By Salisu Na’inna Dambatta
Nigeria is currently facing a triplet of experts, specialists and pundits in political, security and economic socery. They are simultaneously trading their wares in a country they live and call home, but for which they do not wish the best in their practice of socery.
Their devilish oracles tell them the untruth that Nigeria, home to over 200 million black people, will break up into an unknown number of tiny entities. A socerer had the temerity to swear by the grave of his father that our fatherland will go to pieces in the next six months. This type of malicious and wild prediction has been the main wares of trade by the socerers for decades, indeed, right from the day the country was stiched together in 1914. It has always failed woefully, just as this one will also turn to ashes.
The political socerers have never relented in their business of giving the date Nigeria will be dismantled in a deconstruction process that will certainly not augur well for everyone, including those who pay for the socery and financiers of the untenable deconstruction.
Politically deconstructed African countries such as Sudan and Libya, are in a cycle of turmoil and instability that made the socerers that predicted heaven on earth after the disruptions of both countries to injure themselves by biting their fingers. The political socerers did not, and certainly could never have foreseen, any eldorado as the outcome of the political destruction of Libya and the creation of two Sudans. There was none. Nigeria and the 200 million residents who call it home, should not be exposed to that kind of political recklessness as conceived by the devilish political socerers.
In an opportunistic move, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, who seems in his letters to fan embers of disaffection against the Muhammadu Buhari-led administation, has warned that there will be suffering for a category of Nigerians should the country be splintered as hoped and prayed for by one Robert Clarke, an ignorant, confused and poorly-learned barrister at law. He should be stripped of his robe of Senior Advocate of the Supreme Court of the Nigeria he wishes to see dismantled in six months.
The security socerers are working jointly in a triangle of the devil by constantly denying that the country has successfully contained the insurgency in the North East. Their oracles, fake of course, turned their socery in security matters into hallucinations by telling them that the so-called caliphate proclaimed by the Boko Haram insurgents still stands.
The socerers are trying to deceive gullible Nigerians into believing that everywhere in the country is barricated, with security checkpoints every three kilometres apart. This observation and findings show that contrary to the evil wish of the security socerers such check points are now rare.
It is true that the socerers have seen or heard of the evil activities of kidnappers, bandits and arsonists, but chose not to admit that the security forces are up and doing, day and night, tracking and successfully finishing off many of those kidnappers, bandits and arsonits in gun battles. The security forces are doing that to make sure that each of the 200 million Nigerians is freed from the fear of such criminals.
The security socerers have not seen how on daily basis Nigerian security forces display catches of lethal weapons they recovered from criminals of all hues. The security socerers whose blind oracles cannot show them how the police and other legitimate state agents mop up illegal weapons, and the seizure of container-loads of illicit war materiel at our borders.
In another failure by the oracles to show the security socerers the reality, the socerers should know that the Nigerian security forces have foreseen their negative prediction and warned them that they can not be infiltrated or divided into enclaves that can make them drop their guard forthe evil ones to find the opportunity for turning Nigeria into a theatre of anarchy. Never.
Indeed, the security forces are busy developing a modest military industrial complex for the country. It has taken off, and much materiel needs for the armed forces are provided through domestic production. This the socerers did not see. But it is real.
The security socerers whose oracle cannot detect a civil war. There will be none. Those calling on Ndi Igbo in parts of the country to keep procure and keep a gun for a looming war, will be disappointed forever. This is because those beating the drums of another civil war in Nigeria have been beaten by fate and time. It will not happen, because Nigeria has not been forsaken by the Almighty God. The shameless advocates of war will not see it happen to rejoice.
The third leg of the tripod of evil socerey focusing on the Nigerian economy, their oracle has failed in its false assessment, characterisation and prediction on the Nigerian economy.
The performance of businesses threw the prediction of economic socerers into the dustbin. Because in addition to huge profits being declared unceasingly by businesses such as Dangote Cement’s N296 billion after tax profit in 2020 and BUA Cement’s N72.34 billion profit in the same year, MTN Nigeria announced a record full-year turnover of N1.3 trillion in 2020. These and more results were achieved despite the strong economic headwinds caused by the Covid-19 pandemic which crippled most economies around the world.
While the economic socerers were envisaging economic doom for Nigerian and mouthing catastrophe for the citizens, Nigeria shamed them by exiting the recession that was majorly induced by the Covid-19 pandemic earlier than most countries. By every measure, this feat while most of the countries in the world were groping for ways out of their versions of the Covid-19 recession, is testimony to the competence of the economic management team put together by President Muhammadu Buhari.
As the socerers saw the mirage of economic failure and joblessness in the country, the impact of the economic diversification programme of the Muhammadu Buhari-led administation is reviving and expanding Small and Medium enterprises, supporting the manufacturing and agriculcural sectors through more than one dozen initiatives and interventions by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
The economic socerers equally failed to learn from their unseeing oracles that Nigeria has attained more than 95 per cent sufficiency in domestic paddy production and processing to the extent that many rice-exporting entities are going bankrupt because Nigeria is no longer rampantly and wastefully importing rice from them.
Overall, it is a source of joy that going by the preceeding paragraphs, the political, security and economic socerers who predict doom for, and an end to Nigeria’s existence, are lowering their heads in shame because their treasonable bad wishes for Nigeria will not materialise. Never.
