Your
Excellency Sir,
This
is the first open letter I will be writing to you since your inauguration as
the President and Commander In Chief of The Armed Forces of the Federal Republic
of Nigeria. I will go straight to the point and won`t bug you with the facts
and figure that you already know. Right now, you have become facts and figures
yourself and there is no information that you are not preview to.
Sir,
those that voted you and believe in you hold you in high esteem because of your
level of integrity, discipline and courage in handling issues. Since you became
the president, you have painstakingly taken your time to take every decision
you have made. You have deliberately not appointed your ministers and other
members of your cabinet because you want the best hands and less partisan Nigerians
to work with you.
As
you will recall Sir, the reasons why Nigerians voted en-masse for you are for
you to wage war against corruption, recover stolen funds from corrupt person or
group of persons that have plundered the nation and for you to reposition the
nation on the path of excellence. These are the things they believe you can do
which informed their decisions to vote for you. This is the more reason I
believe you have been careful of the caliber of people you place in sensitive
positions and in committees.
However,
you are human, and the very fact that you are mortal makes you inevitable to
mistakes. But it is one thing to make a mistake; it is another thing to keep
making it.
On
the transition of the National Peace Committee for the 2015 General Elections
to the Peace Council and retaining its members, Sir, sorry to say this, you
shouldn`t have. You should have dissolved the committee. My reasons are not
farfetched; going by your stance to have credible and non-partisan Nigerians in
positions and committees, the National Peace Committee should have been
dissolved. Because some of the men that make up the Committee are not honorable
men.
Honorable
men do not protect the interest of a few corrupt persons at the peril of the
innocent impoverished majority. Honorable men do not shield the wicked from the
wrath of the law. Honorable men do the right thing with power and don`t abuse
it.
Some
members of this committee have proven times without number that they cannot
speak truth to power and cannot be trusted with leadership. This should have
informed your decision to dissolve the peace committee.
There
is nothing peaceful about the Peace Committee if all they do is to seek peace
for some corrupt golden few than for the vast majority of Nigerians that have
suffered heavily from the burden of corruption.
For
any group as highly placed as the National Peace Committee to resort to seeking
soft landing for corrupt person(s) is another obvious reason why the committee
should be dissolved.
Again,
Sir, some members of the Peace Council do not believe in probing a
democratically elected government like that of your predecessor. It shows that
you do not share the same ideology with them. Hence, you cannot work with them.
You believe in probing so long it`s done legitimately without trampling on
individual`s rights. It is the more reason why you should dissolve the committee
Sir!
Furthermore,
the National Peace Committee has done its duties by ensuring peaceful
elections. They can now stand down and let you do the job Nigerians elected you
for. This is to salvage the country.
Moreover,
Sir, some members of the peace council are stunt loyalist to your predecessor.
They will do anything within their power to protect him from the jury. Besides,
you cannot expect such committee that is loyal to your predecessor to perform
transparently without external interference from him. This is why it is
paramount on you that you dissolve the peace council.
According
to Bishop Kukah’s he said: “Our
commitment is not to intimidate or fight anybody, the former President’s
commitment and what he did still remain
spectacular and I think that President Buhari himself appreciates that. So
our effort really is to make sure that the right thing is done.” The
questions are: what did Dr. Goodluck Jonathan do that remains spectacular that
warranted such statement? He lost an election and conceded defeat, what is
spectacular about that? Or what is spectacular in running a corrupt driven
government with so much impunity? You see Sir, the Peace committee are not
working for you and are not working for Nigerians. They are not for you and
they are not for Nigerians. They are for their Hero, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan!
Aside
from the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III and the Primate of the
Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, Most Revd. Nicholas Okoh. Sir, people
like Bishop Kukah, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor and Gen. Abubakar Abdusalami (rtd.)
are the more reason why you should dissolve the Peace Council! These men are
not honorable men their antecedents speak for them.
Of course Sir, I would have gone on and on, on why you
should consider dissolving the Peace Council but I wouldn`t want to consume
much of your time on this, so that you can also attend to other pressing
issues.
It
is with these reasons that I call on you to dissolve the peace council and
constitute yours yourself if you need one.
God
Bless Nigeria.
Ogundana
Michael Rotimi is a Nigerian Biochemist, Socio-economic & Political
Commentator, and Public Speaker. He tweets @MickeySunny.
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