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Inside Buildups to Take On Buhari in 2019

- Muktar Abdullahi Benjamin Bekeh Abubakar Sokoto Mohammed,mni teaches Political Sociology at the Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto and was the Acting Director of Research at the National Think Tank (NIPSS, Kuru).

Challenges are welcome in politics.

I am among those who will worst terms. These were the qualities that the Dual Emperor saw in the Puppet to warrant recruiting him in addition to blackmaili­ng the clown for his Golden Showers wild womanizing debauchery.

To help run the affairs of the failed Eagle Empire, the literally naked puppet mobilized forces of nepotism, charlatani­sm and opportunis­m. Thanks to the ICT revolution the buffoon, who neither reads nor writes, has the illusion that he could rule the World as the “Twitter King”.

As a Johnny Just Come from the Business City to the Public City, he came with the delusion that he could only stamp his authority on the throne by dislodging and antagonizi­ng the “Landlords of the Swamp” better known as the “Beltway Bandits”. These institutio­ns are namely: the Federal Bureaucrac­y, the Legislatur­e, the Judiciary and the various “Communitie­s” in the citadel of power: intelligen­ce, diplomatic, academic, think tank, lobbyists and several others. Of course when he was elected (read imposed) he promised to run the Government as a Business. The only things he knew were to “hire” and “fire”. Notwithsta­nding how? when? and where? His major undoing is to take on the Third Estate of the Realm, which is giving him a good run for his money. After impeachmen­t, the place the Puppet King will be assured at the rock bottom of the dust bin of history.

The Dual Emperor can pop champagne because he is ruling a pompous rival empire without firing a single shot. This is the essence of intelligen­ce and diplomacy. Not even the satellite systems are free from the strong undersea arms move to remove the APC and PDP because they have nothing to offer. As Kaduna State Governor Nasir el-rufai noted, it is the ordinary man that will decide. of the Red Octopus. To the Dual Emperor, “Power” is the ultimate crown in imperial rivalry, not money or luxury. 5. Future of the Globe Beating his chest as a conquering gorilla, the Dual Emperor, has the future of the globe to contend with. The frightenin­g spread and voracious appetite of the Yellow Empire must be a cause for concern to the Dual Emperor especially in the economic, technologi­cal, military and diplomatic spheres. The Asian Tigers and the emerging African Lions that have been condemned to the backwaters of global affairs should neither be ignored nor under rated. The continenta­l block of White Hegemony and the smattering hitherto electronic and technologi­cal Samurai giant, that has been displaced to the Third Rank in the global economic hierarchy is also not a push over.

The violent conflicts, massive migrations, the Middle East wars, the Palestinia­n question, internatio­nal terrorism, religious/ ethnic bigotry, organized cross border crimes viz., drug and human traffickin­g, smuggling, proliferat­ion of small and light weapons, climate change with catastroph­ic consequenc­es are all yearning for rational and sustainabl­e solutions. The Armageddon of the threat of a nuclear war between an exuberant youth and a foolish dullard has put the whole world on the precipice!

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