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Kukah’s vilification: Buhari is fighting the wrong ‘enemy’
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By Olu Fasan
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari is showing typical behavioural strains. Beleaguered leaders, who are out of touch with reality, usually find solace in the echo chambers of sycophancy and tend to see enemies in even well-meaning critics. That’s how to view the Presidency’s recent attacks on Bishop Matthew Kukah, Bishop of Sokoto Catholic diocese, for his flawless critique of the state of Nigeria under the Buhari administration.
A kii fi ete sile pa lapalapa, the Yoruba would say, meaning: “One doesn’t ignore leprosy to treat a rash.” Nigeria is infected with the
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Christmas message: Nigeria is failing, it needs a saviour
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LAST year, I wrote a piece titled “A lesson of Christmas: Nigeria needs sacrificial leaders” (
Vanguard, December 27, 2019). A year on, I’m returning to the same theme. For while Christmas brings hope as we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, who came to save the world, thinking about Nigeria fills one with utter despair, not hope.
Even the most congenital optimists must worry about the future of this country. And the abject lack of visionary and transformational leaders must elicit a heartfelt cry: who will save Nigeria?
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Presidency: Power rotation is inevitable until Nigeria is restructured
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By Olu Fasan
THERE is an intellectual dishonesty at the heart of the opposition to rotational presidency in Nigeria. The advocates of “meritocracy” conveniently forget that Nigeria is, politically, not a meritocratic country, and that zoning is a political imperative that speaks to this country’s deeply flawed political structure that creates recurrent inter-ethnic conflicts over power. Thus, those calling for meritocracy must also, invariably, support political restructuring. You cannot have one without the other!
Yet, the most vociferous in rejecting power rotation are also the most visceral in opposing restructuring. But Nigeria’s political structure, which entrenches a historical power imbalance in which one ethnic group dominates the rest, is incompatible with the meritocratic values and principles of fairness fundamental to democratic societies.
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