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President Buhari |
The supernatural universe or post physical (transformative)
world is obviously in grief over the turn of events in Nigeria under the
Presidential Sole-Administratoship of retired Gen Muhammadu Buhari. The height
of grief and contempt above mentioned is the fact that Buhari’s Presidential
Sole Administratorship has spent 120 days in office without government. It is extremely important to state here that
formation of government under a constitutional democracy means legitimizing
electoral power and authority derived the electoral populace. In Parliamentary
system, government is in place when there is a council of ministers. In
Presidential system laid upon constitutional democracy, government is in place
when there is executive cabinet or Federal Executive Council.
Sadly, the Presidential Sole-Administratorship of Retired
Gen Muhammadu Buhari has defiantly and impeachably spent 120 days without a
Federal Executive Council or Ministers. Also important to mention is that
nomination of ministerial names or transmission of their list to the National
Assembly does not translate to formation of a government or inauguration of the
Federal Executive Council. Apart from this
presidential belligerence qualifying Retired Gen Buhari as Africa’s latest
Presidential Sole-Administrator, it also means that he is only in office but
not in government, power and authority. Whatever power and authority he feels
he is presidentially exercising presently is totally antithetical to
constitutional democracy and its hallowed principles. He is also exercising
such power and authority in negative and democratic contradictions.
The most shocking of the foregoing is the fact that “the 120
days without government” in Nigeria has
coincided with the country’s 55th years of independence Statehood and has made
mockery of the costly efforts and successes of the country’s independence
nationalists that won the country independence in 1960. Their souls hitherto
resting quietly and immortally in supernatural universe have been made restless
and wrath seeking. In traditional African societies and up to this modern time,
angers of the supernatural forces or living dead or perfect spirits are always
avoided because it is only an insane living person that can draw a battle line
with a supernatural force or a perfect spirit. The city of man can never take
the risk of going against the hallowed ways and wishes of the city of God. No
living person angers or fights his or her ancestors or perfect spirits and go
scot free.
The country’s gallant independence nationalists who left the
physical universe and transformed triumphantly into hallowed ancestral living
dead in the supernatural universe are at all times watching over the events in
the country they physically and spiritually labored and toiled to build and
shall not hesitate to visit hash wraths on any living person or group of living
persons that stunt or truncate their hallowed efforts and achievements. In
traditional African societies and this modern time, the living dead or perfect
spirits are respected and obeyed at all times because their earthly legacies
never die.
We therefore advise the Buhari’s Presidential Sole
Administratorship to desist from plunging Nigeria into invisible and catastrophic
confrontations with the country’s hallowed living dead particularly her gallant
independence nationalists and avoid incurring their wraths. The Nigeria they
fought for is never designed to be governed for 120 days without a government.
Also when they fought for Nigeria to govern herself, they did not fight for it
to be governed in sole administrative way. But they fought for a Nigeria that
will be governed democratically and pluralistically at all times.
Far from the worries and concerns of the country’s hallowed
living dead or perfect spirits, watching over the country’s turn of events from
their cosmic universe, living Nigerians are also worried over the referenced
turn of events under the Buhari sole administratorship. Apart from absence of just
peace (negative and positive peace) in Nigeria under him, Nigerians are firmly
demanding for whereabouts of N741.462 Billion or $3.7 Billion, which amounted
to the Federal Government’s shares of the Federation Allocations for the months
of May, June, July and August 2015.
In the month of May 2015 block allocations shared in June;
the Buhari’s Presidential Sole Administratorship got N151.8 Billion out of
N418.4 Billion shared among the Federal, States and Local Governments. In June,
the Federal tier got N218.92 Billion out of N518.54 Billion shared. In July, it
got N202.11 Billion out of N511.79 Billion shared and in August, it got N168.62
Billion out of N422.60 Billion shared.
That is to say that the Buhari’s Presidential Sole Administratorship had
in the past four months of May, June, July and August received from the
Federation Account a total of N741. 46 Billion or $3.7 Billion, out of N1.871
Trillion or $9.37 Billion shared.
Therefore, the Buhari’s Presidential Sole Administratorship
inexcusably owes living and ancestral Nigerians moral and legal explanations as
to the whereabouts of the whopping sum under reference. This is in view of the
fact that there is no government known to the 1999 Constitution, constitutional
democracy and its pluralistic composition as well as living and ancestral
Nigerians that is presently in operation.
As for the country’s 55th independence anniversary, we dare say again
that the best way to assess Nigeria is to compare it with socioeconomic
attained levels of China, Philippines, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Saudi
Arabia, Venezuela, Brazil, United Arab Emirates, South Korea, Taiwan,
Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia. This can be clearer when reminding all and
sundry that Nigeria’s Gross National Product (GNP) of 60s and 70s was much
higher than those of most, if not all the countries mentioned.
Signed:
Emeka Umeagbalasi, Board Chairman
International Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law
+2348174090052 (office)
info@intersociety-ng.org, emekaumeagbalasi@yahoo.co.uk
Chiugo Onwuatuegwu, Esq., Head, Democracy & Good Governance Program
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