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Monday, 11 January 2016 21:37

Democratic diarchism: Muhammadu Buhari's dangerous route to the garrisonization and subsequent militarization of Nigeria

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Who's that bloke behind you in a democracy, Mr President?

A foremost advocate of diarchy in Nigeria was the great Zik. And looking back after twenty years of his death, I dare say with all sense of responsibility that Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe did not really want and actually approve of diarchy as a form of government to be adopted by a superactive-super-eruptive polity like Nigeria, but hazarding a guess, the great man's concern/suggestion was borne out of looking for a lasting solution to the then military's frequent intervention in the governance of Nigeria through coups, which more often than not turned out to be the opposite of all of their purported coup missions of arresting the drift in the government they had chased out, blaming the government of and legitimising their action by adducing corruption as the reason why they struck.

Whilst Zik and the other fathers of the nation will thoroughly be embarrassed by the twin diseases of political paralysis and epilepsy that have infected the nation leading to its current political disability, culminating in actual stagnation of the erstwhile giant of Africa, making her now to lie prostrate in the valley of death, Zik in particular, will yet not appreciate the dunce of Daura for leading Nigeria in the direction of diarchy, because we have a situation on hand, where the driver who had put our national molue on the high way has not undertaken the requisite driving lessons, yet he is on the express way, heading down the precipice of destruction together with his over 180 million passengers who are all now screaming and shouting in cacophonic voices urging him to stop and give them their CHANGE, so they can if possible, disembark even in the middle of the high way.

It must be noted here that Mr Buhari did not embark on the road to diarchy after a deep philosophical cogitation cum rumination about the Nigerian condition, nor did he resort to this as suggested to him by his cronies and the alleluia choristers around him, who like him are thoroughly destitute of ideas, and more, intellectually deficit, but he has chosen this road because he lacks the intellectual capacity to differentiate between democracy and militarism, also, Mr Buhari has resorted to this road because he lacks the basic moral finesse to distinguish between authoritarianism and liberalism; between tyranny and due process; between despotism and robust debate which is the hallmark of democracy; also, Mr Buhari naturally lacks the capacity to distinguish between khaki and agbada, hence since coming to power he has garrisoned the whole polity and turned the entire nation into one big military cantonment, where only him, holds sway as both the General Officer Commander (GOC) and the Commander-in-Chief (C-in-C) and bestriding the nation's Parliament like a colossus, converting this hallowed pantheon of law into the Armed Forces Ruling  Council, where he alone presides over as a MAXIMUM DESPOT.

Here is what William Shakespearce wrote about all persons cast in the tyrannical mould of Mr Muhammadu Buhari, in this case, Julius Caesar.

Lowliness is young ambition's ladder,

Whereto the climber-upward turns his face;

But when he once attains the upmost round,

He then unto the ladder turns his back,

Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees

By which he did ascend

    William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act II, sc.1

    Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616) 

Modern Text  

Rulers abuse their power when they separate it from compassion. To be honest, I’ve never known Caesar to let his emotions get the better of his reason. But everyone knows that an ambitious young man uses humility to advance himself, but when he reaches the top, he turns his back on his supporters and reaches for the skies while scorning those who helped him get where he is. Caesar might act like that. Therefore, in case he does, we must hold him back. And since our quarrel is with his future behavior, not what he does now, I must frame the argument like this: if his position is furthered, his character will fulfill these predictions. And therefore we should liken him to a serpent’s egg—once it has hatched, it becomes dangerous, like all serpents. Thus we must kill him while he’s still in the shell.

Would the nation had asked this bloody tyrant to first tell them the difference between khaki and agbada; would the nation had given him the simple arithmetic test of reciting the table; counting from just 1-3; so they know the man from Daura can put two and two together to make arithmetical sense, instead of pushing him to the topmost rung  of the ladder of service to the nation as one of those familiar tenants in the Presidency, and all Nigerians would have been saved the international embarrassment of their President formulating a satanic theory of 97/5% when all a man equipped for service in that exalted office would have said was 97/3%, making 100%. Buhari's first budget in that exalted office attests to his gross incompetence and total lack of capacity to handle the economy of the nation, even his kidnomists (his so-called economic team - kidding/kiddie economists) are at a loss as to what a budget is all about, hence Ms Christine Madeleine Odette Lagarde was needed to fine-tune the budget of a sovereign nation like Nigeria - the same Ms Lagarde who cannot go one million miles near the Finance Minister of her country and those of other Western nations to make an input into their yearly budgets! BUT CAN ANY GOOD THING COME OUT OF IMF? Buhari and his kidnomists look like grasshoppers before giant Ms Lagarde, thoroughly befuddled, confused, dazed, nervous and were literally shaking like reeds during a severe stormy gale!

I'm not done yet ojare! Leave me alone make I finish this man: Had Nigerians done their home work well, they would have asked Mr Buhari if he is aware Nigeria is a plural - multicultural-multilingual-multi-faith society; had they done this, they would have saved themselves the trouble and the painful agony of having an "Oga at the top", who knows nothing about their country and all of its diversity, which a leader would have striven to celebrate!

But who is that man behind Mr MUHAMMADU BUHARI and what exactly is he doing there in our democracy?

In a democracy, no one should attempt to intimidate and scare people away, showing off their military past and embroidered their tyranny and despotism on our democratic canvass. Our psychoanalytical crystal glass excavates the double-facedness of a Buhari, having the dual capacity to be civilian and and military simultaneously, a very woririsome situation which foretells Arewa's current thinking, already gaining momentum to perpetuate themselves in power, using the military option as a last resort, if they cannot do it through democratic processes.

Nigerians MUST not go to sleep thinking that the so-called "Doctrine of Neccessity" which BAD Mark often glories in as the acme of his legislative prowess regaling in the fact that he is a supra military and political strategist, has put an end to the so-called Arewa/Umaru Musa Yar'Adua "incomplete term" which to the fanatical Gamjists will still be utilized in spite of the provision of the Arewa sunni-doctored constitution which stipulates that the Vice President takes over the reign of administration in the event of any untowardness to the President leading to their death or incapacitation.

Need I here remind Nigerians that the likes of fanatical Adamu Ciroma who having had his full time 'serving' the country and benefitted so immensely from we Naija, would after nearly 56 years of the nation's existence turn round not to believe that we are Nigerians, except as according to him, strangers from far off land called us NIGERIANS and we glibly and obsequiously accepted WE ARE NIGERIANS!

So also, the other loquacious kid-Arewaite, what is his name now - ehen, I now remember, idiot Junaid Mohammed, that arch enemy of the Nigerian Federation and a host of other extremists that the ruling House of Uthman Dan Fodio boasts of.

Therefore, as a very strong warning to Mr Buhari, he has just this week to allay the fears of international diplomats and world leaders at the sight of a soldier mounting guard behind someone they think ought to be a President in a democracy and not a first class pretender whose one half is (a) civilian, and the other half an autocratic, tyrannical, authoritarian, despotic, predatory, dictatorial and a high-handed pharisaical General.

But which international leader will like to do business with or be at a conference under the same roof with an armed soldier in uniform behind a predatory President? Under a tropical climate, the mental state of any man with a gun, whether during the tropical heat or in the cool of an AC room during a business meeting of whatever kind is usually viewed with a high level suspicion, hence they are aleady whispering: "The sight of being in the same room with that bloke in uniform, armed and standing behind your MILI-PRESIDENT is quite scary."

They actually thought after 16 years, they had deluded themselves thinking it would be FARE WELL TO ARMS.

But who's that bloke in uniform standing behind you, Mr President?

O' Lord! Them a people are scared stiff of him! And they sure feel intimidated by his presence behind you. Lol! Any way, just mere whispers from the WEST...lota luv!

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