President Muhammadu Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari's action of cancelling his attendance of the the flagging off of the Ogoni land clean-up exercise has yielded several critical analyses on social media and a top commenter on the issue namedMohnice has this to say:
If President Muhammadu Buhari had visited Ogoniland in Rivers state yesterday and an attempt was made on his life by the marauding Niger Delta Avenger and like-minds, two things are bound to happen and both leads to only one end. One is to take him out using snipers or whatever and then what? The army will wipe the entire Southeast and South South off the surface of the earth. The army, Air force, Navy and all other security forces will be given a 'shoot at sight order' to keep shelling the entire region until nothing moves again just like the genocide in Odi village.
The other is to make an attempt on his life and he escapes the assassination plot; either ways, the security agents will still kill everyone and everything. So, who wins?
No matter how it plays out, the northerners will immediately commence 'ethnic cleansing' against the millions of southerners in the north and the southerners will also annihilate the few northerners in the south and a full scale war that is worse than the Biafra or Boko Haram war will begin.
Every ethnic group will take up arm against the other and continue to kill one another till the whole country is littered with corpses. Then the international community will wade into the crisis in the name of quelling the fight and take our oil and lands away from us. Then another round of colonialization will begin in full gear and the few ones that are lucky to be alive will become slaves to the West. Biafra is lost and One Nigeria is also lost. So, who wins?
Then 60 years from now, one of the few lucky survivors of the war will author a book with the title: 'There was a country' or 'Buhari's visit to Ogoniland: The beginning of the end of Nigeria'; or something like that. Again, who wins?
But after a deep thought, I told myself that Buhari was right to cancel his visit and take the Shame that comes with it. He has clearly demonstrated a rare statesmanship that is worthy of emulation. The Buhari that I know is not worried about his life; he fought in the Biafra war 49 years ago.
He is a war General who has seen death on several occasions. He is only concerned about the millions of life that will be wasted because of him as well as the aftermath effect of such bloody situation on the over 170million lives of fellow Nigerians.
Thank you baba for saving our lives. You have just earned yourself the title of 'The father of a new Nigeria!
God bless Nigeria!!
God bless President Muhammadu Buhari GCFR!!!