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 Buhari’s unnecessary anger after he and his cohort deemed it fit to subvert a democratically elected government.
According to him, Nigerians were not disciplined. Therefore, he appointed himself—okay, a very few 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. Its self-righteousness 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 expect everything to be free.
Both Professor Sagay and President Buhari are not to be blamed. The eminent professor’s actions should be overlooked. He is just displaying good table manners and is 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.
Instead, he has shown that he dramatically respects Nigerians by leaving the country before making unpresidential utterances.
Ki la gbe, ki le ju?
But I do think it serves Nigerians well. Given Buhari’s antidemocratic records, how could we have elected him in the first place? We were not in proper control of ourselves when he was elected.
Ok, it was because of a lack 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 he believes that no matter what, Nigerians will not have the guts to reject him at the polls in 2019.
Has it gone so bad that we cannot find at least twelve good candidates 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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