Your Excellency, I bring you good tidings. I
want to thank you for this generous gesture of
yours which has made it possible for me to
breathe the air of freedom again, and to
reunite with my family, especially my wife
Hafsat, who had dwelt in her own prison
throughout my incarceration.
I decided to write you this letter the very first
day I learnt that you had made up your mind
to set me free. That was weeks before my
eventual release. I know some of my words will
sound unpalatable; but I am a soldier in whose
squadron flattery is hardly a virtue. Obviously,
this freedom makes me happy indeed but your
motive, at least the perceived it, tore my heart
to shreds. I heard it is all about 2015, and not
that I was unfairly incarcerated or that a court
of competent jurisdiction had acquitted me.
However, I maintain even now that I am
innocent of the crimes I was accused of and
condemned to death for. I am not the only
one to rise from the dead. Your wife, Patience,
also died and returned, remember?
I am scandalized by the political undertone in
the broth of my freedom. I was once the most
powerful military officer in this country but
now, from what I gather, you have reduced me
to a pawn on the chessboard of politics? In the
past, generals paid me compliments; but time
changes everything.
Mr President Sir, please permit me to call you
by your pet-name Jona. I understand that
everything you do these days has 2015
imprimatur, but bringing me into the realms
of politics is not a wise idea.
Let me refresh your memory a little, if you
would let me. I was incarcerated in connection
with the murder of Mrs Kudirat Abiola. Of
course just as your popular picture as
politician who is respected among his
neighbours in Otuoke sticks on you like glue,
my reputation as a daredevil and fearless
intelligence officer precedes me. My creation,
the Strike Force, is the deadliest Abuja, has
ever known. Oh, I am so proud of its
accomplishments. Strike Force made a snake in
a garden shudder in fear during our time.
Some even said that we had a crocodile pond
into which we threw uncooperative people,
usually NADECO members or stubborn
journalists. But I can assure you no one has
pointed out the pond since we left power.
You see, I do not know how many books you
have read Jona; but I have even memorised the
Holy Qur’an. As a Muslim, it fortified my belief
that in spite of the desire of those who wanted
me dead, I would be free; may be not as
quickly as I was discharged and acquitted but
obviously anytime soon.
Why did you release me Jona? Almost all of
those who learnt of my release that fateful
Friday morning hung my freedom on 2015.
They say you are obsessed with it and that you
would unchain the devil himself to realize your
goal. But I am what the Americans call a goon,
you know? I know nothing but soldiering.
Forget my grandstanding at the Oputa Panel. It
was military strategy. I knew in my military
wisdom that a million SANs would not free me
if I did not take my destiny in my own hands,
with facts and warts. Lawless people don’t
change overnight. Without any prejudice to the
lawyers in this country, Jona, I can say without
fear of contradiction that my tactics hit a
chord, with and I believe that is why I am
here. But mark you Jona, I Al Mustapha, have
no political value in my region, the north,
which you are trying to reach out to but which
you have also offended in no small measure.
Northerners will hardy forget how you ignored
the Boko Haram insurgency until it got out of
hand. Unofficial sources claim that close to
800,000 people, most of them northerners,
lost their lives and property worth billions
destroyed by the insurgents. The insurgency
has resulted in northerners losing their
positions in the armed forces; mediocrity now
reigns. To me as a former Chief Security
Officer, your initial inaction depicted a total
loss of control. You were a lame duck, even in
your first term. So what’s all this elaborate
orchestration for 2015?
But don’t mind my position, Jona. Time on
death row has taken the winds off my brains.
Never mind Yerima Ngama, your minister of
state for finance, who told people that my
sharp reasoning still amazes him. Ngama is not
a psychiatrist. He probably never paid any
attention to my behaviour while I marked time
in Kirikiri. I had been confused. Sometimes, I
greeted people with a clenched fist; while some
other times, I smiled, like General Gowon does.
At other times, I saluted in military fashion.
You would have noticed too, Jona, that my
choices since coming out are dangerously
flawed. I greeted everyone in sight: TB Joshua,
Fashehun, Otokoto, Ganiyu Adams and Tokyo,
to mention a few of them. I make no
distinction between the living and the dead,
just like I have not adjusted to life outside
prison. I even sought Abiola out only to learn
that he is deceased. In that miasma, I paid first
homage to the Kano Sate Government instead
of my people in Yobe. It would have served me
just as well if I had driven straight to Gashua
and shook hands with Shekau!
Mr President, I am saying all these because
personally I know that where the north is
concerned, I am a political paper tiger. Like
Larry Hagman of the famous soap Dallas, I am
the man that people love to hate. I lack the
political value you ascribe to me, and if you
released me to score a political point in my
region, you have only taken a fool’s gambit.
But I’m sorry; I can’t help your 2015 dream.


Yours faithfully,
Al-Mustapha.


http://dailytrust.info/index.php/opinion/1679-letter-to-president-jonathan-by-al-mustapha

What is he trying to do?

This is strong mehn, $h1t has hit the roof if truly this came from Al-Mustapha.

Brb, let me assimilate dis very well.
Cos i so do not get d actual "WHY" of dis letter. I read it through trying to comprehend a "fact" but it skipped.

if this is truly from al mustapha, then loooool.

murderer

There is nothing that jonathan can do that can please any hausa muslim. To them he is an infidel, i hope he gets it

Talk about LEOPARDS and their spots, ever indellible.

Sorry pls, is dis truly from Al-Mustapha??

olatunji21: Sorry pls, is dis truly from Al-Mustapha??

capital NO.

let's b candid wit ourselfs r u guys satisfied with jona regime plsss sentiment aside

okosodo: There is nothing that jonathan can do that can please any hausa muslim. To them he is an infidel, i hope he gets it

not the informed ones just like we also have uninformed Christians disgracing the religion daily

the only point u made is about boko haram.Sincerely speaking,FG is not serious in fighting this insurgency.Our troops are not been fed up properly,no allowance and others,no sophisticated weapon,how do you expect them to win the battle?Stil can't figure it out. Al-Mustpha,you said you lost your memory in prison,so how come can you stil remmember English words to write this letter if actually you wrote it yourself?

Some dudes need to wake ther sleeping brain, how on earth do u think AL ll write dis,pls we sud be rational in our thinking.

ℓ̊ Don't give a F̸*̸*̸K̸ jona 2015...

okosodo: There is nothing that jonathan can do that can please any hausa muslim. To them he is an infidel, i hope he gets it

This is what ppl failed to realised, come 2015 the little that are still supporting him 'll also betray him. Aboki 'll always be Aboki.

This is becoming serious! The person he had been putting hope to win the North for him, has now formally disappointed him. What a life?? It won't be bad, if you do not contest in 2015.

Hehehehe jona jona jona! Don't be clueless sir!

.

Am surprised some peeps actually believed this nonsense. . . . . .

Lols...cnt believe sm pple are so daft to evn believ this is frm almustapha..n u think a former security chief would eva right an open letter..Y'all hav no idea wat secrecy is all abt right frm academy walls...

okosodo: There is nothing that jonathan can do that can please any hausa muslim. To them he is an infidel, i hope he gets it

Why are people so insistent on hatred and throw reason out the window so easily?

Please what tribe and religion are Bamanga Tukur and Ahmed Gulak (amongst many others)? Yet because people have their own opinion, you tar everyone with the same feather?

Aside the knives and guns Shekau and his gang of animals carry, what's the difference between you and them?

Almustaf didn't write this,its an imaginary letter written by Bello-Barkindo

donphilopus: This is becoming serious! The person he had been putting hope to win the North for him, has now formally disappointed him. What a life?? It won't be bad, if you do not contest in 2015.

Et tu donphilopus? U actually believe this shit? SMH. All hope is lost.

PhenomenonVFX:

Et tu donphilopus? U actually believe this shit? SMH. All hope is lost.

Is it a sourceless info?? If NO, why would I not believe it??

Jeel: Almustaf didn't write this,its an imaginary letter written by Bello-Barkindo

And you think dailytrust would actualy publish this if truely it wasnt from Almustapha?

And these r.etards believe Al -Mustapha wrote this pile of crap, it was authored by bello barkindo with the title 'if I were al-mustapha' a letter to jonathan
, these APc goons are stoopid...here's the author of the letter, if y'all were smart enough to follow the link u'd have noticed it
Letter to President Jonathan, by Al-Mustapha
Category: OpinionPublished on Friday, 26 July 2013 07:00Written by Adulrazaque Bello-BarkindoHits: 77742
Yours faithfully, Al-Mustapha.
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donphilopus: Is it a sourceless info?? If NO, why would I not believe it??

You continue to make a foool of yourself. You will never change.

IAMBREEZY: it can ne'er be just a fabricated news.

It is a fictional letter from one nobody. always follow the link. NL does not write articles. They copy and paste. So always follow the link to get the real gist

theoctopus1:

You continue to make a foool of yourself. You will never change.

Stop being a Nitwit! Is the info sourceless?? YES or NO!

Sounds like poetry.