The last few days have seen a hypocritical mass awakening to the dire existential torments the people of Nigeria’s northwest face and a dramatic diminution of Buhari’s unearned goodwill in the region. People who had constructed Buhari as an unerring, irreproachable demigod who is worthy only of worship and unquestioned admiration have started to call him insensitive and clueless.

It took the unceasing escalation of kidnappings and the deepening and widening of the oceans of blood in the northwest for Buhari’s erstwhile unthinking worshipers to come to terms with what some of us have known and said since late 2015: that Buhari is an unfeeling wretch who is also irremediably incompetent.

For the first time since Buhari happened on the Nigerian political scene, Imams are now openly preaching against him. Northwestern Nigerian social media, which had functioned as the uncritical fortress for Buhari, is now suddenly viciously censorious of him. Even Daily Trust that plays the role of Buhari’s comforter and afflicter of critics of his ineptitude is allowing critical articles to be published about Buhari on its pages.


Public protesters against government, who are a rare species in the northwest, are sprouting and giving vent to muffled, reluctant, tentative but nonetheless significant anger against Buhari.
There suddenly seems to be an epiphany in the region that Buhari is an inept, uncaring fraud who scammed the people into attributing to him qualities he never possessed— and would never possess in a million lifetimes. Nevertheless, this epiphany is hypocritical and self-centered. Evidence of Buhari’s inattentiveness to and blithe unconcern with the suffering of everyday people has always been there, and some of us have called attention to it countless times.

For instance, amid the tear-jerking humanitarian disasters that the Boko Haram insurgency has inflicted on Nigeria’s northeast, Buhari never commiserated with, let alone visited, the area until he was practically blackmailed into doing so in late 2017. Even so, he only visited soldiers stationed in Maiduguri. When the Nigerian air force bombed scores of internally displaced Boko Haram victims in the northeast in error, Buhari didn’t issue a statement to condole with the people. Nor did he visit them.

In the aftermath of unprecedented bloodletting in Taraba, Benue and other parts of central Nigeria, Buhari was insouciant. It took massive media and social media pressures to get him to visit these states. And when he did visit the places, he exacerbated rather than lessened the crises there by his incendiary, unpresidential utterances. He even chafed at being expected to condole with victims of episodic communal deaths, and used the opportunity of these visits to tout his “achievements in security.” I once called that an example of presidential dissociation from reality.

As recently as during the last presidential campaigns, when Buhari visited Zamfara, he didn’t say a word about the intensification of death and violence in the state. Instead, he incited the people to more violence. “Let us pray for rainfall so can we grow food, eat, and then cause trouble,” he told the people of Zamfara in Hausa in February 2019. None of the newfound critics of Buhari’s callousness saw anything wrong in that at the time.

It took the concatenation of widespread kidnapping in all parts of the northwest and the unremitting intensification of bloodletting in Zamfara for erstwhile worshipers of Buhari to admit that he is a crass, cold, heartless prig. This hypocritical moral imagination is similar to the selective outrage some people in Kano expressed when Abdullahi Ganduje rigged himself back to power while being quiet about, even complicit in, Buhari’s own daylight electoral robbery in the same Kano.

To express outrage only when we are personally affected by injustice bespeaks a defective moral conscience. When other parts of the nation were drowning in rivers of blood and Buhari, as is his wont, turned the other way, many of the people who are excoriating him for his cold detachment from the insecurity in the northwest were his fiercest defenders against critics.

That is why some people can’t help but exult in perverse satisfaction that the enablers and defenders of Buhari’s incompetence and heartlessness are today the victims of the presidential vices they defended, excused, and justified. But to gloat over the misfortunes of the people who defended Buhari when he ignored other parts of the country when they writhed in bloodstained agony is to be indistinguishable from and morally equivalent to them.

For one, there are victims of the bloodbath in Zamfara and other parts of the northwest who detest and didn’t vote for Buhari. Even those who voted for him don’t deserve the unspeakable cruelty that is their lot today. I admit, though, that it’s hard not to see karmic comeuppance in the kidnap of a prominent fanatical Islamic “prayer warrior” of Buhari’s second term by the name of Ahmad Sulaiman who secured his freedom after nearly two weeks of captivity and hundreds of millions of naira in ransom payment.

Nevertheless, in spite of the heightened, unexampled outrage in Buhari’s natal region over his trademark insensitivity to the total collapse of security there, he won’t do anything substantive to attenuate the horrors that threaten the very life of the people there. There are at least two reasons for this.

One, Buhari is an inherently solipsistic narcissist. In other words, he is fundamentally and unalterably self-centered. The only person Buhari cares about is Buhari. That is why he spends billions of naira of the nation’s resources to treat even his littlest ailments in London while hospitals are denuded of basic medicines and ordinary people die of easily treatable illnesses. It is the same solipsistic narcissism that explains why he has not built a single hospital even in Abuja in the last four years he has been president.

When his son had an accident with a multimillionaire-naira motorbike, he flew him to Germany. Yet, although neither he nor his family members use the clinic at the Presidential Villa, he recently said that henceforth no one outside the immediate families of the president and the vice president should use the clinic. It speaks to the depth of his egocentricity and perverse self-love that he would deny workers of the presidential villa use of a clinic that neither he nor his family members use.

The second reason Buhari won’t do anything about the growing insecurity in the northwest is that the perpetrators of the crimes that have held the region hostage have been identified as Fulani. Buhari, as I have pointed out in several previous columns, is a knee-jerk ethnic jingoist. He has a twisted idea of ethnic solidarity that embarrasses even many educated Fulani people.

For instance, the only time he ever visited Zamfara to intervene in the security situation there was to protect what he perceives to be the interests of Fulani herders whose cattle were reportedly being stolen by bandits. He even donned military fatigues for this expedition. Now, he really doesn’t care because the victims aren’t people he self-identifies with.

The president’s puppeteers have caused him to express faux, impotent outrage to mollify the people of the northwest, but the truth is that he doesn’t care. That’s why his administration’s response has been discordant at best. It said the killings in Zamfara are caused by illegal gold miners in the same breath it said they’re caused by traditional rulers. The absurdity of these claims are the biggest proof that the government Buhari leads can’t and doesn’t want to stem the rising tide of insecurity in the northwest—or anywhere else in Nigeria.
https://www.farooqkperogi.com/2019/04/why-buhari-cant-and-wont-solve-norths.html?m=1#.XLFYo8SHLsg

“The second reason Buhari won’t do anything about the growing insecurity in the northwest is that the perpetrators of the crimes that have held the region hostage have been identified as Fulani....”

Nuff said. The modus operandi of this junta is easy to stùdy even for îdiots (apart from brainless zombies). Whenever a killing has gone on for too long without intervention, just know Buhari’s Fulani herdsmen terrorists are responsible.

I do not believe in all these talks or write-ups about Buhari not being supported and losing his cult like following in the far North.
Just before the 2019 elections,it was obvious that Buhari,aside being opposite of the man of integrity and all the nice attributes the propaganda and lies tried to make of him,was also grossly incompetent,even in the greatest challenge the North,had over over the previous 6years,insecurity.
But come the elections what happened? They majorly voted for him and where he was losing,the elites and power brokers rigged votes for him,while the other Northerners looked on,sometimes in tacit support.
The issue has to do with the fundamentalism of the kind of Islam he practices and propagates:many Northerners see him as the one true believer,amongts other Northern leaders,of their Islamic faith,in words and deed,so are ready to overlook his incompetence,his failings in virtually all other areas of leadership,and the threat those failings and incompetence pose to not just the region,but to the lives of the inhabitants there.
The only thing that can bring them to their senses,is not all these sanctimonious write-ups trying to present an imaginary Northern falling out with him,but when the tragedy of their situation so much overwhelms them that they wake up from the trance and religion induced aura they have of him and realise his continued rule pose a threat not even to the Nigerian nation as a whole,but to their zone in particular.
They had better come to that realisation in time because even the Islamic faith so much practiced in the North may even come under threat from some practitioners over there when they begin to question if they are actually supporting the right cause and person when that person is the one even putting their corporate existence and lives at great peril,unlike previous leaders before him.
Until I see Northern elites,middle class and majority commoners parading the streets of the North calling for Buhari's resignation or opposing his taking the oath of the office for a second time,every other thing is just empty talk,conjectures and a lot of hot, meaningless air!

Unfortunately, the real victims are only just 'a little pissed' at the messy situation. The governors of states like Katsina and Zamfara only bleat plaintively but never call out the failure responsible for the insecurity whom they all vigorously supported during the just concluded elections.

They really aren't that concerned and have continually cashed out on with from the North East Development Commission recently established to the 10billion Naira approved for Zamfara by the Senate...

My major concern is that the impact of displacements caused by the sustained violence may be borne by the Southern states and that portends yet another disaster waiting to happen. I hope relevant stakeholders are awake and alert.

I don't give a fucķ about zombies. shey they voted for him.

keankwansiya wants to go to court. god punish them




they should all continue being a little pissed

southerners will suffer economic hardships
northerners insecurity fall on una.

mushystuff:
Unfortunately, the real victims are only just 'a little pissed' at the messy situation. The governors of states like Katsina and Zamfara only bleat plaintively but never call out the failure responsible for the insecurity whom they all vigorously supported during the just concluded elections.

They really aren't that concerned and have continually cashed out on with from the North East Development Commission recently established to the 10billion Naira approved for Zamfara by the Senate...

My major concern is that the impact of displacements caused by the sustained violence may be borne by the Southern states and that portends yet another disaster waiting to happen. I hope relevant stakeholders are awake and alert.

the impact may or is already being borne by Southern states, haven’t you noticed a sharp unexplainable increase in northerners around your neighborhood ? Ask yourself why the govt stops communities from defending themselves, even arresting and killing vigilantes yet these armed terrorists move in large convoys even during curfews razing community after community, killing innocent people without any resistance from the army. We go soon dey alright

The entire South is in a condition akin to colonization by the north. The earlier we realize this the better. The condition will not change through the constitutional democracy we practice today. The north have the population and also have a strategy to keep their voting population perpetually more in number than that of the south. They monitor and control the demographic proportions and will never let it tilt against the north. The only way forward is to unite and agitate for freedom just the way it was done against colonial rule of the British. As pointed out above northern elites are taking over Nigeria space. I recently spent some days in Ibom Resort/hotels in Akwa Ibom. I observed huge presence of northerners in the hotel under the auspices of government. I observed groups of them come and go and wondered if they are the only ones employed by the government these days.

What the zombies,Yoruba Muslims, online almajiris, and the sophisticated illiterates come here and tag the op ipob.
I curse all of you who brought this man back.

doctokwus:
I do not believe in all these talks or write-ups about Buhari not being supported and losing his cult like following in the far North.
Just before the 2019 elections,it was obvious that Buhari,aside being opposite of the man of integrity and all the nice attributes the propaganda and lies tried to make of him,was also grossly incompetent,even in the greatest challenge the North,had over over the previous 6years,insecurity.
But come the elections what happened? They majorly voted for him and where he was losing,the elites and power brokers rigged votes for him,while the other Northerners looked on,sometimes in tacit support.
The issue has to do with the fundamentalism of the kind of Islam he practices and propagates:many Northerners see him as the one true believer,amongts other Northern leaders,of their Islamic faith,in words and deed,so are ready to overlook his incompetence,his failings in virtually all other areas of leadership,and the threat those failings and incompetence pose to not just the region,but to the lives of the inhabitants there.
The only thing that can bring them to their senses,is not all these sanctimonious write-ups trying to present an imaginary Northern falling out with him,but when the tragedy of their situation so much overwhelms them that they wake up from the trance and religion induced aura they have of him and realise his continued rule pose a threat not even to the Nigerian nation as a whole,but to their zone in particular.
They had better come to that realisation in time because even the Islamic faith so much practiced in the North may even come under threat from some practitioners over there when they begin to question if they are actually supporting the right cause and person when that person is the one even putting their corporate existence and lives at great peril,unlike previous leaders before him.
Until I see Northern elites,middle class and majority commoners parading the streets of the North calling for Buhari's resignation or opposing his taking the oath of the office for a second time,every other thing is just empty talk,conjectures and a lot of hot, meaningless air!

Hmmm

nagastat:


Hmmm

the truth is bitter

God help us

ejibaba:
God help us

faith without works is useless

.......

BuhariAdvocate:
.......

not easy defending bloody incompetence is it ?

doctokwus:
I do not believe in all these talks or write-ups about Buhari not being supported and losing his cult like following in the far North.
Just before the 2019 elections,it was obvious that Buhari,aside being opposite of the man of integrity and all the nice attributes the propaganda and lies tried to make of him,was also grossly incompetent,even in the greatest challenge the North,had over over the previous 6years,insecurity.
But come the elections what happened? They majorly voted for him and where he was losing,the elites and power brokers rigged votes for him,while the other Northerners looked on,sometimes in tacit support.
The issue has to do with the fundamentalism of the kind of Islam he practices and propagates:many Northerners see him as the one true believer,amongts other Northern leaders,of their Islamic faith,in words and deed,so are ready to overlook his incompetence,his failings in virtually all other areas of leadership,and the threat those failings and incompetence pose to not just the region,but to the lives of the inhabitants there.
The only thing that can bring them to their senses,is not all these sanctimonious write-ups trying to present an imaginary Northern falling out with him,but when the tragedy of their situation so much overwhelms them that they wake up from the trance and religion induced aura they have of him and realise his continued rule pose a threat not even to the Nigerian nation as a whole,but to their zone in particular.
They had better come to that realisation in time because even the Islamic faith so much practiced in the North may even come under threat from some practitioners over there when they begin to question if they are actually supporting the right cause and person when that person is the one even putting their corporate existence and lives at great peril,unlike previous leaders before him.
Until I see Northern elites,middle class and majority commoners parading the streets of the North calling for Buhari's resignation or opposing his taking the oath of the office for a second time,every other thing is just empty talk,conjectures and a lot of hot, meaningless air!

Absolutely!

The crisis must reach a point where it engulf their existence and then begin to ask questions. The uprising must start from the north and not south or else they will it as declaration of war on the north.

I have never seen this level of leadership incompetence and nonchalant attitude.

RZArecta2:
the truth is bitter

Blind hate and vile sentiments are even more bitter!

Lies begets bile.

Bile makes one bitter.

Help yourself.

What do you mean by incompetence? The statement
Made by late N.S.A to Jonathan General Azazi still
Fresh in our mind But what later happened
To the man he was brutally killed by pdp agent Because the man exposed the atrocities of pdp then.There's no rational explanation in what you guys accuse the president. Some years back before the formation of APC many people in ruling party then accused him of sponsored boko haram,Without any evidence to justify their claim against the innocent man. Aftermath of formation of Apc Buhari emerged as a presidential candidate.The story changed for ruling party they applied everything to discredit this man but they failed woefully.
However after the inauguration of Buhari administration Nigeria experience peace even boko haram stopped operating Because of the fear of Buhari. Before Buhari took over the government boko haram control 3 states among them Adamawa,Bornu,yobe and part of bauchi state.buhari recovered these states from them and freed those in captivity of boko haram. Buhari Administration introduced rehabilitation and consolidation in the area where boko haram was devastated,those who are in the camps returned home. Despite this landslide achievement.,press and opposition party continue to sabotage the effort of Buhari government. Forget that Buhari is a president he can't eradicate the boko haram menace alone.did you ask yourself why Obasanjo, gowon, IBB,Danjumon and Abdusalam Including the saad Abubakar kept mute about these groups? Same Buhari you called incompetence conquered Maitatsine in 1983.

RZArecta2:
not easy defending bloody incompetence is it ?

lordkush:
I don't give a fucķ about zombies. shey they voted for him.

keankwansiya wants to go to court. god punish them




they should all continue being a little pissed

southerners will suffer economic hardships
northerners insecurity fall on una.

Exactly my thoughts. Everyone should face their music. Nothing concern me.

jomonic:
The entire South is in a condition akin to colonization by the north. The earlier we realize this the better. The condition will not change through the constitutional democracy we practice today. The north have the population and also have a strategy to keep their voting population perpetually more in number than that of the south. They monitor and control the demographic proportions and will never let it tilt against the north. The only way forward is to unite and agitate for freedom just the way it was done against colonial rule of the British. As pointed out above northern elites are taking over Nigeria space. I recently spent some days in Ibom Resort/hotels in Akwa Ibom. I observed huge presence of northerners in the hotel under the auspices of government. I observed groups of them come and go and wondered if they are the only ones employed by the government these days.

Hehehehe

jomonic:
The entire South is in a condition akin to colonization by the north. The earlier we realize this the better. The condition will not change through the constitutional democracy we practice today. The north have the population and also have a strategy to keep their voting population perpetually more in number than that of the south. They monitor and control the demographic proportions and will never let it tilt against the north. The only way forward is to unite and agitate for freedom just the way it was done against colonial rule of the British. As pointed out above northern elites are taking over Nigeria space. I recently spent some days in Ibom Resort/hotels in Akwa Ibom. I observed huge presence of northerners in the hotel under the auspices of government. I observed groups of them come and go and wondered if they are the only ones employed by the government these days.

Very true bro. A first time visitor to Nigeria's capital will believe Nigeria is an Hausa nation. For every non Hausa person in government office u will see 12-15 Hausas. They just keep appointing their kins like their president is doing. I mean every parastatal ,agency and ministry

RZArecta2:
“The second reason Buhari won’t do anything about the growing insecurity in the northwest is that the perpetrators of the crimes that have held the region hostage have been identified as Fulani....”

Nuff said. The modus operandi of this junta is easy to stùdy even for îdiots (apart from brainless zombies). Whenever a killing has gone on for too long without intervention, just know Buhari’s Fulani herdsmen terrorists are responsible.

Bandiths = Fulani herdsmen

saaron:
Bandiths = Fulani herdsmen

gbam

BuhariAdvocate:
What do you mean by incompetence? The statement
Made by late N.S.A to Jonathan General Azazi still
Fresh in our mind But what later happened
To the man he was brutally killed by pdp agent Because the man exposed the atrocities of pdp then.There's no rational explanation in what you guys accuse the president. Some years back before the formation of APC many people in ruling party then accused him of sponsored boko haram,Without any evidence to justify their claim against the innocent man. Aftermath of formation of Apc Buhari emerged as a presidential candidate.The story changed for ruling party they applied everything to discredit this man but they failed woefully.
However after the inauguration of Buhari administration Nigeria experience peace even boko haram stopped operating Because of the fear of Buhari. Before Buhari took over the government boko haram control 3 states among them Adamawa,Bornu,yobe and part of bauchi state.buhari recovered these states from them and freed those in captivity of boko haram. Buhari Administration introduced rehabilitation and consolidation in the area where boko haram was devastated,those who are in the camps returned home. Despite this landslide achievement.,press and opposition party continue to sabotage the effort of Buhari government. Forget that Buhari is a president he can't eradicate the boko haram menace alone.did you ask yourself why Obasanjo, gowon, IBB,Danjumon and Abdusalam Including the saad Abubakar kept mute about these groups? Same Buhari you called incompetence conquered Maitatsine in 1983.

dig your head deeper in sand and bury it properly, wetin concern me ? That article was written by a northerner and not me an ordinary Ijaw guy, na dem wear shoe, na dem know where the shoe dey pain dem. You, you’re an ordinary BMC guy

With all the insecurity that underlined his first term, the very very stupid old fool called Buhari didn't even deem it fit to replace ANY of his service chiefs and security heads.

Even the disgusting former IGP, Idris, who is the worst IGP in Nigeria's history in spite of everything, Buhari didn't remove him until he retired
What manner of bastard is this in charge of Nigeria? And everybody is keeping quiet?

Hedonini:
With all the insecurity that underlined his first term, the very very stupid old fool called Buhari didn't even deem it fit to replace ANY of his service chiefs and security heads.

Even the disgusting former IGP, Idris, who is the worst IGP in Nigeria's history in spite of everything, Buhari didn't remove him until he retired
What manner of bastard is this in charge of Nigeria? And everybody is keeping quiet?

you're talking as if Buhari is a normal human being with empathy