Abdulrahim Ali writes: Ahmed Shafiq… “The dream of presidency”

He begins to fall from Paris begins after meeting with mediators about the Qataris and Muslims Brotherhood.

The terrorist group and its allies use him as a “Trojan horse” to tear the Egyptians apart

What many do not know: Before the premiership of the government in the era of the MB, he accepted to be prime minister, but Khairat al-Shater rejected offer at the last minute

I called him to reject any understandings with the terrorist group so as not to fall into the trap prepared for him, but he did not pay attention to the magnitude of the challenges that need to unite everyone

He lived in a dream, created by MB, that the country is ready to do his role as “Don Quixote”

We called him after the 2012 elections to stay and be with the Egyptian rally but he said: “I am not a political man”

I told him: The Egyptian people will not forget his escape instead of advancing the ranks in face of the rule of the guide, but he said “wait and we will see”

I said to him: His pilgrimage under the pretext of ‘Umrah” was a cowardly act, and people pay a heavy price for that, he replied “my dignity is paramount”

We agreed a few days ago not to announce his candidacy in respect of the martyrs’ lives, but he chose to walk on their blood.

He went to “Al Jazeera” channel, and attacked UAE, by Qataris orders.

Ahmed Shafiq disappointed the Egyptians as he was disappointed them before from middle and upper class audience when he appeared on Qatar’s Al-Jazeera TV, and said that UAE prevented him from traveling, and even interfered in Egyptian affairs by preventing him from exercising his constitutional right to run for president.
No one is bidding on my relationship with Ahmed Shafiq, I supported him in the darkest moments and I gave him advice after advice in the midst of heavy clouds that surrounded him, Perhaps the most recent when I told him to reject any understandings with the MB or Qataris and not push his positions from the regime of President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi to fall in the trap that was prepared for him very carefully, I also do not need to confirm my faith in the right of any Egyptian citizen to exercise his constitutional right to run for the office of president or any office for which there is a vote as long as he has no legal impediments to doing so.
I have been honest, to the extreme, with the man with who I stay with him for a long time, I have assured him that all the information available to everyone here in the UAE or there in Egypt clearly indicates that he has made contacts through intermediaries with the Qataris and the MB, and they use him as “Trojans” to tear the Egyptians apart.
I called him be patient and dignified, and do not deny the hand which helped him in dark moments, to remove him from his stature, to secure his splendor, to conceal his protection, and to spend generously on him.
I was very clear with him when I explained to him the internal situation in Egypt and the magnitude of the challenges that we need to unify everyone to defeat the plan that was prepared to divide Egypt and humiliate it and consolidate its army and deny him what the brothers and their supporters tried to assure him of the country is equipped for him to ride as an old He rushed to where he went ” Don Quixote ” before.
I stopped him, and remembered him on his bad words before spy Morsi Ayat era, when he surprised me, in ” Shangri-La” hotel in Abu Dhabi, that a messenger called him from Qatar Hotel offers him to mediate between him and MB to take over the prime minister, I told him then they play a bad game with you, and they know Your longing for power and your sense of oppression, but you have to reject even those lame. He said to me: “Why do I reject such an offer at a time when I can serve my country?”
I mentioned him that this was not his word when we fight MB together, but he did not hear and went on dreaming until the slap came, through a call from the mediator telling him that MB had rejected the offer, specifically Khairat Shater.
The man was sad and it seemed that MB, at the time, wanted to test something through this show and they had tested it.
When I told him this time, since the few days, before the sudden announcement to run for the presidential elections in 2018, I told him that I convey to you from your lovers true and your friends, not those who play on your emotions to blow up your history, the circus behind MB and their games will end your history is unworthy of you.
Three hours of continuous conversation, during which we traveled hundreds of meters and talked in Shangri-La hotel, Abu Dhabi, overlooking the lake, he has long eluded me and argued with me, as never before, and it seemed that something had been prepared for him in advance and he had made promises and received offers and did not want to hear anything else.
Instead of denying what I heard from him about specific contacts about his contacts with Qatar and the MB, he told me about democracy, free competition and the constitution.
France was the first meeting point between Shafik and the Qataris, so I conveyed to him the information I received from one of the senior journalists whom Shafiq called to be a mediator in those meetings, I told him that you are on the air and will not deceive anyone, and that is not how you respond to the generosity of the Emiratis with you, i was surprised to say why Sisi did not appoint me as a PM, Why do they insult me like this? They do not see that I have what I can do with my country. Why did they ignore all my contacts?
I said to him, can you running for Presidency of the Arab Republic of Egypt; do not see it as a tribute to you and to the position at the same time.
I added, anyway, this is another issue, and if I don’t do it if I am you, I did not ask for it, you ended your life in a respectful way, you had respect for the Egyptians and their hearts entered their wider doors, it is true that the Egyptian people will not forgive you that you refused their leadership in the face of MB, after the arrival of the spy Morsi, to give this chance to support the popular trend against MB in the street after the 2012 elections, preferring to escape from the country under the pretext of doing “Umrah”, but the Egyptians are good and will forgive you If you go out to unite the word and expose the plan and reveal the contacts of MB and Qataris with you since the rule of spy Morsi and declare your refusal to be a “Trojan horse”, which they use to disrupt the national unity of the Egyptians.
I reminded him about Our conversation, that took place between me and him at his home, after the announcement of the result of the presidential election and the victory of spy Morsi Ayat presidency, when I told him you have been contacted by US President, Barack Obama, which has not happened before with a loser in any presidential election in any country in the world, Usually, the US president congratulates the winner only and invites you to establish a political party with the support of half of the voters in that election, Why not establish a party around which the Egyptians will rally to continue the battle with the Brotherhood?
His answer was shock to me and to others who hoped for good in this legislator when he said to me: “I am not a political man, I ran for an executive position and ended up with that result and I have to rest because they will not leave me or my daughters, Or a political activist, I am a statesman.
It was those words that were still ringing in my ears, which I mentioned in that very recent meeting.
That moment was the cause of another confrontation between me and him years later in a famous restaurant in Abu Dhabi, when I mentioned that what he did was cowardice and caused the Egyptian people to pay a heavy price, but he was angry, and in the end tried to prove that they are differences in personality and all expresses his personality In one position in a different way, what I or others cannot accept.
I mentioned all this in the last meeting and told him clearly that you do not fear those who are now in power because they are not killers like MB and do not have militias threatening you with it, So this is the measure you have, I do not face the killers and face the good guys, but remember that a people will kill you alive if you try.
Shafiq left to avoid my confrontation, but I told him clearly: If I go to the terrorist group and the Qataris agreed in their directions, you are definitely loser, this is my last message to you, the Egyptians will not forgive you, and who host you for a while, you will lose everything in the end to your audience and your fans.
At the end of the meeting, which lasted for more than three hours, the man promised to meet with a relative who was supposed to be Friday, the first of December 2017, to rethink and turn the talk again in preparation for his announcement not to participate in these elections given the country’s circumstances and given the Qatari movements and contacts MB, which urges him to take that decision for a purpose in them.
But the man chose to end his history as he deserved, so what do we do, and we will continue.