NIGERIAN OPPOSITION VICTIMS OF NAIVETY,GREED AND BETRAYAL.

By Egbara Emmanuel Ikaba

Nigeria has failed to progress from the illusion of independence to the reality of freedom because of betrayal; firstly by the then corruption power politics, and lately by the naive and treacherous former opposition.

This is the tragedy of our political development. Independence was cheaper but freedom will be much more expensive as it is now.

The fight for independence had clear targets but now the targets for purposeful governance are hidden in the corrupt and treacherous black hearts of APC led government.

In APC as a political party one only remained a hero as long as they pay homage to Buhari.

This was the critical test. Those that remained for long accepted money for their loyalty and pledged never to question Buhari’s dictatorship.

They were as prosperous as the effort they put in suppressing the people.
Those that changed their minds were quickly silenced. Those that supported Buhari lasted longer.

For someone to claim they were not, after being there for many years is simply a joke. The recent squeals of innocence by the APC group are simply drunkenness.

During the PDP reign we were naïve in assuming that hating Jonathan was equivalent to freedom fighter credentials.

Buhari fooled us by his oratory gamatox and we thought we had a messiah. Today hating APC must never be mistaken for democracy.

The current cabals are only envious of Saraki's position which they desperately wants to occupy but this must never be assumed as genuine quest for democracy.

This was clearly demonstrated during the show of force in the recent fight for supremacy. Some pseudo-democrats have become filthy rich within three years – both in terms of spouses and money.

Even now Buhari spews poison and many rejoice mistaking it for poverty medicine. He fed us with his hatred of corruption, chasing enemies away from investing and now he takes our tax to London to buy buy foreign ear drugs from the very people he chased away lying that he hated them.

The ruling party must stop playing with the people. Our blood is not for bargaining with APC.

It boggles the mind that soon after donating opposition seats to APC some mental deficiency are calling for people to join their big tent.

We are not fooled – the big tent they are referring to is Buhari Cabal. Joining them ends in same tent. We are for unity but one based on objectives and values and not personal ambition.

PDP is prepared to forget its tortured and murdered supporters and join hands with the likes of Saraki , Tambuwal and Atiku who only yesterday were terrorising opposition members and farmers against any resistance to dictatorship – no questions asked.

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If this is not desperation what else is. There is no shortage of genuine activists in Nigeria.

In this last phase of our liberation struggle we must lay a firm criterion; we are looking for winners and not fortune hunters.

We are not looking for people who do not see another way. Hating PDP is not enough to be a leader of this decisive phase.

We are looking for people who love their country and will not, under the impending heat, betray our people.

Those that have sold their souls for money will work behind the lines. We don’t want the Godwill Akpabio type who sold out the entire constitutional position for a booking at Sheraton Hotel.

We don’t need the Obanikoro of the cowards who sold the revolution for a piece of land.

And we don’t need the youths who sold the revolution for money, women and mansions.

Being gamatox or former so and so is not good enough. They would not be complaining had they not been fired .

Ultimately we are calling for people who will go down to the trenches or lay their resources on the table for the fight. Remote or cyber activism will not move the dictator.

We all must put our minds, muscle and penny together. We have the hope that having done so, we will rebuild our country.

Anything less is not good enough.
We must never allow ourselves to be fooled by false prophets who think we are so retarded that we can confuse our taskmasters for liberators.

Many in APC are thinking of having it their way all over again. They oppressed us under Buhari and now that Buhari is falling they want to renew their political fortunes.

We have Ortom now taking lead in this line of thinking, the noisy gamatox group are doing the same and now people like Joe Igbokwe, Bello of Kogi and Femi have the audacity to stand on the platform and call us cowards!

Nigerians should be wary of these gamatox people and we must read them very carefully and slowly.

They just want to use us to further undermine democracy in Nigeria . We may have been cowards when we let them terrorise us but not this time.

We are not surprised that Adams Oshiomole calls these pretenders heroes because he did the same for Obasenjo during his boy boy era. We are not naïve or cowards.

Soon we will expose these emerging real weevils. Sell outs must stand aside. Those with dirty hands must stand aside!

It’s not far away that Rotimi Amiechi went round the world preaching that Buhari have converted!

Sure there will be time to think, apologise, convert and reconcile; but for now it’s time to battle.

The gamatox people and APC thugs will be given enough time to apologise. The people will decide and I hope they will be forgiven on the understanding that they will never abuse the people again.

For now they must save their crocodile tears because they are fooling no one. At PDP wing we are building a clean and sincere platform to bring genuine hope for Nigerians.