BEVERLY HILLS, October 15, (THEWILL) – Then president Olusegun Obasanjo’s spokesman on Public Affairs, Femi Fani-Kayode has corroborated the assertion of former president Goodluck Jonathan’s spokesman on Media and Publicity, Reuben Abati, that principal officers in the Aso Rock presidential villa are under the torment of evil spirit.
In an article published on Saturday, he stated that the spiritual challenge faced by those in power manifested itself when President Muhammadu Buhari declared in Germany that his wife, Aisha, “belongs to the kitchen, the living room and the other room” because she spoke her mind to the BBC on the hijack of the government by those who played no role in its emergence.
For making this declaration to the whole world, Fani-Kayode stated that the President is “in the grip of something evil and that demons are speaking through him” and has spoken out of the spiritual dimension of living in the Villa that Abati was referring to in his essay.
Claiming that Buhari’s mind has become twisted and that he is now posessed by strange and powerful entities, the former Aviation minister called for lots of prayers for the President.
Continuing with issues raised by Abati in his article about the seat of power, Fani-Kayode stated that the duo of Mr. Tunji Oseni and Mrs. Remi Oyo, who served as Senior Special Assistant to President Obasanjo on Media and Publicity, contracted a terrible terminal illness whilst in office and died a few years later, adding that many other aides that worked in the Villa at that time were also afflicted with strange diseases and a sudden and tragic end.
He maintained that in Nigeria, politics and the power game is a dangerous calling and terrible business which usually comes with pain, anguish, betrayal, humiliation, persecution, misfortune, hardship, loss, death, strange ailments and tragedy for those who reach the top and their loved ones.
The article reads in part, “the most curious phenomenon and bizarre series of events of all is the fact that every single Head of State or President that has ruled our country from the Presidential Villa in Aso Rock, Abuja for three years or more has either ended up dying whilst there or has lost a spouse before leaving office.
“President Jonathan stayed there as President for four years in a stretch but the travails of his wife and her series of illnesses and medical complications which suddenly and miraculously ceased and abated after he conceeded the 2015 election indicates that had he continued in office after 2015 he may have lost her and the demons of Aso Rock Villa would have come for their prey. Thankfully he left before they could lay claim to it and before the curse was activated.
“Babangida did not stay in the Villa in Abuja for up to three years so he and his wife escaped what has come to be known as the ”Villa curse”.
“It was the same for Chief Ernest Shonekan who, wisely, never stayed at the Villa at all but who chose to preside over the affairs of the nation from Aguda house next door and who remained in power for barely six months. General Abdulsalami Abubakar stayed at the Villa but he remained there for less than a year.
“However Abacha, Obasanjo and Yar’adua were not so lucky- each of them stayed at the Villa for three years or more and before the end of their tenure they either lost their own life or the life of their spouse whilst there.
“The story is that once the three year mark is passed the curse sets in and the clock begins to tick. At the end of the day only one of the two spouses comes out alive.
“When one considers all these facts and series of misfortunes that have trailed our leaders in the last 56 years of our existence as an independent nation one cannot but conclude that there has indeed been a harvest of hardship, pain and death attached to the highest, most powerful and most prominent offices in the land and to those that are close to or have occupied it.
“The truth is that power comes at a terrible price and those that wield it have, more often than not, experienced terrible pain and anguish in their lives.
“That is the price that virtually every single one of them has had to pay. What a tragedy. Yet at the end of the day I wonder whether it is all worth it.
“For as the bible says, it is nothing but ”vanity upon vanity – all is vanity”.
Story by Ugonnabo Ngwu.
