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I have said it before and I say it again, the problem of Nigeria today is President Muhammad Buhari. He has shown insufficient sensitivity to Nigeria’s diversity, and this has been highly problematic. President Muhammad Buhari campaigned for the presidency with a “change” mantra, but he himself has not changed. The change must begin with the president.
I feel very sad. This is a situation that some of us foresaw. In the first coming of President Buhari, everything went from bad to worse. We had to queue for essential commodities. Raw materials and spare parts needed to keep factories running were scarce. Rather than create jobs, tens of thousands of workers lost their jobs. Inflation rose to the astronomical levels. It is not surprising, therefore that, when Buhari was overthrown in 1985, there was wild jubilation throughout the length and breadth of Nigeria.
Today, we are back again to square one. President Buhari has returned to make a bad situation worse. We have no one to blame but ourselves. Given his past record, he should not have been re-elected. George Santayana says: “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat.
APC and PDP are tweedledum and tweedledee. They are yin and yang. That is why there is so much cross-carpeting. Today you are PDP; tomorrow you are APC. Quite a number of the APC bigwigs were yesterday’s PDP musclemen.
Nigerians cannot be fooled again. Nobody will be impressed by President Buhari wearing a black suit and bow-tie again. In fact, the best thing for the President is not to even contest in 2019, otherwise he will be disgraced.
– Alfa Tijani
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