2027: Atiku Abubakar’s Dangerous Desperation & Bigoted Contempt For The Unity Of Nigeria: The Danger Atiku Represents
By REVEREND SIMON OLADAPO
I will not tell anyone who to vote or not vote for. I won’t do that.
What I will do is offer my own assessment of each aspiring candidate, as I see each of them.
Let me start with Atiku.
Every politician has a right to aspire to any office they so desire, within the ambits of the law.
But the leverage of the law becomes dangerous when it negates sense and projects insensitivity.
Whatever Atiku had done from 1992, when the discredited Babangida’s “NEWBREED” fraud threw him into limelight, was of little relevance to me.
The alarm on Atiku was triggered when he showed up to contest the 2023 presidential election.
That single act proved two things about Atiku, two dangerous things that will never make me touch him with the longest pole.
- Dangerous Desperation
The first casualty of desperation is rationality. Desperate people do irrational things.
From 2015 to 2023, a Fulani Muslim presided over the country as president.
But Atiku does not see it as abnormal that another Fulani Muslim puts himself out to succeed another Fulani Muslim.
Desperate people are not rational.
Atiku did not consider it odd in a multi-ethnic and religiously pluralized society like Nigeria.
What matters to him is his ambition as guaranteed by the law. Whoever is hooked on morality can take a hike into the desert.
That 2023 shows Atiku as a man who cares only about himself. As long as the law protects his ambition whoever feels assaulted should head straight to hell.
I will never trust anyone with such disposition to lead me. Never!
- Embarrassing ignorance of the country.
For Atiku to put himself forward in 2023 to succeed Buhari, another Fulani Muslim like him, he projected himself as embarrassingly ignorant of the country he intends to lead.
The ignorance is embarrassing because he had been vice president of the country for eight years.
It is such a shame that after being vice president for eight years, he still failed to understand the political dynamics of the country.
How can he successfully lead a country he does not understand?
One of the reasons he teamed up with others to remove Goodluck Jonathan was because of this political dynamics.
It is not written, but guided and respected even more than written laws that power must oscillate between the north and the south.
By 2027, the south would have spent four years of the expected eight years.
Embarrassingly, Atiku, a Northerner, is still running around to contest in 2027.
The desperation of Atiku has surpassed that of the late herder from Katsina.
And two things are clear:
* Whatever is gotten by desperation is hardly used for public good
* Whatever a man gets through desperation will destroy him, but not before he has destroyed those around him.
The results of Buhari’s desperation, milder than Atiku’s, are still haunting the country today.
But is this an endorsement for Tinubu, a Southerner, to continue beyond 2027?
God forbid!
