THE BUHARI TRAGEDY; HOW DID WE GET HERE?

By Charles Ogbu.

That President Muhammadu Buhari lacks both the intellectual, mental and emotional wherewithal to preside over even an Umunna meeting in his Daura village has never been in doubt. He remains a pathetic excuse for a President. Even the dark Goggled tyrant, Abacha, wasn't this terrible. Abacha was simply a thieving dictator and most of his tyranny were actually not unconnected with his desire to bury the June12 ghost. So there is a sense in which it can be argued that Abacha's madness had a method.

But this man here??

He seems quite uniquely sophisticated in the ways of inflicting pain, misery, death, wars and woes on his fellow Nigerians. It does appear he enjoys it, too.

His is a govt deeply rooted in official roquery, banditry and brigandage.

Under this Katsina born ex-soldier, official bigotry, clannishness and demonic nepotism have all been institutionalized.

In a nutshell, President Buhari is running an apartheid govt premised on Northernization, Fulanization and Islamization. Ironically, even in his own govt, he's but a pawn in the hands of the powerful #ScionsOfDanfodio calling the shot.

But,

This is not even my greatest pain.

My greatest 'wonderment' remains how 15million men and women, some of whom lay claim to superior knowledge and higher intellect, failed to see the Buhari fraud for what it has always been despite the signs that were all too glaring for even a blind man not to have seen.

History is alive and well with the records of gross human right abuses, tyranny, first class bigotry and criminal disdain for democratic processes and procedures which characterized Buhari's short but iniquitious stint in power some three decades ago.

Practically everything happening under him today happened during his first missionary journey.

The tragedy of this whole thing is that most of the so called intellectuals who foisted this disaster on Nigerians actually witnessed the calamity that was his 1st coming. In fact, some of them were direct victims. Under decree 4 promulgated specifically to gag free press, Buhari jailed Tunde Thompson and Nduka Irabor for publishing stories he says were embarrassing to his regime. But in 2015, Tunde Thompson was in Buhari campaign team chanting #SaiBaba.

A tragic irony, isn't it?

Even before 2015 poll, there were clear signs signalling the disaster that this man has always been.

So,

How did Professors, PhD holders and highly lettered men/women convince themselves that an ex-treasonous dictator who failed woefully even with a loaded gun and a suspended constitution in his much younger age was the right man to fix a 21st century Nigeria under a democracy with its attendant bureaucratic bottleneck

Just how

He (Buhari) didn't initiate even a single economic program during his time as head of state.

For over 3 decades that he was out of power, he did absolutely nothing to improve himself in anyway. He never run any business except his 150 legendary homosexual cows. He delivered no lecture. Wrote no book and organised no workshop even if it is on islamization and Fulanization -his forte. He made no attempt to contribute to the society in any way.

All he did was come out every 4 years to contest, loose the election, engineer his minions to soak "Dogs and Baboons" in blood only to go back and wait for another 4 years.

In 2011, he contested on the platform of the defunct CPC which had only one state of Nassarawa, yet, he vehemently refused to concede defeat. Even when his supporters were killing Nigerians in a post election violence provoked by his pre-election utterances, Buhari rejected all effort by the govt of Jonathan to get him to halt the bloodshed by condemning the violence. In the end, over 800 Nigerians including youth corps members lay lifeless.

Yet,

Men who spent years suckling from the breast of knowledge swore that this same man was the political "Messiah" needed to gift Nigerians with Eldorado

How?

I've heard some ex-Buharists justify their Buharism by claiming that Jonathan's incompetence made Buhari an option. But I believe its only a foolish car owner that will knowingly replace his incompetent driver with an unlicensed one who doesn't know the position of the ignition key in the vehicle.

Education is supposed to equip one with the mental capacity to discern.

Yet, our Professors, Lawyers, Doctors and Academics all failed to discern the Buhari fraud -something Nkume my illiterate village clown was able to do successfully.

Could it be that our education is truly over-rated??

I my self always wonder how come we ended up here and 2019 is around the coner and here we go again his now sugar coating him self, the moment he wins again he would forget about any other citizen apart from his clan, not even all of north benefit from him except for his clannish tribe.

Buhari is a failure

Sincerely, I cried and wailed. I told my friends what I saw in Buhari, yet they ignored me. These friends of mine are all graduates, yet, I wondered why they couldn't think right. Or, maybe I actually saw farther simply because of my course of study-- Political Science. When Buhari said he would influence OPEC, I knew he was a disaster looming. When he refused media debate I knew he had nothing to offer. When he talked about turning 1naira to 1dollar I knew he had not even the basic economic idea. When he said he would feed all the pupils, I asked, with which money? (What is even the difference between N-Power and YouWin schemes of these two administrations?). To let my opponents in the spectators' arena understand that I wasn't arguing from a tribal point of view, I begged for another Hausa man instead of Buhari, but they ignored. I told them that the South Western politicians with premordial sentiments (Tinubu to be precise) are only using their media power to repackage Buhari, a religious and tribal bigot and an illitrate, yet, they called me a liar. I became an enemy to my childhood friends that were in APC's camp. I told them that PDP is bad but APC is just an organization of aggrieved politicians they have virtually nothing to offer, but they gave me the middle finger. There was no preplanned or tailored political and economic policy (it was glaring cause all the decamped politicians were aggrieved opportunists). My mouth was left agape in shock when an educated fella said that even if Buhari had presented a NEPA bill as his certificate that he would still vote for him. If the so called sophisticated and learned people had thought this way, it means that our educational system was and is still in shambles.

The first disaster was when it took him a whole six months to appoint ministers. As a political scientist and an analyst, I knew the adverse effects of this action. The second was his draconian economic policies that left many jobless, including the SAI BABA chanters and the "great trekkers" that trekked from Lagos to Abuja, and from Borno to Abuja. In fact, now, since all my sincere wailing fell on deaf ears, what I want to say now is that, I AM IN FULL SUPPORT OF THIS BUHARI. He must rule over Nigerians again. I and my family, and those that I can convince must vote for Buhari. I can't wait to vote him in. He is the best thing that has ever happened to stubborn Nigerians. I am not being sarcastic, but I must vote for Buhari. I have seen so many ex-SAI BABA chanters apologising but I don't care. I actually never knew KARMA is faster than magic until Buhari assumed office. I LOVE YOU BUHARI, and this time I will vote for you with all my heart.

The conclusion of that post has always been my stance on highly educated citizens calling Buhari the Mesaiah, and I've always known that possessing high academic qualifications and being wise are too very very different things. Buhari is failing not really because is uneducated, but because wisdom and understanding are alien to him, just as they were alien to most of the doctors and professors that campaigned for him.

This is an overflogged issue.
In 2015,Jonathan needed to go.
Despite whatever tragedy is befalling us now,incompetence of the Jonathan type had to be rooted out.
What people that have any sense should be rooting for is that the same way Jonathan was changed is the same way Buhari should be changed come 2019.
Both men are grossly incompetent,grossly corrupt,surround themselves with heinously corrupt individuals.What makes buhari to be worse and the tragedy he has become is that he has taken bigotry, clannishness and parochialism to tragic levels.

I wonder