It had been stated much earlier in a similar setting that things must have become soooo bad in Nigeria for citizens to remember the Abacha years with nostalgia. The Nigerian president in that era did not find that comparison funny at all.
As we continue with the post mortem of the decision we made to elect Muhammadu Buhari as president, despite all the alarm bells ringing, the question then becomes: Were we crazy or what?
According to this editorial in The Vanguard,
"If APC had wanted to be taken seriously, it would have come up with a better presidential material than Buhari. There is something anomalous about a party whose mantra is change, recycling a 73 year old man as its candidate for the president of modern Nigeria. Buhari has little or no understanding of public policy. That is why APC will always come up with some excuse or the other not to have him participate in a debate with Jonathan. . "
"If APC had wanted to be taken seriously, it would have come up with a better presidential material than Buhari. There is something anomalous about a party whose mantra is change, recycling a 73 year old man as its candidate for the president of modern Nigeria. Buhari has little or no understanding of public policy. That is why APC will always come up with some excuse or the other not to have him participate in a debate with Jonathan. . "
We are all living with the consequences of our decisions in the 2015 presidential election. Even if only one third of the successes attributed to the Jonathan years by a patently partisan Vanguard Editorial Board was true, the mere promise of positive change by a stiffnecked, unteachable and tribalistic Buhari, for whom the Nigerian Civil war is far from over, would have been grossly inadequate for us to throw in our lot with him. We were warned but our righteous disenchantment with President Jonathan knew no bounds. Buhari became a fetish object, the objectification of a personality cult with feet of clay as it has turned out. Even a Juan Peron displayed some flashes of brilliance before leading Argentina down the path of perdition that lasted for decades. In the case of elected President Buhari, the disaster struck on day one. We all know for sure when this rain started to beat us. We asked for it.
This buyer's regret has been so energy sapping. Buhari's unrepentant and unrelenting praise singers, who see no evil and hear no evil, have proved incapable of engaging the rest of us, who changed our minds, in any meaningful debate. They have shamelessly disowned their own manifesto the moment we, the voters, demanded accountability. We only asked the Buhari administration to fulfill it's own promises. Nothing more. As it is now, to no longer love our darling Buhari is deemed treasonable. How sad. Only the truth will set Nigeria free.
Vanguard News Nigeria http://www.vanguardngr.com/…/jonathan-superior-presidentia…/
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