This is a rejoinder to Dr Tilde’s infantile article on why the rest of Nigeria hates the North. I see you missed the point in my last rejoinder to yours.
This is a rejoinder to Dr Tilde’s infantile article on why the rest of Nigeria hates the North. I see you missed the point in my last rejoinder to yours.
Rather than rebutting whatever was said, you chose to take the low road by acquiring the persecution complex. That was where you missed the point. I hope you will go back and read the rejoinder and free your mind from the precipitate of persecution. You appear to me like a man with bi polar disorder. In one breath, you are condescending to other people, in the next breath; you want to wear the toga of persecution. Make up your mind.
On a curious note, were you the same Aliyu Tilde who connived with Turai Yardua in the charade, the scam during late President Yardua’s illness? If you are the same person, all I ask you for is to stop offending the rest of us because you have no moral ground to stand on when it comes to call for probity. Much as we admit that corruption is a universal problem in Nigeria, how many times have you, Tilde outed your corrupt leaders in the North. I am not exactly proud to get into this North South diatribe with you, but we want to correct facts while they are still fresh. You mentioned Obasanjo. I am sorry that you are being clever by half on his case. Now, you tell me who brought him into our collective lives. Have you forgotten the consequences of the annulment of the free and fair election of June 12, 1993? Seriously, who was responsible for that coup? I suppose if you have developed amnesia about the facts of history of June 12, I will help you. It was babangida, your hero. To further cement his stranglehold on Nigeria, he brought his buddy Obasanjo to the center stage in 1999, when he supposedly was compensating the West for the loss of Abiola. Obasanjo’s people in Western Nigeria were not thrilled by his talk of democracy. He had a history; he had antecedents that were fresh in their memory. So, they rejected him at the polls. Obasanjo not only lost the West, he even lost in his own ward! Please stop turning history on its head.
Why did you Aliyu Tilde participate in the Umaru Yardua charade? You knew the man was terminally sick, you knew he did not sign the budget, you knew he was not coming back to rule Nigeria, but it was convenient to string us along, to turn governance on its head while Nigeria tittered on the brink of collapse. Would it have been the same thing if it was Good luck Jonathan who was the president at that time? Would you not have threatened hell and fire if he was smuggled into Nigeria in the middle of the night? Would you Aliyu Tilde not have joined others to scream marginalization if that was the case? You seem to me to be a man who cannot take the heat, so please get out of the kitchen.
And when you talked about the depletion of our foreign reserve, may I ask you what happened to the security vote during the last days of Umaru Yardua. How much was expended as parking fees for the presidential jet in Saudi Arabia? Who paid for all those prayer warriors and mallams on his behalf? Those mallams you brought from as far away as Mali and Senegal, Morocco and Afghanistan. Should I go on?
Will you be courageous like the fellows in Sahara reporters to expose the corruption of the Northern elites? Try that for once. It will be better that way. You want to impose a guilt complex on us, we refuse to succumb. I am not one to call you names, or encourage others to call you unprintable names, but I still maintain that if people like Mallam Ciroma who had been in government since pre independence can threaten the destabilization of Nigeria because they cannot get their way, then we have a right to raise all the points as we deem fit. The gloves are off.
Lest I forget, much as I do not support the greed and aggrandizement of Mrs. Ibru, the same thing can be said of others like Dr Saraki, your new blue eyed boy. He too stole from his depositors in Societe generale bank. He is yet to be prosecuted. Mrs. Ibru is a woman, who should be in jail for longer than was handed down in my opinion, but she did not have access to the treasury like others you and I know. No one is going to apologize to you for feeling the way you feel. No one is going to withdraw their opinion. Unlike you, we admit that corruption is universal. Much as we see General Buhari as a disciplined man, how about the case of the 53 suitcases in Nigeria? Do you recall that incident? As for drugs and trafficking, it is not an exclusive Southern thing. You may want to check with the United States department of Justice whatever happened to one of the DANTATA BOYS who was caught in trafficking in the 1980s. He benefited from the clause of TURN AROUND PROSECUTION. Of course when he got to Nigeria, he was let off the hook, even while Buhari executed 2 boys from the South. The USDOJ countered with the MUTUAL LEGAL; ASSISTANCE TREATY AND CANCELLED THE CLAUSE OF TURN AROUND PROSECUTION. I am not making this up. I know this for a fact. If you doubt me, please check with the dept. of justice.
Please climb down from your high horse. You do not sound intelligent with your puerile write up. No one is cuddling corrupt people. I am not exactly comfortable with this North South diatribe either, but I will not allow you to pollute the mind of others with your half truths. Sir Ahmadu Bello did not steal everything in site when he had an opportunity to do so. Rather, he laid a solid foundation for the North. Yet all the people who benefited from his hard work have chosen to steal loot and deprive their people of the basic things the old man did for his region. In as much as we have despicable people in the South, at least they still do things for their people. I call them BENEVOLENT THIEVES. May be their fellow rogues in the North will do the same and give the millions of Almajiris a chance in life.
You are too polarizing. No one will let you get away with your useless diatribe. You do not sound intelligent at all. I will also challenge you to a live debate at anytime and any venue of your choice. Once again, your angst is that someone is beating you at your own game. Buddy, ces’t la vie. That is the way it is. If your people who ruled for 38 years could not do anything for Nigeria and worse of all could not do anything for their own people, then something is wrong with that math. Their conduct in office was not kosher at all, and they need to stop this art of political reinvention. They do not need to do any summersault. They do not deserve to rule even their own households talk much of Nigeria. If the North cannot present better candidates than these expired leaders, then something is wrong. That is why the Boko haram people are revolting against the establishment. They are just fed up with the shenanigans of people like you. I see you as a rabble rouser who is bent on inciting the talakawa in the North against the South. You want to incite them to violence. We will not deter you from such irresponsible act. However do not forget that violence is not exclusive to one part of the country.. The consequences will affect all of us. I hope you are willing to commit your children to the consequences of your polarizing and toxic talk. We are fed up of hopelessness, we are fed up of living in a country without direction, we are fed up of people with a sense of” born to rule”. We are fed up of being ruled by expired leaders with a sense of entitlement. Nigeria is not a beached whale for them to strip bare.
I look forward to the date and time when you and I will have a live debate, preferably in New York and hopefully will be moderated by the folks in Sahara reporters.
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