Truth as casualty

“It is common for controversists, in the heat of disputation, to add one position to another till they reach the extremities of knowledge, where truth and falsehood lose their distinction”

- Samuel Johnson

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death!

ADU:

There’s so much falsehood floating in the air that one doesn’t know what to believe anymore. I hear that the siege on the national assembly by the DSS operatives was in reaction to intelligence reports that the PDP elements in the Senate were planning to move a motion to impeach the president. The PDP members, on the other hand, said they heard that APC members were planning to impeach the Senate President, Bukola Saraki. It’s hard to know what to believe.

The only truth in what you have said is that there’s plenty of falsehood floating around. Your statement is one of such falsehoods.

Conspiracy theories! That’s all we get to hear. I hold Buhari responsible. How come Lawal Daura was operating a mini-bank in one of his guest houses? Was he the central bank?

Mini bank? TAMI: Yes. Let me read this to you: “An arsenal of loaded weapons - including an Uzi sub-machine gun - hundreds of assault rifles and a vast quantity of PVCs and cash said to be over N21 billion have been discovered in a house in Abuja, belonging to sacked Director General of the Department of State Services (DSS), Mallam Lawal Musa Daura”. Can you defend that?

The mistake you make is that you think I have to defend anything. As Aristotle said, “To say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is false; while to say of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not, is true”. If Daura has done something wrong, let justice take its course. Last week, Col. Abubakar Umar Dangiwa called for an investigation of what really happened. I personally want the case thoroughly investigated and all those indicted prosecuted.

Too little too late! Medicine after

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You will appreciate the good in other people the moment you set aside your prejudice. If Daura had been left in office, you would have cried foul; now that he has been sacked you’re saying it is too late. Can the Buhari government ever do anything right in your eyes?

I have nothing against anybody but I don’t believe that the President would not know about such stockpiling or warehousing of NGN21 billion and thousands of PVCs in the names of Niger Republic immigrants and 400 assault rifles among other items. Daura was his townsman and he was doing the president’s bidding.

That is unfair. It is like saying that President Jonathan was the one who ordered the many thefts and acts of brigandage under his watch. A president cannot know everything, especially where a security chief decides

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to become a monster.

We didn’t have all these terrible occurrences under Jonathan. I can’t wait for this ethnic jingoism to end.

And the killings. And selective prosecutions.

Ah, don’t go there! Under the former regime, EFCC froze the accounts of Adamawa State; Soldiers held Governor Amaechi hostage in Akure; 88 people were killed and over 200 injured in the Nyanya bombing; 185 people were killed in Kano; 228 people were killed in Baga; 41worshippers were killed and over 73 injured in a Catholic church in Madalla; 59 secondary school boys were massacred in their dormitory in Buni Yadi; one bullet-proof car was purchased by a minister for N255 million; a pastor’s plane was used to ferry $9.3 million (about N3.3 Billion) to South Africa under the pretext of buying arms; legislators were locked out of the national assembly by DSS and Police, and members had to scale the fence to get in….”

Is that all? What about all the shady dealings by this government? Or you think we don’t know? If you are blind, I am not; you just wait, when Buhari returns he will reinstate his kinsman as DG of the DSS, This is not a government. It is a clannish cult.

Bros, No o! Don’t pray for that man to be reinstated. Anyway Buhari can’t be that dumb.

Has he not done worse things? Would it be the first time he will be reinstating his kinsman who has beed fired?

I suggest you quit hating the president and look at issues dispassionately. He’s coming for another four years…. Over my dead body!

You better pray that it should be over your living body. Dead men don’t vote.

I know you’re pulling our legs. Buhari doesn’t stand a chance in hell. See the defections to PDP. the president’s party, APC is in disarray. You’re finished. All your lies will catch up with you.

I won’t argue with you. Come and talk to me after PDP selects its presidential candidate from the long list of “either-meor-nobody-else” candidates: Atiku Abubakar, Ahmed Makarfi, Rabiu Kwankwaso, Ibrahim Dankwambo, Sule Lamido, Ibrahim Shekarau, Bukola Saraki, Aminu Tambuwal, Attahiru Bafarawa, Baba-Ahmed, Tanimu Turaki and Ayodele Fayose.

You are hoping they will fall apart, not so? You will wait in vain. I’m prepared to wait. No insult intended, but you remind me of James Hadley Chase’s novel, “The Vulture Is A Patient Bird”. Don’t tell me you’re a vulture.

You should be asking your heroes who looted our oil boom petrodollars in 16 years of barefaced kleptocracy.

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