TALE OF TWO FAILED PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES IN NIGERIA – MAILAFIA & SOWORE!

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TALE OF TWO FAILED PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES IN NIGERIA – MAILAFIA & SOWORE!
It sounded like a jolt out of the blues at an Abuja based Radio Station, when a failed candidate of the 2019 Presidential Elections claimed during an interview on Monday 10th August, 2020, that government was complicit in the unending security challenges in Nigeria because one of the 19 Northern Governors, was the Commander of the Boko Haram terrorists group!

Dr. Obadiah Mailafia, (63), who made the alarming assertion, was the flag bearer of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), who lost to the incumbent, President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC), with 97,874 to Buhari’s 15,191,847 votes!

His public outburst which went viral on the social media caught the attention of Mr. President who is asking questions about how insurgents acquired weapons freely? Quick answer: About half of the over 750 million small arms, ammunitions and light weapons proliferation in West Africa have found their way into Nigeria!

Could Mailafia have treated the matter in confidentiality since he had been in the system: having served as a Deputy Governor of the Apex Central Bank of Nigeria and was not alien to government bureaucratic syndrome?

But being a member of the opposition party to the ruling government he was convinced that any letter or petition from his end would surely end up in the  trash bin with the existence of special cabal around the number one citizen who would gleefully discard the message because of their disgust for the messenger!

Or was the message deployed as a SCARECROW because Mailafia was still bitter because of his 2019 loss at the polls and decided to heat up the polity by becoming an alarmist without an iota of truth to his claims?

But, putting the entire episode its proper perspective, we know that Mailafia was not the first Nigeria to assert that GOVERNMENT was complicit to Boko Haram insurgency in north East/ North Central and by extension to other areas of Nigeria before Buhari’s first term in 2015!
In 2014, during Boko Haram bombardments of the Federal Capital Territory and the forceful abduction of about 274 Chibok Secondary School girls, ex-President Ebele Jonathan, publicly admitted that his cabinet consisted of Boko Haram elements, whom he failed to name nor expunge before he left office!

WHAT WAS THE SOURCE OF MAILAFIA’S INFORMATION?
The Oxford University Economist said that he sourced his information from some de-radicalised Boko Haram high commanders (whom he sat with on not less than one or two occasions),  and who also revealed to him that the insurgents would soon start urban killings and attacks on Southern parts of the country!

Also during the lockdown according to the information given to him, the insurgents moved freely and distributed arms across the country and that those weapons were distributed with planes without regard for the lockdown!

HOW TRUE COULD THESE CLAIMS BE?
From all information at our disposal, Nigeria got serious with the Covid-19 public sanitation and safety protocol laws when an Italian citizen imported the virus into the country through Lagos State on 27th February, 2020. The first lockdown began on 27th March, 2020, for two weeks with subsequent lockdowns until the general ease of the lockdowns from 4th May, 2020, till date.

De-radicalized Boko Haram terrorists were in the various camps for over two years of orientation and re-orientation before Covid-19 pandemic hit Nigeria in March 2020! How did they become privy to such precarious information? 
Was it during their programme or after their absorption into the larger society?  Either way, it is obvious that the "repentant terrorists" should not be totally trusted and should be closely monitored!
However, Mailafia, who believed in his source maintained his stand and said he would neither be silent nor give up on Nigeria even in the face of death! He called for an end to the killings in Southern Kaduna and other parts of the country.
"If need be I will die for Nigeria", he concluded

THE ROLE OF THE DSS AND NORTHERN GOVERNORS FORUM IN THE IMBROGLIO!
On Wednesday 12th August, 2020, the Department of State Security (DSS), which was bereft of the high security information, picked up Dr. Mailafia, in Jos , capital of Plateau State, drilled him for about Six hours and released the unrepentant economist who later addressed the media in respect of  his adamant position that he would not retract his statement!

The 19 Northern States Governors who are in the eyes of the storm have swiftly reacted and called for an immediate investigation because of the allegation which was too weighty to be ignored since they were all working together as a body to see to the end of banditry, terrorism and other forms of crimes in the region!

JOURNALIST SOWORE IS ANOTHER BAD LOSER SEEKING REVOLUTION!
Below are some excerpts of our previous publication on the other FAILED presidential candidate whose group still staged street protests in some State capitals including the FCT recently against the incessant issue of insecurity!
“The choice of the phrase: #Revolution Now', adopted by the organizers of a planned nation-wide protest and the timing of the nocuous event, conceived by Sahara Reporters publisher, Omoyele Sowore, to provoke fresh civil disobedience was very offensive/insultive to the sensibilities of compatriots for peace, stability and good governance in Nigeria - especially the vulnerable downtrodden who would unfortunately become canon fodders, peradventure it succeeded!

“Prior to his incursion into Nigerian politics - 48-year-old Sowore stood out as an outstanding, respectable and successful entrepreneur in the Diaspora, being the chief executive of the internationally-accredited online news outfit, the SAHARA REPORTERS - a trait that cut across accomplished Nigerian professionals, who normally returned home to add value to their nation's socio-economic pursuit of a better life for the citizens!

Sowore lost woefully in the 2019 Presidential Election - coming 10th with 33,953 votes as against President Buhari's 15,191,847 million; but that was not all, the National Executive Council (NEC), of his party later accused him of anti-party activities including refusal to render accounts of donations/ expenditures and wasted no time to relieve him of his position as chairman, - even with a court judgement in their favour!
“An Abuja High Court on Thursday, 8th August, 2019, granted an ex-parte motion by the DSS to further detain Sowore in its custody for 45 instead of 90 days requested by the agency, while further investigations continued in the treasonable charges brought against him under Terrorism Prevention Act, Section 27 (1) and the video evidences: exhibits/clips of his fraternity with the fugitive revolutionist, Nnamdi Kanu and also some proscribed IMN adherents!
Sowore should go through the process of the law to prove his culpability to the charges or otherwise!”
Recommendations :( 1) Government should not throw away the baby with the bath water but carry out thorough investigations. (2) Both men and their associates should be meticulously monitored through due process of the law for more information to crack down on all fifth columnists in sheep clothing and save innocent citizens from travail!
"For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end." (Jeremiah. 29: 11).

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