President Muhammadu
Buhari owes himself a lot for sticking out his neck and campaigning; he owes
his supporters a lot for helping him reach the presidency he had sought for and
failed for many years. He probably owes his conscience something. And if he
cares about it he might owe history and posterity something big.
The truth is that most
importantly, the President owes us good governance and no more. However, good
governance is mostly in the eyes of the beholder and he should be allowed to go
about it the best way he wants.
To achieve his form of
good governance he can appoint any of his supporters to any position high or
low without reference to his opponents for his opponents may not want him to
succeed. He should be advised to be mindful of his new found friends for some
of them could be fair weather friends and who could abscond come rain. And move
to a sun shine zone.
The opposition does have
a job in PMB’s government. They should OPPOSE, OPPOSE and OPPOSE. They should formulate
alternative policies; challenge every utterance they find objectionable;
prepare to take over should PMB stumble and fall and if he does not fall be
ready, come 2019, to force him out at the pooling booths. They could infiltrate
his administration to make him fall as if from within; make mockery of policies
that are ill-defined; make him to execute the policies they want; etc. That is
what the opposition ought to be doing.
I see nothing wrong with PMB
starting his corruption probe with his enemies (too strong) his non-supporters
for this could have been the reason for opposing him in the first place. If it
suits him he could relegate the investigation of Mr. Tinubu, the Asiwaju of
Yoruba land, to 2018 or early 2019. They were buddy-buddies when the going was
tough.
The President is sticking
to self-preservation, which is the first law of nature. All these make sense to
me. Those who did not work should not reap.
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