President Buhari
Let me borrow from late Dr, Bala Mohammed who said: “if you are
emotionally attached to your tribe or political leaning to the point
that truth and justice become secondary considerations, your education
is useless. Your exposure is useless. If you cannot reason beyond petty
sentiments, you are a liability”. Buhari has allowed the Jackals, Hyenas
take over his pride land. His exposure, integrity, which endeared
Nigerians to him has become a liability, a burden many cannot wait to
unbundle in 2019.The All Progressive Congress has unsatisfactorily completed its
four years, reeking from odour of clannish leadership, chauvinistic
development approach, nepotism, tribalism, blame game and groping in the
dark on leadership mettle. Already the steam has started to grow hotter
as the year 2018 speed closer with attendant electioneering antics from
all manner of political gorgons. Sadly the lion king has been
demystified, only the blind or the unrepentant loyalists with his kind
of mindset will continue to hoot after him. Already the northern
presidential candidates must reboot, present a better alternative to
save our democracy, our nation.
When Aisha Buhari declared that the Hyenas and Jackals would flee
once the lion king returns, most insightful Nigerians were hopeful,
thinking the direction of this administration will be programmed towards
a more patriotic, people-oriented leadership chores. Sadly, the jackals
and hyenas have finally taken over the pride land. It is indeed with
incredulous stare most Nigerians watch the scenery of the Buhari led
administration flip into grotesque images. His comment against military
action on Boko Haram before 2015, his after election declaration to
appoint based on vote cast, his infamous Hausa broadcast after the
Ramadan fast – regardless of other Muslims who are non Hausa speaking,
declaration of IPOB as a terrorist organization among many more unsavory
positions has placed him in the shadow of his rating before 2015.
It is therefore with the greater uncertainty that Nigerians move
towards 2019, with waned hope for a leader to look up to, expectations
for a greater Nigeria continues to shrink. It is even worse for the
North, as other parts of the country are already sensing an agenda. Many
express concern over our continued existence as a country under Buhari
or any other northerner. For me, I feel Buhari had a mindset only echoed
by the Hyenas and Jackals. If he is under the strings of puppeteers,
it’s even worse. The North has an army of patriotic leaders who can sail
the country away from the waterfall the Buhari administration has moved
the nation towards. May Buhari not contest 2019 election is the best
prayers any well-meaning Nigerian should be fervent about. Let the north
be protected from stereotype based on these sad leadership experiences
in the past three years.
It is instructive to intimate that Hyenas and Jackals have become
so powerful, they receive handshakes instead of handcuffs like looters
in the immediate past administration despite engaging in the worse act
of corruption. We must realize that the invaders will never allow a free
and fair election in 2019. They know what it means for the bubble to
burst under them once another administration takes over government. It
is indeed sad that Nigerians have a president with a clannish mindset
and platoon of people around filled to the brim with unpatriotic agenda
to carve a niche out of the Nigerian state. Sadly, these clowns are
intolerant of agitations. It is indeed certain, 2019 may be the year
Nigerians must watch against prophecies of doom.
Buhari may not realize what he has allowed the invading hyenas and
jackals do to his image until he decides to run a check on his skewed
appointments, sectional utterances, blame based administrative approach
which has made him a leader only for the north. As a Nigerian from the
north-central, I am deeply saddened that an ugly precedence is already
about. The north was known for its leadership prowess and not for
sectional, parochial agenda.
It is not yet Uhuru for Nigerians. I can only sum our present
predicaments through the views of Chinua Achebe, who insisted that ”the
trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership.
There is nothing basically wrong with the Nigerian character. There is
nothing wrong with the land or climate or water or air or anything else.
The Nigerian problem is the unwillingness or inability of its
leaders t rise to the responsibility; to the challenge of personal
example which are the hallmarks of the leadership.”
The Buhari administration has taken cronyism, unbridled patronage,
capitalism, elitism and clandestine graft to a whole new height. With a
policy of handshake for friends and handcuffs for perceived, imaginary
and real political enemies, the system is on high octane ready to
explode. We have seen that animals are equal but some are equal than the
others. Already leaders from the south are calling on their people to
shun treatment from soldiers on account of fear they may be infested
with diseases.
On the wake of crocodile smile in south-south, python dance in
south-east and lion share in the north, this administration has in no
small way exhibited hate, intolerance which the hyenas and the jackals
have helped our dear president to endorse.
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By: Israel Ebije from Abuja. E-mail: ebijeo5@gmail.com or Twitter: @ebijeisrael
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