I
watched the President's meeting with community leaders in Kaduna after the
unfortunate communal clashes of last week.
The
speech delivered by Mr. President further confirms my fears that Buhari has
lost grip of the happenings in Nigeria. For the president to have come out
publicly and say nobody informed him about the loss of 70 lives in Kaduna
during the recent crisis, is an indication that those closest to PMB are not as
asset to him, but a liability.
Who
are those closest to him? The first are his spouse and children, then his Chief
of Staff, his security details, and the security chiefs. We can include the
Governors and Ministers in the list since they are chief security officers of
their respective states. How comes, none of these people briefed Buhari on the
Kaduna crises which consumed about 80 lives? (According to official reports)
Where
is the DSS chief who receives hourly, daily, weekly and monthly reports from
the 36 states and FCT? Where are the president's retinue of media aides - Garba
Shehu, Femi Adesina, Bashir Ahmed, and ....whose responsibility it is to give
the President nuggets of major news headlines of the day?
Did
they deliberately bury the news reports from Kaduna or the president did
not read what they presented to him?
Whatever
may be the case, the President's statement has clearly demonstrated that he's
disconnected from the people as he rightly acknowledged when he said, "I
am locked up in Aso Rock, so will not know what is happening outside until
someone reported it to me."
Rather
than urging the community leaders to be closer to their people, which they
already are, it is the President himself that should connect with Nigerians.
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