Former Aviation Minister said this in a new
article titled “The Lion of the East” which he
shared on his Facebook page this morning.
Read the article below and tell us what you
think
“Let me make this abundantly clear
right from the outset. I love and
respect Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the
supreme leader of the Biafran
movement, the founder and convener
of the Indigenous People Of Biafra
(IPOB) and the man that I have
appropiately dubbed as the Lion of
the East.
I do not however agree with him on
EVERYTHING and neither do I share his
views about President Goodluck Jonathan.
I do not believe that Jonathan was weak or
that he was incompetent. As a matter of
fact I believe that the contrary is the case.
I believe that he exhibited immense
strength and courage by letting go of
power even though he did NOT lose the
2015 presidential election but was rather
rigged out of it and even though he did
NOT need to do so.
If Jonathan had been a lesser man and if he
had wanted to do so he could have
knuckled down, called the bluff of the then
opposition and held on to power even if it
meant that the bloodthirsty sociopath that
threatened to soak the nation in the “blood
of dogs and baboons” if he was not
declared winner of that election went
ahead and carried out his threat.
Instead of calling the bullying beasts bluff
and thereby endanger the lives of millions
of Nigerian people, Jonathan said “my
being President is not worth the drop of
blood of one Nigerian” and he let go.
Only a strong and disciplined man who is
not in the grip and under the power of
satan and who is not driven by a primitive,
bestial and compelling lust for power can
do that.
Jonathan was not weak: he was strong.
Secondly I believe that his record of
infrastructural development throughout the
nation is second to none.
Most importantly in this context I believe
that Jonathan, more than ANY other
President in the history of Nigeria, did more
to rehabilitate and empower the Igbo
whilst he was President.
Having said this I must confess that, other
than his past remarks about the Yoruba
people which he made a number of years
ago and which he has told me privately and
said publicly that he no longer holds, I am
on all fours with Nnamdi Kanu on virtually
everything else.
The truth is that I have a soft spot for him
and no matter what he says or does I will
always love him like a brother because he
has managed to do, in a very short space of
time, what most cannot do in a lifetime: he
has won my respect and rekindled my hope
in Africa and African leaders.
I believe that he is a courageous, strong
and dynamic young man and indeed the
greatest thing that has happened to the
Igbos in the last 103 years.
As I alluded to in an earlier essay which I
wrote after meeting him for the first time
in Kuje prison in 2016, he is an Ojukwu, an
Nzeogwu and an Azikiwe all rolled into one.
Despite the contrived and sponsored
disinformation and rubbish that his many
detractors are saying and writing about
him, today he remains focused on his
objectives and clear about his mission:
nothing appears to move him and or
distract him from his calling.
He has a date with history and destiny and
no matter what his enemies do to him or
say about him he shall keep that date.
Most important of all is the fact that I
understand what drives him and kindles
his extreeme passion for the cause that he
serves.
I understand his burning yet clearly
repressed anger at the shoddy and
inexcusable plight of his Igbo people in the
contraption called Nigeria.
I can feel his pain and when you sit with
him for a long period of time, to the
discerning and the sensitive in the spirit,
that pain is not only contagious but also
literally tangible.
