Former Senate President, Chief
Ameh Ebute has accused ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo of pursuing a strange
interest against the country with his constant attacks on government of
President Muhammadu Buhari.
He said this in a letter to
President Buhari on the state of the nation.
The letter was in apparent
reaction to the recent open letter written by Obasanjo and addressed to
President Buhari where the former lamented the state of the nation, while
calling for urgent actions to tackle Nigeria’s challenges.
However, Ebute in the letter
addressed to Buhari entitled: “State Of The Nation; A Call To Action And
Steadfastness;” An Open Letter, and obtained by our reporter on Sunday, claimed
Obasanjo and his dozens of “veiled agents want to return Nigeria back to Egypt”
hence his ceaseless attacks on the current government.
The letter reads in full.
“Sir, let me congratulate you on
the constitution of your #Nextlevelcabinet, which process of confirmation of
the Ministerial nominees is ongoing at the Red Chamber of the National Assembly
(NASS).
“I am overwhelmingly elated that
you have shamed your antagonists and ardent critics by the quality of your
nominees. They comprise competent and trusted technocrats, professionals and
politicians who can assist you in propelling your laudable vision in the next
four years, some of whom also served in your preceding cabinet, but have been
retained ostensibly based on their tested and proven capacities of hard work.
“May I seize this opportunity to
condole with you, the Inspector General of Police, the NYSC, Channels
Television and the families of a Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Usman
Umar; a serving corps member, a reporter attached to Channels Television, Mr.
Precious Owolabi and all those allegedly killed by the violent protesters of
the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) otherwise known as the Shiites. May their
souls rest in perfect peace. Amen!
“My sympathies also go to you for
Nigerians who suffered various degrees of injuries and incurred losses during
the incensed and violent protests by the extremists Shiites sect members. It
would have been worse but for the professionalism of the Police and other
security agencies who paid the supreme price for the rest of us to be alive. We
are immensely grateful.
“Mr. President, I have no doubt
that our dear nation has been unnecessary troubled and deliberately plunged
into needless and avoidable crises. It has now dawned on me clearly that the
same forces against public sanity, order and discipline which your
administration has brought to bear on the polity and governance of Nigeria are
more incensed now than ever as manifest in these evil plots to destabilize your
administration and enthrone monumental chaos in the country.
“And it is evident these
detractors and evil men, are either pulling the strings directly or using hired
agents to do everything possible within their powers to upstage you,
destabilize your Presidency and the country. This is against the wishes of the
overwhelming population of our people who actually came out in their large
number to enthrone this administration despite the campaign of calumny and
blackmail to disconnect you from your teeming supporters and followers in and
outside the country.
“Quite unfortunately, the latest
anger against your administration and the spate of instigated killings, armed
criminality and violent protests by some groups, are spurred by those who are
obviously abusing the democratic liberty to lawful assembly, freedom of expression
and rule of law with these renewed unrests. Their antics are already known to
the security agencies and many Nigerians like my humble self who have had a
long standing participation in the polity and by providence as an elder
statesman.
“It is extremely suicidal for Mr.
President to forget or even underrate the capacity of his adversaries for
instigative crises since those you defeated at the 2019 general elections are
still around. I remain one person among many Nigerians who is not convinced the
enemies have given up on their satanic mission to destroy the country in
connivance with foreign interests hell-bent on the destruction of Nigeria. Our
recent experience in the hands of these paid protesters is a pointer to this
well informed fact.
“I was perplexed that recently,
former President Olusegun Obasanjo, an elder statesman who openly opposed your
reelection ambition for no logical reasons and indeed, worked for your defeat
by backing your strongest rival in the presidential poll again, wrote another
open epistle to you. It is however not surprising to many of us who have had to
tolerate his excesses as statesmen in various capacities.
“democratic rights to freedom of
choice, but surprisingly and expectedly, Obasanjo enviously regurgitated the
same old, stale, puerile and, whitewashed tales about your Presidency and
impressive leadership of the country.
“While I do not intend that this
letter serve as a direct response to Chief Obasanjo’s letter, it may serve as a
tacit reply to his absurd, farcical, unidealistic, emotional, self-serving and
lamentable expression of his emptiness on affairs of Nigeria in blind fury.
This is because an attempt by any of us to re-write the history of the country
will remain a disservice to the younger generation for a long time to come.
“The issues raised by Obasanjo in
the latest letter to you, in my understanding, only belittles his status and
confirms his egoistic subservience to personal agenda, instead of the
collective progress and development of Nigeria which we all sacrificed our
comfort and pleasure to pursue.
“Your Excellency Sir, without a
doubt in my mind and having gone through series of commentaries and replies to
Obasanjo from Nigerians who love, cherish and hold Nigeria dear to their hearts;
and those who believe in the unity and indivisibility of our country, the
dominant voices dismissed the contents of Obasanjo’s letter as irritating
hogwash.
“Therefore, Mr. President and
leader of our nation, it may interest you to know that Obasanjo has been
isolated, ostracized and indeed, stands alone like someone marooned on an
Island, because majority of Nigerians have expressed in words and actions their
unwillingness to toe his inglorious line, polluted thoughts and destructive
antics.
“It smacks of childishness for
the same Obasanjo, who glowingly commended your government for its winning
streaks in the battle against Boko Haram Insurgency and the anti-corruption
campaign, in his first open letter to you in 2018, would turn around to recant
his words today on same issues. It was the same Security Chiefs and troops who
performed the marvelous feats he previously praised glowingly.
“This sudden U-turn is not
ordinary, and it gives me the strong suspicion that Obasanjo must have aligned
himself with the internal and external forces clandestinely plotting the
destruction of Nigeria, whilst he embarks on his usual manner of intermittently
gauging public mood by pontificating his fake sanctimoniousness.
“Obasanjo truly needs the prayers
of all Nigerians to regain himself because he has veered too far off the track
of wisdom and reason. It is our hope that despite all the Almighty God will
find a place to forgive him his sins and all the wrongs he has done to Nigeria.
“Mr. President Sir , it is not
controvertible that anyone who does or have not seen your efforts in these past
four years in the impactful reforms being carried out in the military in order
to give to Nigeria a loyal and patriotic Armed Forces that will its best to the
nation is bewitched by Obasanjo’s haunting “disease” which I prefer to classify
mildly as senility.
“Obasanjo and his dozens of
veiled agents want to return Nigeria back to Egypt and thus, saddened that the
Armed Forces are apolitical, and no more the politicized Military like his
leadership gangsters reduced our Armed Forces and Security Chiefs in the
immediate past. Such Nigerians are like “coupists” and must be watched closely
before they derail the progressive transformation agenda of your
administration.
“Mr. President Sir, your defeat
of Boko Haram insurgency and its taming to a very weak ragtag group that can
only carryout ambushes and attacks on obscure soft targets is legendary. It
remains the best thing your administration has done for Nigeria, ditto for the
extinction of other armed insurrectional sects.
“Please do not be deterred and
remain more undaunted in your determination and obsession with building and
nurturing a responsible military under your leadership as Commander-In-Chief of
the Nigerian Armed Forces. And stop at nothing to ensure our military continue
to receive adequate training and resources to imbue them with even greater
capacities to address the renewed threats to the sovereignty and territorial
integrity of Nigeria.
“It has enormous benefits to the
nation and undoubtedly, one of the greatest things that has ever happened to
restore the lost image of our country. Nigerians are now proud of a sanitized
and corruption- free Armed Forces under your command and the likes of Obasanjo
and his demented surrogates are free to yell on rooftops. But the rantings are
inconsequential.
“Mr. President, believe me or
not, but Chief Obasanjo has vengefully and unapologetically spoken for the
vested interests which are angling to destabilize the country. It is obvious
because the masses revolted through the ballot and thwarted the success of his
preferred candidate for the 2019 Presidency and the palpable, unjustified anger
against your leadership.
“And I feel it behooves on those
of us on the side of millions of patriotic Nigerians to speak out because we
still believe in a united nation under a Buhari Presidency. We are irrevocably
committed to it and shall continue to nurture it for posterity.
“Sir, may I further confide in
you openly that you should not succumb to any attempt by the paid protesters
whether of armed Shiites or any other group to blackmail your administration in
order to have a leeway in their evil designs. This is the time for you to take
decisive actions against traitors in any guise; remain firm and steadfast in
all your undertakings for greater public good and in the best interest of the
country.
“The sustained killing of
security agents, innocent Nigerians and destructions to public properties by
members of the repulsive fanatical IMN sect must be brought to an end by your
government by whatever means possible. I am happy you are also thinking along
this direction with your warning in the aftermath of the latest incident that
the Shiites are pushing you to the wall and they should not tempt you any
further. The Nigerian people whom you swore to defend and protect are eagerly
yearning for a decisive action that will bring these traitors and enemies of
human freedom to book.
“No Nigerian with the genuine
interest of our country at heart will dispute the fact that IMN is a terrorists
sect, which has mushroomed in Nigeria under the leadership of Sheik Ibraheem
EL-Zakzaky without lawful registration for over 40 years, but operates
illegally as a religious body, which publicly proclaims allegiance to the
Republic of Iran and vows disobedience to Nigeria’s laws and constituted
authority.
“The IMN sect members beginning
with their leader have dispensed themselves as both terrorists and aggressors
that have been radicalized, militarized and funded by foreign elements and
should neither have a place nor a chance to operate in our country with such
impunity and lawlessness. Mr. Presidsnt Sir, the bulk is on your table to
again, save Nigerians from their swords and the looming catastrophe as
reflected in the actions of armed protesters in Nigeria.
“Finally, I make haste to plead
with Nigerians and the rest of the world particularly America’s President
Donald Trump and British’s newest Prime Minister, Mr. Boris Johnson to stand with
Nigeria against acts of destructive religious fanaticism, which have morphed
into embryonic stages of terrorism as demonstrated by the Shiites in Nigeria.
“I fear that this dangerous group
is fast spreading tentacles around the world and I urge that all Nigerians must
stand with Mr. President to get rid of the IMN violent extremism before it is
too late. I am urging Nigerians to have uniformity of reason by chorusing with
one voice, the monsters we have known of the IMN in Nigeria before they plunge
Nigerian into another brand of explosive terrorism. They are terrorists and
should have no place in our society.
“Mr. President Sir, you must
stand firm at this hour and never yield to the gang -up by those who want to
take Nigeria back to Egypt. Nigerians are solidly behind.”
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