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Atiku, IBB and Buhari are delusional!

Posted by Michael Oluwagbemi on July 25, 2006   |

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How can you miss it? Three men who think Aso Rock is their father’s property. When I hear Atiku speak in public forum accusing Obasanjo of trying to stop him or imaginary forces after his life or his most recent boast that OBJ cannot stop him in 2007, it reveals the mindset of a delusional politician. And what of iBB (lower case intentional)? Okay, short of calling him moronic- I must say the printing of posters and organizing those fits of think tank should by now be very clear to everyone that is a waste of money. As for Buhari, you will think after losing in the last contest (or getting rigged out) he would have learnt his lesson in politics and that Nigeria is tired of sick, worn out, old dictators masquerading as born again democrats. No he can’t figure it out yet.

Don’t get me wrong: Atiku, iBB and Buhari have their fair share of supporters in Nigeria, and in fact two of them – iBB and Buhari came on top in a recent mobile phone poll taken by Vanguard. This might as well put Atiku on the highest ladder of hallucination, because as far as I can tell outside a large group of vocal elitist minority that are already angling for contracts in the pie in the sky Atiku administration, this man has no supporters. He was not even in top 10 in the vanguard poll – haba Mallam! Don’t be deceived with all this huffing and puffing from the Turaki Vanguard: all of dem na shakara. In my opinion the greatest unraveling of the mystic around Atiku is his insistence and waffling on the issue of exiting PDP. This is a man in a burning house, making excuses for not jumping out of the window. Okay, if you don’t call that moronic I don’t know what is. You really think OBJ will hold the Koran for Atiku and handover to him? When he controls the apparatus of state from SSS to police to army? When he can simply send his presidential ambition into tail spin by just a simple indictment from the Attorney General’s office? My friend, Atiku should just forget about it.

As for iBB, that one is not out rightly delusional – I probably will use the word deranged. What is iBB looking for? Oh, save me the thrash – majority of the thieves in Nigeria today were made by iBB and they are the ones that will support the return of his jeun-jeun regime. iBB’s return is also a dream of a very vast portion of the common population of Nigeria. Don’t be deceived this is not an elitist drive. I met a young man in a bukateria who have been feeling the pinch of import ban, no more parallel black market and who claimed to be a 419 kingpin out of business because of Ribadu. All of them are dreaming of iBB return. But I hope iBB knows better: his cure is the man called Ribadu. Adenuga’s arrest is just a warning shot; as a military man he should be able to differentiate between blank and live bullets. This shot from Ribadu is live.

Buhari’s own greatest undoing is that he basically has no party to run on or run with and he is already your type cast religious bigot candidate. He has been branded and no amount of PR job will remake him for the highest job in the land. He can prepare himself for a life of service in the opposition or just drift into oblivion in his village. But as far as my crystal ball can go, Buhari is a spent man. While IBB and Atiku may stand a chance in the next life, there is hardly any more hated living personality in Nigerian politics than Buhari. He evokes an aura of dislike, dictatorship and bigotry – some people thinks he is the perfect man for the job but more people think he is a walking maniac.

This is just an opinion: it is not a sophisticated political analysis. Aside from the fact that none of these three pretenders (not contenders) have given considerable thought to what they will actually do with power (for the people) apart from distributing favors to their friends and families or just getting power for the sake of it; it is apparent from any pedestrian point of view that they will and can never be the occupants of Aso Rock in 2007. Some of them (read Atiku) have made pretences to some program, but their talk about being stopped or their actions speak otherwise – power struggle is written all over their agenda. Just like any common man on the street could have told you that neither Falae nor Buhari will ever smell the State House in 1999 and 2003, I say thus: “Count out these three delusional folks”. They can fight, they can call press conferences and they can even spend for all I care but as baba said: “I don’t know who will succeed me, but I know those who won’t”; get the message? For their own sake, they can save their money and just watch from the sidelines; because whether rain or sunshine these three hallucinating dudes will never and can never smell Aso Rock come May 29, 2007. If you want to place a gentleman bet, write me at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.