Elder statesman and former Minister of Aviation for the Second Republic, Chief Mbazulike Amechi, claimed that cabals in Aso Rock were hindering President Muhammadu Buhari from making moral decisions about the administration of the nation.
Amechi claimed that letters he had sent to Buhari on the situation in the nation, including one from Nnamdi Kanu, had not been delivered to the President.
These were said on Thursday by the wise man in his Ukpor rural residence in Anambra State’s Nnewi South Local Government Area.
Amechi said that when he led a team of Igbo elders to Buhari and asked him to release Kanu to the Igbo elders on the grounds of politics, Buhari himself agreed and insisted that they go and make the request in writing.
He said, “The people around the President are not allowing him to make rightful decisions and that is why the country is in a bad shape at the moment, but God is raising a new generation of leaders.”
He expressed his shock and greater shock at the fact that nothing had been heard from Buhari since he received the letters for his review and immediate action, leading him to believe that the same cabals who had sworn Kanu would not be released may have forced the President not to act on the letters.
He further recalled that soon after Kanu’s detention, he submitted an application to meet Buhari, but the same cabals withheld it from him until Buhari was met in Paris, France, and asked whether he had seen the application, to which Buhari replied, “No.”
He then pleaded with Buhari to demand the letters from his assistants, swallow his ego, disregard the cabals’ shenanigans, and respond appropriately to them.
He claims that the Igbo elders, under the leadership of himself in all humility, have assured him that Kanu’s release will not only ease tensions but also bring about a return to normalcy in the nation, much like how the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua handled the Niger/Delta issue and prevented further anarchy in the nation during his administration.
He stated that the general elections in 2023 are a crucial event that must receive all the attention it merits since they could determine if the nation will continue to exist.
Amechi said, “As I lie down in my bed, meditating and navigating the quiet sea of 94 years, tears rolled down my cheeks that my President, a man who has so much regard and respect for me will be diverted not to trust me and grant me the one single request which I made in my capacity as about the only surviving co-founder of this great country, which is the release of Kanu.”
The 94-year-old patriot commented on the situation, saying a third force is emerging that seems to indicate God now wants to openly intervene and prevent the country from falling into anarchy.
He said, “To me, the two most potent and current issues in the country now are the coming presidential election and the growing spate of insecurity in the country.
“On the elections, I am no longer a politician but I cannot keep dumb when I see the country which I gave my whole youth and blood to co-found being pushed to an irretrievable pit of disintegration and anarchy.
“Since the operation of the military imposed constitution in 1999, two major political parties have ruled the country and both parties have goofed in the selection of their presidential candidates and their running mates. The nation has sunk into the stinking catacomb of corruption, looting, religious and tribal bigotry.
“It would appear that the emergence of Peter Obi and Datti Baba Ahmed ticket is an opportunity which God has given to the long suffering people of Nigeria to save and take back their country which has been economically and politically raped for many years.”
On the Muslim-Muslim ticket, he said, “The position is this bad for the poor Christians now that we still have Muslim/Christian presidency. You can imagine what will happen if Nigeria is said to have elected a Muslim/Muslim presidency in 2023.”
