My attention has been
drawn to accusations by the Muhammadu Buhari led administration against the
candidate of the Presidential Peoples Democratic Party in the 2019 elections
and former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar, alleging that he has made
treasonable statements.
It is not surprising
that such a despicable lie is emanating from Mr. Lai Mohammed, President
Buhari's aptly named Minister of Information.
Lai Mohammed is so
associated with lies that even Vice President Yemi Osinbajo said, on Monday,
May 13, 2019, as follows:
"People like Lai
Mohammed, Abba Kyari, Adamu Adamu they are usually very well behaved during the
Ramadan. But I’m not even sure that that is true anymore."
When we have a
situation where even those who employed him know that Lai Mohammed is a liar,
who will even lie during the holy month of Ramadan, then why should Nigerians
be surprised at this latest lie?
Mr Lai Mohammed is
only being clever by half when he says "It beggars belief that a candidate
who prides himself as a democrat can so allow desperation to becloud his sense
of propriety to such an extent that he will be associating with anti-democratic
forces or making inflammatory statements."
Atiku Abubakar is a
man of peace and a thoroughbred democrat. It is preposterous that those
who threatened to 'soak the dog and the baboon in blood' are now audacious
enough to point the finger at lifelong democrats. Truly, if the farmer does not
raise the alarm on time, the thief will accuse him of being a thief.
How can a man who
wined and dined with Nigeria’s most brutal dictator, how can a man who
overthrew a democratically elected President and held a grudge against him even
in death (as evidenced by the empty condolence register he left in Sokoto, last
year) accuse a man who has never been as much as associated with such
tendencies, of being an anti-democrat?
We want to know why
the desperation on the part of the Muhammadu Buhari government to rope in the
Peoples Democratic Party and its Presidential candidate in phantom plots?
Obviously, President Buhari wants to replay the Phantom plot saga of his now
deceased mentor, who threw former President Olusegun Obasanjo in jail after
falsely accusing him of treason in order to perpetuate himself in power.
Could it be that they
are now aware that the electoral fraud they perpetrated during the last
Presidential election is about to be exposed beyond a shadow of a doubt?
If anybody is
"beating the drums of war", it is precisely those who have issued
statements threatening Nigerians and foreigners alike with "body
bags".
For the avoidance of
doubt, let me inform the minister of disinformation that Atiku Abubakar
resisted the Abacha dictatorship, of which President Muhammadu Buhari was a
prominent member, and it is his resistance and the sacrifice of his
co-travellers, like chief MKO Abiola and Alex Ekwueme, amongst others, that
gave rise to the democracy that the current government is now trampling on.
Mr. Lai Mohammed is
advised to face the cesspool of corruption that has been exposed in his
ministry by the investigative website, Premium Times, which
revealed that Mr. Mohammed’s fingers may be stickier than sticky glue.
From Paul Ibe, Special
Adviser, Media to Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.
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