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"O what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive" - Sir Walter Scott.
Dear Mr. President, yes no one loves to lose, I'm not saying you will lose because I am not God, nor am I oblivious of the fact that the voice of the people is oftentimes the voice of God (vox populi vox dei), let the people speak, do not abridge the space and the slant of that speech, do not allow those who come to you as friends but do not mean well derail the electoral process for no one is God.
Mr. President, INEC has been coerced to allow a 6weeks extension, rather than make Jega the issue your team should re-jig your campaign and make the best of the period. Remember the buck stops at your table; the legacy is yours to make or mar. If you fail to allow free, fair and transparent polls come March 28 and April 11, 2015 then you shall have dealt great disservice to Nigeria, the choice is yours Mr. President.
It must be COUNTRY FIRST my President, the security of every Nigerian MUST count. Sir, the greatest threat to our collective existence appears to have shifted from Boko Haram to the uncertainties and the bobby traps ahead of the General Elections. Do not give any imprimatur to the implosion or explosion of Nigeria by those who have so much to hide. And do not think that your re-election lies in the subversion of the electoral process/rigging, you can re-jig your campaign along the lines of LOVE, PATRIOTISM and BROTHERHOOD, and deepen the debate.
It MUST be Country First. Jega must be left to do his Job. The Armed Forces should face the Boko Haram insurgency and leave the Police to handle civil issues. Those who work for you MUST cease to threaten Nigeria and the same applies to the Opposition, do not forget that in victory or in defeat Nigeria MUST prevail, no one is equal to ALL.
I cannot but write you on this day called St. Valentines Day, yes it a day to show love to both God and humankind, but chiefly at this moment of transition your love MUST manifestly be to God and country.
Mr. President let no one around you deceive you into believing that the opposition is the principal threat to national peace as nothing can be further from the truth. Refuse the lies Fifth Columnists and Aso Rock court-jesters manufacture and remember that as the Commander-in-Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces you remain the chief-whip of the nation and the chief-maintainer of the peace, so when your supporters threaten Nigeria such is the real threat to National Peace and Security and not the threat from the opposition.
Again my President, when all your campaigners do is to find fault with INEC, to call for the use of the Temporary Voters Card TVC as opposed to the Permanent Voters Card PVC for which so much time and Billions have been spent, I worry the signal they intend the world and indeed Nigerians to have. Why is your team scared of the INEC Card Reader? Are they opposed to free, fair and transparent polls? Do they want to rig the election? Why are they passionate about scuttling an ideal that the world has adjudged commendable? Sir, if you yet love Nigeria tell your men to cease the fire on Jega, on INEC and on the PVC because on the PVC and on free, fair and transparent polls we stand.
Dear Mr. President it must be COUNTRY FIRST, please re-jig your campaigns and save Nigeria the ominous cost that a failed election holds. Tell those around you who for selfish ends insist that heaven will not fall that they are oblivious of the times. Tell them that a highly progressive world has become increasingly impatient with injustice, hokum and deceit.
My Dear President now is the time to avoid those who argue that it is a taboo if an incumbent loses in a free, fair and transparent electoral contest conducted under his watch. Take note Sir, that a free, fair and credible election shall leave you with a profound legacy.
You must keep at arms-length those who predicate their selfish pursuit as the margin that must de-nominate our collective future. They have benefited hugely from the Bazaar that governance under your watch is, and do not want an abridgment of the limits of corruption, for them Nigeria can bleed to death as long as their deep pockets remain fertile. Mr. President they do not love you, they careless how you will be remembered, from such depart.
Dear President because it MUST BE Country First, please repudiate the position of your supporters who insist that you must win this election either by hook or by crook. Believe me Sir, hook and crook breeds doom. Ask the few sincere and dispassionate Security Chiefs around you to gauge the national mood and temperament, and see how the selfish ones have misled you into thinking that in today's Nigeria anything goes, no no no, not anymore!
Mr. President all eyes are on you, on your campaign, on your Service Chiefs and on the prosecution of the war on terror, on your nuances regarding INEC and on what you do about the Chibok girls whose fate after more than 300days in the Haramist's dungeon is a collective indictment and the shame of a nation.
Sir, the primacy of lives and properties, and the unity of Fatherland must predominate over your personal ambition; YES it must be COUNTRY FIRST.
May God Bless Nigeria.
Prof Chris NWAOKOBIA JNR
Director General
CHANGE AMBASSADORS OF NIGERIA, CAN.
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