Buhari, Obasanjo and the hangover of third term

With his latest outing of envy and hatred against President Muhammadu Buhari, former President Olusegun Obasanjo has finally confirmed our suspicion that because he could not succeed with his third term agenda, no other Nigerian President should ever be allowed to get a second term in office so that in his twisted worldview, he will always stand heads and shoulders above any other Nigerian leader.

Any trained psychiatrist will immediately be able to specifically identify the particular disorder or complex within which such an antisocial state of mind may be categorised but that is ultimately the headache of the sufferer and his doctor.

What should be of greater concern to the rest of us is the danger of falling victim to the crooked machinations of a very twisted mind. If Obasanjo is still secretly suffering from the torment of his scuttled third term ambition, then it is quite unfortunate but as Nigerians we owe him absolutely no apologies whatsoever. Both constitutionally and morally, he was never entitled to a third term in office and Nigerians were quite forthright and not just right to have forcefully and successfully opposed themselves to such an anti-democratic sleight of hand. In any case, even the constitutionally allowed second term is not automatic and Obasanjo, himself, would never have had a second term in the first place but for the maniacal rigging perpetrated against the electoral will of the Nigerian people under his watch! If Obasanjo was a grateful, truly God-fearing person, he should be thanking his lucky stars he managed to get away with it, rather than repeatedly seeking to ensure that no other Nigerian ever gets two terms in Aso Rock. It is bad enough that since the restoration of democracy in 1999, the only Nigerian leader that did two terms is the very worst leader and by far the most failed President in the entire history of the country. It cannot at all be justified for that same leader to be shamelessly rearing up his head every four years and arrogantly seeking to restrict a successor to just one term in office by pontifically commanding Nigerians to vote for someone else he has anointed. We are aware that the psychiatric hospital in Aro is not too far from Otta. Despite the continuing trauma of 16 billion dollars of our money which clearly went down the drain but apparently somehow ended up in a failed poultry farmer’s pocket, we are still willing, as good Samaritans to cough out at least the transport fare for To Whom It May Concern to go for urgent mental checkup and comprehensive psychiatric evaluation in a hospital close by.

What we are not willing to play along with is for madmen to be giving lectures to normal people as to whom they should be voting for! It is time to call Baba Iyabo’s bluff and put him in his proper place once and for all in this country. This time around, we must remain steadfast in our resolve to return incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari to Aso Rock for a second term. By so doing we shall have succeeded in proving that 1.) second term is not the exclusive preserve of Obasanjo; and, 2.) where a leader has performed up to par in extremely challenging circumstances, such leader will not be abandoned by the electorate on the orders of psychologically dislocated persons who should be seeking psychiatric intervention rather than seeking to give instructions to an entire nation on which direction to go!

Andrew Osai Eke COALITION FOR TRUTH IN NIGERIA, 28 DECO ROAD, WARRI, Tel: 07051860117