The Moronic Result Of Perpetual Enslavement Of Many By An Illiterate According To The Editorials Of Nigerian Newspapers

NATIONAL NEWSPAPER EDITORIALS (1)
However, the president probably thinks that a good record in the economy might be enough to ensure his party’s survival. He is, for instance, building the railways. But Dr Jonathan also built railways, obviously with less cost to the economy as a whole. Yes, the former president took external loans; but President Buhari has taken much more, and has in fact become obsessed with loans as the only way of rebuilding infrastructure. His stock response to critics is that had thieves not taken the country’s money, there would be no need for a recourse to loan. So, having grown the debt portfolio by more than $10bn dollars in his first term, he is now set to take another $30bn, bringing the total external debt stock to some $57bn. It is unprecedented, but the president is unruffled, having been bitten by the demoniac bug of rebuilding infrastructure over a few dizzying years, regardless of the punishment it inflicts on future generations.

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(2) President Buhari may be in politics, but he is not a politician. He can’t seem to understand how integral the constitution and the rule of law are to politics. Now that Nigerians know that the APC is indistinguishable from the PDP, and having apparently held the party together by virtually the force of arms, it is strange that the president expects the APC to flourish after his exit. Chief Obasanjo, despite running the country far better than he did, and even ran a somewhat inclusive politics, could not guarantee the survival of the PDP beyond a few years, how does President Buhari hope to guarantee his party’s future, despite running a government and party of exclusion?

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(3) So the country must confront what is obviously a looming disaster with patience and commonsense, and try to navigate around the Buhari presidency’s deliberate actions against peace and unity. They must recognise the dangerous precedents he is setting by his mistreatment of the constitution, by his appointments, and by his impossible temperament. They must know he is sowing dangerous seeds for future conflicts, turning the people against themselves, prejudicing one ethnic group against another, supplanting the rule of law with the rule of man, and virtually erasing the last vestiges of democracy. It is not in such illiberal environments that politics can prosper and elections can be well managed.

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(4) The incontestable fact is that Nigerians elected a man who was not convinced about democracy, regards the constitution as a Morse code, and displayed perfect contempt for the rule of law. Only last week, at a function in Abuja, the president once again sneered at the demands of the rule of law, indicating how he felt constrained and incommoded by its slow pace. If after getting a second term he still has not found the discipline and exposure to appreciate and be persuaded about the beauty of democracy and the ennobling services provided by the rule of law as a societal fulcrum to balance governmental power and people’s rights, then the country’s case is next to hopeless.

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(5) The politics and elections superintended by the two past presidents achieved little success, but a liberal atmosphere still pervaded the country, and politicians and their supporters revelled in the limited glory accorded by the constitution. But since the Buhari ascendancy, that liberal atmosphere has vanished; and though he has done precious little to endear himself to the country, he insists on not being criticised and abhors being despised.

Excerpt from The Nation Newspaper Editorials

(6) Nigeria has two living Fourth Republic presidents pining away in regret over how they managed the country. They did not of course demonstrate the extreme parochialism that has taken root today, and they did their best to act like they understood the complexities of governing a country of about 200 million people and about 250 ethnic groups. In appointments, they also bent over backwards to engage people they were not familiar with, whether for cabinet positions or electoral commission management duties. In fact, believing that optics were even more crucial than verbal declarations, they took care to appoint people of other ethnic groups to manage elections and found officers of diverse backgrounds spread across the entire country to secure the polity. Despite their best intentions, however, they probably still regret that democracy and the rule of law, not to say governance principles, were not deeply and irreversibly entrenched. They have thus have to battle their successors’ revisionism.

The Nation Newspaper Editorials

(7) The first part of this piece was an exposition of how, by their performance, the president and his party have engendered the fear of party implosion after President Buhari’s second term, especially seeing how his first term virtually crippled democracy, mindlessly exploited the people’s feelings, and left the country destitute of lasting social, political and economic structures

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( Indeed, in just one term, President Buhari upturned a feeble system that at least manageably welded the country together and replaced it with something worse. Almost as soon as he assumed office, he jettisoned the idea of appointing election managers from ethnic groups different from the president’s, coalesced the security agencies around his section of the country, frowned at debates and those who might dare to question his bona fides, rode roughshod over rights constitutionally vouchsafed the people, and appeared bemused by critics who accuse him of being sectional and nepotistic. He has since remained largely indifferent to the groaning of his countrymen.

The Nation Newspaper Editorials

So what is wrong with Nigerians?

They have short term memories and are unable to follow through their decisions and any fool like Tinubu could make nonsense of collective decisions of the people by bribing their conscience.

The people for over two decades refused to elect president BUHARI because as a military leader, he was evil and treated Nigerians, as senseless cattles that could be led to their death without resisting! He was tribalistic and had no economic sense to led the country and was booted out of government because he was never elected but came to power through military coup de’tat! He was guided and advised by Idiagbon, another soulless bow deceased soldier! They both had no vision and made mistakes which we are still paying for.

Then came another slowpoke and rogue TINUBU who for the sake of looting Nigeria dragged president BUHARI out of the dust of hell to come and govern again because he thought president BUHARI could be used to loot the treasury by his TINUBU tax...

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