Sometime last week, the chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Professor Itse Sagay said Mr Muhammad Buhari will adopt the 1984 despotic style of rulership when he is reelected for a second term of office.
Maybe most youths are not aware of the unnecessary anger which Buhari displayed after he and his cohort had deemed it fit to subvert a democratically elected government.
According to him, Nigerians were not disciplined. He therefore appointed himself, ok, a very few number of military officers appointed him, to deal brutally with Nigerians.
To say the least, that regime could best be described as a bull in a China shop. In its self righteousness it unfortunately drew the hands of democracy and development back for about fifteen years.
In the UK this week, the president himself said Nigerian youths, because of Nigeria’s oil wealth, prefer to sit down and be expecting everything to be free.
Both professor Sagay and president Buhari are not to be blamed. Of the eminent professor, whatever he does now should be overlooked. This is because he is just displaying good table manners. He is being thankful to the man who has called him to the national dining table.
Buhari himself has shown a lot of respect for Nigerians. I think he is even a shy man. Whenever he wants to say anything negative about Nigerians, he doesn’t say it within the country.
Rather, he has shown that he respects Nigerians a lot by getting out of the country before making his unpresidential utterances.
Ki la gbe, ki le ju?
But I really do think it serves Nigerians right. How could we have, with Buhari’s anti democratic records, even elected him in the first instance. Maybe, as at when he was elected, we were not in proper control of ourselves.
Ok, maybe it was because of a paucity of credible candidates. Or, were we suffering from a strange form of amnesia?
You can see that Buhari has a sense of bravado. He is chutzpadik because of the belief that, no matter what, Nigerians don’t have the guts to reject him at the polls in 2019.
Has it gone so bad that we can not find at least twelve candidates that are good enough to preside over this nation of over 180 million people?
Buhari is slated to visit the United States later this month. We should be preparing for his newest barb!
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