MY CANDID NASIHA TO GEN. BUHARI.
Assalamu Alaikum
The Humble People's General.
I know I have access to your privy but this is meant for others to learn also.
The prophet -peace be upon him- told one of the most honest and
truthful of his companions Abu Zar Algafary: "oh Abu Zar, I truly love
for you what I love for myself. I indeed see that you are weak so never
accept to lead even two people and never accept safekeeping of the
orphans wealth'
An honest and candid advice from the prophet that
is still valid today for any leader who's weakness borders on
leadership qualities.
The reason for Abu Zar's weakness has
nothing to do with his credibility or truthfulness. Never! The prophet
was narrated as saying: "there is nobody under the shadows of trees or
bare sun that is more honest in speech than Abu Zar"
Abu Zar -
May Allah be pleased with him- is ascetic and inmaterialistic. Abu Zar
is incorruptible. And yet he is not suitable for leadership.
I am
not claiming to be even by an atom's weight anything close to our noble
prophet, yet I am encouraged to give you these same advice by the
virtue that you are not also close to Abu Zar in piety. We are living in
a time of great tribulations and fitnah especially for this Ummah
because of our collective iniquities, ignorance of religious
instructions and the love of Dunyah.
Sir, your weakness is not
in your past impeccable record of accountability of public wealth and
the fight against corruption and indispiline. Your weakness is in your
inability to control men compounded further by your strict and obsessive
rejection of corruption.
Don't be surprised. You may need to
understand that Islam being a pragmatic religion allows the use of
Zakkat and public wealth as an instrument to pacify and lure influential
people for the sake of rightouness, peace and stability. In modern
governance today it translate into the security vote.
Thus men
are also controlled by money. So if your policy of governance is
obsessibly centered on sealing tight the use of money you will have
great problem with men. An Arab poet said: "a fool cannot be the leader
of his people but the true leader of the people must feign foolishness".
It's convenient for your ardent supporters to quote copiously
from the annals of history your great achievements but when your
failures and weaknesses were pointed out they say that was in the past.
Is the lessons of past history only good for the positive achievements?
Doesn't that also explains our incessant failures?
Your
Excellency, good intentions are never enough. In the past, because of
your clean records and straightforwardness you were lured by men who
want only the vanities Dunya to uproot a young democracy on the caprices
of fighting corruption. Corruption is no doubt an evil but there is a
more monstrous evil than corruption. That is turmoil and insecurity.
Peace and stability are the most important part of governance that no
price is to high for them.
The lack of peace, stability and
security is the major predicament of this nation since independence. So
when you were naively used by men to derail one, that is the greatest
disservice you committed to the nation the ills of which we are yet to
recover from. Do you truly believe Allah is still not in cognizance of
that? You were lead to uproot a duly elected leader and incasserate him
for close to two years knowing fully well that he has no charge of even
the corruption that was labeled against him. Yes, Shagari was the leader
and therefore he bears all the responsibility of misdeeds in his
government, so also you were a leader and you should bear all the
responsibility of derailing the peace and stability of governance in
this country as a consequence of that putsch.
You weakness in
control of men became evident when the very people that used you to
revolt against a constituted authority came back to uproot you from the
seat of power. Your own kinsmen without a gun cocked in your defense.
Today the corruption you were deceived to fight against has reached
unimaginable level coupled with the worst state of insecurity and peace
in the nation. There was just recently an attempt on your life like many
of us.
All this because you the honest people that are given the
privilege of strengthening the Armed forces left it to meddle in
politics. We thus lost everything. Neither the power nor the security.
A believer is not stung from the same hole twice. Men used your
innocence before to get power and dump you. Please be sensible today.
Some other men still want to use you to get power and surely they will
dump you again. You don't share the same philosophy at all. Even though
as I explained later, your obsession and philosophy of fighting
corruption is not the priority of Nigeria today. What Nigeria needs
utmost now is peace and stability. This can only be achieved when the
religious ethnic and regional divide is tamed. And you can only tame it
with people without much precedence. People without much following. Yet
people that are constructive and have the ability to control men.
If Sardauna today is alive in your situation he will never contest for
the presidential seat because of his deep understanding of what the
nation needs. He will step down for a more acceptable younger person.
It's on record that Sardauna even at the age of under 60 said he was not
going to contest again preparing his only house in Rabah for
retirement.
I'll give you a similitude to buttress my point of
priority. A person seriously injured and fractured from a road traffic
accident when brought to the emergency room, the first priority of the
doctors is to secure an intravenous line. Meaning get a drip set working
into his veins to protect his vital organs like the heart and kidneys
from the effects of shock and loss of blood. The fractures even though
serious and the source of the blood loss may take days and weeks before
they are even attended to beside the superficial dressings.
Nigeria now needs peace and stability first. Then we talk of good
governance later even though it's the source of the predicament we are
facing.
The present government has already charged the situation
and played the religious divide to it's advantage. It's in circulation
now, a SW pastor calling on Christians and the church to vote Jonathan
as their only Savior. This religious card will be used to cover for his
deficiency in governance.
Your Excellency, you should
understand too, that many if not most of your supporters are also
looking up to you to protect them from the onslaught on their religion
and region. This also the Christian will never believe the otherwise.
Therefore the stage is set for religious confrontation which is the
least the nation needs.
What we need as a priority is peace and stability.
From my view if APC can support as an example Ameachi or
Okorocha/Kwankwaso or Elrufai or tambuwwal ticket and the PDC will have
Ukpabio/Muazu or Ribadu or Shekaru, the next four years will. - insha
Allah - witness stability both in the north and south. And the electoral
body will get the necessary infrastructure that subsequently the next
election will be free and fair and the true reflection of Nigerians.
If you may ask, why can't this same peace be achieved with you and another Christian running mate?
Gen. you have antagonist, and they are many and also as ardent as your
supporters. Your supporters have the biggest proportion of the
underprivileged of the society which is the petrol that can be easily
ignited by the slightest spark. The spark will be when you're declared
the loser. And you know you can very well lose if the Christians follow
their church -and why not in this era of mediocrity.
On the other
hand if Jonathan comes back. BH will be real not the political one we
see. The turmoil will engulf the whole country not only the north. That
is why I also call on PDP to present some other candidates.
My
Brother in Islam, please listen to the words of wisdom. And don't
follow the whims of the riff raff. Before they used you the first time
to disrupt the second republic, my father advised you against it. Today I
am also advising you against contesting in the 2015 presidential
elections because you will be used to ignite the nation -a dream well
orchestered several years ago- and also be used by bad people as a
ladder to grab regional and local powers.
I rest my case here.
My best regards and condolence to your recent loss.
May Allah guide you and protect you from the evil men and the jinn. Amin.
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