Former aviation minister, Femi Fani-Kayode says President Muhammadu Buhari is not coming back to rule Nigeria.
Fani-Kayode also said some Northern forces are waiting for Buhari to die so they can force acting president, Yemi Osinbajo to resign.
He made the comments via an article titled: “The ringing of coup bells and cause for deep concern.”
Read the article below:
I
am very worried now. Ever since 1966 the northern ruling class has
ALWAYS effected a coup d’etat whenever they feel sufficiently threatened
with the loss of power.
The only time that they
failed to do this, to their eternal regret, was when President Goodluck
Jonathan succeeded President Umaru Yar’Adua after the latter’s death in
2010. Up until today they blame my friend and brother Lt. Abdulrahman
General Dambazau for that failure and they felt he was weak and
cowardly.
This is because he was the Chief of Army
Staff at the time and he did not strike. He paid a heavy price for his
“weakness” and for not doing their bidding a few years later because
when Buhari came to power in 2015 instead of appointing him Minister of
Defence or National Security Advisor, which is what he had originally
been penned down for, he appointed him as Minister of Interior which is
far less strategic and important.
As a consequence
of his “failure” to strike they had to endure Jonathan for 5 long years
and their response was to covertly support and encourage Boko Haram to
make parts of the country “ungovernable” and to organize the whole
Chibok girls affair, in collusion with a notable foreign intelligence
agency and foreign Government, to get him out by 2015.
President
Muhammadu Buhari was “elected” into office that year and now his fate
is similar to Yar’Adua’s. He is chronically ill and he is NOT coming
back to lead and rule as he once did because he will NEVER be the same
again. Once he dies the northern ruling class have already decided on
what to do.
They will give Vice President Yemi
Osinbajo an ultimatum and they will threaten him and ask him to resign.
They have resolved that they will not allow power to go to the south and
they will encourage their senior officers in the military to effect a
coup.
In doing so they are only doing what they
have ALWAYS done when they feel sufficiently threatened with the loss of
power. That is their way. And that is the measure of their ruthlessness
and determination to hold on to power. They would rather have a core
northern military dictator in power than a southern leader or President.
And
they are prepared to kill anyone, no matter how highly placed, who
stands in their way or who attempts to oppose or stop them. The only
options that exist if they are to be stopped is, firstly, if someone
beats them to it by effecting a “progressive” Rawlings, Orkar or
Nzeogwu-type coup of junior southern and Middle Belt officers.
This
would lead to massive loss of life and to civil war and it is therefore
unacceptable. The other option is for the southern and Middle Belt
civilian population to come together and march the streets in an attempt
to resist military insurrection and mutiny in the name of fighting for
and attempting to preserve democracy.
That would
be the best option but sadly we do not have a very good track record
when it comes to protesting against injustice and the truncation of
democracy and this is especially so because the core north will openly
support the coup and hail it.
However one thing
is clear this time around: if a coup led and inspired by the core north
and the FN takes place simply to keep a southerner out of power it will
signal the end of Nigeria as a united country. Such is the anger and
frustration in the south and Middle Belt today about the excesses,
abuses of power, wickedness, bondage and arrogance of the north that
there is likely to be a very violent reaction to any northern coup.
This
may well lead to the disintegration of the Federation and when it gets
to that point even the army will be hard pressed to keep us together as
one nation. The likelihood is that it would lead to a second civil war
because even the army would be split down the middle along regional,
ethnic and religious lines.
That is the
catastrophe, madness, chaos and carnage that the northern ruling class
are now leading us to and toying with in their insane quest to hold on
to power. That is where they are pushing us to with their obsessive and
insatiable appetite and lust for that power.
It is
for this reason that the plan by the cabal in Buhari’s government and
the northern ruling elite to effect a coup in order to keep power for
themselves and their people and to stop a southerner from enjoying it
must be condemned and resisted by ALL men and women of goodwill. And as
we condemn it we must prepare for a very strong reaction to it (and not
just with loud and empty words) when they strike.
We
must be ready to put our money where our mouth is. We must be prepared
to risk our lives. We must be prepared to fight back and resist them
with guns and bullets and every fibre of our being.
We
must not let them steal our country from us right under our noses and
deny us the right to wield power as the constitution dictates. We must
not let them abort democracy even though Buhari’s rule can hardly be
described as one and would be better described as a murderous and
despotic civilian dictators.
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