The Coward Called Godswill Akpabio - FFK Writes On Alleged Governor's Defection
“You remain the father of the nation, our father and political father to all.
Just like i told Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Vice President Osinbanjo
yesterday in Nigeria… Those who think that they have politically grown to
insult you will all regret it before month end sir. I am here (London) to
register my undiluted love and unalloyed support to you. I was involved in all
their meetings and I know what their plans are. The long recess of NASS is
going to be your advantage and not theirs like they thought and planned”-
Senator Godswill Akpabio to
President Muhammadu Buhari
Those that do not have the courage of their convictions and that do not have
the guts to stand against tyranny when under fire are not worthy of being
called men: they are little better than beasts.
The fact that the former Governor of Akwa Ibom, Senator Godswill Akpabio, is a
coward and a traitor is no longer in dispute. The fact that his brazen
treachery knows no bounds is what can best be described as “settled law”.
A leader must be ready to sacrifice his liberty and life in defence of truth,
justice and righteousness and he must be prepared to defend his nation, faith,
people and loved ones no matter the price he may have to pay.
Sadly such noble virtues and high standards are lost on men like Akpabio. To
them such matters and sentiments are like Greek or Latin: they can neither
understand their meaning or grasp their import.
They fail to appreciate the fact that fear is not a virtue but a vice. They
refuse to acknowledge the fact that to blink the eye, bat the eyelid,
surrender, compromise, buckle, capitulate and bend the knee to the tyrant and
his minions in a futile and last minute attempt to preserve your life and
liberty is utterly shameful.
Akpabio’s desire to decamp to the APC due to his trepidation and fear of the
EFCC and Buhari’s regime is pitiful. If he has done nothing wrong then why the
fear and why the trepidation? Where is his faith in God?
And if he has done something wrong, given the fact that he has opposed them
virulently for the last three years, does he honestly believe that the
Buhari
regime will not punish him by using it against him if they manage to get back
to power next year, no matter how much he helps them today?
If he believes that then he is not half as intelligent as I once thought.
Buhari is not a man of honor, he is not a worthy ally, he does not keep to his
promises and he does not have friends. The only friend he has is his
insatiable lust for power which he feeds on a daily basis.
Aside from that the following questions come to mind. Does Akpabio honestly
see any good in
Buhari
and his government? Is that what he thinks that Nigerians deserve to suffer
for the next few years and if so what is their crime?
Has he forgotten the gratuitous insults that Buhari dishes out so lavishly on
the Nigerian people whenever he travels abroad and speaks to foreign leaders
and the foreign press?
Has he forgotten about all those that the Buhari government have killed and
all those that have died and suffered in the struggle against them? Does the
shedding of innocent blood by a desperate government mean nothing to him?
Has he forgotten the tears of the tormented and persecuted and the cries of
the widows, orphans and the bereaved whose loved ones have been butchered by
jihadists, religious fanatics, cow-lovers and ethnic supremacists that Buhari
has protected and encouraged over the last three years?
Has he forgotten the anguish of those whose loved ones have been locked up
indefinitely and those who have been demonised and subjected to the most
barbaric and insidious media witchunts in the history of our nation?
Has he forgotten the practice of double standards in the application of our
laws? Has he forgotten how the rogues in Buhari’s cabinet and government and
the governors in his party are above the law and get away with blue murder?
Has he forgotten about the slaughter of northern Christians, IPOB youths and
Shiite Muslims?
Has he forgotten about the genocide and ethnic cleansing of the Fulani
terrorists and herdsmen? Has he forgotten about the attack against the Church
and the attempt to undermine and ridicule Christendom?
Has he forgotten about the censorship of the media and how newspapers houses
and radio and television stations are warned against airing or publishing
anti-government material?
Has he forgotten about Buhari’s insidious secret romance with Boko Haram and
how he has strengthened them in the last two years by freeing their commanders
and paying them huge and unprecedented ransoms?
Has he forgotten the appalling way that members of our Armed Forces are being
treated by the government and how they are massacred on the front lines and
given secret mass burials in secret graves with no honor or thanks?
Has he forgotten about the brutal assault on the judiciary and judges and the
undermining of the rule of law? Has he forgotten about the relentless attacks
on the legislature and the humiliation of his colleagues at the National
Assembly?
Has he forgotten about the horrors and wickedness that members and leaders of
the opposition PDP were subjected to over the last 3 years? Has he forgotten
about what the Govermment did to Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, Sheik El Zak Zaky and Col.
Ibrahim Dasuki?
Has he forgotten the vitriolic terms and words that they used to describe
President Goodluck Jonathan, President Olusegun Obasanjo and every single PDP
leader and government that held power between 1999 and 2015?
Has he forgotten that Buhari considers himself to be the third and final Mahdi
of the north and that he has nothing but contempt and disdain for those that
come from the Middle Belt and the south and those that do not share his
religious faith?
Has he forgotten the insults the Buhari government heaped on southerners,
Middle Belters, Afenifere, Ohaeneze, the Niger Delta Elders, the Middle Belt
Forum and every single elder statesman and leader that has called for the
restructuring of our country.
Has he forgotten about the division, strife, disgrace, penury, corruption,
poverty and despair that they have subjected the Nigerian people to over the
last three years.
Has he forgotten what Christians have been subjected to by these demons from
hell? Has he forgotten their hatred for the Church? Has he forgotten the
division, strife, turmoil, bloodshed, torment and havoc that they have
inflicted on our nation?
Has Akpabio forgotten about all these things or is that he is so tormented by
the fear of his own shadow, the EFCC and Buhari’s ghost that he has
capitulated like a fatherless peasant that lacks nobility, class, dignity,
self-respect, good-breeding and honor?
On a general note one is constrained to ask: why are most Nigerian leaders
plagued with such a cowardly disposition and servile spirit? Why do they
compromise so often and why do they tremble before power?
If Akpabio had issues with PDP that is fair enough. We all have issues with
the party in varying degrees.
Yet if he felt constrained to leave why can’t he join any of the other
numerous opposition parties? Why does he have to sell his soul to the devil
and enter a Faustian pact with Buhari and the APC.
Why should he join the birds of prey to feed on the blood, flesh and guts of
the Nigerian people?
The truth is that he has betrayed his people and joined forces with those that
seek to enslave them simply in an attempt to secure freedom and goodwill for
himself.
Is that what leaders are meant to do? Are they meant to give in to their most
morbid and irrational fears and collaborate with those that seek to destroy
their nation, their people and their future?
Akpabio reminds me of the old African chiefs and traditional rulers that sold
their own people into slavery to the white slave dealers in return for tiny
crumbs and protection.
He reminds me of the black slaves that fought on the side of the southern
secessionist forces in the American civil war who attempted to preserve the
institution of slavery.
He reminds me of the inglorious Scottish clans that turned their backs on
Scotland’s heroic Bonny Prince Charlie and instead betrayed their people and
fought on the side of the English oppressors to oppose Scottish emancipation
and liberation.
He reminds me of everything that is unpleasant, servile, weak, ugly, uncouth,
cowardly and dishonorable.
The fact of the matter is that Akpabio deserves to be pitied. He is more
worthy of pathos than wrath because, like Judas Iscariot and those that
betrayed and crucified Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, he “knows not what
he does”.
Shakespeare wrote that “a coward dies a thousand times before his death, but
the valiant taste of death but once.”
Soyinka wrote that “the man died in him who remained silent before tyranny”.
Akpabio has died a thousand deaths and the man has died in him.
Courage, risk and sacrifice are the fuel and engine room of the struggle for
liberation. I would rather live as a free man for one day than live a thousand
years as a coward and a slave.
May God guide my friend and brother Godswill Akpabio and may He open his eyes
and cause him to appreciate the folly of his own actions and the very grave
consequences of the monumental mistake he is about to make.
May He remind him that the forces of darkness have nothing to offer but death,
sorrow, shame and destruction.
May He remind him that no matter how dark the night, joy comes in the morning
for those who have faith, who trust in the Lord and who stand firm till the
end.
May He remind him that those that joined Adolf Hitler, even in his last days,
ended up dying with him.
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