Letter to the International Community: President Buhari Has Neither The Intention Nor Capacity to Hold Credible Election- Reno Omokri
a clear and present danger to democracy in
Nigeria in the person of President
Muhammadu Buhari, a pseudo fascist leader
who is taking Nigeria the way of Venezuela.
As Nigeria prepares for another round of
Presidential elections, President Buhari has
unleashed the fascist in him by taking steps
to undermine democracy.
Two prominent opponents of the President
have indicated interest in contesting the
Presidential elections of 2019.
The first is the incumbent Governor of Ekiti
state, Ayo Fayose. Exactly one hour after
Governor Fayose declared, his Commissioner
for Finance and the state Accountant General
were arrested on trumped up charges to
cripple the Fayose campaign.
Also, when former Vice President Atiku
Abubakar looked like he might be interested in
the 2019 race, the government of President
Buhari on October 11, 2011, curiously accused
his firm, INTELS of not adhering to a policy
that runs contrary to a legally binding
agreement between the government and
INTELS and on the basis of that unilaterally
revoked a contract that was still in force.
Obviously, this was done to neutralize him
ahead of the 2019 Presidential election.
Curiously though, an international fugitive who
is on INTERPOL's wanted list, Abdulrasheed
Maina, was invited back to the country by the
Buhari administration (according to a press
conference by his family). He was reinstated
to the civil service from which he had been
dismissed after he stole millions of dollars
from the pension fund, and given a double
promotion by the Buhari government.
Being that Maina's gubernatorial campaign
posters suddenly sprung up all over Northern
Nigeria, it is generally suspected that he was
brought in by the President to fund his
reelection campaign with his loot especially as
the President has fallen out with people like
Atiku Abubakar and Bola Tinubu, who funded
his 2015 election.
This is all the more so given the fact that the
head of the civil service revealed in a leaked
memo that she warned the President against
the act of reinstating a known criminal into
the civil service, even though the President
had lied to the Nigerian public that he was
unaware that Mr. Maina had been recalled and
reinstated.
The head of the civil service, Mrs. Winifred
Oyo-Ita, is now being persecuted by the
Buhari administration and the President's
chief of Staff was caught on video trying to
intimidate her for exposing the President as a
liar.
There is now a palpable fear in Nigeria about
the fate of the 2011 election. Some people
fear that the unprecedented militarization and
intimidation in Nigeria under Buhari would
render any credible election impossible.
When he was an opposition leader, he
contested the Presidential elections in 2003,
2007 and 2011.
At each of those elections he was rejected by
the Nigerian people, yet he refused to accept
the results and encouraged his followers to
take to violence through combustible rhetoric
including threatening that 'the dog and the
baboon will both be soaked in blood' if he
should suffer the same fate.
If President Buhari was unable to accept
defeat as an opposition candidate and even
threatened bloodshed and non recognition of
the government in power, how reasonable is it
to expect that he would be able to conduct a
credible election and accept defeat as an
incumbent president?
The international community should note that
in preparation for his reelection in 2019,
President Buhari had nominated a woman,
Amina Zakari, who was revealed by Junaid
Mohammed, a former Buhari supporter and
prominent northerner, to be his niece!
Public outcry made the President drawback
from that decision and in her place he
appointed the current chairman of the
Independent National Electoral Commission,
Mahmood Yakubu.
The International Community should note that
in the 16 years that the Peoples Democratic
Party Governed Nigeria, there were never any
'inconclusive elections'. However, in the two
years that the Buhari administration has been
in power, inconclusive elections have become
the trend in various states including Kogi,
Bayelsa, Osun FCT, Imo and Nasarawa.
I therefore call on the international community
to urgently intervene in Nigeria to prevent
what may become a Venezuela style descent
into dictatorship and economic turmoil in
Nigeria at the hands of President Muhammadu
Buhari.
A man whose army killed 347 unarmed Shiite
men, women, children and infants because
they allegedly interrupted the road trip of his
army chief during their religious procession is
a man capable of anything.
If democracy is allowed to fail in Nigeria, it
will lead to a domino effect in West Africa and
perhaps Africa. Is the world ready for that?
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