{"id":1700,"date":"2021-04-05T20:33:17","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T20:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vor.org.ng\/?p=1700"},"modified":"2022-08-13T19:34:43","modified_gmt":"2022-08-13T19:34:43","slug":"buhari-nigerias-clueless-messiah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ictnetworldltd.com\/newvor\/2021\/04\/05\/buhari-nigerias-clueless-messiah\/","title":{"rendered":"Buhari: Nigeria\u2019s clueless messiah"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Tunde Odesola
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\nI laughed upon remembering Chief Zebrudaya Okoroigwe Nwogbo alias 4:30, and a proverb came to mind: \u201cIf death are strike dead the slow-motion chameleon with reckless abandon, why shall it not quench the jumpy-jumpy frog with instant automatic alacrity? Tell me!\u201d
\nChief Zebrudaya, the patriarch of Nigeria\u2019s funniest English sitcom, New Masquerade, didn\u2019t vocalise the above-written proverb, that\u2019s my inexpert creation.
\nIf he verbalised the proverb, Zebby, as his beautiful wife, Ovularia, lovingly calls him, would crack up viewers with his bombast while the funniest clowns in the history of clowning, Giringory Akabogu and Clarus, would burst out from the kitchen dragging an empty pot of soup between them and arguing over who owns Nigeria, cows or citizens.
\nIn relation to Nigeria\u2019s political context, the imagery of the chameleon in the first paragraph is a symbolism for the June 12 1993 presidential election won by the late Chief MKO Abiola but which was truncated by the northern oligarchy in collusion with a few greedy collaborators from other parts of the country.
\nConversely, the presidential ambition of a National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, I typify with the \u2018jumpy-jumpy\u2019 frog, patiently being awaited by the same oligarchy that killed MKO\u2019s dream, along with their collaborators.
\nI plead not to be misinterpreted. Asiwaju enjoys the rights in the Nigerian Constitution to aspire to any political post in the land. But something is morally amiss if Tinubu \u2013 without publicly apologising for the 2015 deadwood presidential ambition he sandpapered and sold to Nigerians \u2013 is preparing to succeed the Katsina general whose maladministration has run Nigeria aground.
\nI wonder what would be Tinubu\u2019s catchphrase in the 2023 presidential election. Would it be, \u201cBAT: Consolidation of Sai Baba\u2019s inglorious years?\u201d or \u201cVote Jagaban to correct APC\u2019s disastrous years?\u201d or \u201cAsiwaju: Leave story, jeun soke.\u201d
\nSeriously, wailing and laughter are strange bedfellows. But when they work hand-in-glove, the Yoruba would say, \u201cOro buruku tohun terin.\u201d Sometimes, nature could be as naughty as the proverbial case of Ibiye, whose goat was blind in the left eye while Ibiye was blind in the right.
\nThe current situation of Nigeria is tragic, no doubt. What\u2019s staring Nigeria in the face is no laughing matter at all. But in our tragic haven, the mind must escape to laughter, occasionally, otherwise mortuaries and asylums will boom in doom.
\nAlthough it\u2019s obvious that Nigeria should declare national emergency in critical aspects of the economy, the Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) regime is totally clueless in halting the drift into abyss.
\nThe green-white-green \u2018abiku\u2019 has snatched the sacrificial pot at the crossroads, and smashed it on the bald head of the tall and bony herbalist. The old soldier called upon to help kill the roving hyena in the farmland has ended up in the belly of the beast.
\nSadly, Nigeria\u2019s plight is akin to the case of Senegalese-born French midfielder Jean-Pierre Adams who underwent surgery for a knee injury in 1982, but hasn\u2019t come out of coma 39 years after due to negligence on the part of the surgeon that performed the surgery.
\nFor the unfortunate Adams, his surgeon carved him the pathway to eternal dungeon just like Nigeria\u2019s messiah, Buhari, has unblushingly broken the covenants of hope he made to the people in 2015 and 2019, making the country worse than he met it.
\nShortly before he became President, Buhari, during his famous 2015 Chatham House speech in England, urged Nigeria to choose either voting for continuity of failure or progressive change.
\nAt the Chatham House, Buhari thundered, \u201cBoko Haram has sadly put Nigeria on the terrorism map, killing more than 13,000 of our people\u2026What has been consistently lacking is the required leadership in our battle against insurgency\u2026\u201d
\nThen he told a fat lie, \u201cIf I am elected President, the world will have no cause to worry about Nigeria\u2026No inch of Nigeria will ever be lost to the enemy because we will pay special attention to the welfare of our soldiers in and out of service\u2026
\n\u201cWe will ALWAYS ACT ON TIME (emphasis mine) and not allow problems to IRRESPONSIBLE fester. I, Muhammadu Buhari, will always lead from the front.\u201d
\nToday, Buhari, who promised to \u2018lead from the front\u2019, is in obodo Oyinbo for a \u2018routine\u2019 medical check when his country\u2019s medical doctors are on strike and his kingdom has been lost to insecurity.
\nIf Buhari\u2019s trip was truly routine, why didn\u2019t he show sympathy to sick Nigerian masses who can\u2019t afford to waste taxpayers\u2019 money on frivolous medical trips abroad, by commenting on the strike and giving the people hope?
\nIf the head injury suffered in a lone motorbike racing accident by Yusuf, his son, had occurred on the day of his departure to England, would Buhari have travelled without his son?
\nTwice, Nigerians were scammed big time by Buhari and his co-political adventurers. When thunderclaps bellowed six years ago, the masses hurriedly emptied their earthen pots in anticipation of fresh rainwater. Now, the thunderclaps have ceased without a raindrop.
\nMore than half of the land was fooled. Gauntness was mistaken for lack of greed. Stony eyes were mistaken for penetrating focus on integrity. Now, everything has gone skyrocket with the wind.
\nHow did we not know that this messiah had his children in schools abroad? How did we ever think he was part of us? How did we not know he would fail to publicly disclose his assets? How did we not know that Goodluck Jonathan was only shoeless and clueless but Buhari is visionless and listless? How did we not know that messiah Buhari would turn the presidential fleet of planes into playthings for his daughter to hop on for photoshoots?
\nDuring the government of Saint Buhari, corruption abandoned its posh house at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and built a mansion inside the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, shedding its milk teeth of Jonathan years for the fangs, premolars and molars of the Buhari years.
\nMy country people, I repeat, wailing and laughter are strange bedfellows. When they work hand-in-glove, the Yoruba would say, \u201cOro buruku tohun terin.\u201d
\nSince our President has left us to our fate, we mustn\u2019t wait in sadness for the merchants of death that kill daily. I mean, let\u2019s amuse ourselves before the kidnappers storm; let\u2019s share a laugh before herdsmen arrive to rape, maim, kill and get rewarded in return.
\nIt\u2019s only in Buhari country that the police would arrest the trader assaulted in Abuja by the Chairman, Code of Conduct Tribunal, Danladi Umar, who is a judge. It\u2019s only in Buhari land that the coach of the Super Eagles, Gernot Rohr, would leave out players scoring goals in top-class leagues and invite players without teams for matches.
\nEthnically and religiously, Buhari has polarised the land, otherwise, the type of heavy fine meted out to the \u2018misyarning\u2019 pastor in obodo Oyinbo should have been meted out to all the leaders misleading Nigerians into believing that COVID is unreal, sending many to their graves.
\nIt\u2019s only in Buhari\u2019s Nigeria that corruption presses charges against integrity. Insanity, please, give us a break.
\nSource: PunchNG<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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