OPEN LETTER TO GENERAL IBRAHIM BADAMASI BABANGIDA.
Dear General Babangida,
Your Excellency sir,
I find it pertinent to write you this letter in View of recent happenings in the political brouhaha of our dear country. It is my hope that you are getting much better by the day and I pray that Allah continue to heal and continue to bless you forever.
I am lucky to be among the younger generation who saw, felt and experienced those good old days of your administration, I am among those who witnessed administrations before yours (Yakubu Gowon, Murtala Mohammed, Obasanjo, Shagari, Buhari) and I have also witnessed administrations after yours (Shonekan, Abacha, Absulsalami, Obasanjo, Yaradua, Goodluck and now Buhari). I am therefore most qualified to assess your administration compared to others and knows which of them is the best.
Your administration which had competent, well educated and best brains in all discipline gave us so many dividends of democracy such as DFRRI, NOA, People's Bank, FRSC, NECO, JAMB, Third mainland bridge, Abuja-Kaduna-Maisuguri express road, State Central Bank Offices, NDE, State NNPC Depots, SDP, NRC buildings, and many others even though you were then a military President and such dividends are still very much visible and enjoyed by us.
You were the only President ever in Nigeria who never shift blame to anybody because of your sincere believe that "the bulk stops on your table" unlike the leaders we are witnessing this days where they openly wash their dirty linens in public. You are the only leader we have wrongly alleged you have stolen our money and you dared us to sue you court with concrete evidence to be prosecuted which till date we couldn't do. You remain the only President who resides in Nigeria without writing letters or granting interviews to insult or blindly criticise anyone but you remain the most talked about 25 years after you stepped aside as our leader.
Our country has gone through a lot (the good, the bad and even the ugly) and i feel it is high time we get real leaders (I am certain you are the best) who have the masses at heart, who had sacrifice so much, who provided people oriented projects, who are out for the unity of Nigerians and who knows this country so well to intervene by charting the way forward through sincerely advising our politicians one on one and not through open letters.
You are respected by our politicians, security agencies and even the people hence the need to without delay call everyone to order including Obasanjo (the serial letter writer) by way of proffering solutions to Nigeria's problems rather than open blind criticisms without solutions as they always do. I am calling on you to help us out your excellency because our leaders after you have lost solutions to our problems and all they do is to use your administration's visions, initiatives, policies and programs by changing names to take credits of your effort.
Finally your excellency, I pray this letter get to you, I pray you get the robust health and Allah's guidance to act fast because we are becoming "the lost cattles without Shepard".
Thank you.
Yours Sincerely
Wushishi Habibu
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