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Last year, shortly after Nigeria suffered the worst flood in recent history; and before the extent of losses were known, President Buhari set out to attend a ...

The second and very important is for him to get a tricycle of his own – even on loan. Buhari reluctantly campaigned for Tinubu; and when he did, his awful records in eight years was akin to placing a rope on the candidate’s neck – ready for hanging. The first goal is to get him to be better kitted – as much as possible to global standards. Buhari is only interested in the authority, the pageantry and prerogatives of office and not in discharging the responsibilities. We are in the present predicament because we picked a man who had been relatively idle; who was totally ignorant about most issues affecting our country and our world; who had no solution to anything – except the woolly-headed notion of fighting corruption. The man deceived us to support him in 2015; we saw the results. To put the matter bluntly: Buhari has, at last, given his greatest benefactor a terrible stab in the back. Those like the NEF who took a wait and see attitude are no longer waiting; because they have seen enough of the calamities the man has brought upon us. After addressing the nation on the naira redesign, and causing riots in several places, Buhari again departed for Ethiopia to work for peace in another country – while his own nation was on fire. Other leaders, whose nations were also badly flooded, jumped on helicopters to survey the extent of damages; touched down in a few places to offer condolences to the bereaved and asked for urgent relief materials to be sent to the worst affected areas. That is the difference between a leader who knows how to lead and one on whom leadership was bestowed by selfish people with hidden agenda. As Buhari embarks on his last three months in office shortly, the current chaos we experience was an accident waiting to happen for re-electing a man who is incompetent to rule a complex society such as our own.