Veteran Nigerian journalist based in the United States, Agozino Emmanuel, has commended President Donald Trump over his recent remarks concerning President Muhammadu Buhari’s state of health and urged Nigerians to brace up for the general elections in 2019, with a view to effecting a change.
Trump’s position that President Buhari was literally “lifeless”, according to Agozino, “is a wake-up call for Nigerians to rally forces against his re-election in 2019”, warning of a drastic consequence that would follow, if the mistake of 2015 was repeated.
“I am aware of a flurry of reactions condemning the true revelations coming from an honest world leader like President Trump, who is very passionate about Nigeria’s growth and development.
“Trump in my own assessment from a very vantage position here in the United States, was making a very honest statement about our leader who had plunged the country into a very serious socio-economic and political mess since he took seat fraudulently as Nigeria’s President in 2015.
“I want to sincerely thank the President of the most powerful country in the world for his detribalized and honest disposition to issues concerning Nigeria.
“This is the same truth that our colonial master, Britain cannot be honest enough to tell Nigerians since Buhari turned London to his Mecca for medical tourism since he ‘won’ the in 2015 because the Bristish government has become the single largest beneficiary of Buhari’s presidency in the last three years”, he added.
Agozino, who last worked for Daily Times Newspapers as the Arts Editor before his sojourn to the United States to escape persecution from the Buhari-led Federal Government, urged other world leaders from advanced economies to also join Trump in condemning what he described as “Buhari’s impunity on Nigerians”.
“I was shocked when the British Prime Minister, Theresa May, had to openly castigated Nigeria as a country with the highest number of people living under poverty line. She made the damning disclosure in South Africa, but when he reached Nigeria in her recent visit, she could not dare to repeat that before Buhari.
“To me, it shows the complicity of the British authorities to encourage Nigeria to continue on the path of poverty and underdevelopment that has been the hallmark of Buhari’s despotic rule. Nigerians are suffering and smiling because they don’t want to incur the wrath of Buhari if they dare raise their voice to condemn this brazen display of brute force by Buhari.
“Why should we continue to keep mum over our plights under Buhari, whose administration has inflicted the most pains on Nigerians?”, he asked and expressed deep concern that widespread abuse of human rights, rule of law and avoidable killings in Nigeria would continue “if Nigerians, who are feeling the pains fail to rise up in 2019, to enthrone a people-oriented leadership”.
Therefore, as the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, visits Nigeria for the first time, Agozino has implored her to also be in the vanguard of telling President Buhari, what he called “the home truth” to stop fragrant abuse of democratic tenets as well as abandon his quest for re-election in 2019.
“Buhari is running Nigeria as an occupation territory, with widespread killings daily orchestrated by his fellow Fulani herdsmen, Boko Haram and other sectarian crises that the Federal Government has continue to demonstrate an uncanny sense of ignorance while the blood of innocent Nigerians flows in Plateau, Taraba, Benue, Borno, as well as Southern Nigeria”.
“Nigerians, be wise and armed yourselves with your Permanent Voters’ Cards (PVCs) because that is the only weapon to be used to oust this unfriendly government that has been running with the blood of Nigerians since 2015”, he stressed.
