March 1, 2010
The triumphant entry of comatose Yar Adua into Abuja on the 23rd February 2010 can be likened to a coup d'état by a number of principalities namely:- Chief of Army Staff (COAS);F.C.T. Minister (FCT); Special Adviser to the President (SA) and Kitchen cabinet made of all manner of volunteer public officers. The first three (3) principalities of COAS, FCT Minister and SA are obviously of the same genealogical leaning. They dutifully reneged on their individual loyalties to the Acting President and therefore need to understand the import of their actions or inactions in this dramatic saga.
When things fall apart the centre cannot hold. This aging expression by Chinua Achebe captured years ago, would be apt for the present predicament we find ourselves in Nigeria today. Or how else can you imagine the CAS and his army officers deployed to the presidency in cohort with SSS selected staff, all belonging to same ethno-religious group. And what is the purpose of such power-play beyond the belief of a birthright beyond challenge. This leads us to pose two (2) scenarios as follows:-
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If by hypothetical postulations, the enemy forces against Nigeria wanted to capture Acting President Jonathan alive, would they have succeeded that night? Yes they will.
If Acting President Jonathan were to be killed under any fabricated fictional excuse, would it have succeeded? Yes they will.
If Nigeria can experience a well calculated and caliberated contraption of all the logistics involved in this “Putsche” by the three (3) principalities, Turai Yar Adua, and other volunteers, would it be right to say Nigeria is more of a colony than a Country? If Nigeria is a Country in the true sense of the word, then the perpetrators of such a Treasonable Felony must be brought to book.
This obvious anticlimax is a corollary for Acting President Goodluck Jonathan to clearly understand that, keeping these principalities around him in the name of national character is like placing his head in the Guillotine. Only time will tell if the Acting President is going to depend on goodluck or the Stark realities of his present dilemma. It is a make or mar situation NOT to be handled with kid gloves.
Col. Tunde Soluade (Rtd.)
Ikoyi, Lagos.
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When things fall apart the centre cannot hold. This aging expression by Chinua Achebe captured years ago, would be apt for the present predicament we find ourselves in Nigeria today. Or how else can you imagine the CAS and his army officers deployed to the presidency in cohort with SSS selected staff, all belonging to same ethno-religious group. And what is the purpose of such power-play beyond the belief of a birthright beyond challenge. This leads us to pose two (2) scenarios as follows:-
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If by hypothetical postulations, the enemy forces against Nigeria wanted to capture Acting President Jonathan alive, would they have succeeded that night? Yes they will.
If Acting President Jonathan were to be killed under any fabricated fictional excuse, would it have succeeded? Yes they will.
If Nigeria can experience a well calculated and caliberated contraption of all the logistics involved in this “Putsche” by the three (3) principalities, Turai Yar Adua, and other volunteers, would it be right to say Nigeria is more of a colony than a Country? If Nigeria is a Country in the true sense of the word, then the perpetrators of such a Treasonable Felony must be brought to book.
This obvious anticlimax is a corollary for Acting President Goodluck Jonathan to clearly understand that, keeping these principalities around him in the name of national character is like placing his head in the Guillotine. Only time will tell if the Acting President is going to depend on goodluck or the Stark realities of his present dilemma. It is a make or mar situation NOT to be handled with kid gloves.
Col. Tunde Soluade (Rtd.)
Ikoyi, Lagos.
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