Baba Buhari's trip to America was bound to
have positive and negative effects. I think one
negative effect is that he learnt a thing or two
about the philosophy of tokenist diversity in
that country.
If you complain too loudly in America that the
picture is too white in a particular office, they
find one black or Asian or Latino employee to
mix things up a bit and keep you quiet.
Diversity accomplished.
Every time President Buhari parsimoniously
makes appointments he does not want to make
- I think the President prefers sole
administratorship - he works from the
American script of tokenist diversity and
throws in one name selected by ballot from
below the Niger - which he drowns in a sea of
upper Niger appointments.
No problem. Ko si wahala. However, a few
points must be made for the record so that it
shall not be said that those who want him to
succeed kept quiet while he was digging
needless graves for himself:
Tokenist diversity may quieten the storm in
America where President Buhari studied the
script, in Nigeria, it sets a fire and pours petrol
into it. It causes disaffection. It makes
governance difficult or impossible. It causes
endless distraction from more urgent issues.
More urgent issues like corruption - which is
what we mainly hired President Buhari to do.
Fight corruption and restore integrity to our
system: that is the primary job description we
gave you, President Buhari. Everything else is
secondary. You cannot do that if you make
every appointment from Daura.
As is, Nigeria is one of the most unfair and
most unjust countries on the face of the earth.
To fight corruption, you have to work very
hard to increase the feeling that fair and just
have begun to return to the polity. How are
you going to increase the fortunes of fair and
just in Nigeria when even your most ardent
supporters will have to assume that other
Nigerians are stupid to be able to defend,
justify or rationalize these new appointments?
Baba Buhari, ta lo gun 'yan fun yin to ni t'obe
o soro? There is a level of national consensus
and goodwill you need to fight corruption. It is
difficult enough as it is: Peace Committees,
Jonahideens, and all sorts enemies of progress
have become veritable obstacles to the anti-
corruption war. The distraction that the
enemies of the anti-corruption war are causing
is massive. And there is also those who support
anti-corruption so long as it does not touch
those they have turned into saints in APC. We
need to work on those psychologies and
convince them that anti-corruption must not
have any exception. How can we do all these
when you are making lopsided appointments -
the easiest way to "heat up the polity" in
Nigeria!
How do you create a critical mass of support
for the anti-corruption war when you always
deliberately worsen your perception problems,
arm the enemies of the anti-corruption war
with the infuriating ethnic lopsidedness of your
appointments? Baba Buhari, why is it that
every time your supporters and those of us
who are genuinely investing our souls in this
anti-corruption war want to go to town with
your efforts, you take a Kalachnikov, aim it at
your own head, and open fire?
Baba Buhari, why do you always take a petrol
shower whenever your enemies are ready with
matches?
Here is how it goes, Baba Buhari. I'm all for
merit and I dream of a Nigeria where it would
be all that matters. We shall get there and one
leader must be bold enough to set us on that
course. I think you could still be that leader
but there are foundation stones you are
ignoring.
Come with me:
I am realistic enough to understand that we
will have to take baby steps, careful steps,
towards that Nigeria of the future. That Nigeria
where quota shall be a thing of the past; where
all 36 Ministers can come from Isanlu and it
wouldn't matter, so long as they are competent
and meritorious.
But our leader must understand that the
building blocks towards that Nigeria involve a
great deal of national healing, of national trust
building, of national confidence building, of
atonement, of appeasement, of addressing
unaddressed grievances and silenced tragedies
of our past. These things need to be done
methodically and painstakingly so that
everybody will come to have a patriotic stake
in Project Nigeria.
You cannot frog march Nigeria to this
destination overnight by making all your
appointments from Daura. The enabling
psychological atmosphere of confidence in
Nigeria - built on a system which the majority
of our people see, feel, and agree is just and
fair - must be put in place first.
For now, you must do things, bearing in mind
the fact that:
We need our first eleven in appointments.
There is no ethnic nationality, no geopolitical
region without competent and meritorious first
elevens. For the sake of the anti-corruption
war and to avoid the distraction we do not
need, stop this lopsidedness in what is left of
your appointments and try to create a sense of
fairness, justice, and balance by looking at first
elevens beyond the north.
There is no conceivable excuse for the
Secretary to the Federal Government not to
have come from the South East or South-
South. Haba!
There are some things that some of us who
support you will not allow you to do to
yourself, to do to Nigeria.
Baba Buhari, not even you, have the right to
put needless and unwanted problems on the
path of the anti-corruption war that is now in
motion. Lopsided appointments can derail the
anti-corruption war faster than Jonahideens
and Peace Committees by poisoning the
national environment with perception issues.
This is about Nigeria.
I have said my own o. Ehen.
Owo mi ma re o funfun nene.
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yoruba internet trolls say that all is well, but their fathers are wailing everyday in the media. they say igbos are crying but we are actually happy for being vindicated on our long opinion of buhari as an unrepentant bigot and dictator. we dnt hv problem with him being from north, afterall we supported shagari, a true democrat. yorubas never loved buhari, Tinubu led them into alienation in GEJs administration and they desperately wanted to come back to national relevance again. if they loved buhari, they would have voted him those three times he contested and failed. Igbos supported Shagari, Obasanjo and GEJ cos they tried to understand the diversity and complexity of the country unlike the insensitive and vindictive buhari.