I am trying my best to stay away from talking about Nigerian politics and politicians. The reason is because it is the surest way to get oneself aggravated with the most unpleasant feelings. If you want a free dose of acrimony, just start discussing Nigeria and her politics and you'll get a bonanza of what you wished for.A celebration from certain folks who identify themselves as Buharists with a lofty practice of chorusing "Sai Buhari" upon the news of the emergence of Buhari as the winner of the APC presidential primaries deals a blow of a comfortable disappointment in my eyes...
How can you possibly celebrate the emergence of Buhari in a party that had better options of presenting refined people like Fashola or better options like Fayemi and Oshiomole? Even Rochas Okorocha is a more comfortable joke than the coup d' etat General.The country is insane! The citizens are clueless and myopic. If you can rejoice that a man who over-threw or benefited from the usurpation of a democratically elected government, is openly unapologetic over it and ran a very brutal and abusive junta, then you deserve the clueless man in Aso Rock ten times. This is a man who said he will not contest for the Presidential race again, defended the monstrous junta of Abacha as "not corrupt," presided over a petroleum ministry where funds running in the billions disappeared under his watch and yet you chorus about his integrity? Do you know what integrity means? Someone says he won't do a thing and next tomorrow he wakes up doing the same thing he promised never to get involved in and you are not worried about a man of such personage? If he could not keep to his word, why would he keep to his promises upon being entrusted with power?
This is a man who has not presented any manifesto, plan, nor submitted any idea or plan he intends to runs with if elected into power. All we hear is "I'll fight corruption," "Vote me and my party and they'll be security," and "I am the answer to a buoyant economy," etc. How the heck do you intend to bring these superficial promises to light? Will you fart out insecurity? You think the economy is run by rhetorics? Or you want to fight insurgency with words of mouth? No explanation, no manifesto, nothing practical just cheap vague promises and the mindless followers chorus "Sai Buhari!"I do not understand folks in Nigeria. If you think that Buhari will do a better job simply because the man in Aso Rock is acting like a clueless docile which makes it easy for the Sharia enthusiasts to fart any vague rhetoric to your patronage, then I laugh.
You do not find it shameful and disturbing that in a country of over 170 million people, the best that could be offered to contest for the Presidency are a Sharia enthusiast who over-threw a democratically elected government and most importantly has no plans and manifesto to offer and a disappointing commander-in-chief who runs a government of proud incompetence and loud cluelessness. I am ashamed.In a saner clime neither GMB or President Jonathan would have been allowed to preside over a nursery school not to mention a country of over 170 million people. Sorry, we are lost. A country where two non-senses are put before you to try to make sense from them. Meanwhile, this is the same nation where we have the likes of Donald Duke, Fashola, Nuhu Ribadu, and few others and they are in perfect fettle. Sai! Una shame me!
SAHARA REPORTERS
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