THREE are quite a few reasons to locate President Muhammadu Buhari’s recent admonition to disgruntled and frustrated Nigerians who think that they have any other country apart from Nigeria to ship out of the country, within the broad spectrum of his now regular, unrestrained gaffes. A statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, quoted the president as saying this during a reception of the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship aspirants and members of the party from the three senatorial zones of Kwara State at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
It is a bit difficult to fathom the relevance of this admonition ostensibly meant to reinforce patriotism in an audience comprising governorship aspirants from one of the states in the country. It is obvious that governorship aspirants and other members of the political class cannot be planning to flee a country which they desire to govern. Even as a reinforcement of a sense of patriotism in the people, such an admonition was hollow and cynical. It was unbecoming of a president. The youth population in particular has quite understandably become despondent, desperate to quit the predatory and hostile environment that Nigeria represents, and such a statement does not in any way ameliorate its situation.
To worsen matters, President Buhari drew examples of patriotism from his second-in-command in 1984 during his military administration, the late Major-General Tunde Idiagbon, betraying a dangerous sense of nostalgia. Could he be mistaking loyalty to him for patriotism? It was clearly a misbegotten example that reeked of narcissism. It probably would have properly resonated with the country’s largely despondent youth population if the president drew his examples of patriotism from those undergoing similar experiences of frustration and serial failures, not young men in positions of authority, undeservedly enjoying the perks of office. Who else can be more patriotic than those enjoying leadership positions?
It probably would have served a better purpose if the president had honestly interrogated the reasons for the disillusionment of Nigerians who choose to flee a potentially great country but one which successive administrations have serially abused and mismanaged over the years through incompetence and corruption. As is common knowledge, only those who are politically connected eat directly from the country’s table, cornering to themselves the fat of the land. The rest of the people have to scratch the earth’s surface for a living. Things have got to a head now and even skilled Nigerians in different fields have been exiting the country in droves in search of the proverbial greener pasture.
If a natural habitat turns hostile, the tendency is for living things, including human beings, to migrate. Nigeria, for the most part of three decades, has gradually drifted to the point of being anti-life. The grim statistics from virtually all international bodies harp on poverty and misery and the youth population are hell bent on taking suicidal trips to Europe in the bid to survive. But instead of kind words of encouragement from their president, all they hear is a stinging condemnation reviling them for not being patriotic enough to stay back and die in despair. Surely, this should not be the response of a contrite leader, particularly as the leadership of the country is implicated in the sad turn of events which made the country hostile to its citizens.
Buhari’s admonition was to the wrong audience and as such was out of context. Even if it was delivered to the desperate footloose Nigerians looking for means of survival outside the shores of this country, it would still have been in extremely poor taste. It is the duty of the leadership of this country to make it commodious enough to support the existence of citizens and their dreams and aspirations. When it has failed in this bounden duty, it should be quite contrite and remorseful. The consequences of leadership failure are glaring and the least that can be expected from the presidency are words of encouragement, not acerbic comments reeking of contempt.
President Buhari should be interested in building a country that will offer opportunities to its citizens regardless of the various demographic delineations. What is his vision in this direction? It will be interesting to know.
“Buhari”, killer or ruler!
Buhari has committed perjury. He can run to uk
Buhari has committed perjury. He can run to uk
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Dictator in the making…..! NASS stop this tyrant called Buhari…..!
Is this how Buhari is going to behave in his 2nd term? No way, Buhari must go…!
Shithole trump is right about shithole Nigeria with its shithole president and his shithole government.
What difference does it make? Does Buhari care about Nigerians’ lives? He only mourns when an old retired general or friend dies and when northerners drown. For the rest of the country he does not care:
1. He sends military to torture and kill southerners.
2. He lock up a few Boko boys and releases the rest to continue havoc. 3yrs ongoing and Boko Haram is not defeated. Then he loots $1billion (almost of excess crude) to fight the same Boko Haram which he had declared technically defeated. Boko Haram has become a business venture. He paid Boko boys £3million to release Dapchi girls. Where is the money?
3. He cares less about Nigerian hospitals. Instead goes abroad for treatment. Even Aso rock clinic by his house has been looted.
4. He says nothing about rampant fulani herdsmen killing southerners because he only cares about his people.
5. He tells world Bank to concentrate only on his people (northerner). North is now the NEW NIGERIA. South is not part of Nigeria.
6. People are committing suicide everyday because they cannot afford a meal in a day, yet looters and corrupt politicians and governors are sharing money in NNPC, senate, house of reps, FG and bailout funds.
7. He has no foreign policy to protect Nigerian citizens abroad because he has no interest in that. The two reasons for his foreign trips are to attend to his health and to beg countries to release looted money.
8. He says that it is sound political expediency to concentrate on 97% of northerners who voted for him than to focus on the 5% south who voted for him, thus dividing the country into north and south, and 97% vs 5%
9. Corruption war targets opposition party and politicians of southern origin who criticize his poor performance. Maina, Baru, Dr. Saadu, etc cannot be held accountable. EFCC selectively probes ‘Buhari’s enemies’
10. Ruling as a dictator, Buhari attempted to take away our rights to freedom of speech and freedom of expression to prevent Nigerians from criticizing a poorly performing administration.
11. All they do is lies lies lies lies lies lies lies. They lie about everything. Lie about defeating Boko Haram, lie about recovering from recession, lie about the economy, lie about reasons for borrowing, lie about fulfilling campaign promises, even lie about jellof rice, etc, lol, an average of 5 lies per day. Buhari and his APC are liars.
12. He sends 30,000 Nigerian police officers to intimidate Ekiti citizens to win elections .
15. He uses military to deny access to chartered aircraft carrying Afenefere, Pandef, ohaneze etc who were to attend a meeting on restructuring in venue state. Such tyranny……!
Buhari is a bigot and so ethnocentric.
This is buhari’s style of governance.
These actions are responsible for more Nigerian deaths than the killing of Nigerians abroad.
There is nothing that happens in this administration which does not have president’s approval. I mean nothing. This is how Buhari’s presidency is designed. I just feel sad when people make excuses for buhari.
Buhari is just as corrupt. Period. We have only started realizing it now. If this was military regime, he would have killed so many people already.
It’s useless and unthinkable to vote Buhari and APC for 2nd term. Buhari and APC have epitomized corruption. He has become the number one citizen of corruption. They have messed up Nigeria. It’s enough.
I Don’t want Buhari with his corrupt APC to:
A. Send more military to south to kill us anymore or
B. Send more fulani herdsmen to kill southerners anymore or
C. Send more hausas to kill Christians anymore.
Wicked corrupt bigot Buhari and his criminal APC must go.
The Nigerian population is now the opposition. We are not dead. We are very much alive and in 2019 we will prove that we are alive. This is beyond PDP now.
1. You may not be hungry during this corrupt and clueless administration but there are so many hungry Nigerians who can no longer afford a meal in a day, roaming the streets in all 36 states who are desperately waiting to vote Buhari out in 2019.
2. There are families who have been killed by fulani herds men, who are also waiting to vote Buhari out in 2019.
3. There are so many unemployed people roaming the streets, who are waiting to vote Buhari out in 2019.
4. There are people whose relatives and friends have committed suicide because of hardship, who are waiting to vote Buhari out in 2019
5. There are many business people who are out of business today because of hardship, who are waiting to vote Buhari out in 2019.
6. There is a large population of people who do not like Buhari’s dictatorship and who are waiting to vote Buhari out in 2019
7. There is also the opposition whose members have been persecuted by Buhari and who are waiting to vote Buhari out in 2019
8. All those Christians who have lost family members and friends because of Buhari’s complicity to Muslim killings are waiting to vote Buhari’s out in 2019.
9. All friends and family members of victims of operation crocodile tears, operation python dance, operation octopus, etc are all waiting to vote Buhari out in 2019.
10. Remember the 97% north and 5% south who voted for Buhari? Yes, the 95% south are still waiting to vote Buhari out in 2019.
11. Etc
So this is not fantasy. This is not a dream. This is real. Nigerian are keeping careful record of all that Buhari is doing.
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