This is silly posturing. Gen Buhari has had the better part of three years to sort out the issue of who and who stole our money and force them to make amends, even outside the boundaries of the law. Not that we recommend such action. Which is exactly what Buhari is NOW doing.
It is instructive to note that Buhari waited to wrap up the mago-mago APC Presidential Primaries before springing this illegal action on his perceived enemies. It has been stated over and over again that the War Against Corruption never really started. We can rationalize all we want on the actions of a president who for example loudly claimed that his friend late Gen Sani Abacha stole nothing but shamelessly keeps accepting loot returned from foreign banks in Abacha's name. .
In the unlikely event that Buhari wins the 2019 Election, I would imagine that by December 2019, (ie seven months after inauguration), he would be in EXACTLY the same situation that he was in as at December 2015, surrounded by the same crooks and criminals, friends and enemies alike. As Baba Go-Slow, he probably would have no new cabinet in place. All this would be nobody's fault but his own.
Buhari probably does not posses the intellectual wherewithal to enable him appreciate the quantum of goodwill that he voluntarily dissipated since coming to office. I am yet to see any country where the generality of the people wish their political leadership a dismal failure. Not Nigerians. It is our country for goodness sake. That is why we have been passionately involved. If only 10% of the accusations by enemies of Bola Tinubu is true, Buhari, the Anti-Corruption Czar, would have consigned him to the gulag. Meanwhile is Buhari interested? No! Of course there are very many others. So, who is fooling who? Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar has been available for vilification and prosecution for at least these past three years. Nothing nothing. When he was with Buhari ahead of the 2015 elections, he was a "national asset", a reservoir of wisdom and experience. Thank God that he didn't die such that all manner of pretenders, including cloak and dagger closet enemies, will extol him and cry over his grave. Hence Atiku is still here with us and wants to run for president in an opposition party. Hell breaks loose. Atiku has been a thief all along, they say. . Mbanu!
Let us wait and see how the civil society who ordinarily would be expected to hail this Executive Order react. Would they be conned? What about the Legislature in the National Assembly, the Nigerian Bar Association and the Judiciary? This is the kind of upheaval we do not need in the runup to what will prove to be a most contentious election. I call for caution on the part of an Executive run amok. POSTSCRIPT: How do you define "prominent"? Is it simply a matter of cash? Do I qualify, if we were to include other parameters? . Just asking.
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