Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to
President Buhari on Media and Publicity, has mocked the Peoples Democratic
Party, PDP, and its presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar in an article
on Saturday.
He entitled it “PMB’s second
term: Ain’t no stopping us now, we’re on the move.”
In the article he forwarded on Saturday, Adesina highlighted diverse means the opposition
employed to stop President Muhammadu Buhari but failed.
The Presidential aide released
the article ahead of the Presidential inauguration coming up on May 29.
He wrote:
Those who were young
(men-about-town) in the 80s will remember the 1979 hit track by McFadden &
Whitehead, titled Ain’t no stopping us now.
The lyrics goes thus:
Ain’t no stopping us now!
We’re on the move!
Ain’t no stopping us now!
We’ve got the groove!
And if you ponder and reflect on
the political journey of President Muhammadu Buhari, right from 2003, when he
threw his hat into the ring, till now, there have been spirited attempts to
stop him. It got to a head in the build up to the 2019 elections, when a
pernicious confederacy was put together, all to stop Nigeria’s inexorable march
to greatness.
It failed, resoundingly.
On Wednesday, May 29, 2019,
President Buhari will take oath for second term in office. Millions of good
Nigerians will be delirious with joy, but some other significant minority would
be in ‘sifia’ (severe) pains. Why? Ain’t no stopping Muhammadu Buhari, he’s on
the move!
The man will get his groove, and
evildoers will be in trouble.
The combat between light and
darkness, evil and good, has been an eternal one. Some people love darkness
more than light, because it is under the cover of darkness that they thrive,
luxuriating in their evil acts: grand larceny, plunder, killings, and others.
So, they will never love the Mai
Gaskiya (the honest man), and would do everything to stop him, or pull him
down.
The efforts to stop Buhari have
been robust, pulsating.
After a reputation of honesty and
probity as military governor, petroleum minister, member of the Supreme
Military Council, his colleagues found no one better to wear the diadem as
military head of state than the ramrod straight man from Daura.
And he began to reset the
foundations of Nigeria, knocking sense into the heads of the corrupt and those
prone to indiscipline. It was no longer business as usual.
But the dream run lasted only 20
months, before they truncated it.
The landlords of Nigeria struck,
and stopped Buhari. Up in smoke went probity and accountability. Discipline flew
out through the window. And we went back to a place worse than square one.
The man came back as a reformed
democrat. He sought to be president in 2003, 2007, and 2011. But those in
mortal fear of righteousness in high places banded together, and stopped him.
The Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) had perfected the art of elections manipulation, and they used it to the
hilt.
However, in 2015, there ain’t no
more stopping Buhari.
A massive coalition for change
was built around him, and good Nigerians stood up for the champion. Did he live
happily ever after?
Not on your lives! The
adversaries went after him. Ran, pursued, and attempted to overtake. All sorts
of things, physical and spiritual, were thrown at him, just to get rid of the
man who would not steal, and not allow people to steal.
A debilitating illness came. And
for most of 2017, the President was receiving medical attention, both at home
and abroad. Instead of goodwill and prayers, they were rejoicing.
We’ve finally stopped him, they
gloated. But did they? Could they? Not if God was still alive.
Ain’t no stopping Buhari, as in
August 2017, he got back his groove. His health rebounded, and he resumed work
fully.
But would Pharaoh desist from
pursuing Israel? No. He was destined to perish in a watery grave, so he pursued
Israel into the sea.
They formed what they called a
coalition, vowing that they would stop Buhari from winning the 2019 elections.
This was after letters had flown around from the master letter writer,
virtually commanding the President to dismount from the horse.
That letter writer thinks he’s
the landlord of Nigeria, as anybody he moved against never survived. He felt he
could enthrone and dethrone leaders at will. But the Yoruba people say it’s the
day that the witch kills twins that she stops eating meat.
The letter writer bit more than
he could chew, and it stuck in his throat. He formed a political coalition, it
collapsed right in his face. He first adopted a political party to use in his
bid to unseat the incumbent, then in act of utter confusion, he abandoned that
new party, and went for candidate of the PDP.
The same man he had spent the
past 10 years destroying, writing volumes and volumes of verbiage against, he
now attempted to sell to Nigerians. Were we fools?
See the grand conspiracy by those
who called themselves ‘Atikulators.’ They included former presidents, some
retired military top brass, disgruntled senior civil servants, business people,
preachers, and the elite, generally.
The sluice gates of free funds
had been slammed shut, and they were unhappy. As dolorous as King Lear at his
worst.
The letter writer mobilized the
international community, feeding them with misinformation and disinformation.
Fulanization. Islamization, and other creepy concoctions. He was already
addressing the PDP candidate as “my incoming President.”
Oh, how so very easy to build
castles in the air!
Marabouts, witches, wizards, and
false prophets masquerading as pastors, bishops, and archbishops also joined
the fray. They began to spew falsehood, which they attributed to God. He that
sits in Heaven just laughed at them, and held them in utter derision.
All those who were on the wrong
side of the law joined the conspiracy. Ex-this, ex-that, who had abused their
offices, and were being made to answer questions, crept under the umbrella.
They knew if their man won, their cases would die natural deaths.
So, for them, it was a matter of
life and death.
They came with spurious political
permutations and calculations. Votes in North-west and North-east would be
shared.
They would sweep North-central,
where they had spent the last two years trying to demonize and de-market Buhari
and his political party. South-west would also be shared, and then, they would
win South-east and South-south wholesale.
It seemed foolproof on paper,
particularly when you also throw in massive vote buying, hacking of all the
hackables, and a complicit judiciary as Plan B.
They were already planning how to
sell Nigeria, and tell the poor to go to hell.
But they didn’t reckon with the
staying power of the poor and the downtrodden.
They are people who know where
their bread would be buttered, and where their future happiness lay. In their
millions, they trooped out to vote for the honest man. They chose light,
instead of darkness. At the end of it all, about four million votes separated
the men from the boys.
The man left holding the short
end of the stick went to court, claiming some servers from George Orwell’s
sugar candy mountain, gave him victory. It’s within his democratic rights.
Ain’t no stopping Buhari now,
he’s on the move!
In recent weeks, banditry,
killings, murder and mayhem have suffused the length and breadth of the
country. Everything appears orchestrated, choreographed, to achieve certain
ends.
The law enforcement agencies are
pointing fingers in certain directions. But Nigerians want them to do more.
Pull in the evildoers, and let them face the law. That is what President Buhari
tells them at each Security Council meeting, too.
And we will get there. Soon and
very soon, because we’ve got the groove. When the ram runs, its testicles
dangle furiously from side to side. But no matter what, the testicles can never
fall off. Nigeria will remain united, despite all machinations of the evil
ones.
In that song by McFadden &
Whitehead, you have these lines: There’s been so many things that’s held us
down,
But now it looks like things are
finally comin’ round.
Yes. Things are coming round for
Nigeria. We will get to where we are headed. Our fair havens, land flowing with
milk and honey. The crooked and corrupt won’t ever stop us, nor would they rule
us again, and the wealth of Nigeria will be used for the good of Nigerians.
Ain’t no stopping us now, we’re
on the move!
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Maybe they can't stop yon onMay 29th but your days are numbered in Aso rock.. The tribunal might end up sending you all back to your villages.. we sure did not say sai baba in the last election
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