DEAR PRESIDENT BUHARI, WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? – JESUTEGA ONOKPASA

President, your hammerhead of horror of a Central Bank Governor has turned our country into a waste land of excruciating illiquidity.

My President, your complete disgrace of an NNPC chief executive officer has turned our nation into a desert of fuel scarcity.

These sawdust-headed monkeys you keep retaining in their positions while adding absolutely no value to your administration have only played a fast one on you, my President.

These people clearly have neither regard nor love for you.

They are not in the least grateful for the opportunity you have given them to serve and clearly hold you in nothing but the greatest contempt, sir.

They are not your friends; they are your very worst enemies.

They are clearly in cahoots with the opposition to undo your legacies.

Those they told you would not be able to change money they “buried in the ground” have already changed their money to the new notes!

They did it with the collaboration of Central Bank of Nigeria officials and bankers across this country.

That is why the new notes are not available, sir.

You have merely been duped, my President.

Dear President Muhammadu Buhari, history repeats itself unless we are agile and eagle-eyed enough to prevent it from doing so.

Trust me, Your Excellency, but what is currently playing it out is 1984 all over again!

My President, are you even aware of what your constituents, are presently passing through regarding currency and fuel?

You would be totally ashamed to see the endless lines in front of banks and ATMs and POS machine operators!

Your citizens have to negotiate with bankers to get out their own cash out of the banks!

How can you allow that to happen, sir?

Nigerians are constrained to pay a premium to get a pittance of their own hard earned money, sir!

I’m not talking about privileged people like me – I am talking about the average Nigerian, out there, those that voted for you and made you our President.

Your citizens, your constituents, your responsibilities are passing through pure hell to get fuel, Mr. President!

Whether you realize it or not, whether you want to believe it or not, those you have surrounded yourself with are only trying to ensure you leave office in complete disgrace and thoroughly hated by Nigerians for whom, despite all the challenges, you have actually ended up recording great achievements for.

Is this how you truly want to leave office?

You want to exit the presidency implacably hated by Nigerians?

Mr. President, this is politics, for God’s sake!

It is a game and you are being completely played out of it when you should be the one dictating the pace!

My President, I believe you are a child of God.

Being a child of God is the highest office in the entire universe, far higher than the office of President of the United States, President of Nigeria or Secretary General of the United Nations.

You cannot be a true child of God if you stab your brother in the back.

It is immaterial whether you stab him in the back, yourself, or watch others do so without intervening.

It is your sacred duty and inescapable obligation to protect your brother.

That is the meaning of being your brother’s keeper.

Bola Tinubu is your brother like no one else has been your brother in this world.

It is not only by birth that we end up having relations.

God works in mysterious ways and His divine method is to throw true brothers and sisters together regardless of their biological origin.

That is how you and Tinubu came together and achieved a never before seen feat in this country.

You, of all people, should have realized that by now, sir.

In any case, we are a political party, Mr. President and politics is what we are playing, Your Excellency.

You have the biggest role to play in that game.

It is your unavoidable duty to deliver Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as your successor and next President, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

It is your implicit obligation to deliver victory for the All Progressives Congress, APC, the party that brought you to power.

If anyone stands in your way, bulldoze them out of the way, Mr. President!

What are you waiting for, Mr. President?

Just lead us, our President.

Please lead us to victory, my President!

Onokpasa, a lawyer and member, All Progressives Congress, APC, Presidential Campaign Council, writes from Abuja.