an ultimatum to President Goodluck Jonathan to
bring an end to insurgency in all its
manifestations and produce the abducted Chibok
school girls before the end of October, 2014 or
forget his 2015 ambition." – culled from
ThisDay Newspaper, August 11th, 2014
How can Goodluck Jonathan end Boko Haram
with this approach of threats and political witch
hunting by this desperate group of #BornToRule
people all in a quest for #2015? Our nation is
witnessing Political insurgency not religious
insurgency and these same Elders are not
willing to corporate with Government to finding
a lasting solution. All they are concerned about
is taking over power or pushing GEJ aside with
threats, intimidation and blackmail.
Having failed through series of bombings and
several other tactics, it is understandable that
the #ChibokGirls abduction was their perfect
game plan to cajole and threaten GEJ with
ultimatum. It is now very clear that they intend
to use #ChibokGirls as a manifesto issue for
2015. Those of us who have always suspected
that the #Chibok abduction was never carried
out by Shekau just got additional proof of our
earlier assertions.
The #Chibok abduction was carried out as a last
resort to tarnish and malign the GEJ
administration by these desperados from
Northern Nigeria. I have never seen where a
president overcame insurgency especially a
politically motivated one for that matter without
the support and corporation of the people of that
zone. We still remember vividly how the Elders
and people of the Niger Delta rose-up together to
support their Political Elites to solve the problem
ofmMilitancy that was plaguing their land then.
Now some power hungry people are giving GEJ
an ultimatum to solve insurgency and produce #
ChibokGirls abduction that they themselves
organized. What an irony.
You will all recall that when the
abduction took place some
hypocritical Northern elders and two
other groups met GEJ and offered to
reach out to Boko Haram leader
Abubakar Shekau to secure the
release of the 276 abducted girls.
You will all recall that when the abduction took
place some hypocritical Northern elders and two
other groups met GEJ and offered to reach out to
Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau to secure
the release of the 276 abducted girls. The options
they tabled included either payment of ransom or
the release of some detained members of Boko
Haram as a form of prison swap.
The President gave them a listening ear thinking
these were genuine patriotic Nigerians. The
Groups even said if the options were acceptable
to Government they might meet with a team from
the insurgents at a neutral ground to negotiate.
But when the President realized that these are a
group of insincere people who just want
dangerous Boko Haram elements in custody
released so that more girls could later be
kidnapped and one day they now ask him to
resign, he turned down their hypocritical
options. Despite the fact that President Goodluck
Jonathan ruled out the possibility of swapping
abducted schoolgirls for members of the Islamic
sect, Boko Haram detained by security agencies
across the country, some of these Northern
leaders have continuously kept on agitating for
the Federal Government to accept the insurgents'
proposal.
How can a President with a sound mind accept
such a satanic proposal? These leaders kept
using blackmail phrase like "no sacrifice was
too much to #BringBackOurGirls."
I was particularly impressed when one of the
parents of the abducted girls, Ishaya Abama,
said: "government should only take decisions
that would result in total eradication of the
activities of the Islamic sect." This is how
patriotic citizens should talk not these satanic
so-called Northern Elders who just want to
plunge our nation into more crisis by realizing
dangerous Boko Haram elements in custody. I
have observed that, these so-called Northern
Elders do not love or care about the #
ChibokGirls, all they want is maximum anarchy
and total destruction so that may be GEJ can be
overthrown by the military because if not why
will they ask for the release of dangerous Boko
Haram elements who can later kidnap
thousands of other girls?
My question to these crazy elements parading
themselves as so called Northern Elders is what
part of the Constitution of the Federal Republic
of Nigeria is this their ultimatum coming from?
I will like them to enlighten me on this Section
of the Constitution from where they are giving
GEJ this Ultimatum.
There is no doubt that by the provision of the
1999 constitution as amended, a Nigeria
President can only spend maximum of eight
years in office. Section 137 (1) (b) of the 1999
constitution as amended has spoken to the
President already, so no need wasting your
spittle on the subject matter of GEJ seeking a
2nd term as that can only be decided by GEJ's
decision to contest and the Nigerian electorate.
GEJ has the constitutional right to seek re-
election. These reckless and senseless so-called
Northern elders keep making unconstitutional
statements. What a pity.
How can you give a Jonathan who didn't create
Boko Haram an ultimatum? Why haven't you
given your boy "Shekau" an ultimatum?
How can you give a Jonathan an ultimatum
when you and your people are not willing to
expose your fellow brothers sponsoring Boko
Haram or those participating in it?
Before you can successfully give GEJ an
ultimatum of forgetting about 2015 elections,
you people should first #BringBack all the
innocent people of North East killed in your
quest to take-over power and also give the
Governors of the North East this same
ultimatum.
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