The safe return, today, Friday, March 10, 2017, of President Muhammadu Buhari, by circumstances that defined his 50-day medical sojourn in London, is miraculous. To start with, it shamed the corruption-fighting-back army and their foot-soldiers and created hope for those who believe in the course he has taken to return the country to the path of sanity.
Indeed, for the toiling masses across Nigeria and those who had, for long, been devastated by the effect of gargantuan corruption, Buhari’s return is a big relief and it is a sign of hope for the manifestation of the great country they have long been dreaming of; a country where you earn what you work for and not on the basis of the class you belong to or the people you know upstairs or how smart you are to cut corners.
These classes of Nigerians would always wish and pray that someday, they would enjoy a little out of the multitude of wealth which God endowed this country with, but which has been cornered by a tiny few powerful ones; those who amass the nation’s collective wealth to the point of madness; those who stole Dollars, Naira, Euros and several others, and tuck the currencies in every conceivable place, including soak-away just so that they and their offspring would continue to be our masters forever.
But the tiny few powerful, corrupt wreaking ones, using the ill gotten wealth, are the ones that are not comfortable with Buhari. The return of Buhari today, by all stretches of imagination, has turned them into miserable liars: the lie they manufactured that Buhari was dead and or that he would not return to Nigeria alive. They, together with social media they bought for a pot of porridge and some hungry and ungodly ‘men of God’ predicted what they were never in control of – life!. And they ordinarily should have covered their faces in shame for such lies, including predicting what they knew not. However, it is obvious that they even have no shame.
They had gone to town, shortly after President Buhari took off to London on January 19, 2017, for initial 10-day vacation, brandishing the news that he was dead as if by such pronouncement or evil news, Buhari would just collapse and die. Indeed, hardly had Buhari landed in London to a UK hospital for routine medical check-up than an online medium, Metro UK claimed that he had died on hospital bed.
From Buhari was dead, which made a lot of waves, the social media and their sponsors began to churn out other fearful medical complications, including the one that said that he had prostate cancer, which would take six months to treat; and that even if it was treated, Buhari would never be the same again in terms of mental, physical and psychological alertness. They told these lies with bold faces, as if they were in the world of their own.
The social media and their sponsors made it look as if, one: it was a sin for anyone, including Buhari to die. And two, that it was a sign of weakness for President Buhari to be sick, forgetting, as Professor Ishaq Akintola, the Director of the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), said, that some past American Presidents had at one time or the other fell sick and even died while serving in office.
They included Woodrow Wilson, who was the US President from 1913 to 1921, and who suffered a severe stroke that left him incapacitated throughout his presidency but yet he remained in office till the end of his term in 1921.
Another US President from 1933 to 1945, Franklin D Roosevelt was diagnosed with polio in 1921 at the age of 39, still he served for twelve good years though he could not stand or walk without support. Using a wheelchair in private, he never disclosed the full extent of his health condition.
Dwight Eisenhower (1953-1961) suffered heart attack in 1955 as a result of which he was hospitalized for several weeks. He also did a surgery some months later to treat Crohn’s disease and in late 1957 suffered another stroke that made him temporarily unable to speak. Yet he went ahead to win a second term after that.
John F Kennedy (1961 – 1963) had a chronic bone disease and was hospitalized nine times in his short two and a half year presidency but this was never revealed to the American public. George Bush (1989 – 1993) vomited and then fainted in front of cameras in 1992 while on a visit in Japan and heaven did not fall in America.
Also in history, Presidents had died in office, starting with Umaru Musa Yaradua, to General Murtala Muhammad and Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa who all died in one way or the other while in office.
Of course, eight American presidents have died in office: Four died of natural causes: William Henry Harrison (1841), Zachary Taylor (1850), Warren Harding (1923) and Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1945). Four others were assassinated: Abraham Lincoln (1865), James A. Garfield (1881), William McKinley (1901) and John F. Kennedy (1963).
It is also on record that the present Queen of England has for long, been suffering from some kind of mental disruption, having been identified with being kleptomaniac, yet, no citizen of England ever made fuse about it.
The return of Buhari was a true manifestation of the struggle between the light and the darkness; between the good and the evil and between the rotten past (from the point where corruption and evil took over the psyche of the country) and the present that begs for release from the yoke of modern-day executive robbers. Buhari and his team as well as those who have faith in his ability to take the country through the dark tunnel, represents the light, the good and the present that portends hope.
Of course, it has been scientifically proved that it is only God, and perhaps some unseen powers that are not prone to sickness whereas the mortals do. Therefore, like any other leader or mortal, Buhari can and did get sick. To Buhari as a person, the few harbingers and errand boys of death predictions on him have not surpassed the millions of prayers from the masses of Nigeria, daily and minutely beseeching Almighty God for his good health and longer life.
The President of the Africa Arise for Change Network from Chicago, USA, Mr. Odoma did ask a million Naira question while the noise was penetrating the corners of Nigeria: what do the propagandists intend to achieve in their hallucination and hullaballoo about Buhari being dead?
He posited that no one with any leadership inclination or foresight would see the demise of President Buhari as solution to Nigeria’s huge problems.
Quite obviously, those who wished him dead were the enemies of Nigeria and the unscrupulous elements who have for years sapped this country dry. They are unhappy with Buhari because the profligacy which previously defined the hallmark of governance in the country has eased out for sanity, probity and accountability.
Most of the enemies of Nigeria and their cohorts are facing various charges of corruption in courts and feel that the demise of President Buhari would loosen the hangman’s noose on their necks. They are those who delight in the perpetual enslavement of the masses, by doling out occasional handouts from stolen wealth, while the poor and suffering masses of Nigeria continue to gloomily sulk in hardships.
But while the few evil ones devout fruitless time for prayers wishing President Buhari dead, the majority and millions of Nigerians are countering their negative prayers in churches and mosques. They approached God Almighty with more sophistry in supplication, to bless and allow His own anointed leader of Nigeria to complete his constitutionally permissible eight years in Aso Villa to tidy up his reformations, cleanse the land and deliver to Nigerians a country of progress and prosperity.
These are the kind of prayers God listens to and answers, not the one men: the ordinary mortals wish for their fellow human being, pretending or claiming that they could be God and do what God does. Their own kind of evil prayers can only be answered by devil. And where God arises, devil kowtow.
Quite unfortunately, they are not, cannot be God and cannot play the role of God. They are confined to where they can only watch what God is doing and wants to do in the life of any of His creators, including even theirs. [myad]
