BE AFRAID! BE REALLY AFRAID!

.....of these men! If you are a Nigerian and you have been wondering why things are the way they are, have been the same, with little likelihood they are going to improve, then take a serious look at these men - they are the reason why. If you are a Nigerian and your life is unfulfilled and you seem not to have any opportunity to make a headway in life, these men caused it. If you are a Nigerian and you feel so shortchanged in life, look at the faces behind your woes. These are the men who have brought about your condition because of their hapless leadership which led Nigeria to no where. These men are the reason Nigeria has stunted. They all at one time or another, ruled Nigeria and Nigeria has nothing to show for their inept leadership. They also have one thing in common - they have no real love for their country otherwise they would have made some very serious effort at bettering the lot of most Nigerians. They will jet out to European cities at the slightest headache or dislocation of joint or heart murmur to consult with specialists over there and tell the millions of ordinary Nigerians without such capacity "you are on your own". They could care less if any medical facility exists to take care of the millions of malaria victims therein and where sometimes some sort of a structure exists, there would be no medicals available. During their rule, Nigeria realized over $1000Billion dollars USD and where is the tangible evidence of this mind boggling revenue at work for Nigerians? Really there is nothing, nothing seriously speaking, to show for this humongous revenue. Their failure to provide a responsible leadership caused all the decadence, decay, lack of infrastructure, joblessness and very low ebb of morality pervading the country of which corruption is the mother of them all. It is very shameful indeed!

Whereas Nigerians may cut Umaru Yaradua some slack for being a new kid on the block with the jury still out on him; and Abdulsalam Abubakar for his less than one year transitional rule; Ernest Shonekan for the shortness of his rule which was just for about four months; Muritala Ramat Mohammed for his tenuous six months rule; Aguiyi Ironsi for his eight months rule and finally Nnamdi Azikiwe for being merely a ceremonial president, all the others are guilty as charged and liable to Nigerians for their lacklustre leadership. They did not inspire anyone; they lacked vision; they had no template or blueprint for where they would like Nigeria to go; they did not provide a road-map for navigating the nation into anywhere spectacular; they did not properly account for their stewardship and each of them had gazillion amount of money wasted or misappropriated or proliferated. In other words, they all failed the country intoto!

You should be afraid of these men because some of them are still very much around like the ghost of Mississippi and have transformed themselves into puppet masters pulling all the strings in Nigeria. We need God's intervention over them and NOW that Nigeria may seriously commence her recovery project in all honesty. This is so because as long as these men still manipulate the Nigeria nation state, Nigeria will never take flight but will only continue to revolve on a rotary axis - it will remain all motion and no movement. Each of these men have an unfinished agenda. Each of these men is entrenched in his failed position and will not tolerate any seismic shift in the way of doing things lest his vast vested interest be infringed upon. Until their ignominious exit from the Nigeria political landscape, Nigeria will never move forward. Gerry Rawlings of Ghana foresaw a likewise spindle and hence the cleaning of house which he carried out in Ghana; which enormously helped in accelerating the Ghanaian nationhood as well as her economy. By his action, Gerry Rawlings put Ghana on the right trajectory and today, Ghana has become the destination for African-visiting tourists and investors from all over the world. That something like power/light does not go off any longer in Ghana is a testimony of what is possible where the ground is cleared of all these stumbling blocks. How can a government spend over $16Billion dollars USD on power and yet blackouts still pervades the entire country? The other day, it was reported in the newspapers that power went off while the President, Umaru Yaradua was giving a keynote address somewhere? This defies all logic and Nigerians should start asking the tough questions and NOW! Would it take a Gerry Rawlings-like intervention to save Nigeria from itself? Sometimes it appears that the situation is becoming hopeless and pandemic that it is no longer coupists that are corrupt but even academia as typified by the disgraced former Minister of Health, Professor of Pediatric, Mrs Grange and the 300million Naira embezzlement scandal. If only Nigeria will be fortunate enough to witness the Ghana-type epiphany! Where is Nigeria's Gerry Rawlings, one may ask? General Babatunde Idiagbon under Buhari regime proved that it is possible to sanitize Nigeria; that decency is achievable in the Nigerian society once a leadership is able to motivate the populace and shows them a positive direction in that regard.

However, the two horned Lucifer among them is the medicine man of Otta, Babalawo Aremu Olusegun Obasanjo - twice was he entrusted with piloting the ship state of Nigeria and twice did he run it aground. First was during his first missionary journey between 13th February 1976 and October 1st 1979 misadventure when he allegedly made away with then $2.8Billion dollars USD missing oil money; with which as suspected, he established Obasanjo Farms in Otta; and most recently from May 30th 1999 to May 7th 2007 during which period a yet to be determined amount, however in excess of $16Billion dollars USD as has so far been revealed by the probe of the power sector, has not been accounted for. He also established Bells University during this period, and built himself a "presidential library" which contains nothing of significant note and also a 250 room mansion and this is a man who was worth less than $200dollars USD at the time he took office in May 30th 199. For all his foibles, reckless abuse of trust, flagrant abuse of human rights of Nigerians as well as economic pillage of the country, Nigeria, the medicine man of Otta, Babalawo Aremu Olusegun Obasanjo is hereby declared by Icheoku as an enemy combatant of Nigerians! Shame on you OBASANJO! OLUSEGUN OBASANJO, ICHEOKU SAYS, SHAME ON YOU!