Nigerians Deserves A Healthy President, PDP, R-APC Blasts Amaechi

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The Peoples Democratic Party has accused the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, and others, which it did not name, of allegedly exploiting the fragile health of President Muhammadu Buhari to spite Nigerians.

The party was responding to a claim by the former governor of Rivers State that even if Buhari contested from a sickbed in 2019, he would win in some core northern states.

The opposition party said Amaechi and others in government “actually know that the President is sick” and that Buhari did not possess the mental ability to lead the country.

The National Chairman of the PDP, Prince Uche Secondus, who spoke to our correspondent, asked Nigerians to insist on a healthy president in 2019.
He said, “If Amaechi could say that the President would win on a sickbed, then he knows the health status of his principal. He knows that we have a sick leader who will not be able to give his maximum attention to the country.

“We don’t need such a man at this critical time. We need a President who will be able to work 24 hours and read all memos, stand at meetings and debate with people and the parliament. We don’t need a figurehead president that the likes of Amaechi are praying for.

“I know that people like him want a president they can deceive, who will not be on top of happenings in their ministries and in the country. They want a president who won’t watch television and who will not read newspapers. If that is what they want, they will meet their Waterloo in 2019.”

Secondus added that the battle ahead would be between what he called a desperate cabal and Nigerians who he said “will be desirous to get freed from the grip of the wicked.”

The National Publicity Secretary of the R-APC, Kassim Afegbua, said Nigerians deserved better than a President on a sickbed to provide leadership in the 21st century.

Afegbua said, “Unknown to Hon. Minister Amaechi, Nigerians do not want a man on sickbed, hence there is a general consensus that this present leadership should quit.
“The country is terminally ill as a result of bad and ineffective leadership. Nigerians have been prevailing on the President to sit down and offer leadership, but he has been racking his brain.”

Meanwhile, the Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal, has said he is still a member of the APC. The governor, who spoke through his Director-General, Media, Abubakar Shekara, stated this while reacting to claims by Amaechi.

Among others, Amaechi had said Tambuwal would defect from the APC, adding that Buhari would win Sokoto State without the governor in the APC.
Shekara said the governor would not take issue with the minister.

He stated, “My principal will right now, not take issue with anybody on who will win in what state, particularly Sokoto.
“Maybe, he would have reacted if the comment is centred on the candidate of another party and not the APC, which he is a bonafide member. How do you expect him to be taking issue with a fellow party member on the fortune of his party?”

Shekara also seized the opportunity to denounce speculations surrounding Tambuwal’s planned defection from the APC.
He added, “Tambuwal is still a member of the APC, and if there would be need for him to defect to another party, he would make his stand known at the appropriate time.”

Amaechi could not be reached for comments as his mobile indicated that it was switched off when one our correspondents called him.


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*WHEN AN ABUSE OF AN OLD MAN BECOMES MINDLESS AND ATROCIOUS*

By Dino malaye

When a man gets older and crosses age 70, his sense organs begin to wane and malfunction. The brain articulates slower.

It is normal to hear old men complain of ear, eye and joint problems. Human body is like a car. It gets older by each day. It also needs frequent medical checks.

A young wife of an old man seldom gets a full ration of sex. She gets excuses while the husband bores her with stories of his great days as a young man. It’s like a history class.

The old man only has early morning half or feeble erection or no erection at all. He keeps promising and promising with little or no results the nightmare of his expectant wife. It’s frustrating if the wife is a faithful one. Like Nigerians who are forced to live, work in and consume Nigeria

The best of a man is when he can do what real men can do. That is, when he can transmute part of his sexual energy to create new things or to transform his environment. When he can dream dreams and live his dreams.

Once a man is past his prime, no promises could be kept. Privately, he rues the loss of his youthfulness.

By 2019, Buhari shall be 76+. If he were a judge or a professor, he would have retired. If he were any other civil servant, he would have also retired 16 years before.

But the job of the president is more tasking than that of a judge, professor or any other civil servants. He works 7 days a week and every hour.

Is it not an irony that people retire due to declining performance or old age only to take up a more tasking job and expect to excel?

In the absence of strong institutions, the President of Nigeria is saddled with onerous responsibilities enough to bend the back of a a willing septuagenarian. That’s why everything in the country is going slow to the frustration of those who believe that we could have progressed faster.

How many files can President Buhari read and treat at his current age? How long can he sit in meetings? What quantum decibels of voices can his ears take? How far can an old man run without breaking down? What happens to productivity while the vehicle is being fixed, in a country where everyone waits to be directed by the president before acting.

Many developmental economists and genuine business people who have serious investments in Nigeria don’t want this nightmare to continue. They got Bill Gates to help them speak truth to power.

The disillusioned business people can’t complain aloud lest their previous sins like unpaid taxes are remembered. They speak through reductions in their workforce.

We all know that as a man gets older, he makes no hasty decisions and would surprised if anybody pushes for urgency. Didn’t we wait for about 7 months for ministers to be nominated in 2015?

*"Most people dancing over the president’s re-election announcement are happy because they would retain their privileged positions not minding whether the president can still carry the weight or not. Unlike Simon of Cyrene, they are willing to help carry the presidential cross for their own benefits"*.

Also dancing are those other Nigerians who believe that Maradona or Pèle can still reenact the heroics they were known for. They wanted to watch the president perform his action film IBB aborted in 1985 forgetting that there can’t be “with immediate effect” again. He also doesn’t have the “Idiagbon factor” anymore.

The hailers want all looters dealt with but they have a misplaced hope. It will take legal reforms and investment in human resources and technology to make criminal justice more effective and faster. You cannot travel from Lagos to Abuja by a bus and expect to arrive in an hour. Governance outcomes are products of deliberate actions or inactions.

However, few of the initial hailers are smart enough to have realized that they misplaced their hope. They want the “change” changed.

Strikingly, many hailers have aged parents at home; the former powerful parents they no longer allow to take decisions for them. But, they want Papa Yusuf to be deciding for them and their numerous millennial kids in Nigeria.

*"If Buhari wins in 2019, our grandfather president would continue to be a meal ticket to those around him who would be exercising the presidential powers by proxy just like drivers, cooks, maids and other domestic staff control the old men they are meant to serve"*.

All the old men are not known for disciplining young children and domestic servants living with them. They indulge them. We have seen it happen in this presidency.

Nigeria as a country is like a nymphomaniac (that is a woman with insatiable desire for sex).

Imagine a 77 years old man appealing to an energy sapping nymphomaniac Nigeria saying: *“choose me, I will make you moan, I will make you want me some more, I will satisfy you beyond your imagination!”*

It is the same Nigeria, the old man has been sleeping with for the past three years without making her wet as his feeble phallus has refused to rise to a hopeful strength.

It is sheer madness to expect a pregnant sheep to give birth to a baby elephant. That’s the illusion of the backers of this re-election bid.

Let someone name a 77 years old man who is efficiently running any cooperation or a multinational in Nigeria 7 days a week.

*It is wicked to abuse an old man just as it is very atrocious for any child to allow his or her father to be abused by those who derive their relevance or existence from the such abuse.*