hehehehe.....I belong to everybody. I belong to nobody.”
That was the golden statement or word on
the marble credited to President Muhammadu Buhari in his Inauguration
Speech on Friday, May 29, 2015 at the Eagle Square, Abuja.
With that particular statement, among
other highlights of his Inaugural speech, the nation that has been put
in a reverse gear and in a state of despondency suddenly seemed to be
revived and had her hope rekindled that her tomorrow would be better and
alright.
But some of us refused to be cajoled by
that statement. The contents of our reminder entitled, “President Buhari
belongs to somebody”, widely published online and by national
newspapers like us, say it all. In that article, we
debunked that particular statement and remarked that the President
actually belonged to the North (especially the Hausa/Fulani) where he
hails from the All Progressives Congress (the party that produced him as
its presidential standard-bearer). But some Nigerians, found it
difficult to be on the same page with us on the views expressed in that
article. Although this writer is also a supporter of President Buhari,
definitely not a blind supporter or follower. I belong to a section of
supporters who still have their eyes wide open and regularly point out
the pitfalls that the new administration may not be conscious of. And
true to the prophetic insight clearly expressed in our article then, the
President has begun to come up with his appointments which clearly
show where he belongs: The North.
President Buhari rattled everybody
including his party leaders whom God used to work for his good success
at the presidential poll against all odds.
The clear cut lopsidedness in the recent
appointments into boards of parastatals and key sectors of the economy
and the security apparatus has left no one in doubt of where Buhari’s
spirit, soul and body belong – the North with particular reference to
the Hausa/Fulani. This unfolding scenario seems to have left the ruling
APC rattled. No one is sure of the President’s next move. Not even his
presumed advisers or handlers from the South-West could predict him. He
has clearly shown to them that the statement in his inaugural speech
credited to him was just a political statement to cool down the nerves
of Nigerians and the tension in the land then. And if anybody still
chose to believe that statement, that person might still be living in a
fool’s paradise and might have refused to awake and see the realities on
the ground.
Consequently, the President’s high
popularity rating at his inauguration has begun to drop. And anybody
that thinks otherwise must be an Unidentified Foreign Object living in
another planet. But for these shortcomings, lopsidedness in key
political and military/security appointments, pockets of extreme cases
of religious intolerance, inability to find lasting solutions to the
Niger Delta militancy/criminality that has spread beyond its region to
other geopolitical regions like the South-East and the South-West, the
nation would have heaved a sigh of relief of moving in the right
direction towards our Promised land where Nigeria will be truly great
and occupy her eminent position in the comity of nations.
Despite all these shortcomings, a living
dog is still better than a dead lion when this new administration is
compared to the one that proceeded it when the economy was comatose and
corruption in high places seemed to be the order of the day.
Politics apart, the nation was almost
dying before this administration came on board and God has used it to
inject some life into it. But having crossed our Red Sea and heading
towards our Canaan land, the nation is currently stranded in the
wilderness and hoping for a new sense of direction except our current
set of Moses and Aaron find solutions to the aforementioned shortcomings
and desist from their current policy of sectionalism and aloofness.
Nevertheless, the good news is that God
will never leave this nation stranded. He will still come to our rescue
as we continue to look up to him.
Source.....Punch
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