Opinion: Buhari, three months after. By Pius Oyeniran Abioje

Date: 2015-09-01

SIR: When a highly respected person suggested to me to join the Buhari Support Group, I declined to avoid handcuffs. The Yoruba say once a person eats dodo(fried plantain), he or she can no longer s'ododo (tell the truth); it's a play on words; so cute. The former President, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan fed Drs. Reuben Abati and Doyin Okupe with dodo; the same way the late President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua fed Prof. Dora Akunyili (now late) with dodo, by appointing her as Communications and Information Minister, to defend indefensible governmental policies and actions. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) fed Prof. Maurice Iwu with plenty of dodo, and he perpetrated stunning electoral wuruwuru (fraud) for the party.

A virtual or actual member of the Buhari Support Group (BSG) spoke on Radio Kwara, Ilorin, recently. He said the President Muhammadu Buhari is justified in giving all the key positions to the Northwest, which is Buhari's zone, because what matters is honest and competent persons. He said southern Nigeria has discredited itself with the corruption allegations leveled against former Governors Raji Fashola and Rotimi Amaechi. Abati will shudder to see that he was using the same type of logic to defend Jonathan. Because Fashola and Amaechi are suspected of corruption, everybody in southern Nigeria is corrupt; implying incorruptible persons can be found only in northern Nigeria, with particular reference to Buhari's Northwest.

Buhari has demonstrated that he is prone to imbalance, not just in his appointments, but also in the way he described jihad wars as a "great civilisation" in his inaugural speech; and in spite of what he called "empty treasury", he sold dollars cheaply to pilgrimage-makers without even attending to the instability in fuel price at that point. Buhari has also not demonstrated balance in his lip service to dialogue with the Boko Haram rebels. They are rebelling, let's give them a voice. Why are Nigerian rulers running away from listening to the grudges of the rebels? They are saying Nigeria is violating Islamic order as they understand it. Allow them to speak if you are sure of your own positions and actions.

Every time the rebels call for dialogue, even when they wanted Mama Sarah Jubril to midwife the connection, they were shunned. What is fishy? And how can it now be said that all those who said Buhari was not the expected Messiah were wrong? Nigerians were yearning for change. They were tired of bloodshed and mass abject poverty. They were tired of political instability. What steps is Buhari taking to stop bloodshed and stabilise Nigeria politico-economically? None. His war with Boko Haram is futile, and he will keep pouring Nigeria's human and material resources into it.

After three months in office, Buhari has nothing concrete and definite to show. Be patient, be patient - the butterfly is flying away into the jungle.

Pius Oyeniran Abioje, PhD,

University of Ilorin

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Alore     Junior Secondary School Certificate Examinations     Owu Fall     Abdullahi Adisa Akodudu     Shettima     Moses Afolayan     Balikis Jawondo     Gafaru Olayiwola Olorisade     Adisa Logun     Ben Duntoye     Park     Kwara State Branch Of The National Library     Oke-Kura     Abdulhakeem Adelaja Amao     Garba Dogo     Lanre Jimoh     Suleiman Mora Omar     Erubu Oba Zubair     Paul Olawoore     Abdulrazaq Magaji     Sidikat Uthman Ajibola     Bayo Lawal     Afolabi-Oshatimehin     Ilesha Gwanara Road     Kwara State Fire Service     Olusin Of Ijara Isin     Savannah Centre For Diplomacy, Democracy And Development     Bola Sagaya     Computer Based Test     Orire     Universal Basic Education Commission     Ilota     Abdulmajeed Abdullahi     Segun Abifarin     Sobi FM     Col. Ibrahim Taiwo     Binta Abubakar-Mora     Oba Abdulrahim     Ahmed Bolaji Nagode     Ayodele Olaosebikan     Babatunde Idiagbon     Suleman Abubakar     Issa Memunat Moyosore     Jawondo     AbdulGafar Tosho     Wasiu Odewale     Demola Banu     Olayinka Are     Oke-Ode     Olomu     Olusola Saraki     Babs Iwarere     IFK     Rachael Obisesan     Dele Momodu     Moronfoye     UNILORIN Alumni Association     Adebayo Salami     Atunwa     Aiyedun     Salihu Yahaya     Overland     Alimi     Kwara North     Ibrahim Bio     Ike Ekweremadu     Kola Bukoye     Mohammed Kamaludeen     Bayer AG     Adijat Adebiyi     Muhammad Mustapha Suleiman     Iponrin     Hakeem Idris     Alfa Modibbo Belgore     Arinola Fatimoh Lawal     Simeon Ajibola     ER-KANG Mining Nigeria Company Limited    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Valsolar Consultoria     Olabimpe Olani     Basic Education Certificate Examination     Ilorin Water Reticulation     Muhammadu Buhari     Kamaldeen Gambari     Alao Ayotunde     Baba-Isale     Labour Party     Olajumoke Monsura Gafar     Societe Generale Bank Of Nigeria     Omotosho     AbdulGafar Tosho     Adaramaja     Kwara Central     Balogin Alanamu     Local Government     Mary Arinde     Elelu     2017 Budget     Bahago     M.Y. Abdulrahaman     Shade Omoniyi     Ayobami Akanbi     Ayinde Oki     Hausa     Lotus Bank     Ganiyu Abolarin     Yusuf Aiyedun     Fareedah Dankaka     Razaq Atunwa     TVC Female National Debate     Tunji Arosanyin     Agbarere     Quareeb     Bello Taoheed Abubakar     KWAFFA     Yemi Sanni     Kola Bukoye     Damilola Yusuf     Nnazua     March 18     Alagbado     Ndakene     Aso-ofi     Aisha Abodunrin Ibrahim     Mohammed Abduraheem     Raji Ayodele Kamaldeen     Oba Abdulkadir La\'aro     Aminat Ahmed     Kwara NIPR     Ophthalmological Society Of Nigeria     Durbar Festival     Tunde Saad     Abdulrauf Yusuf     Sheriff Olanrewaju     Saudat Abdulbaqi     Sebastine Obasi     Kale Ayo     Ganiyu Taofiq     ER-KANG     Solomon Edoja     Oba Abdulraheem     Makama     Kayode Ibrahim     Yusuf Olaolu Ali     Saidu Kawu     KWATMA     Adesina Simon Sodiya     Wasiu Onidugbe     Belgore     KwaraLearn     Government High School (GHS), Adeta     Islamiya Abdulraheem     Habeeb Saidu     Aliyu Sabi     Muhammed Mahe Abdulkadir