RECRUIT 50 MILLION YOUTHS INTO THE ARMY - BOLA TINUBU.

ICHEOKU says “Recruit 50 million youths into the army to battle insecurity” should  automatically disqualify Ahmed Bola Tinubu from his presidential ambition. The statement portrays him as a thoughtless buffoon with a mind of an imbecile, whose mouth simply gushes out without any deliberative assessment. How could any seriously minded person, particularly someone who wants to be president of Nigeria and be in charge of over 200 million Nigerians lives, contemplate and utter such simplistic idiocy. 

At just 30.28 million (30,277,850) people serving in various armed forces in the world, all the armies of the world combined are not even up to 50 million in numerical strength,  but here is a man who wants to be president of Nigeria saying that 50 million Nigerians youths should be recruited into the Nigerian armed forces to help combat insecurity and Boko Haram insurgents. Not even China with the largest population in the world of about 1.6 billion people has a number that close with its 2.035 million armed forces personnel; ditto the richest country in the world, the United States of America, with about 350 million population and only 1.37 million armed forces personnel. 

But an impoverished Nigeria with a mere 200 million population and which cannot even conveniently pay, train and equip the less than 100,000 armed forces personnel it currently parades, will now, according to Ahmed Bolaji Tinubu, surge its armed forces personnel to 50 million people. ICHEOKU says really; and it must either be that Ahmed Bola Tinubu is putting something right up into his nostrils or he has no clue at all about anything, including a mathematical impossibility. 

Hopefully, he misspoke and what he said will be dismissed as an outburst borne out of frustration because of the parlous state of affairs in Nigeria caused by the worsening state of insecurity in the country. But if indeed he said it and actually meant it, then it definitely undercuts any argument in favor of his competency to preside over Nigeria as president. How can anyone with such a mindset or cavalier solution to serious security problems afflicting the country, be allowed to preside over a country as complex and polarized as Nigeria with so many intractable religious and tribal problems. May be he could also some day call for the ban christianity in Nigeria so that there will be no more conflict with Islamism.

What was he thinking and what state of mind was he in when he uttered such words or is he also dysfunctional upstairs just like the man he wants to succeed. And yes, speaking of Muhammadu Buhari being bereft of mental astuteness and here comes a total dullard, if measured by this statement, now scheming to take up residence at Aso Rock after Buubuu. ICHEOKU says Nigerians must by all means necessary, reject Ahmed Bola Tinubu presidential foray and prevent him with whatever it takes from ever materializing his presidential ambition. To do otherwise will be a case of Nigerians jumping from the frying pan Buhari into the open flaming fire of Tinubu as such a trade off will be worse than Hades and therefore greatly discouraged. 

But playing the devil's advocate, assuming that what Ahmed Bola Tinubu said is even somewhat tenable and a magical possibility, how does he plan to pay, train, equip and maintain the 50 million youths he wants recruited into the Nigerian armed forces? Where is the Nigerian resources which Ahmed Bola Tinubu wants to deploy in mission accomplishing this his utopian imbecility when even the richest nation on earth, the United States of America, sustains only 1.36 million soldiers. 

But it is Ahmed Bola Tinubu and he keeps disappointing Nigerians, one issue after another. Fulani terrorists are wrecking havoc in Nigeria and he has, for the most part, remained mum about it because he does not want to upset his Fulani overlords so that they may not put spanner in the works against his presidential ambition. Anyway, if the boycott of his 69th birthday celebration in Kano, which was passed off as bad weather related, is anything to deduce from, then hell will first freeze over before he will ever be elected president of Nigeria. Just say no to the crook, reject his presidential ambition. Ahmed Bola Tinubu is not good for Nigeria.