It is a needlessly energy sapping debate. A man who is the president is seated pretty in Aso Villa, while others who are out of the corridors of power are wailing over the origin of the Aso Villa resident.
An innocuous rumour emanated from nowhere by some nonentities and many Nigerian had jumped on the bandwagon echoing the same piece of bloody news that a Sudanese of doubtful origin is now mimicking a Buhari, who was once right handed and now being pictured as left handed. Not only that, they have also said he is now shorter than before when he towered over the Senate President Dr. Saraki . We were also treated to the Ear measurement of our tall and slim Buhari to suggest that Buhari appeared younger and fresher.
Why not? Not after he had spent close to 12 months in a London hospital with regular refueling of the old bad blood from his system with a refined fresh and red blood. President Buhari has been travelling abroad to the UK and US and has been given diplomatic welcome in these two countries. Perhaps, in a fit of seemingly careless idle talk, the First Lady was once heard to have spoken about the Buhari in Aso Villa is not my husband.
Such careless talks may have encouraged the rumour mill to spread the ugly rumour. When former military generals had joined in the rumour mill indiscreetly one gets more bewildered that a respected LT. Gen T.Y Danjuma had alluded to the fact that a cloned fellow is over -seeing the Aso Villa; he also quoted Nnamdi Kanu, who had been on this matter for many months. Smear campaigns. That is what the APC leadership thinks about the story. I do not subscribe to this ugly rumour and methinks it is an extended tale used by political opponents to score some cheap points.
Of all the stories making the round, no one had pinpointed where his body was interred either in the UK or flown to Nigeria and buried secretly in Daura. That is the binding flaw in all the rumoured cloning of Mr. President by a Sudanese Jubrin. An insult of the highest degree. We have carried our collective idiocy to a political plane which does not help us in any way. The earlier Nigerians discarded and discredited this story the better for us.
The voice has not changed from the Buhari I knew many years ago. In 1984 we attended the OAU meeting in Addis Ababa; for me nothing had changed about him. The Adams Aple is seen protruding from his throat and neck. His intonation too is still the same. Why has political considerations turned Nigerians into beasts with no thinking faculties in action? Nigerians have left politics based on issues driven by ideas and have descended to the gutter for inanities.
In a democracy, if the ruled are not satisfied with any ruler, the best form is to vote such leaders out of power. Next month, we shall be going to the polls to elect new leadership at the national and state levels. It is interesting no state governor or Senator had been said to have a double.
The presidency should be advised never to refute this stupid story coming from the heat- oppressed brains of wicked Nigerians. Mohammadu Buhari from Daura will remain rugged and not moved by the careless postulations of Nigerians who are currently making a fool of themselves and their leader. A majority of Nigerians of Hausa Fulani stork would vote for him as much as they liked him. ‘Sai Baba’, the admirers and fans hail him. Buhari is like a Cat with Nine lives. The more they say he died in London, the more foreign leaders have good memories of him.
One of his most quotable quotes used by a Radio station in Asaba is this telling one. I don’t know which party my wife belongs, she belongs to my kitchen, the other room and the living room’. Buhari’s sense of humour is infectious to most Nigerian husbands, who felt she ought to have been sent packing to her parents for being so insulting. As a Nigerian patriot, I think we had better pass this messy rumour into a dustbin of history and move ahead.
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