AS BUHARI RETURNS.......

Finally President Buhari arrives

Well I am happy that the president of my country is back. I did not fast for him to get well but a National Fast was declared for the president of my country somewhere across the Savannah. Several of us also prayed for him here. And I am glad that today, he is back , recuperating and will soon bounce back fully. Whether he was on chemotherapy or monitored in an ICU, what matters most is that the president is back. Thank God!

In the last 6 months, VP Osinbajo has done so well on the economy shooting down high exchange rates, triggering Nigerian agro exports and even exports of Nigeria-made cars to Mali. When he confronted corruption, corruption confronted him, harassed him, bullied and shouted him down.  Power outage did not even notice if he is in charge. He was called names by a system that was not sure of how to impeach him since he was not a substantive president and the substantive is also ill.

There is nothing to tell the president. There are only things we should remind him.

Firstly, President Muhammadu Buhari is just 20 months away from another presidential elections! There is still no electricity for all. Unemployment has not disappeared. Boko Haram is still terrorizing. There are still extremely fewer people to say NO to corruption on the Nigerian Bench. Healthcare is still so poor that the president cannot even risk his treatment at any Nigerian hospital.

Secondly, the president should keep in mind that political gladiators even  within the APC are gathering momentum for 2019 presidential elections. They have no time to waste! They have seen how he refused to remove Ibrahim Magu who is a critical thorn in the flesh of Nigeria’s political elite and has caused more convictions than any EFCC Head. And since Buhari has promised  never to remove Magu as long as he remains president, the best thing to do is to remove Buhari himself.

Finally, because there is no time, Buhari should go back to the original plans he had before becoming president. His wife has made us know on BBC that he did deviate for new alliances at a time. Today,  The APC is not executing fully her original plans for which we voted massively for her in 2015. The party cannot even speak with one voice anymore.  Even as he came in over the weekend, appointees made upon his concurrence are resisted from even acting at their new appointments until after confirmation by the Nigerian Senate. The gameplan is to while away time till another election shows up when he will never have time to push any anti-corruption cause.

Buhari should just finish this broadcast fast and fight corruption with simple orders. If they bring 32 SANs to court, the FG should bring 70 to fight the corrupt forces of the Nigerian Elite. He must also begin to work at juggling for a better bench. His edge right now is that with his health condition, attempts to impeach him will unfailingly lead to protests, riots and terrible war against the cabal that has hijacked the country for more than 50 years. Things we failed to do is the biggest regret we can ever have. The time to act is now.