The Politics Of Nigerian Security Challenges 2

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These our politicians, do they actually think that we are fools ?The nation woke up one day to be confronted with another challenge of the kidnap of Chibok girls. While,there were still controversies surrounding the kidnap of the girls,the BringBackOurGirls group started protesting from one part of the country to another defying all security measures.

The leaders of the group were and are still the frustrated elements in this present administration ,some of them featured during Obasanjo regime but were not favoured in the current administration. As we all know,opposition in Nigeria is all about those not favoured by the current administration .Our politicians do not have integrity,once the current administration does not favour them,then they are automatically in the opposition party.

The way the BringBackOurGirls group was moving showed us that they were backed by the opposition party and we were vindicated when APC owned up to that assertion. When America was hit by insurgency in September 11,2011 ,how many groups did we have disturbing the government?The Americans saw that the attack was a threat to their national integrity hence they supported their government at least today the mastermind of that bombing is no longer with us in this world.

We should remember that it took Americans,the supposed world power,about ten years to achieve that feat but our own security challenge is about five years and we want a miracle from the government even when many of us are either politicising the current challenges or are sympathetic to the Boko Haram sect. In America after the bombing of the world trade center,there was no such group as BringBackOurWorldTradeCenter etc but if it were in Nigeria,the opposition party would set up a group to cause more confusion in an already confused and charged political atmosphere.

They had told us that there was no political attachment to the BringBackOurGirls hashtag group initially but thereafter the same people told us that the group was formed and managed by their own party,what a deceit?They forgot that we had already knew before they accepted the ownership of that group. Members of APC should please tell us why 'almighty' America would agree in June this year to swap five Guantanamo with their own soldier, Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahld held by the Taliban for about five years,why didn't America use force?Do they expect federal government to use force to rescue the Chibok girls from their kidnappers who are ready and willing to die?

Coming back to the kidnap of the Chibok girls,there are many questions begging for answers. Why was it that none of the children of the school staff were in the school the day the girls were kidnapped?Why was it possible that no school staff was in the school when the girls were kidnapped?The way some of the girls escaped from the water-tight security of their kidnappers is still a mystery and the story remains incredible to me. This is because we cannot forget in a hurry the threat by some ambitious and disgruntled politicians in 2011 who claimed to make the country ungovernable for Jonathan should they lose their own election.

One day we will wake up to hear that a community or a local government area has been kidnapped, then the opposition party will form the BringBackOurCommunity or BringBackOurLocalGovernmentArea hashtag group to contribute their own quota in making the country ungovernable for Jonathan .There are so many questions begging for answers with respect to the kidnap of the Chibok girls. Shall be taken aback one day when the opposition party tells us what we do not know about the kidnap of the Chibok girls as they have recently done with the BringBackOurGirls group?

Recently,one of the leaders of the BringBackOurGirls group was passing through routine security checks at the airport,the opposition political party came up with another story that federal government detained her. This attention-seeking party members want to pass through in our airports unchecked so that should anything happen,Jonathan-led administration will be blamed. I heard where one of them was calling for the president to come and lead the search for the Chibok girls at Sambisa forest. They should realise that freedom of information does not include insulting the office of the president. What have the APC governors done as chief security officers in their states in order to check these security challenges before blaming the Jonathan-led government? They should be thankful to our president who brought in the constitutionally- recognised state of emergency in the three northern APC states,which was directly opposite to what we had during Chief Obasanjo regime.

What have APC governors done that the PDP governors have not done? Come to Rivers state,one of the largest in terms of federal allocation to states,there is no good road network and no improvement in the power supply but at the end they will have the effrontery to attack Jonathan who has recorded numerous achievements in all sectors of the economy. The paid sycophants of the governor will keep on telling us that their land is salty hence the roads do not last. If Rivers state land is salty,what happened to neighbouring Bayelsa, Akwa Ibom and Cross rivers states?

Are they not salty,how come that these PDP governors have recorded unparalleled achievements in terms of good road networks and in the power sector? In Rivers state today,no generator,no power supply and I ask, can't this governor who always plays to the gallery see the power substations built by his neighbouring PDP governors?I do not want to talk about innocent people that are languishing in the prisons because the governor is busy playing politics with the Rivers state courts. It is clear that since the governor joined the opposition party,the state came to a halt.

Why should sane Nigerian citizens support a political party that is afraid of law enforcement agents in our polling units?It is clear from psychology,that he who is afraid of the law enforcement agents has a skeleton in the cupboard. If I have the correct and current documents for my car and I am not carrying any illegal material in my car while travelling,why should I be nervous when our security agents stop my car for stop and search on the highway? This is a political party that is afraid of the law enforcement agents that are sent to the polling units to maintain peace and order. They want our polling units to be without security agents so that the snatching of ballot boxes and movement of their political thugs will be very easy. They always shout at what what they called militarization of our elections hence they want us to return to the era of political thuggery and intimidation of voters by their hired thugs.

Since Fayose won the Ekiti state election,it has been from one problem to another. They made us believe that the election was markedly rigged and that Fayose arranged thugs that beat up the judge in the tribunal. All their aims were for Fayose not to be sworn in. Some of them brazenly went to court to get an injunction stopping the inauguration of Fayose-led administration? What do these guys take us for?Do they at all consider the fact that there are literate ones among the Nigerian public?

How would Fayose arrange thugs that would beat up the judge over a matter that he was already the winner? Why should there not be violence in Osun state where the APC won?The handwriting is on the wall,If PDP should cause any problem ,it should have been at Osun state where they lost not in Ekiti state where they won and the then governor accepted his fate but the opposition party refused the outcome of the election. However,the whole aim of that Ekiti post-election violence became clearer to us when some APC members went to court to get an injunction stopping Fayose from being sworn in.

This is a political party telling us that the current security challenges are plans for Jonathan to stay beyond May 29,2015 but here in Ekiti state they want to either elongate their own tenure or stop the swearing-in of a democratically elected government,what another self-deceit?APC believes that any election won by PDP is rigged while that won by APC is free and fair,what another fallacy?

Well,I am not surprised because one of their presidential aspirants truncated our democracy in 1983 and brought us back to the primordial era of military rule which the PDP government brought us out in 1999.The same aspirant who grants press conferences here and there,gagged the press through his obnoxious Decree number four. Today,he is enjoying what he never allowed the masses to enjoy during his era and they want us to believe that he has undergone some metamorphosis.

I am aware that a snake will change its colour but cannot change its character. Recently,we were fed with another story on how he borrowed 27 million to purchase his nomination form, even when section 137(1)(f) of our CFRN states that,'a person shall not be qualified for election to the office of president if he is an undischarged bankrupt.....' By using this political gimmick along with his not having a house of his own,these opposition party want to tell us that Buhari never corruptly enriched himself,but they have forgotten that there are few intelligent and educated Nigerians.

First,he is the master of corruption he is telling us that he will fight against because for having no property as he told us,it means that he borrowed that mind-boggling amount without a collateral hence those bank managers that Sanusi Lamido Sanusi dealt with for granting loans without collateral should be compensated and national apologies made to them. Secondly,the bank manager that gave him that 'unsecured' loan will at the end be made either the finance minister or the central bank governor should Buhari win the election. Another corruption,which means that his own government will be by political settlements and not based on merits.

Thirdly,they want to portray him as an incorruptible Nigerian,hence he has no house and money to purchase the nomination form, without knowing that as a former military head of state, military governor,minister etc his genuine salaries were enough to build a house of his own since our fathers who were carpenters ,bricklayers etc were able to build their own houses from their meagre resources without being corrupt. This shows that Buhari is spendthrift. What this opposition party has indirectly told us is that their aspirant is very wasteful hence he cannot superintend over our national treasury.

I will expose other shenanigans of this our opposition party in my subsequent series especially as it involves their unpatriotic reactions to the seizure of our money by the South African government and the other lies that they have been feeding the members of Nigerian public.

Dr Paul John
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Port Harcourt,
Rivers state.

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Articles by Paul John