“You remain the father of the
nation, our father and political father to all. Just like I told Asiwaju Bola
Ahmed Tinubu and Vice President Osinbajo yesterday in Nigeria… Those who think
that they have politically grown to insult you will all regret it before month
end sir. I am here (London) to register my undiluted love and unalloyed support
to you. I was involved in all their meetings and I know what their plans are.
The long recess of NASS is going to be your advantage and not theirs like they
thought and planned”- Senator Godswill Akpabio to President Muhammadu Buhari.
The fact that the former Governor
of Akwa Ibom, Senator Godswill Akpabio, is a coward and a traitor is no longer
in dispute. The fact that his brazen treachery knows no bounds is what can best
be described as “settled law”.
A leader must be ready to
sacrifice his liberty and life in defence of truth, justice and righteousness
and he must be prepared to defend his nation, faith, people and loved ones no
matter the price he may have to pay.
Sadly such noble virtues and high
standards are lost on men like Akpabio. To them such matters and sentiments are
like Greek or Latin: they can neither understand their meaning or grasp their
import.
They fail to appreciate the fact
that fear is not a virtue but a vice. They refuse to acknowledge the fact that
to blink the eye, bat the eyelid, surrender, compromise, buckle, capitulate and
bend the knee to the tyrant and his minions in a futile and last minute attempt
to preserve your life and liberty is utterly shameful.
Akpabio’s desire to decamp to the
APC due to his trepidation and fear of the EFCC and Buhari’s regime is pitiful.
If he has done nothing wrong then why the fear and why the trepidation? Where
is his faith in God?
And if he has done something
wrong, given the fact that he has opposed them virulently for the last three
years, does he honestly believe that the Buhari regime will not punish him by
using it against him if they manage to get back to power next year, no matter
how much he helps them today?
If he believes that then he is
not half as intelligent as I once thought. Buhari is not a man of honor, he is
not a worthy ally, he does not keep to his pronlmises and he does not have
friends. The only friend he has is his insatiable lust for power which he feeds
on a daily basis.
Aside from that the following
questions come to mind. Does Akpabio honestly see any good in Buhari and his
goverrnment? Is that what he thinks that Nigerians deserve to suffer for the
next few years and if so what is their crime?
Has he forgotten the gratuitous
insults that Buhari dishes out so lavishly on the Nigerian people whenever he
travels abroad and speaks to foreign leaders and the foreign press?
Has he forgotten about all those
that the Buhari government have killed and all those that have died and
suffered in the struggle against them? Does the shedding of innocent blood by a
desperate government mean nothing to him?
Has he forgotten the tears of the
tormented and persecuted and the cries of the widows, orphans and the bereaved
whose loved ones have been butchered by jihadists, religious fanatics,
cow-lovers and ethnic supremacists that Buhari has protected and encouraged
over the last three years?
Has he forgotten the anguish of
those whose loved ones have been locked up indefinately and those who have been
demonised and subjected to the most barbaric and insidious media witchunts in
the history of our nation?
Has he forgotten the practice of
double standards in the application of our laws? Has he forgotten how the rogues
in Buhari’s cabinet and government and the governors in his party are above the
law and get away with blue murder?
Has he forgotten about the
slaughter of northern Christians, IPOB youths and Shiite Muslims?
Has he forgotten about the
genocide and ethnic cleansing of the Fulani terrorists and herdsmen? Has he
forgotten about the attack against the Church and the attempt to undermine and
ridicule Christendom?
Has he forgotten about the
censorship of the media and how newspapers houses and radio and television
stations are warned against airing or publishing anti-government material?
Has he forgotten about Buhari’s
insidious secret romance with Boko Haram and how he has strengthened them in
the last two years by freeing their commanders and paying them huge and
unprecedented ransoms?
Has he forgotten the appauling
way that members of our Armed Forces are being treated by the government and
how they are massacred on the front lines and given secret mass burials in
secret graves with no honor or thanks?
Has he forgotten about the brutal
assault on the judiciary and judges and the undermining of the rule of law? Has
he forgotten about the relentless attacks on the legislature and the
humiliation of his colleagues at the National Assembly?
Has he forgotten about the
horrors and wickedness that members and leaders of the opposition PDP were
subjected to over the last 3 years? Has he forgotten about what the Govermment
did to Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, Sheik El Zak Zaky and Col. Ibrahim Dasuki?
Has he forgotten the vitriolic
terms and words that they used to describe President Goodluck Jonathan,
President Olusegun Obasanjo and every single PDP leader and government that
held power between 1999 and 2015?
Has he forgotten that Buhari
considers himself to be the third and final Mahdi of the north and that he has
nothing but contempt and disdain for those that come from the Middle Belt and
the south and those that do not share his religious faith?
Has he forgotten the insults the
Buhari government heaped on southerners, Middle Belters, Afenifere, Ohaeneze,
the Niger Delta Elders, the Middle Belt Forum and every single elderstatesman
and leader that has called for the restructuring of our country.
Has he forgotten about the
division, strife, disgrace, penury, corruption, poverty and despair that they
have subjected the Nigerian people to over the last three years.
Has he forgotten what Christians
have been subjected to by these demons from hell? Has he forgotten their hatred
for the Church? Has he forgotten the division, strife, turmoil, bloodshed,
torment and havoc that they have inflicted on our nation?
Has Akpabio forgotten about all
these things or is that he is so tormented by the fear of his own shadow, the
EFCC and Buhari’s ghost that he has capitulated like a fatherless peasant that
lacks nobility, class, dignity, self-respect, good-breeding and honor?
On a general note one is
constrained to ask: why are most Nigerian leaders plagued with such a cowardly
disposition and servile spirit? Why do they compromise so often and why do they
tremble before power?
If Akpabio had issues with PDP
that is fair enough. We all have issues with the party in varying degrees.
Yet if he felt constrained to leave
why can’t he join any of the other numerous opposition parties? Why does he
have to sell his soul to the devil and enter a Faustian pact with Buhari and
the APC.
Why should he join the birds of
prey to feed on the blood, flesh and guts of the Nigerian people?
The truth is that he has betrayed
his people and joined forces with those that seek to enslave them simply in an
attempt to secure freedom and goodwill for himself.
Is that what leaders are meant to
do? Are they meant to give in to their most morbid and irrational fears and
collaborate with those that seek to destroy their nation, their people and
their future?
Akpabio reminds me of the old
African chiefs and traditional rulers that sold their own people into slavery
to the white slave dealers in return for tiny crumbs and protection.
He reminds me of the black slaves
that fought on the side of the southern secessionist forces in the American
civil war who attempted to preserve the institution of slavery.
He reminds me of the inglorious
Scottish clans that turned their backs on Scotland’s heroic Bonny Prince
Charlie and instead betrayed their people and fought on the side of the English
oppressors to oppose Scottish emancipation and liberation.
He reminds me of everything that
is unpleasant, servile, weak, ugly, uncouth, cowardly and dishonorable.
The fact of the mattee is that
Akpabio deserves to be pitied. He is more worthy of pathos than wrath because,
like Judas Iscariot and those that betrayed and crucified Our Lord and Saviour
Jesus Christ, he “knows not what he does”.
Shakespeare wrote that “a coward
dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but
once.”
Soyinka wrote that “the man died
in him who remained silent before tyranny”.
Akpabio has died a thousand
deaths and the man has died in him.
Courage, risk and sacrifice are
the fuel and engine room of the struggle for liberation. I would rather live as
a free man for one day than live a thousand years as a coward and a slave.
May God guide my friend and
brother Godswill Akpabio and may He open his eyes and cause him to appreciate
the folly of his own actions and the very grave consequences of the monumental
mistake he is about to make.
May He remind him that the forces
of darkness have nothing to offer but death, sorrow, shame and destruction.
May He remind him that no matter
how dark the night, joy comes in the morning for those who have faith, who
trust in the Lord and who stand firm till the end.
May He remind him that those that
joined Adolf Hitler, even in his last days, ended up dying with him.
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The stench of betrayal. You did it once too, FFK. The good thing about life is time. You politicians are running Nigeria like it's your cult. My consolation is this: by the time you have used your greed to ruin this country, you'd be too old. Then you' start to reap all you have sown.
ReplyDeleteA man who does not train his children well, suffers the consequences at old age.
You all know what is good but greed wouldn't allow you make reasonable choices.