OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI: ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

Nigeria, to say the least is bleeding. Life has become unbearable; the future is bleak and tears and mourning have become our daily meal.

Children in the womb are afraid of becoming Nigerians. If they have their ways, they would have changed their citizenship, because the once in a time giant of Africa has become the ant of Africa.

Day after day, Nigerians are wasted in the hands of killer herdsmen, who are being treated like heroes by our leaders. Children have become orphans, husbands become widowers and wives turned to widows. The once in a time safe haven has become the valley of the shadow of death.

While Nigerians are mourning the recent senseless killings in Plateau by the President's kinsmen, a pogrom justified by some uncircumcised elements as a reprisal attack, the presidency, without shame chose to justify this ethnic cleansing by stating that more people died during PDP's rule than now.

The statement signed by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, on behalf of the President does not only shows Buhari's insensitivity to the plight of Nigerians, but goes a long way to showing that President Buhari is executing an agenda, aimed at persecuting a section of the society. The lopsidedness visibly displayed in the appointment of service chiefs also shows that the killings in the country is deliberately orchestrated to flush out some sections of the Nigerian population. Instead of giving appointments to the living, the present government is bent on giving appointments to the dead. Like former Vice President Atiku Abubakar rightly put it, a president that appoints the dead to rule will disappoint the living. President Muhammadu Buhari has disappointed Nigerians, more than any former Nigerian President, living or alive.

To further project the insensitivity of President Buhari and his tyrannical disposition, he has ordered the arrest of the Chairman of Christian Association of Nigeria in Northern Plateau State, Rev. Isa Nenman. He was arrested for facilitating a peaceful protest over the wanton killings in Plateau state.

Is this not corruption of the highest order? This administration since its inception has always been moving against dissenting voices. People like Shehu Sani, Godswill Akpabio, Bassey Albert, Dino Maleye, Abaribe, Ben Bruce, and others who were hitherto respected for their vocality and boldness have been technically beaten to silence by President Buhari. In fact, Nigeria is tilting towards anarchy. President Buhari is the Idi Amin of Nigeria.

Instead of taking proactive measures to address the various issues ushered in by the APC government: recession, massacre of innocent citizens, insecurity, poverty, high level of unemployment, hunger, etc, Buhari is busy persecuting members of  opposition parties, in the name of prosecution. All in an effort to have a free ride to power in 2019. This is the joke of the century.

Nigerians are tired of President Buhari. Nigerians are tired of the wanton killings in the country.

Nigerians are tired of the high cost of living, high level of unemployment and hunger in the land.

The President has refused to use the same approach he adopted in dislodging and proscribing the Indigenous People of Biafra(IPOB), Shiites and other militia groups. He is having a dirty romance with Fulani herdsmen. Just like Reno Omokri said, when it comes to IPOB, Shiites and Militants, President Buhari roars like a lion, but in the case of the Fulani herdsmen, Buhari turns to a pussy cat.

Instead of taking proactive measures, he becomes a prayer warrior: calling on the victims of his insensitive leadership to learn to live in peace with the devilish, satanic and "luciferic" herdsmen.

Even Satan is angry with Buhari's leadership. He should take responsibility for what is happening in the country at least for once, and stop pushing blame. He once said that the Fulani herdsmen were from Libya. Not quite long, he begged the people of Benue and Plateau to please accommodate their kinsmen. This is the height of insensitivity and abysmal failure of this administration.

Nigerians won't bear it any longer. This pattern of "mili-democratic" rule is unbecoming. No one is safe in this country. No one sees tomorrow any longer, and the killings perpetrated by the President's kinsmen are spreading and graduating unabated. Fulani herdsmen are killing with impunity, immunity and presidential protection.

Enough is Enough, Mr. President!



Revd. Richard Peters
pastorrichardpeters@gmail.com