Public
affairs analyst, Ochereome Nnanna has ruled out a return for President
Buhari in the next election following the direction of his
administration.
President Muhammadu Buhari
Let me seize this opportunity to bid our President, Muhammadu
Buhari, welcome back from his medical trip to the United Kingdom. I am
happy he is back on his feet instead of lying inside a life support
machine even dead as earlier rumoured.
We Christians are taught to forgive our transgressors and pray for
our enemies. We are not taught to kill them. Faith is the personal right
and affair of all human souls for which we account to the Creator when
the time comes.
I believe that anybody who wishes even his enemy dead has killed
him because he would do so if given the chance. It is a singular act of
foolishness to wish bad things to befall your enemy because he is your
enemy today but what of tomorrow when things suddenly turn the other way
round? That is the wisdom in Christians being asked to pray for our
enemies to repent of their wickedness.
Buhari is not even our enemy! He is our President, duly elected by a
majority of Nigeria’s voters in 2015. That some of us might not have
supported him is neither here nor there any more.
The majority have spoken, and they must have their way for the
constitutionally-prescribed four years. It only remains for us to pray
that the President carries out his mandate in a way to unite the nation
and rally its peoples behind him to improve the lives of everyone.
Has he done so? Unfortunately, no. Up to the moment he took off to
London in January 2017, Buhari was a very divisive leader, whose style
woke up many dormant demons both ancient and modern, including the
pro-Biafra groups, Niger Delta militancy, the Shiites and armed Fulani
herdsmen.
All these added to the ongoing Boko Haram devilry to make Nigeria a
boiling cauldron of violence, with the Army and the security forces
deployed more massively than at any other time outside the civil war
period.
Buhari’s wrong approach to governance ran down an economy already
seriously compromised by fallen oil prices and systemic corruption.
During his nearly two-month absence, our thesis that Buhari has added to
the problems of the country with his faulty mentality was proved beyond
reasonable doubt.
His Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, approached his Acting
Presidency with the reversed mentality of a peace ambassador. He made a
series of whistle-stop trips to the hot spots – the Niger Delta, South
East and some parts of the North, calming frayed nerves and sowing seeds
of hope.
It was during Buhari’s absence that the anti-Buhari protests took
place. Though the Police successfully frightened off an arrowhead of the
#IStandWithNigeria protest, Tuface Idibia, it still took place
peacefully and successfully. Osinbajo even received the Labour group
that conducted their own independent march with a message to Nigerians
that the Federal Government had heard their complaints.
Nobody was killed or even arrested. There was no breakdown of law
and order because the Federal Government under Osinbajo did not roll out
the Army to kill and bury protesters as they did to the Shiites and
unarmed pro-Biafra groups. With a calmer and more peaceful polity at his
disposal, Osinbajo functioned effectively.
That should be a lesson to Buhari, as he resumes his captaincy of
the Nigerian ship of state. If even if you see some people as your
enemies, just treat them well and give them a sense of belonging. Some
of them might even come to your side. Now that Buhari is back, he has
proved beyond doubt that officials of this regime lied shamelessly about
the reason for his trip.
The only truth told about his journey to London came from his
Spokesman, Femi Adesina, who hinted us that Buhari would see his
doctors, which implied he had medical issues. The same Vice President
Osinbajo that many people are giving thumbs up for holding the country
so well behind Buhari was, unfortunately, one of those liars.
Pastor Osinbajo said Buhari was “hale and hearty”. Information
Minister, Lai Mohammed (predictably) lied that Buhari was neither sick
nor hospitalised. When Buhari returned he told us the truth: “I have never been so sick in my life”.
Much of the mockery heaped on the President in his hour of need
instead of prayers from his countrymen owed to these cocktails of lies
which the All Progressives Congress, APC, political movement used to win
election and still uses to rule. If we had been told the truth, we
would only have criticised the foreign treatment which negates APC
campaign promises.
We would also have queried it in the face of the billions of naira
allocated to the Presidential clinic last year alone. But many of us
would have overlooked all these to sympathise with our President on
humanitarian grounds. That would have been far more honourable, but
then, who bothers about honour in Nigerian politics so long as selfish
ends are met?
Now that it was been established that our President is challenged
by serious health issues which compound the usual frailties that come
with old age, I think it is better for him and the nation that he takes
it easy from now henceforth. He should stop fighting real and imaginary
enemies, especially his “5%” Nigerians.
No matter how strong a man is, he cannot fight any section of the
Nigerian populace and win. They will always outlast him. Secondly, he
should continue to delegate most of the mentally- and
physically-challenging presidential tasks, especially to Osinbajo (or
Ossy Bobo). He should pay more attention to his health and take as much
rest as his doctors direct. Finally, he should ignore the chants of
sycophants (like SGF Babachir Lawal) about running again in 2019.
He is not physically fit to run again. In fact, his health has been
a burden on Nigerians in the past two years. He should give way to
younger leaders to move the nation forward. There is nothing wrong in
Buhari “doing a Nelson Mandela”.
Source: Vanguard
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