IF the recent comments of all-three sound reasonable to them, certainly they don’t to this writer. Can they now pretend not to know the genesis of all this? Can they deny their roles at the beginning?

And can they say they do not know the cause and effect relationship between that beginning and the present? And lastly, can they deny that they were the catalysts and fertile ground for this crime against humanity that took a very horrible frenzied dimension, such as only spirits strange to man and abhorrent to God can sponsor, coordinate and execute?

To deny these will be clearly splendide mendax: nobly lying or splendidly false! Without Atiku, ACF, Buhari and their actions we wouldn’t have heard and seen what we heard and saw took place in the North after the serious electoral bashing of Buhari.

We read that the man Buhari (though he said it is his party, as though there is any difference here) wants to go to court to challenge the presidential election result.

Though this may be a better route than killing all of us since the armouries and the army boys are no more within his beck and call to now again completely overthrow democracy, I may still however want to note the following for onward passage to his conscience lest he unnecessarily overheat the polity and try to weaken by distraction governance or the hand of government with that most unreasonable law suit.

That Buhari saw his defeat coming and told the story with tears is already global knowledge; that the eventual election and the result it produced did not only confirm those ‘prophetic’ tears of the general but has been adjudged by the international community as the best so far in Africa for freeness, fairness, transparency and credibility; that Buhari was expecting a magic in the South East and South South where he is neither known nor even made himself to be known and a region all the parties collapsed their structures for Jonathan despite the fact that the PDP already firmly controls the two regions could make a bestselling fiction story; that he already knows what happened to him in the South West and so need not be tutored.

But in case he is wondering what hit him in the Middle-Belt or North Central: This region decided to do for the South (because of a wonderful candidate in Jonathan) what the South East and South South have been doing for the North over the years; that his CPC party in the South East has said the election in the East was square (and fair) belies his rigging allegations that have only succeeded in taking too many of us to the slaughter houses in the North; and that if the above will make no meaning to Buhari the governorship election results that almost erased CPC from politics at that level across the nation should.

Except Buhari wants us to see more of his tears he will do well to leave our honourable justices alone. Because the facts on ground and which certainly will make their ways into the hands of the good men of our hallowed chambers can only but hit the general so hard with the result that those vents for tears can only become floodgates of tears. We do not want to see this boss of our two Tundes end up wailing.

Because we have had enough of the tears we do not want to see anymore, let alone the floodgate version. It is better to say, ‘I am sorry’ than to completely now breakdown before all of us. Apologies and not tears!

Buhari must be sorry for overthrowing democracy once upon a time, and for this second attempt at it! He must be doubly sorry. And he should do that publicly. The Nigeria he claims to love asks for this. The Nigeria that he introduced the military boys – IBB and Abacha – to, and who came to thoroughly rubbish us and our common treasuries over the years, which pains we still feel (and which Buhari perhaps thought of coming to heal having created the environment for it in the first place) asks for this.

And the Nigeria that was unnecessarily and questionably made to shed the blood of its citizenry in the North recently because of him asks for this.

Mr. FEROVO IGHO , a commentator on national issues , wrote from Warri, Delta State.