The failure of political, security and economic sorcery

NIGERIA is currently afflicted by experts, specialists and pundits in  political, security and economic sorcery. They always predict doom for Nigeria.  They are simultaneously trading  their wares in a country they live and call home but which they do not wish well. Their devilish oracles tell them the untruth that Nigeria, home to over 200 million black people, will break up into an unknown number of tiny entities. A socerer had the temerity to swear by the grave of his father that our fatherland will go to pieces in the next six months. This type of malicious and wild  prediction has been on the merchandise of the sorcerers for decades, indeed right from the day the country was stitched together in 1914. It has always failed woefully, just as the current and future bad wishes for  Nigeria  will  turn to ashes. The political  sorcerers are not relenting and are  even giving timelines in which  Nigeria will be dismantled.  Any form of  dismembering Nigeria will  not augur well for anyone, including those who pay for the sorcery and financiers of the untenable deconstruction.

Politically dismembered  countries around the world such as Iraq, Sudan and Libya are in a cycle of turmoil and instability.  The sorcerers  that predicted heaven on earth after the disruptions of those countries are now biting their fingers. The political sorcerers did not, and certainly could never have foreseen the catastrophic outcomes of the political destruction of Iraq, Libya and the division of  Sudan into two countries. Nigeria and the 200 million residents who call it home do not deserve and should not be exposed to that kind of political recklessness as conceived by the devilish political sorcerers. Even former President Olusegun Obasanjo, who seems in his letters to be a critic of the Muhammadu Buhari administration, has warned that a category of Nigerians would suffer terribly  should the country be splintered. The security sorcerers are working jointly in a triangle of the devil by constantly denying that the country has successfully contained the insurgency in the North East. Their fake oracles turned their sorcery in security matters into hallucinations by telling them that the so-called caliphate proclaimed by the Boko Haram insurgents still stands.

The sorcerers are trying to  deceive gullible Nigerians into  believing that everywhere in the country is barricaded, with security checkpoints   every inch apart. This observation and findings show that contrary to the evil wish of the security sorcerers, such checkpoints are now rare. It is true that the sorcerers have seen or heard of the evil activities of kidnappers, bandits and arsonists, but chose not to admit that the security forces are up and doing, day and night, tracking and successfully finishing off many of  those kidnappers, bandits and arsonists in gun battles. The security forces are doing that to make sure that each of the 200 million Nigerians is freed from the fear of such criminals.

The security sorcerers have not seen how on daily basis Nigerian security forces display lethal weapons  recovered from criminals of all hues. The security sorcerers whose blind oracles cannot show them how the police and other legitimate state agents are regularly  mopping up illegal weapons and  the seizure of container-loads of illicit war materiel at our borders. In another failure by the oracles to show the security sorcerers the reality,  the Nigerian security forces have foreseen their negative prediction and warned them that they can not be infiltrated or divided into enclaves that can make them drop their guard as they do their job of making Nigeria safe. Indeed, the security forces are busy developing a modest military industrial complex for the country. It has taken off, and much materiel needs for the armed forces are provided through domestic production. This the security sorcerers did not see. But it is real.

The  oracle of the sorcerers cannot detect a civil war in Nigeria. There will be none. Those calling on Ndi Igbo in parts of the country to keep procure and keep guns for a looming war, will be disappointed. This is because those beating the drums of another civil war in Nigeria have been beaten by fate because Nigeria has not been forsaken by the Almighty God.  The third leg of the tripod of evil socery for Nigeria, which is on the economy, has equally  failed.  Their false and baseless   characterisation of the Nigerian economy as comatose turns out to be off the mark. The performance of businesses threw the negative prediction of economic sorcerers into the dustbin. Because in addition to huge profits being declared unceasingly by businesses  such as Dangote Cement’s N296 billion after tax profit in 2020 and BUA Cement’s N72.34 billion profit in the same year,   MTN Nigeria  announced a record full-year turnover  of N1.3 trillion in 2020.  These and more results were achieved despite the strong  economic headwinds caused by the Covid-19 pandemic which crippled most economies around the world.

While the economic sorcerers were envisaging economic doom  for Nigeria and mouthing catastrophe for the citizens, Nigeria shamed them by exiting the recession that was mainly induced by the Covid-19 pandemic earlier than most countries.  By every measure, this feat is testimony to the competence of the economic management team put together by President Muhammadu Buhari. Many countries in the world are groping for a way out of the recession. As the sorcerers saw the mirage of economic failure and joblessness in the country, the impact of the economic diversification programme of the Buhari-led administation is reviving and expanding Small and Medium Enterprises, supporting the manufacturing and agriculcural sectors through more than one dozen initiatives and interventions by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).  The economic sorcerers equally failed to hear from their oracles that Nigeria has attained more than 95 per cent sufficiency in domestic paddy production and  processed rice  to the extent that many rice-exporting entities are in economic pains because Nigeria is no longer rampantly and wastefully importing rice from them.

Overall, it is a source of joy that the political, security and economic sorcerers who predict an end to Nigeria’s existence are lowering their heads  in shame because their  bad wishes for Nigeria will not materialise. Never.

• Dambatta writes in from Abuja

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