Written by KEMKA S. IBEJI
An Igbo adage holds that only cowards blame their mother in the presence of her assaulter. This is an attribute of the weak, foolish and powerless. If you are a strong man or woman, whenever your mother offends someone, the person comes to you to plead for restitution or amends from your mother. Only the weak is not thought about in such situations. The mother of the weak is like a childless woman and the weak lives as if he or she is inexistent. This same reality is suffered by children. Most times, poor children resort to crying as they are helpless while their mother is assaulted and abused. Only a bad and unreasonable child goes to play when his or her mother is being manhandled by someone else.
All Igbos in the PDP at the moment are weaklings and bad children who are out for play while their mother is not just merely manhandled but raped mercilessly. This can only describe an imbecilic child.
I read the campaign preludes of Atiku Abubakar, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso Kwankwaso and Tambuwal. I also have read and listened to the model of Abubakar Saraki. I simply can tell the world that these men are liars and deceit merchants who are bent on destabilising Nigeria and making the citizens unstable and wretched. The worst shame is seeing some Igbos who call themselves political leaders campaigning for these treacherous beings.
It is important to remind you all, in case you have forgotten, that Atiku Abubakar, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, Abubakar Bukola Saraki and. Aminu Tambuwal were all members of the PDP for the 16 years of PDP rule. They are also members of the APC for this current administration. Their argument of deceit that the last PDP administration was from the South hence their turn for the ticket is senseless, deceitful, immodest, unreasonable and desperately despicable.
If turns should mean anything power, the North have had their full term with President Muhammadu Buhari irrespective of the short stop of President Umar Musa Yaradua. So why will anyone from the North be angling for power again in Nigeria in 2023?
If turn also means ticket or flag bearing, PDP presidential ticket was handled by Atiku Abubakar in 2019 which made it an all northern presidential election in 2019. Even if PDP means Nigeria, is it not enough that the North has ruled with President Buhari for 8 years even as the PDP presidential flag was hoisted to the election grounds in 2019 by Atiku Abubakar?
It is significant to remind all Nigerians across the world that the 2019 election was an all-northern election and that exclusivity was allowed for a reason. This was also done to the Southwest in 1999. There is no reason why 2023 cannot be an all-Southeastern election. Absolutely no reason to deny the Southeast their turn.
Atiku Abubakar, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, Bukola Saraki and Tambuwal were all beneficiaries of the 16 years of the PDP rule and have also enjoyed the best of PDP patronage and support for the 8 years of being an opposition party. Atiku Abubakar was the Vice President of Nigeria for 8 solid years under the PDP government. As opposition party, Atiku Abubakar has been the Presidential Candidate of the PDP in the last election – 2019. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso was Governor of Kano State for 8 years under PDP as the ruling party. Bukola Saraki was Governor of Kwara State for 8 strong and undisturbed years under the PDP government and was also a presidential aspirant of the PDP in 2019. Aminu Tambuwal was Deputy Chief Whip of the National Assembly and the Speaker of the Federal House of Representatives of Nigeria for 12 years and Governor of Sokoto State now for 4 years all under the PDP. These are people who some Igbo weaklings and badly behaved children are lining up in their hinds for 2023.
Turning over to the APC’s 8 years in power, Atiku Abubakar, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, Abubakar Bukola Saraki and Aminu Tambuwal were leading members of the nPDP that moved into the APC prelude to 2015. Under the APC, Atiku Abubakar was a Presidential Aspirant in 2015. And PDP Presidential Candidate in 2019.
In 2015, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso was a presidential aspirant and a Senator at last while Bukola Saraki was the Senate President of Nigeria in 2015 under the APC and a presidential aspirant of the PDP in the 2019 election. Aminu Tambuwal was a short time Speaker of the Federal House of Representatives in the APC. He also became Governor of Sokoto State for 4 years in APC and Governor again for 4 years now under the PDP.
These are bad mannered men who are arguing that it is still the turn of the North under the PDP to rule Nigeria in 2023 again after the 8 years of President Muhammadu Buhari and after PDP candidacy of Atiku Abubakar in 2019.
Now they have turned to saying that the PDP needs victory and not zoning. So when Atiku was given the flag in 2019 they did not need victory? When it was north-north tickets in 2019 and Southwest-Southwest tickets in 1999, there was no victory?
It is very symbolic that these folks do not want Nigeria in peace and are planning for anything and everything to destabilise Nigeria in 2023.
And for the Igbos who are fighting for the Presidency in 2023 to go back to the North arguing for the return of the PDP to power, it is important to remind them that their actions are only describable by imbecility and lunacy. How on earth can someone live in all your worlds and still controls you? It is very clear that these pitiable beings from the Southeast are only suffering from hate against President Muhammadu Buhari when they called him Fulani. Those who they are supporting now are also Fulani.
And I dare ask; what is wrong in Sen. Pius Anyim becoming the President of Nigeria in 2023 from the PDP? Why can’t the PDP ensure all-south presidential election in 2023 as it was done in 2019 for the North and 1999 for the Southwest?
In all the descriptions of the Igbos in the PDP who are presently supporting the North for president or looking aloof while the North chase power for 2023, they are either weaklings, badly behaved children, saboteurs, haters of Ndị Igbo and the peace of Nigeria, political imbeciles, Judases who are out to sale Ndị Igbo, or the biblical Esau who sold his birth right for a porridge. They have filled out to take money from these northerners and sell Igbos. And in all, there must be shame on them!
