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Let me say
right from the outset that
General Mohammadu Buhari is my
candidate for the 2011
presidential election. He is the
only Nigerian for now that has
that courage, honesty,
patriotism and zeal to wipe out
the major problem which Nigeria
as a nation has for now. I
equally want to assure my good
friend Saka Raji Audu that his
job as the unofficial spokesman
of Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau is
still safe because I am
gainfully employed and even an
employer of labour myself. Some
of us took to writing on
National issues so that Nigeria
can be an egalitarian society
where every Nigerian can have a
sense of belonging wherever he
or she finds himself or herself
tribe or religion
notwithstanding. I am equally
proud to say that amongst other
news media just yesterday being
the 25th and today
being the 26th of
November 2009 my articles were
published in the Thisday
newspapers. That tells you my
friend that virtually all the
news media have acknowledged my
contribution to the national
development of our great country
Nigeria. Some of us criticize
our leaders constructively by
challenging them on their
anti-societal behaviours. Least
I forget my article carried by
Thisday newspaper of today
Thursday (26/11/2009) is titled
“Why Buhari can always glow
with Dignity”. I am certain
you would have read the on-line
versions on Huhuonline,
Pointblanknews on line,
ModernGhana.com on line,
Nigerian news diary on line,
Worldnews.com on line and many
other media houses time and
space will not all me mention
them here. If you have the time
please check on the Internet
under the heading 'Why Major
General Mohammadu Buhari can
always glow with pride.'
I have been
the disciple of General Buhari
for a long time especially since
he chased out the Chadian
gendarmes from Nigeria in 1982.
He
consolidated his pride of place
in my heart with his great
speech,
“THIS
GENERATION AND INDEED FUTURE
GENERATION OF NIGERIANS HAVE
NO OTHER COUNTRY BUT NIGERIA\"
(GEN. BUHARI, 1984.
If you ask me
honestly this is the greatest
speech that has ever come out of
Nigeria. Despite the respect and
honor I have for General Buhari
I have always criticized him
constructively on the pages of
the newspaper. I can tell you
that he is my role model of a
patriotic and honest leader.
Please go into the archives of
the Daily Trust, Leadership
newspapers and Gamji.com to read
my articles of as to when I
criticized General Buhari
despite his being my role model.
The essence of constructive
criticism is not hatred of
persons as Saka Raji Audu would
want us to believe. But is to
challenge them to change their
policies. By the way my friend,
in politics and diplomacy there
is no permanent enemy but
permanent friends and interest.
An old English adage says “the
end justifies the means” I am
happy to still say that Ibrahim
Shekarau took the challenge I
threw to him in my numerous
articles on the persecution of
Christians in Kano state via his
bah police and have not only
attended a crusade organized by
Christians but Pentecostal
Christians for that matter which
Saka Raji Audu wanted to
wishfully deny their existence
in Nigeria. In the first place.
That is why I will still rejoice
that about a million of them in
Kano attended that crusade and
Mallam Shekarau became an
emergency 'Reverend' and
preached for 50 minutes.
That is good
tidings my friend, I expect
other Muslim governors to follow
suit and vice versa. But is it
not true that sharia has fizzled
out in all the so called sharia
states apart from Kano that was
being high handed with its own?
When I raised
the issue of the Pentecostal
Christians in my first article
didn't you deny their existence
in the first place Mallam Saka?
If you have no records of your
articles well I may you refer to
the Pointblanknews.com of August
18, 2009. You equally made
mention of all the other news
media that carried that article
in that piece. I am happy you
saw the vibrant and firebrand
Pentecostal Christians in Kano
live if you were at Sabon Gari
with the governor.
I have
written on all and sundry in
Nigeria and not just Ibrahim
Shekarau. But on thing I am
still happy about is that he has
taken the challenge in my
articles seriously and is taking
correction. That is why we write
in the first place. But for our
write up on the sharia police
and the persecution of
Christians in Kano, it would
have been better imagined than
real for the Pentecostal
Fellowship to conduct a crusade
in Kano talk less of a Sharia
governor to attend. You know and
even Shekarau knows and we all
know that the out come of our
write is now justified. We do
not write to hate my friend. We
write to correct out leaders. I
entreat you to go to the
archives of Gamji.com or Daily
Trust newspapers again, I have
written about the governors of
Plateau, Adamawa, Zamfara,
Bauchi, Gombe, Kaduna, Lagos,
Rivers and of course Kano. I am
personally proud of the
performance of Governors Danjuma
Goje of Gombe, Babangida Aliyu
of Niger, Jonah Jang of Plateau
and Tunde Fashola of Lagos.
Whoever has
done anything worth praising
will surely be praised. That is
why I still said in one of my
article that OBJ should be given
credit for not going overseas
for medical check in his eight
years in Aso Rock.
Therefore I will glow with pride
that despite denial by Saka Raji
Audu of the existent of 50
million Pentecostal Christians,
about one million of them
converged in Kano his base and
was preached to by the Sharia
governor of Kano Mallam Ibrahim
Shekarau. Please see Thisday
newspapers of Monday 16th
November 2009.
Saka my
friend, the truth is bitter but
a time comes when we have to
swallow our pride and embrace
the truth. The question now is
that, are there Christians in
Kano state or not? Secondly did
your principal a Sharia governor
attend a Pentecostal Christians
crusade in Sabon Gari Kano or
not? Therefore all my articles
have achieved their aims. Now it
is on record that there are
about a million Pentecostal
Christians in Kano state
Nigeria.
As
for 2011, General Buhari is my
choice no more no less. Buhari
for 2011 any support?
Ndiameeh
Babrik writes from London UK.ndiame_2005@yahoo.co.uk
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