The Star Late Edition

Nigerian presidents’ deaths suspect

- Sebokeng

IT LOOKS like Muhammadu Buhari is going to end up the same way as Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, after Goodluck Jonathan took over the reins from him due to his sickness and ultimately his death.

Yemi Osinbajo is going to end up being the president of Nigeria because of Buhari’s ill-health. I don’t think it’s witchcraft; I’m suspecting the allegation­s of poisoning might be true, especially after he consulted the FBI to help him fight the scourge of corruption that have spiralled out of control in Nigeria, and his rewarding of whistle-blowers.

What about the other Nigerian presidents who “died in office”? Take Sani Abacha as an example. Was he really poisoned by two prostitute­s or were they used as scapegoats?

It seems as if Igbos (tribalism), women (sexism) and Muslims are not supposed to rule and govern as presidents, if one also looks at what happened to Atiku Abubakar. His chances of becoming president were ruined after the FBI clamped down on him and his wife, Jennifer Douglas.

On the other hand, nothing was done to Olusegun Obasanjo (preferenti­al treatment) when his corrupt activities were exposed by CNN’s Jonathan Mann. I’m not even going to mention the corrupt relationsh­ip between Obasanjo and Charles Taylor.

George W Bush hated Muslims and Donald Trump’s xenophobic and Islamophic tendencies are worse than that of his Republican predecesso­r. Mekoa Sereme

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