Avengers' Condition for Peace

Avengers' Condition for Peace: Leave Our Corrupt Brothers Alone

Corruption is ferociously fighting back. Will the President succumb?

Is this going to be another test for the President after the neo-liberals have pressed him hard to devalue the Naira though he still believes it is a fruitless measure?

If you were the President, what would you do: Succumb to the terrorists or fight them to finish?

Now, do not rush. Get your cards clear. Your condition would be as bad as being between the rock and the hard place.

If you would, on the one hand, succumb to their demands by, among other conditions, withdrawing your troops and letting their corrupt ex-officials enjoy their loot freely, then you can as well call it quits on your war on corruption and let my brother Dasuki and others to equally enjoy their loot freely. Finally, be prepared to declare a surrender and concede that corruption has won. Corruption will then walk the streets briskly with pomp and pageantry. You would have chosen to fight it another day at your own peril, as Machiavelli would put it. The entire premise for voting for you would then be completely eroded. You would become a ghost of your former self, empty and dejected.

If you would, on the other hand, stick to your guns, make your threats real and call off the bluff of the terrorists, then prepare to run the country without a dime of oil proceeds. It will reach a point where Nigeria cannot export even a barrel of oil per day. If your citizens can endure the lean years of Joseph in the absence of any store - years without salary and a naira hovering somewhere around N1000/dollar - then, and only then, you may contemplate this option. The benefit, however, would be great: Our final cure from the cancer of dependence on oil and freedom from the corrupt cabal from the Niger Delta.

Put yourself in these thorny shoes of the President before you contribute to the debate.

Ear infection! That is one too many. Leadership is not easy, gaskiya.

Dr. Aliyu U. Tilde
8 June 2016