AN ENCOUNTER WITH GENERAL BURATAI, A SOLDIERS' SOLDIER

About two weeks ago, I read two different statements by the National chairman of the APC which bordered on the trial of the Senate President and his seat as the chairman of NASS.

The Chairman of a ruling party is not someone who should talk without adequate clarity, purpose and choice of words but must be someone who puts into perspective the present, past and future without seemingly doing the bidding of any power above.

Let me take Chief Oyegun down memory lane if it’s blurry to him. Has he forgotten the sweet words of appreciation he showered on this same Saraki during the occasion of the birthday celebration of Her Excellency, Mrs Toyin Saraki just after the entrance of Saraki and his G5 Team into the APC?

The Chairman eulogised Saraki like a god, thanking him for taking the step to leap into APC and as if this wasn’t enough, Chief Oyegun became a story-teller by narrating all the good things Saraki had done for him – from the lift he gave him on his jet to personal gifts and all.

I’m not blaming the position of Chief Oyegun for quickly forgetting the magnificence of Saraki as a party member but my question is, on whose authority did he give that interview?
A party is not a party without the people in it, the same position of ‘I can do and undo’ was what led to the disgraceful exit of Bamangar Tukur of PDP. APC is a conglomerate of many parts and the chairman’s position is only a product of his imagination and I want to believe that the Chairman didn’t mean those statements.

Nigeria has a big problem at hand and the people at the top are yet to wake up to the realities of what is really happening.

Oyegun should be worried about the present state of thing. Going by the elections APC has lost since December, he won’t be a national chairman of a ruling party by 2019 if something serious is not done.

There are times to play politics and there are times to govern. If the Chairman wants attention, why can’t he criticise the president as I believe that will border on more lives than the case of the Senate President.

Is anybody in contention of what the exit of Saraki will do to the party? It’s a signal that APC is a party where dreams die, it’s a party controlled by power mongers, it’s a party where members are sacrificed for the interest of some very few.

If the APC national chairman is dying to talk, at least he could and should have chosen to talk on issues Nigerians are greatly affected by- such as the sky rocketing of prices of commodity, fuel scarcity, joblessness and what have you.

We won’t always agree on things happening in the party but as party men, we have the duty to carry ourselves along and protect our interest and we must always protect the future.
Leaving the party chairman alone, I would wish to talk about the ongoing trial of the Senate President at the CCT.

We, from Kwara are known to be law abiding and peace loving people and one very phenomenal attribute that we love displaying is our love, support and solidarity for the Saraki family which dates back to many decades.

The easiest way to offend us is to malign the Saraki dynasty and this ongoing trial is evident enough to be a sort of score settling and political tussle from some quarters, going by the shoddy and lackadaisical way the Chairman of CCT has been behaving.

It is crystal clear that the chairman is under a bond which is life dependent on him and the way the government lawyer has been conducting himself, sanity requires us to ask why the vigorous amendments if indeed they have a tenable case against Saraki?

Another question we should as is – who is clean in Nigeria and why convict someone based on unproven allegations and statements of some souls on leash?

Nigeria won’t get better by the overbearing of politics which has taken center-stage.

Nigeria won’t grow by politically killing our best hands solely for political score counts.

Nigeria won’t heal by not making good use of those who fought for this present administration after all, everyone has a past and no one is ‘Mr Clean’?


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Alhaji Sulyman Kayode MAJA is a chieftain of the APC

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