeria's democracy with the barrel of gun, but because you can't argue with a man with a gun, Nigerians got no choice but to pass under his brutality.
*Still on his mantra on what qualifies him to become the president, he is telling Nigerians that he has been governor six good times under the military, became a head of state with the barrel of the gun, thus is qualified to also test the presidency as a way to round up or complete the circle with his resume' reading:
Muhammad Buhari have been military governor at six different times without achieving anything of note; have been head of state with the barrel of the gun without achieving anything of note except getting people to do frog jump with gun pointed at their heads; have been PTF chairman under Sani Abacha with billions disappearing under his watch without doing anything about the corruption; and have been Petroleum minister with $2 billion disappearing under his watch.
*Having alerted Nigerians and reminded them of what they already know, I therefore repeat: BUYER BEWARE! For those politicians who may want to go the way of Pastor Tunde Bakare.
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