Dasuki had swag and a lot of wad. Some believed that just shaking his hand could turn around their lives, ‘fiam’!
You know something? Even those who were merely at the airport lounge once when Dasuki strolled by and just inhaled his expensive perfume will swear to you, ‘Sambo is my friend!’ To know Sambo was to be close to real power. As we may have found out, to know Sambo was also to be close to money, real money, in the billions! Sambo does not touch millions. That is chicken change.
You remember the kite flown in London about shifting the Valentine day presidential elections of 2015? We were all here insisting that it could not happen. Without the National Assembly?! Without the Supreme Court?! Did it happen or not? Who flew the kite? Sambo! If the stories are to be believed, who told Attahiru Jega that he was on his own if he should go ahead to conduct the elections on February 14? Sambo!
Why did Sambo and his friends want Jonathan to win the election more than Jonathan himself? I don’t know if they knew it but their body language was one of terrible desperation.
On February 7, 2015, in this column, I had written the following words:
“I find the body language of the ‘friends’ of our President puzzling. I hope I am wrong but watching them and listening to them, the impression gets stronger every passing day that they believe that it will be the end of the world if President Jonathan is not re-elected. While they still campaign, their main hope appears to be that the election process will be scattered by whatever means. Oga’s friends seem to be training for a football match they don’t want to play. It is mostly from this crowd that we get to hear a million crazy reasons why the elections should be postponed.
“I am not sure that the ‘friends’ of my president have taken note that in their complaints and excuses about the performance of INEC, the security situation in the country and Nigeria’s readiness to conduct elections, they are in fact pointing fingers at the performance of the President himself or the lack of it. In the last six years, GEJ has been CEO of Nigeria Inc. Pray, who has Attahiru Jega been reporting to? Certainly not Muhammadu Buhari. Who made the arrangements and set the dates for the elections? Clearly, not Buhari. Who have the security chiefs been reporting to?
“When I first heard that some people close to Aso Rock were considering last minute postponement of the elections as a political strategy, I laughed it off. It appeared like a big joke. What started as a joke is now giving me sleepless nights as the dust is gathering and the producers of this very bad Nollywood movie continue to shoot without hindrance. This is not freedom of speech. Some people are indeed pouring petrol over our nation and want to light a match. I verily believe that the time has come for His Excellency, the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan to look Nigerians in the eyes and address this matter. He should call his crazy ‘friends’ to order. What they are contemplating has the capacity to bring down the nation called Nigeria and unleash unthinkable suffering. It is way beyond dangerous…”.
Pray, has it not now become clear why the likes of Dasuki and his friends badly wanted President Jonathan to come back? It clearly had little to do with the love of Jonathan or the love of Nigeria.
As happens quite often, man proposes and God disposes. Despite the zillions of dollars, despite the intimidating security apparatus, despite Orubebe, despite Afenifere, despite OPC, despite MASSOB, despite Femi Fani Kayode and Fayose, Buhari won and Jonathan lost. Now the wind is blowing and we can see the true backside of the chicken, that not covered by feathers.
Can you believe that suddenly nobody wants to be associated with Sambo Dasuki, the guy who reportedly could order the Governor of the Central Bank to deliver big bags of crisp dollar notes anytime by day or night. I hear that even Bode George says that he does not know Sambo Dasuki. Bafawara is also said to be creating a distance between himself and Sambo. Femi Fani Kayode too! I am waiting for the Man of God with the private jet loaded with dollars grabbed in South Africa. Will he also deny Sambo? Chai! There is God indeed.
And some people tell me that change is not here
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There is God oh! There is God oh! All these monies they have been sharing, there is God oh.