IBB: Re - Engineering and June 12
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I have always understood the word engineering in the simplest of terms as constructing, repairing and re-constructing. My engineering
academic
background cannot give me a better description of the word. No matter the definition one gives to it, everyone has a common knowledge and understanding of its true
meaning and cardinal nature and therefore should not allow ourselves to be fooled by someone whose battle for self redemption and psychological evaluation has constantly
exposed his lack of peace.
Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida is one name Nigerians would hate to love or love to hate but cannot be ignored. Here is a man who maimed and
raped democracy
on June 12,1993. Here is a man who still has the blood of late Dele Giwa permanently stained on his hands. Here is a man who legalized 419(advanced fee fraud) and other
fraudulent malpractices in high places. Amazingly today he talks about re-engineering Nigeria without fear or favor and hopes to be remembered as a political, economic
and social engineer. What an irony!!! Sorry, IBB the days of your deceitful toothy smiles are over and your maradonic style of approach to serious matters antiquated. You
can fool some people some time but, you can't fool all the people all the time.
We have come of age where we can see through your words, maneuvers and tranquilizers. We still feel the pains of your horrific eight-year governance and your reign as commander-in-chief reminds us of the delusions of a grandeur whose hopeless policies like SAP sapped all the hope of the hopeful and just. At any given interval, I would always love to ask you these following questions:-
1. What were you doing in the Abacha regime?
2. Why didn't you exhibit your political wisdom and dexterity then?
3. Why mention the social re-engineering and Sharia necessities after your successors demise?
I hope you understand clearly that your inglorious democratic decisions and June 12 annulment caused the death of MKO Abiola and Shehu
Musa Yar'Adua due
to their unwarranted confinement in dark corridors of death. I am also beginning to think that you do not have a conscience because if you do have one, you should forever
remain silent after all said and done. You must count yourself very lucky to be walking about freely in that country without being lynched or manhandled by those you
mortgaged their dreams and aspirations. I'm categorically stating this because if Nigeria of yesterday was Cote D'Ivoire of today, you would have fled to Chad or Niger
republic for safety and everlasting solitude.
You used our tax payers money to finance Obasanjo's presidential campaign in a possible exchange for a stooge representation. You used
our tax payers
money to build a fifty-bedroom mansion in Minna where only water and sand are the Nigerian condiments. All of a sudden, you are telling the same tax payers that you
re-engineered their polity for a better tomorrow which is very evident for all to see. You used our tax payers money to set in motion a transition confusion program which
gulped billions of naira while the goal post kept shifting to a position of your choice even when you knew the end from the beginning. You also hired the likes of Justice
Ikpeme(late), Arthur Nzeribe and Chukwumerije to increase tension in the land which almost culminated in the country's disintegration. Could this be what national
re-engineering is all about?
Somehow I totally agree with you in your analysis and submission on the real June 12 apostles. I absolutely concur with your pronouncement that only Gani Fawehinmi and Abubakar Umar stand out as the genuine crusaders of that worthy struggle. The rest were either political prostitutes or contractors who saw the annulment as an opportunity to seek office for the acquisition of their selfish and personal ambitions. Today some of them are or have been ministers, advisers and grass root supporters like us stranded in thoughts and action. All the same IBB, you lost the opportunity of writing your name in gold in our political destiny and the chronicles will be there for all to see how you and your cohorts maliciously re-engineered Nigeria. If you had followed the foot-steps of your kinsman, Abdusalam Abubakar your past sins would have been for given but because you refused to chart that line of wisdom, it will not and you cannot be forgiven. I hope you shall face the consequences of your past deeds and actions like a general because it SHALL surely come and the laws of retributive justice tells me so. That's the beauty of re-engineering...
Uwem
Inyang
London
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