Attack on Jega’s convoy uncalled for
By Nwaorgu Faustinus
Sir, the attack on the convoy of the Chairman of Independent
National Electoral Commission, Professor Attahiru Jega while emerging from the
palace of Emir of Kazaure, Alhaji Najib Hussaini Adamu in Jigawa State is
unwarranted. One now questions when it has become a crime to attend or honour
wedding invitation of an Emir whose daughter is being wedded.
Reports said that trouble started around 12:30 pm when the
INEC chairman emerged from the Emir’s palace and was identified by the youths
who have gathered at the place to witness the ceremony, where upon “a young
girl allegedly led the attack when she collected sand and
threw it at the vehicle in which the INEC chairman was riding@”.
According to Sunday Vanguard, the youths “began to hurl
stones at Jega’s convoy. Several cars in the convoy were said to have been
damaged and their glasses smashed. Sources said the situation would have
been worse but for the intervention of security forces. The youths sang war
songs alleging betrayal on Jega’s path”.
For me this is not the best way to express one’s anger or
protest for alleged election rigging as according to the youths and as reported
in the Sunday Vanguard of May 20, 2012: “You cheated us, you cheated the North,
you declared falsed result, you denied General Buhari the chance to be the
president of Nigeria, it was injustice, we will not forgive you”, some of them
said. 2015 is not too far a period, these youth should have waited till 2015 to
massively vote for Buhari that is if he clinches his party’s ticket to run for the
highest office in the land rather than attacking Prof. Jega.
Needless to say that this shameful act is the aftermath of
the alleged inflammatory and inciting remarks made by Buhari who has been belligerent,
frustrated and angry for not being able to occupy Aso Rock, having contested four
times for the seat and failed.
If I were Buhari, I would have invested energy, time and
money in more useful ventures than to continue to waste huge amount of money
that would have impacted positively on the lives of his numerous supporters rather
than chasing the wind. He should borrow a leaf from the likes of the Dangote’s,
as his past records which are negative do not speak well of him. It can only be
imagined what Nigerians can benefit from a coup plotter and executioner,
anti-journalists, regionalist, non-conformist, alleged advocate of the
sharialization of Nigeria etc. Let it be known that Buhari will be a hard
Presidential aspirant to market to Nigerian electorates as he is being pursued
by karma every step of the way in his bid to be president of Nigeria.
The attack on Jega should not be treated with kid’s glove as
it is an indication of the alleged potency of Buhari’s remarks in the minds of
his supporters.
Nwaorgu Faustinus writes from Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
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