The country is under siege, my people. There are dark shadows crouching over us, shrouding our eyes. Yes, we are at war with our own. And like cannibals, our brothers and sisters have taken up arms against their innocent siblings for no just cause. And our morale is low. Our spirits, downcast. Deep down, we are bleeding.
Our situation is especially tricky and sad because our leaders are making effort , doing what they can to solve our problems but our own people who should help in nation building are the very ones who are sabotaging our leaders' effort , for the selfish reason that they want power. Not just political power but, religious power as well.
And so they go about destroying their defenseless siblings in order to make the nation chaotic, so that they would rip power from the hands of those we democratically elected to lead us. And here, I am talking about Boko Haram, not the North as a whole. As, we all know, Boko Haram have made it open that their aim is to overthrow the government and subsequently impose sharia.
It has always been the method from the ancient times, that the power hungry employed in order to seize control of people: create chaos, disorganize the people, turn them against their leaders and then, strike at their hearts and rip them out and then, totally control the people, the land.
That has been the way of power hungry evil men from the ancient times. The same trick that those who have besieged our country are employing and sadly, from the way it stands, it appears they are succeeding, because, we are now, effectively turning against our leaders, and, ultimately, we are playing into the hands of Boko Haram. And soon, they will overrun the country if we do not recover our senses, our patriotism.
There are now senseless and crass demonstrations and march all over the country and, movements all over the media, calling on our 'weak' government to resign. We now think our government weak because some of our people have chosen to sabotage all the government's effort to run the country effectively and that is sad.
A times, I wonder whether we as a people actually reason properly. I mean, how would a right thinking person believe that the government is actually doing nothing about Boko Haram?
Why are we just glibly believing the words of our enemies about our elected leaders? They-our enemies, pull the strings supporting the insurgency in the dark and then come out in the light and say that the government is weak and we sheepishly believe. What can really be more deplorable than this?
If you were the president, what would you do if the people that are working with you constantly stab at y our back, taking advantage of the nation's woes to help their own quest for power? What would you do as the president, if you send your soldiers to do one thing, and they go and do another, because they are also sharing in the beliefs of the enemy?
How would you fight the battle if the people who elected you in power now choose the words of the enemy instead of your own, calling for you to f***ck off because you are 'weak'?
Would you just order the killing of everyone, even the innocent to show that you are strong? Would you invade Sambisa forest with a brutish force, even though Boko Haram have threatened to kill those girls if they sense any attempt at rescuing them?
Would you order a brutish destruction of the North just to get at boko Haram, when even the police action you are undertaking is already being termed 'genocide' by the same people you are trying to liberate. Let us please, be fair and considerate.
No true leader ever wins a battle without the support of the people. And in our case, how can our president fight if all we do is blame him and echo the words of the enemy, instead of his, calling him 'weak' and ineffective, instead of supporting him?
The thing is: The president is not weak. He is not ineffective. A look at the other parts of the country, how peaceful and prosperous they are, will testify to the fact that Jonathan's government is the best we've had. There are medium and large scale indigenous industries springing up everywhere. Our economy is now the best in Africa. Our states are developing faster than ever because the president does not interfere in state affairs.
Because, these other parts of the country are inhabited by people who actually want peace, things have gone well with them, something that can not be said of the North.
I'm not trying to be tribalistic here; I'm only being realistic. How can Jonathan effectively defeat Boko Haram when most of the people inhabiting the besieged states are Boko Haram sympathizers? Indeed, it will be impossible. Even, the Nigerian army is heavily infested with enemy sympathisers.
So, it's high time we began to stand behind our president. It's high time we tore down those banners, reading "Jonathan out," and replace them with ones reading "we are together in this fight and together, we shall win"
I also plead with our Northern siblings to help the president. Instead of accusing him of trying to commit genocide, they should lend their backing and information on how to strike at the heart of the insurgency.
And again, our dear 'elites' like Iyabor Obasanjo should lend their help and support instead of encouraging the people to turn against the government. I was so disappointed when I heard that she was sympathising with BH in their 'revolution', in that open letter of hers which I'm yet to read, anyway. I thought that someone with the kind of education she has should be able to understand the difference between revolution and what BH is doing.
If GEJ steps down now, tell me, my people, what next? Where next do we go? Do you guys actually know the kind of chaos that would come upon us? Who do you guys think will do it better?
Have you guys ever heard of a leader deserting his people in times of trouble?Aren't you guys the same people who will call him coward if he should resign now with enough money in his pocket and perhaps move out of this country to enjoy his life elsewhere?
Let's stop all these blame game, hypocrisy and, self righteousness and embrace reality-that we are at war with the devil and that no president can win a war if he fights alone.
We have to stand together and fight as a single unit or fall as a divided one.
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