Ganiat Fawehinmi: Nigerian Leaders Need Psychiatric Tests

Widow of the late Chief Gani Fawehinmi, Mrs. Ganiat, has described political leaders in the country as having some mental disorders saying this is the reason they have remained corrupt beyond pardon.

Mrs. Ganiat, who spoke during the 75th posthumous birthday organised by civil society groups in Lagos for her late activist husband, lamented that the country had been taken over by a syndicate accusing President Goodluck Jonathan as the head of that syndicate.

According to her, any Nigerian who thinks the President is truly committed to the fight against corruption would only be living in self-deception as "a corrupt President cannot rid the country of corruption."

She said the country was currently wallowing in self-pity as those appointed by the President including the country’s Minister of Petroleum, Deziani Alison-Madueke, the Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, and a host of others have now decided to wreck the system while the citizens look on.

She warned President Goodluck Jonathan not to contemplate seeking a second term in office as she, with many like-minded Nigerians would campaign against his success at the polls.

"Ebele Jonathan himself is corrupt. Therefore, how can he effectively fight corruption? If he is not corrupt, why would he grant pardon to Alamieyeseigha instead of asking that he return all that the man had stolen?

This is a government by syndicate. People have made up their minds that they are not going to vote for him in 2015. He is deceiving himself, except they rig that election for him and that in itself has consequences.

"I am as resolute as before and stand for anything that will change this country for good," she said.

She said the insecurity that has pervaded the country is the result of the insensitivity of the leaders of the country to the striking poverty in the land.

"Our leaders have mental problem. God will punish them. They would account for all the souls that were lost due to the Boko Haram," she said warning that the country was already drifting towards anarchy and must be rescued from President Jonathan at this stage.

She said her husband once discovered that the revenue generated from oil could cater for the education needs of every child of school age in the country and still fix infrastructure.

"There is no light and we spend a lot of money on diesel yet we get huge bills. Many industries have gone to other countries where they manufacture and bring finished products to us.

We must become resolute and take our destinies in our hands. Let them continue to teargas us; our heavenly Lord will continue to teargas them and their children yet unborn.