21/07/2014
ATIKU ABUBAKAR DESERVES THIS MOMENT.
In Nigeria of today, the greatest trust between our leaders is simply lacking. In all the philosophies of leadership, the greatest trust between Man and Man is the trust of giving wise and honest counsel. As an opening to this discourse, Atiku Abubakar has been known over time, to provide the needed stability in politics through wise and honest counsel.
Nothing breeds the present fractionalization of the PDP like the breaking of privileges and the pervasion of oppression by the leadership of the party and the Government. In addition, there is a general sense of unfairness typified by the advancement of unworthy persons to the extent of offending all good persons.
In government, Atiku Abubakar prevailed based on good principles, out of office, he did not change, in fact his energy became firmer, he shared forbearance and gentleness in working with others. He refused to revenge unreasonable or unfair conduct against him by friends or foes. Atiku succeeded because whenever he got hold of what is good, he multiplies it severally and dost not loose it. He is a man of talent and virtue and these has taken him beyond the shores of this country. Atiku is confident of himself that he does not have to wait till he sees things in order to act or be cautious, nor does he wait for anyone to tell him something that could not made him apprehensive. He is a politician who has cultivated friendly harmony around the Country.
Atiku is simple in his interaction with common men and woman and has brilliantly shone through the lives of countless men and women. In government he governed all people according to their nature and what is proper to them according to the principles of reciprocity. Atiku never does anything to anyone, which he does not like when done to him. He served his superiors well, he served his elder brother late Shehu Musa Yar,adu, as he would have expected his younger brother late Umar Musa Yardua to serve him. He served the former President Olusegun Obasanjo to the best of his ability and stabilized that Government through sheer commitment to the ideals of politics. Atiku speaks little of himself or his virtues, but his words have respect to his actions and his actions have respect to his words. Atiku does whatever is proper or the situation demands and he hardly goes beyond what is right and correct.
Nigeria is crying out for someone who can show the way to escape the looming threat to our democracy and peaceful co-existence. The real challenge facing Nigeria’s leadership is to find a way to rebuild confidence and hope in democracy as a means to develop our people and utilize the common resources to the benefit of all Nigerians. Nigeria has built leaders who can prevent more crises before they threaten our co-existence. The leader we need today must be great, aspiring & upright, a unifier of differences, and someone who brings out the best in human aspiration. We know that successful leaders in business and politics made better Statesmen. We need leaders who can take a look at the present situation, listen and finds out the true needs that this situation demands to be fulfilled. That Statesman is Atiku Abubakar.
My reasons are simple, because in the present situation, there is a looming threat and instability in the polity, we are all feeling insecure, discontentment is in the air, our faces are envious and full of anxiety, who is going to make the situation feel safer and more prosperous?
So many young professionals, politicians and business people are filled with unrealized ambitions and achievements, most Nigerians feel unsuccessful, unfilled, we all wants to be productive, but we lack the passion, because we don’t believe in the system and processes, who is going to step in and motivate us to believe in ourselves and our abilities?
Our politics is fragmented, incoherent and lack team spirit that the likes of Atiku brought up with the early formation of the People Democratic Party (PDP). All the groups that came together to form the PDP are disintegrating in to bickering and petty wrangling factions. Meetings and conventions go on and on but never reach a satisfactory conclusion on who’s going to be the glue that brings coherence to the PDP once again?
There is bad feeling among politicians, apathy among the populace. We are going through motions believing that we are pursuing a worthy cause. Sadly, however, we are in fact disengaged internally. The political atmosphere is stale and hopeless. There is no support or trust among brothers or comrades, among the leaders and followers. Let ask question, who is going to bring a good heart to the situation and make us all feel the spirit of belonging to a worthy cause? In this age of scientific break through, our situation is dominated by old solutions, and unworkable ideas, our situation is alien to creativity. We all agree that we need something new, but our variation and lack of consensus and always maintain the status quo. Who is going to bring the needed spark of creativity to the young, the old, the male, and the female and give us hope?
We can sum up all the above as the loss of our moral values for which we are known in the good old days. We feel hopeless; the strong are cynically taking advantage of the weak. At every gathering, people talk about righting wrongs and bringing back the right values, but no one knows where to start. The future is bleak and feels like a wishful thinking to honestly aspire to political office, based purely on the merits of yours ideas for development and empowerment. We all feel oppressed and suffocating to the point of death. Who for God’s sake will bring us hope and renew our strength, our sense of belief and accomplishment?
In the entire above situation, the human condition suffers; people no longer have faith in merit, hard work or reward for good. Therefore, we are all asking who are we to aspire? Why are we here? Where can we go from here? How much can we accomplish under this situation? We pray and ask God all the time, yet our faith in God is weak. We need someone who can bring light and demonstrate practically that our faith in God is a living reality.
Our situation therefore needs someone to help salvage our collective aspiration. A leader with no ego is what we need at the moment. In short Atiku’s soul is that of leadership in business and politics, and that is what Nigeria requires at the moment. He is always quite and calm, waiting for the Will of ALLAH on his life, while other men scramble for luck in a dangerous manner. In politics, he is the master. Whenever he misses his target, he turns round to his followers & associates and seeks for the cause of his failure in himself and blames no one.
As a family man, he is in a happy union with his wives and children, always delightful, in concord and enduring love. He therefore regulates his family, does not involve them in public affairs, so that he would enjoy the pleasure of their company.
Atiku enters into all things and company, and nothing moves well without him. His sincerity can never be repressed. He is prepared to succeed through the practice of good conduct. If Atiku does not succeed by a single effort, he will use a hundred efforts to succeed. If another man uses ten efforts to succeed, Atiku will use a thousand efforts and will surely grow stronger. Whenever Atiku touches you, you are sure to be nourished and transformed. He has a way of foreknowing the coming good or evil. He will continue to strive to attain greatness for this Country. This moment belongs to the likes of ATIKU ABUBAKAR, we need him to complete what he had started some years back by placing the right men in the right positions so we could collectively tread in the ways of duty. This is Nigeria’s dream.
