Hottestgistnaija.com
Almost a year ago, during the formative stages of APC, I had warned Nigerians that PDP will not go down without a fight. I had written then that PDP and its supporters will not go down without pulling down the house if the need be. I remember I warmed APC leaders, to put their acts together, gird their loins and prepare for the great task ahead.
Today, I know that what is playing itself out of the National Assembly will not be a surprise to APC and I know they have the common sense to defeat the remaining vestiges of the incubus of PDP built for 16 years in Nigeria. I know also that PDP’s foot soldiers and supporters are still crying and rolling on the ground cursing the day APC was formed, the day President Buhari was born, the day he picked the ticket of APC, the day he won the Presidential elections and the day he was sworn in as the president of Nigeria. They did not in their wildest imagination believe that APC will snatch the feeding bottles from their huge mouths . Consequently these men and women of years of the locusts find it difficult to come to terms that it is all over for them, and no longer business as usual.
One man who has refused to accept the realities on the ground in Nigeria of today is one Okey Ndibe from Anambra State who lives in the United States. Okey is a well known sympathizer of PDP but he cleverly tries to deceive the public by pretending to be neutral in matters of Nigeria politics. On few occasions I have joined issues with Okey Ndibe to be a man he should and take a stand. Okey believes that there are no ideological differences between PDP and APC and concluded that APC and PDP are the same. I remember I had challenged Okey Ndibe to come out clean and tell the world that he works for PDP even though he pretends to be neutral.
When Okey started derailing from joining the change agents to rescue Nigeria, I noticed that he lost a lot of followers especially on Sahara Reporters. When he was thorough and genuine he had many followers but the moment Jonathan and Peter Obi’s Money began to flow in, this man started dancing naked in the public, and gradually his admirers like my humble self ran away with great speed. Regrettably I saw that his admirers reduced to less than 20 from an Olympian height of sometimes more than 200 followers on Sahara Reporters.
In his latest latest piece with the caption, “Buhari Disappearing Presidency” just about four weeks of Buhari’s Presidency Okey says “President Buhari is dangerously close toleaving Nigerians disillusioned” According to Okey: “It is remarkable that in one month as president, Mr Buhari has not laid out a single policy proposal on any of the major national issues that concerns Million who voted for him”
Now, Okey may not know this: What former president Jonathan failed to achieve in six years, President Buhari has achieved in just two weeks. Work started the day President Buhari was sworn and Okey cannot remain in the United States and thinks he will know everything that is going on here. A lot is going on here which this man who refused to relocate to Nigeria to help may not know. For the mere fact that Buhari emerged the President-Elect on March 28, 2015 changed a lot of things in Nigeria and put spanner in the works for those who looted and destroyed Nigeria in the past 16 years. In one fell swoop the International Community restored confidence in Nigeria Leadership and asked President Buhari to come to the G8 Summit with his shopping list. I am 100% sure he will get a lot of help especially in the area of looted funds. Huge information on how we got to this sorry pass and how we can get out of it has been released to President Buhari by those who believe in him. The moment it became obvious that Buhari is coming on stage the equation drastically changed in Nigeria and as I write this, the leakages and loopholes within the system are being plugged. Impunity and Corruption are gradually taken the back seat because a good man is in the saddle. Some people are even returning stolen funds to the presidency without anybody forcing them to do so. His body language alone has send jitters to the corrupt people in Nigeria.
That Okey Ndibe is in a haste to begin to assess a government that is barely just one month old is no news to me. What is news to me is that He prefers Jonathan’s PDP than Buhari’s APC because he fed extensively on PDP’s inept leadership. Okey pretended to be offering solutions to Nigerian’s problems but in action and deeds he worked so hard to earn a living. They tell me that Okey Ndibe is a professor and if it is indeed true , I expect that he knows that there is no magic in governance especially governing a complex country like Nigeria. Given the enormity of the damage inflicted on Nigeria in the past 16 years by the PDP , I expect that a professor of anything with full dose of Western education should know better. Leaders’ hands are always heavy and people like Okey should provide support at a time like this and not this unwarranted criticism that cannot be separated from primordial sentiments. Okey Ndibe is not alone if you go through the reactions from his latest article.
Lots and lots of those Jonathanians especially from the South East and South are still bitter and angry that their Father Christmas (former President Jonathan) lost the 2015 elections. They are still sulking and whining and you can see it from the reactions in Okey’s piece. His fake followers, I mean the losers 2015 presidential elections are on rampage and this ‘professor’ should not see the shameful development as a plus.
