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Mr. Yar' Adua Can You Betray Obasanjo, Betray PDP...Please?

Prince Charles Dickson

Jos, Plateau Nigeria

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too... If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue? Or walk with Kings — nor lose the common touch? If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you? If all men count with you, but none too much? If you can fill the unforgiving minute? With sixty seconds' worth of distance run? Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it? And — which is more — you'll be a Man, my son!?~ Rudyard Kipling ~ I have in the run up to the General Elections written about all the frontrunners, I have barred my mind on Buhari, as possibly a good President we may never have after all, despite his human rights record, all the Soyinka reminders, all the anti-Christain sentiments, I believe he may have been different but I doubt very much if he could get it. In a sentence I felt his problem was or is that of being with the masses and not having the support of the elite, and in this rigged environment of ours, that counts for much. Regarding Pat Utomi, I felt he had a grasp of the issues, a touch of solution, but sadly the system was not ready for his likes...Uzor Kalu, Bafarawa, Okotie and others...may have just filled the blanks and had no realistic chance. For Mallam Atiku, I knew his case was fiat accompli, the moment his battle with Baba Iyabo started, to conquer a man like Obj, one needed more than the courts, and accusations to beat. He should have come out clean, clean as in CLEAN and poured as much dirt that Mr President hid under his righteous Agbada. Well he must have learnt a lot from the battle, whichever way it goes. The battle for Nigeria is now clearly between Yar'adua and Buhari, and all things being riggable, Yar'adua may have actually won it. All things regarding this election being a do or die affair according to Obj, then Yar' adua may have won the do, while others die. Infact I recall telling a group of friends after Yar' adua emerged that when a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective, rather than do this, we spent time with Atiku in court, we spent more time arguing if Yar 'adua was sick or was going to die. Well the die is caste, before I go far, I beg not to be misconstrued that Yar'adua has won, but PDPically speaking, it would be a miracle for him to loose, and oh yes miracles still happen. Yar'adua in this hatred filled campaign has proved a gentleman, whether anyone likes this or not, we cannot take it away from him, he has proved it beyond doubt, while his party boss, Ali, and party lord, Obj engaged in mouth washing, Kolanut chewing, and the opposition kept opening can of worms, caterpillars and snakes, he has remained calm. This man has even on occasions in few words called his predecessor a failure by his talk on NEPA and its epileptic power. In this era of dirty politics, mudslinging and all manner of revelations, he has remained himself. Most of all the accusations and criticism against him has been watery, for me as a person as lame as it sounds I am indifferent to him as a person. I have asked how come he has not stolen government money, the easiest money to steal and get away with it. How come he has not mismanaged resources, what makes him different? All the crap about royal blood and what not, let us not forget that he is not the only one with such blood who was a Governor...But until such a time, his records are clean, Yar'adua has refused to abuse Atiku nor Buhari, he has not exchanged verbal verbosity with the Pats, Okoties, we even know now that the man was preparing to go back to the school, pick his chalk, make some handouts whether he sells them or not another matter. He has not spent a fortune since the campaign, he was just on his own while the likes of mighty IBB, money spinning Odili, sycophant Abdullahi Adamu, AGIP Gana, Generals Guasu, Marwa and co. thought they had gotten the ticket. He governed over a State that EFFC either refused to visit or there was no need to visit. Integrity, accountability and honest wise he matched his closest rival. Even his silence is scary, he was never part of the kids on the bloc of Governors club, but for when he declared his asserts, he never courted the press, he said little...simply put, to noosing Journalist, he remains a mystery. In Nigeria where we don't believe anyone is honest until proven otherwise, some of us even think that it is a matter of time before we discover his loot box. The painful news is that we never may find that with just days to the General Elections. I must say that I know very little about Mr. Yar'adua, but from few acquaintances, from what I have seen I want to say that he is not a yes-man, a bootlicker, brown-noser, his not toady, neither is he a lickspittle, you cannot call him a flatterer, flunky, I doubt if he will be a lackey to anyone, a spaniel, PDP's doormat, some stooge for the US or UK, cringer, this man certainly wont suck-up, even within the PDP, people know this much and may use Obasanjo as the reason to ditch him by not rigging him, good.

Is Yar'adua then a saint, is he infallible, is he the answer, these are questions only the Almighty can answer. In the next couple of lines however I will pose questions that Yar'adua can indeed answer. If Mr. Yar'adua becomes President can he and would he betray the PDP, would he put both Obj and Atiku into cell block 1 and 2 of the PTDF renovated Kirikiri Prisons if they are found guilty of abuse of office. What will Mr. Yar'adua do to caricatures like Ahmadu Ali, Adedibu, clowns like the Ubas, will the Yar'adua presidency probe the power disaster of the last eight years? Except a miracle will President Yar'adua reform the reform, is it possible that he will retrieve all those oil blocs that Obasanjo distributed like sallah rams, will he put all the real corrupt men of Obj to the knife like xmas fowls. Will he clean the 'cleaners'? Recently I was privy to two cases, one at the ICPC, the other at the EFCC, in the first one a top government official was invited by ICPC chaps, and after he left, he told someone that the chaps had asked him to 'comply' or... At the EFCC another similar case, infact in this one the accused parted with some hundreds in thousands and off the hook he went.

Will Yar'adua use the EFFC on friends and family if need be, will he restore our lost glory, will he facilitate the return of 'Israeli' Nigerians to the promised land called Nigeria, will this fulani, hausa man from Katsina be fair to all, will he fire the crooks that wrote the history of PDP, and in doing so rewrite the story. Will he go far away from Obasanjo, Is it possible that he will not bring same old stories back. We hope that we will not see the likes of Gana, Fani Kayode that will call yellow, blue? Is it possible that we will not fear another Andy Uba as Chief of domestic affairs? Will this PDP material not have the stains, spots and traits of his party, can Yar'adua truly sanitize the polity, govern with respect for the masses, the opposition and still keep his head up...Can this man walk in the shadow of the valley of the death called PDP and Baba's men and not fear any evil? The questions are many, answers we never may know, as time alone, time alone will answer.

If Mr. Yar'adua answers just a fraction of this questions with conviction, if he can look eyeball to eyeball into the storm, Nigeria may know calm, he may have proved skeptics wrong, he would have indeed betrayed PDP, betrayed Obasanjo, betrayed haters of Nigeria, betrayed the cabal that has denied this nation of its peace. Please Yar'adua betray them, betray them, betray the crooks, let them know that you are from them but not with them, then and only then would those that rigged you in truly regret, then would those who truly voted you have made their vote count. As the votes are cast few days from now, I wish you Unknown Yar'adua, Stern face Buhari, Intellectual Pat Utomi, Commonsensical Bafarawa, Meverick Orji, Pastor Okotie, Allah's grace, may the masses vote count. And if it does, and you get it, Yar'adua please betray them all. For: Center For Free Speech And Expression (CFES) Public Policy Market...Marketplace Of Ideas Yours In The Service Of Nation...For the Good Of All And In High Regards...

I Remain Prince Charles Dickson