I
deliberately told myself that I won't write about politics on my blog. It's a
simple case of I might get too carried away because I am always too passionate
about politics especially as it's been played in Nigeria. That promise to
myself is whisked away when I saw the news that Atiku accepted OBJ's
forgiveness. I laughed!
As
a country, we have had it so bad that a supposedly simple act like forgiveness
can be so publicised? (Yet I am adding my own fuel). Obasanjo (OBJ) was the President of Nigeria from 1999 to
2007 and Atiku Abubakar was his Vice President but it became a case of love gone
sour when the latter withheld his support for the former until the last minute
of the party's presidential primaries in 2002. According to reports, OBJ had to
prostrate to Atiku just to convince him to allow him run for the second term.
Atiku, as report will make us understand, held all the aces to OBJ's second term
bid and he used up all his powers.
After
Atiku conceded to OBJ's pleas, he forfeited his joker and as a result he broke
one of the rules of Robert Greene's 48 laws of power that simply states:
"LAW 15: Crush your Enemy Totally, …If
one ember is left alight, no matter how dimly it smolders, a fire will
eventually break out. More is lost
through stopping halfway than through total annihilation: The enemy will recover, and will seek
revenge. Crush him, not only in body but
in spirit."
Obasanjo
didn’t forgive him then, ostracising and turning him literarily into an outcast
for the last few years of their reign together, I doubt if he can ever forgive him now. If you
know OBJ well, you know he is a master political technocrat (same for Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu Jagaban). Someone who plays for the power
game cum balance and not necessarily for any moral or good deeds. Atiku replied and said he accepts OBJ's goodwill of forgiveness, if I could advice Atiku; RUN!
Robert
Greene still has this to say about power:
"Remember:
The best deceivers do everything they can to cloak their roguish qualities.
They cultivate an air of honesty in one area to disguise their dishonesty in
others. Honesty is merely another decoy in their arsenal of weapons"
And
this rightly describe that man called General Olusegun Obasanjo. If Atiku
Abubakar learns anything at all, he should realise that the deeds from his
former boss has cost him his reputation and not many Nigerians really consider
him a powerful politician, that is not because he is not powerful but because
OBJ helped in colouring it so.
Now
power seems to be shifting to the APC and it is no coincidence that OBJ has
been seen to openly court APC chieftains. He helped commissioned projects in
Rivers State recently, a state led by the arch enemy of President Goodluck Jonathan, a
PDP man. OBJ is in constant meeting with Buhari, Tinubu and Lai, all in the
opposition and at one point or the other OBJ knows that he will be faced with
the prospects of having to cross Atiku's part during all these cross carpeting
and political whore-mongering so he is simply pouring the water forward so that
he can step on cold ground. What does he do? Master joker (((GBAM))) “do I not destroy my enemies when I make
them my friends?”. He turns to Atiku and makes him his new found friend, yeah right! Why didn’t he do that all
these years?
The
only part that is starkingly true and painfully so is that OBJ is doing all
this for one simple goal: POLITICAL RELEVANCE. He doesn’t care whose ox is
gored, he only cares if that ox is his and he will do everything to get his
goal; whether Atiku aligns or not. I hope former Comptroller Abubakar Atika can
be wise enough to understand that:
“Nothing is
stable in the realm of power, and even closest of friends can be transformed
into the worst of enemies.”
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