AS THE TAIL WAGS THE DOG I-III – BY CHRIS MUSTAPHA NWAOKOBIA JNR

"My aim is not to be consistent with my previous statements on a given question,

 but to be consistent with TRUTH as it may present itself to me at a given moment. 

The result has been that I have grown from TRUTH to TRUTH..Inconsistency is only apparent. 

It appears so to many friends because of my responsiveness to varying circumstances. 

Seeming consistency may really be sheer obstinacy." 

- Mahatma Gandhi.

The above words are for Buharideens who in the face of the collosal failure of the present watch defend the indefensible, and bandy deceptive propaganda. They lower the bar so badly, that for want of any concrete project with which to sell the lethargic and the mediocre, they consistently and sickeningly blame the past.

I supported and headed an arm of Buhari's 2014/15 campaign as DG of CHANGE AMBASSADORS OF NIGERIA CAN, and like some, we are humble enough to admit that this was not the CHANGE we envisioned, and the least we expected. But why are some so obstinate, and insensitive to the present reality?

Dateline: 4/04/2018 on The SUMMIT at 3pm on AIT, Deji Adeyanju a young man who is by no means an Orator tore Garba Shehu who is otherwise an Orator to smithereens, and so have my Egbons, Femi Adesina and Lai Mohammed become pitiable sights in the press for want of facts, programmatic, and tangibles with which to defend the Govt. and Buhari. But young ego driven and partisan propagandists are everywhere telling lies, and unwilling to concede that the present watch is shamefully failing.

I challenge my friend Festus Keyamo, and any Buharideen worth his onion to a debate on any media platform on why NOT to REINFORCE the present failure. God forbid we do.

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AS THE TAIL WAGS THE DOG II

"When was it said that a warning that one's house is on fire should not 

be attended because it came from a neighbourhood thief?" - CMN Jnr.

I have read scathing remarks against the intervention of OBJ, Danjuma, IBB, Atiku et al on the mediocre performance of Buhari's administration. But rather than address the merits/demerits, and perhaps the contextual truism of the reprimand, Buharideens and obstinate partisans regale us to a rendezvous of how OBJ, IBB, DANJUMA, ATIKU and others failed the nation in the past. Yes, they constitute a huge part of the problem with Nigeria, but to discountenance their fears on the kamikaze drift of the ship of State, is not only emotive but illogical.

Dateline: 2014 Obasanjo was a hero to the APC after a scathing 18 page letter to Jonathan. 2018, he is a villain to the APC after his 'so long a letter' to Buhari, what has changed? About a year to the 2015 elections, CHIBOK Girls were abducted and subsequently $1billion dollars released to buy Arms. About a year to the 2019 elections, DAPCHI Girls were abducted, and Buhari releases $1billion dollars for the purchase of Arms. What has changed? THINK.

Compatriots, what I make of the acronym PHCN, PROBLEM HAS CHANGED NAME, comes in handy. The problem was the PDP, and today it is the APC, they are siamese twins, same of the same, and a choice between the two, is of the rock and the hard place.

The Leviathan, PDP, brought us destruction, as the Behemoth, APC, brings us desolation. Don't be deceived, of the 24 so-called Progressive APC Governors, 14 of them were in the PDP, and so are Buhari's Ministers, they belong together. THINK.

So don't buy their hubris. Vote out the PDP/APC.

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AS THE TAIL WAGS THE DOG III

"And such as do wickedly against the covenant (BREAKING THE PROMISE OF CHANGE) shall he corrupt by Flattering (BANAL PROPAGANDA, PRAISE-SINGING AND COURT-JESTING): but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits (THE NEW DEAL IS RIGHT, FOR A NEW AND A BETTER NIGERIA IS POSSIBLE)." 

- The Bible... emphasis in caps, mine.

If you humbly look up the word, flattering, it will amaze you how well the Holy Book captured today's Nigeria. How can the APC deal so wickedly with the covenant of CHANGE, and you wonder why Buharideens are full of flattering. Not delivering up to 30%, their propaganda machinery lists payment of salaries and pensions as the achievement of a Govt., where in the world does that happen? It only tells how low we have sank as a nation, and how given to flattering, they are.

They name the fight against insurgency and talk about National Security as the reason they want a 2nd term for Buhari. Another flattering, but under this Govt. that will be 3years next month, more Nigerians have been killed, decapitated and left homeless, as opposed to what happened in five years of a failed past. So what has changed?

And why will anybody canvass a second term for a man who told you at 73years in 2015 that age would slow him down, and wished he were younger? Why then does he want to continue at 77? Where lies integrity and patriotism in all of this? Sad.

To be CONT'D. 

- Dr. Chris Mustapha Nwaokobia Jnr., a Barrister-at-Law, and social critic, is a Presidential hopeful in the forthcoming 2019 Presidential election in Nigeria. 

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