After all, some of his followers have been treating him as a god. They swear by him, they risk cholera by drinking water on dirt roads, they worship head on the ground as though on prayer ground. So how can he submit to mere mortals to explain




Them plenty for nairaland

psucc:
Rather than dissect the article to see if there are salient points we are her dragging at who the writer is, whose pet he is and or in whose interest is he writing.

Honestly just as Femi Adesina used to write in those days he was apt, blank and blunt. But today he has forgotten all that piece he put on papers and if he had bring them to his principal's notice and he adopts them, Buhari would make the best President.

Omatseye may only be sane now that the presidential bug has not been injected.

Don't blame Adesina, you can't work against your employer, it's basic contractual obligation at work. He'll have to quit his job with PMB to be able to write or speak the way you expect him to.

Good thing we have others like the above writer stepping up and filling the void.

PS: I also don't even expect Adesina to speak ill against PMB afterwards. Except when he's finally retired.

guyla:

Yes, they all might be after their personal gain, but does it change the fact that the tinubu incited narrative as you claim is all nothing but a glaring truth

a truth told out of selfish intentions, I don't support Buhari,he's the same with all of them.

Wao! I thought it was "silence means consent". What a wash! The romance is over! In politics, 2019 is here already.

Now see where Yoruba Muslims hatred for Igbo has led them, they are stagnant, have tried to defend Buhari in every medium but he keeps failing them, they defended his bigotry against the South East and cheered the Army for killing unarmed IPOB youths but now they have been sidelined and the cookies have crumbled.
But they are known for cowardice, thats why they are using another Niger Deltan to hit at Buhari because they are traitorous and cant come out and show their faces

DeLaRue:
To those shouting they warned Yoruba not to vote Buhari;

1. I thought every Nigerian had a right to vote whoever they liked?

2. It is ridiculous that you feel entitled that others should've yielded to your so-called warning not to vote a candidate

3. Every vote is a risk....there's never a guaranty that a candidate would turn out as you expect

4. Mr Jonathan was such a weak leader, leading the country to certain financial doom that I do not blame those who opted to give Buhari a try.

5. Whoever emerges as leader in 2019 will have done so because the majority decide to gamble on him. There will be no guaranty he too will perform to satisfaction.


People should grow up and stop screaming they warned Buhari's supporters.

This thread is about Buhari not Jonathan

Tinubu can take any kind of shots he likes at Buhari,after taking them, he should go and rest. He brought this mess upon himself and Nigerians so let him live with it.
This isn't the quite diplomatic Gej he is dealing with here, this is Buhari ,a fulani northerner.
Tinubu has a lot on his plate and all I can say to him is Ntoor.
Have not read the post Sha. Will do so shortly so I can see the derogatory terms used.

Allosaurus:
Total wash down with the most colorful derogatory words to describe the skinny bigoted Fulani cow occupying the Aso Rock seat of power.

I suspect this is Tinubu taking subliminal shots at his master while using Omatseye as smokescreen (afonjas are yellow-eyed cowards, you can hit your coneheads on the wall for all I care).

Buhari would sue The Nation if he reads this. That's if he knows he was thoroughly insulted.

Rabbish.
Buhari is a fulani man. This kind of rubbish write up does nothing to him.
But these goons celebrated Buhari and brought him to power. Anyone who say he/she didn't know this Buhari before he a came to power in 2015 is a liar. Funny enough, you can't kick him around the way you did gej. Only pray he is too weak to contest 2019,if not, 2023 is the date.

Elose11:
The president has always seen silence as a mark of dignity in a time of crisis. When he opens his mouth eventually, he spews out venom that neither gives him nor the office he occupies any form of dignity.

Tall, gaunt, lean of face with a straight stare and loping strides, his smile comes across more like a lickspittle than a royal. Yet, behind that simpering exterior is a granite heart. However, little cunning or high thinking dresses up his hearty resolves. So, in the final analysis, what we have is not the Buhari of nobility but a pretension to the high moral act. Sometimes that façade confronts us in the form of silence.

Occasionally he does speak. When he breaks his silence, he ruptures not only peace but logic. As I have noted in the past, Buhari’s soul is a battle between the martial impulses of his breeding and the entitlement of his ambience as a Fulani hierarch. And then there is a third. He has managed, since his ouster from power as head of state, to cultivate the talakawa. So, he sees himself as a sort of royal with a common touch. He is simultaneously on top and at the bottom, a prince and pauper, a head and herdsman, at once erupting from the floor and swooping down from heaven.

How does such a man operate in a democracy? Well, unless democracy tames him, he will see it as his right to tame democracy. That is the war going on with the man we elected president. His silence on the N9 trillion scandal only portrays his contempt for institutions and persons who want to tame him like colt to the discipline and humility of popular persuasion. If democracy is about the triumph of popular persuasion over collective will, Buhari is bending to the side of the will.

As French philosopher Jean Jacque Rousseau has argued, collective will often cloaks despotic arrogance. Robespierre and Danton, even Napoleon, were culprits.
As a soldier Buhari works with diktat. As a royal, he sees the world from the hill top. As a talakawa patron, he gives them love in his own light. In return, they give him worship.

Democracy therefore will work for him the way he operates with the talakawa. He expects us to bow down to him. He is the king of our democracy. He abides the contradiction. Men like Churchill or General Dwight Eisenhower had high-born sensibilities, but hey were cowed by the institutions of democracy. Buhari acts otherwise. The thing is that Buhari is not high-born, he has acquired the streak by age and his rise in the military and social graces of the land. When you expect to give, it means you define the love in your own image. The targets of your love only do one thing: worship you.

What we have is the making of the Aristotelian tragic flaw. Like Sophocles’ Oedipus and Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Buhari’s flaw is hubris. That explains why his speeches and comments in times of crisis tend to be condescending.

We witnessed it early in his tenure when he would not set up a cabinet. Or when his wife rattled him, or when he reacted to the scandal around his army chief, or when recently he fouled the air when he returned from his medical leave and came down in primitive anger against the Southeast. There are some storms he has never found worthy of his tongue. Chief among them is the poisonous lop-sidedness of his appointments. He is still mum on Babachir Lawal and Ayo Oke, and even the rumbles among his principal officers in the presidency. Some jump out of the shadows. Like his request to a World Bank chief that the institution should focus work on the north.

This perhaps explains why he has been frozen from the neck up in spite of the uproar over his NNPC appointments. So, following from that, why would we expect him to say something about the new tempest on Nigeria’s oil. All he did was retreat to is familiar terrain on the N9 trillion ambush of our national treasure.

Now, he may see his silence has golden, as a way of standing above the rolling waters, of asserting his rectitude. But that could be so if he has come out with a line of wisdom through his lieutenants. His lieutenants have actually been quiet, too. It was all left in the hands of the culprit-in-chief to hand over the boil to his appointee, Maikanti Baru.

If his explanations had found traction in reason, we could have pardoned the president. We could say, well, it was all a case of mistaking a mouse for an elephant. But the big elephant in the room has remained one man: Muhammadu Buhari.
He acts as though it is mere matter. It will pass over, his image as a man of purity will shield him, so he does not have to be above board.

After all, some of his followers have been treating him as a god. They swear by him, they risk cholera by drinking water on dirt roads, they worship head on the ground as though on prayer ground. So how can he submit to mere mortals to explain.

He does not need to explain when Baru says he sought permission from him (Buhari) to make such a consequential decision. He does not need to react when he bypasses the man he appointed to the position as board chairman of the NNPC. He does not see it fit that he set up a board that the NNPC Act invests with powers and a mere mortal he puts there as GMD subverts their authority and boasts about it in Buhari’s name. Does he not know that as president, the only person to whom he can hand over authority is a minister or vice president?

The constitution says so. Or does he read the constitution? If he cannot delegate to himself since he is oil minister, he automatically hands over to his minister of state. By bypassing that, he has violated due process. And he does not want to talk about it? By the way, is it damning to note that these contracts were purportedly signed when he was on medical leave? He himself had said his men brought him files to sign in London. If he did not sign Baru’s, did he give him a nod. If he did, he violated the oath of office, and is that not enough for him to resign, or for impeachment proceedings to begin?

Does he not know that matters like this should involve the BPP? Did he not hear the voice of Oby Ezekwesili on that? Did he not hear his GMD draw false equivalences by saying that Kachikwu did the same thing, therefore there was nothing wrong? Is that the way to fight corruption?

If a man like Baru can play fast and loose with our endowment as a people, where do we place those who are faithful like Dakuku Peterside in NIMASA and Professor Ishaq Oloyede at JAMB. The president was quick to order the probe of the predecessors and rightly so. But he is easy on the humongous erring of his “man” Baru. They say it is not cash contract, and so not contract “as such.” Abi dem think say we be mumu?

As far as this column is concerned, unless Buhari reviews and annuls the contracts, his war on corruption is melodious lie, an exercise in hypocritical grandstanding. He is therefore hiding in silence. The silence is roaring, and our ears are full with its every decibel.
http://thenationonlineng.net/silence-means-contempt/

Their president their problems... As as 5% stock, na sidon look I dey..

izombie:
Its now clear that tinubu wanted buhari in power for his own selfish interest and not for the yoruba and nigerians. Now that he's been sidelined he resorted to attacking buhari. Call me ipob or whatever but yorubas were warned that bubu only cares about the north but their hatred for anything igbo clouded their senses. Now see.

What's this Osu saying? Lol.

Osu are irrelevant in the schemes of things, take that into your skull.

DeLaRue:
To those shouting they warned Yoruba not to vote Buhari;

1. I thought every Nigerian had a right to vote whoever they liked?

2. It is ridiculous that you feel entitled that others should've yielded to your so-called warning not to vote a candidate

3. Every vote is a risk....there's never a guaranty that a candidate would turn out as you expect

4. Mr Jonathan was such a weak leader, leading the country to certain financial doom that I do not blame those who opted to give Buhari a try.

5. Whoever emerges as leader in 2019 will have done so because the majority decide to gamble on him. There will be no guaranty he too will perform to satisfaction.


People should grow up and stop screaming they warned Buhari's supporters.

hhmm..this write up get as e be o..but if what u wrote is true, y is the east been maginalized since we know that voting is a free choice? i think this is hypocrisy wen if u express ur choice, u will be maginallized based on the choi

Well said.... This article is so on point.

mgbadike81:
tinubu have resorted to opposition politics for his own selfish again, unfortunately, he might still convince many Yoruba's to follow him blindly. Yoruba's need to know that their political class doesn't care about the masses, there's no difference between tinubu and okorocha or ambode and umahi or obiano,they're all after their personal gain only.

so you rather do nothing waiting for Messiah abi

DeLaRue:
To those shouting they warned Yoruba not to vote Buhari;

1. I thought every Nigerian had a right to vote whoever they liked?

2. It is ridiculous that you feel entitled that others should've yielded to your so-called warning not to vote a candidate

3. Every vote is a risk....there's never a guaranty that a candidate would turn out as you expect

4. Mr Jonathan was such a weak leader, leading the country to certain financial doom that I do not blame those who opted to give Buhari a try.

5. Whoever emerges as leader in 2019 will have done so because the majority decide to gamble on him. There will be no guaranty he too will perform to satisfaction.


People should grow up and stop screaming they warned Buhari's supporters.

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