Common Sense is not common. On the twin bomblast targeted at Sheikh Dahiru Bauchi and Gen. Muhammadu Buhari Rashid Oniyangi wrote: UNDER LOCK AND KEY..... AGAIN! Before we label them as fools, those who think that either APC staged an assassination attempt on their own chieftain, or that the Government of President Goodluck Jonathan may have a hand in the attempted assassination of General Muhammadu Buhari, let us pause and ask two questions. 1. What is likely to happen if the attempt had succeeded, and how could the victim (General Buhari) have possibly benefited from his own death at the hands of his political friends.? It would indeed have been a strange and needless sacrifice. 2. What could the government of Goodluck Jonathan possibly hope to gain from precipitating an event that would most certainly return zero benefits in terms of persuading political support away from General Buhari and APC? The event will likely draw sympathy towards Buhari and draw suspicion towards the Jonathan government. This is simply based on the opposite political positions they both occupy. It is also possible that the event and the various ways in which it may be interpreted, will simply reinforce further, the existing positions. The usual suspects, Boko Haram, are showing once again that they have a devilish understanding of the Nigerian political fault lines better than our squabbling politicians. It is time our politicians sit up and arrest the abyss we are sliding into. It take incidents like this to alert us to how close we can actually come to a conflagration of unimaginable proportions. The unreasonable conjectures that are now making the rounds are of course very foolish, but they are entirely logical when viewed against the background of the Boko Haram modulated politics of the moment. What is logical is not necessarily factually grounded, nor can such logic equate to the truth.
Posted on: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 13:21:06 +0000
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