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I never knew things have gone this bad in Nigeria. They have even gone baddest, if you’ll excuse my ibon, as we used to call grammatical errors in those good old days.
I learn they are called AK47 these days!
It is stale news that the Oga in this country, Mr Muhammad Buhari, is abroad for medical treatment. The good thing is the fact that he gave his powers as head of state and commander in chief to his vice in accordance with the Constitution.
Let’s give it to him, he is really going through a transformation from military to civilian. And, he is a fast learner!
However, titbits of negative information about the president’s health started filtering in. While some were convinced he was on a life support machine some were saying he had already given up the ghost.
Somewhere, along the line, a picture of the president watching Channels television in the UK surfaced. Yet, the people who had given up hope on the president did not believe.
One of the presidential media handlers then issued what I consider to be one of the cheekiest statements to be issued by a presidential spokesperson so far. I don’t know if there’s any sense in bringing the movement of a former president into the state of health of a seating president.
However, the meanest deduction made by some unguided Nigerians is a declaration that the president is dead.
There is a saying that even if we have a quarrel, it does not extend to death. That is, we normally should not wish death for our enemies.
By the way, how has Buhari become anybody’s enemy? The happenings in Nigeria today were caused by every one of us.
I’ve always said that when the goings were good, we did not see anything wrong with Nigeria then. That was when we were collecting the Udoji awards. That was when a wartime leader of Nigeria was said to have declared, possibly after taking some champagne, that the problem of Nigeria was not money but how to spend it.
We are guilty because we kept quiet. When we were eating we did not talk. I understand. Yes, it is bad table manners to talk while eating. But then we should be able to face the consequences.
We had other opportunities. MKO came, struggled for power and won but was not declared the winner. What did we do? We were possibly waiting for the Western powers to intervene when we ourselves were wondering what Abiola wanted again with all his money.
How many of us joined Gani’s party? We were looking for parties that would put money in our pockets. We had them and here we are today.
You see, we are lying on our beds as we have laid them.
If anybody is not good at governing the country, we have two choices. It is either we get the legislature to impeach them or we reject them at the next election.
By the way, anybody who is familiar with me will know I’m not a Buhari supporter. Not with his dreadful actions during his first stint as military head of state between December 31, 1983, and August 27, 1985. My take is that he had a grudge against every Nigerian.
It is unAfrican and immoral to wish death for even our worst enemies!!!
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