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Who is in the garden?
A seventy+man!
That the Nigerian President, Mr Mohammed Buhari is ill is no longer news. It is stale news.
What I like about his illness is the fact that we are using it to show the rest of the world how caring Nigerians could be.
Check out how many government officials have been to see him. Maybe the nursery school rhyme would have to be changed to,
Pussycat, pussycat;
Where have you been;
I’ve been to London;
To see Mr President.
The Britishers are saints.
Yes,they are.
Flash back to Buhari’s first coming between 1984 and 1985. He combined with the late Idiagbon to terrorise Nigeria and Nigerians.
My people had never seen their kind of brutal nationalism before. It was as if Nigerians had offended the duo.
One curious thing was that they even tried to carry their sara, offering, beyond the mosque.
Abi, didn’t they?
They did in the Umaru Dikko case. Umaru was a spokesman of the Shagari government .He was the prophet who foretold that Nigerians were yet to be eating from the dustbin. See, if some Nigerians could find food in the dustbin today, wouldn’t they eat?
But the problem is that there are no foods in the dustbin anymore. Is it not people who are well fed that will throw their leftovers away to the dustbin?
Umaru Dikko is now in the dustbin of history.
Nigerians are hungry!
Back to Mallam Umaru, when Buhari and co overthrew the democratically elected Shagari government, he found his way to the UK.
But the Buhari government wanted him to come back to Nigeria to answer to charges, both cooked up and real.
They knew that, being a military junta, they did not stand a chance with the British. So,they decided to adultnap good old Umaru.
They planned with some Israeli agents to steal Dikko from England. They had nearly succeeded, but they failed.
Naturally, the issue led to a diplomatic furore. The British had been looking for a way of curtailing Nigerians’ movement to the UK.
They used that as an excuse to introduce a visa regime. Before the Buhari escapade, Nigerians did not need to procure visa when travelling to the UK. That was one of the advantages of Nigeria being a member of the Commonwealth of nations.
Is it not curious that the same Mr Buhari is now at the mercy of the British?
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