Editorial: Muhammadu Buhari is simply evil

Nearly one month after the youths took to the streets to protest against police brutality and high level of injustice by disbanded SARS, after much pressure the President of the most populous black nation in the world, Nigeria addressed the nation. Despite calls from the majority of Nigerians including his former colleagues, members of the Parliament to persuade him to speak to the nation. When he did spoke, his speech although prerecorded did not bring any solace to the expectation of the people rather more anger and frustration . What type of a leader does this to his people? Except a man that is naturally born evil and yet chooses to contest to be President of his country. No one has an answer to his attitude towards this crisis and how he views the outcry from around the world. Does he despise his people? Or he is still displaying his military undertone that these are ‘just bloody civilians’. When in the 90s, few Nigerian journalists challenged former military rulers, General Ibrahim Babangida and General Sani Abacha head on with new media publications like Tell magazine, The News, Tempo and Razor magazine to mention a few. We started what was then known as Guerrilla journalism in Nigeria. We fought the military until we were forced to abandon our offices and turned our cars and hide outs to our mobile offices to be able to write, coordinate and publish our stories; we slept at printing press and moving from one to another location to avoid been caught and locked up, we circulate our publications at the dark of the night. I was in my mid-twenties then, we put everything on line to expose the atrocities of the then military leaders so we educate the public on the evil we were dealing with in persons of Babangida and Abacha. During that same era, Babangida had the effrontery to describe himself as “Evil Genius”. It was a cover story on Tell magazine. We just wonder what type of man will be bold enough to describe himself with such words? Not surprised at what is happening at the moment with an exmilitary dictator as President of Nigeria. That he has disguised himself from his military uniform to civilian dress does not change the man in the dress. He is still the same military dictator, his evil intentions for Nigeria is well documented with his one sided administration employments, playing the tribal card. I dare to ask for one month now that the youths took to the street, where is Boko Haram? Why is the President not addressing the concerns of his people? The protests should be a matter of national interest, unity and peace as he said during his 60th Diamond celebration speech to the nation. One pattern we have noticed is that he mostly use his spokespersons to speak his mind to the nation. Are they speaking his

Pastor Elvis Iruh words or it is just his deaf attitude

Editor-in-Chief to the plights of Nigerians? We need an answer please! One thing for sure is that he is still using the military tactics of propaganda and blackmail as a weapon of fighting back in the face of reaction/protests of the citizenry. Since he failed to seize the opportunity presented to him to address the demands of the youths; they now sponsor pockets of thugs, military personnel to force the youths to abandon the protest and blame the mayhem on the youths. It is a script we know well, it is no surprise that the new engagement is to sponsor these elements to destroy institutions of national interest in the South-West part of the country and blame it on others who are agitating for change. It is their weapon of fight back and tactics to change the narratives. Therefore we call on the youths to be extra vigilant, any person that suggests destruction of properties or killing of military personnel or private individuals are enemies of the country. The struggle is not about revenge despite all the ills done to certain sections of the country. Buhari cannot and would not be allowed or accept the new norms of using his ‘press boys’ called spokesperson(s) to make reckless and unguided statements like that of Mr. Femi Adesina. He called the protesters ACTIONS as child’s play. “It is an action of few people trying to be funny and it is nothing to be worried about” we quote him. (We have a message for Adesina in another article. Read more on page ). He said further, ‘I stand by my statement that this protest they call a revolution march is just a child’s play’. What is not a child’s play is using military tanks to shoot at defenseless youths and killing them at the dark of the night. We could imagine he is speaking for President Buhari. No comment from the Presidency since Adesina made those assertions to withdraw or apology for that statement made on national television. During the Babangida era he was forced to abandon his military might to hand over to an interim government, and this was under a military regime despite their all form of intimidations in their armoury then. For instance they started producing their own Razor magazine using our masthead and logo to publish their fake news and tried to fool the population but it did not work. Famous was their fake publication on Razor masthead that M.K.O. Abiola has abandoned his June 12 mandate and called for an end for the struggle/protest. The public were not fooled and now the public would not be fooled by their antics. The same tactics they would use to discredit the protesters. Watch out for more propaganda and blackmail as their weapon of fighting back. Don’t be fooled, they would not succeed. Stay peaceful in your expression of your demands without violence and let us see how the centre would hold. God bless and protect peace loving people of Nigeria. Some few old oligarchies will not destroy Nigeria. Pastor Amb. N. Elvis Iruh Publisher, The Voice News magazine “We stand with the peaceful protesters in Nigeria and elsewhere around the world”.

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