Movie
producer, Dickson Iroegbu, penned a public apology to former President Goodluck
Jonathan for "ganging up" with other Nigerians against his government
in 2012 when the former president, attempted to remove oil subsidy. Read his
full letter after the cut...
Yes I did
join the protest, but my dear Sir, I did not consider the long term positive
effect it would have on the economy of our beloved nation at that particular
moment. We joined forces with the NLC and the TUC, and alongside your political
enemies we mobilized hundreds of thousands of people in protest across the
nation.
I matched
with my colleagues from my then abode in Aguda through Surulere (National
Stadium), to Ojelegba, through Maryland ,
to Ojota where we met a marmot crowd. The police and all other law enforcement
agents under your democratic leadership were very civil with us; we were never
harassed or molested nor killed. In fact a certain overzealous police man who
accidentally shot at a young man in Mushin area
in Lagos during
that protest was not only dismissed from service, but he was also prosecuted
and jailed!
SIR, YOU
ARE A GOOD EXAMPLE OF A DEMOCRATIC LEADER IN AFRICA !
There in
Ojota, Pastor Tunde Bakare and Sheik Ahmad Abubakar Gumi and Seun Kuti, and
many many others were there. Even my brother Okey Bakassi was there too! We
sang and danced, we gyrated, we cooked and slept there in the open arena
protected by the police, the civil defence, etc.
The next
day we woke up matched on to Ikoyi and converged at Falamo bridge, where Ali
Baba, Prof. Pat Utomi, and the rich men children were gathered - we had matched
through YABA and IDUMOTA, chanting the resurrected songs of King Fela Anikulapo
Kuti. We called you names like, the shameless shoeless one, the animal in human
skin, innumerable and unprintable names!
Even when
you came out in a nationwide broadcast and addressed the people as President
and father of the nation explaining why you took that unpopular decision,
urging the masses to understand and bear with you for a while, we said no way!
We remained adamant! We booed you! We insulted you!
Mr.
President Sir, please find it in your heart to forgive us. We did not know what
we were doing then; but we understand better now. The same people who deceived
us have turned around and increase the pump price through the back door, in the
guise of subsidy removal. They have inflicted hardship on the Nigerian masses
you love so much. You were not perfect, but you were a loving father to all of
us, you were President and C-in-C to the North, South, West and the East, but
we vilified and treated you with disrespect and ignominy.
Sir, the
economy that flourished under your watch as President which positioned us as
number one economy in Africa and one of 25
fastest growing economies in the world is now at its lowest ebb in just one
year of misrule. In just one year of your exit Nigeria our beloved country has
become a shadow of herself! The picture is so gloomy, inflation rate is so
high! The masses cannot even put food on their tables, darkness everywhere,
electricity generation is at all time very lowest - killings and maiming, evil
looms; our nation Nigeria is under attack!
May be you
could just say a word of prayer sir, "May Nigeria not erupt in flames and
violence under the current draconian administration" - Sir I say that
because there is so much hunger in the land, and as they say, a hungry man is
an angry man! A HUNGRY PEOPLE NA CONFUSION!
Please find
it in your heart to forgive and forget, for indeed we ganged up against you
wrongly. We didn't know that we were doing wrong to our-own-selves. May God
bless you with long life and good health.
Warm
regards.
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