Buhari Deserves no Credit for Osinbajo’s Swift Action
By Farooq Kperogi

Anyone who gives credit to Buhari for the firing of Lawal Daura is being disingenuous. This is entirely Osinbajo’s initiative, which may (or may not) put him at odds with Buhari. Buhari is an absent president—in both symbolic and physical terms. That’s a nice way to say he is a lazy, incompetent, detached president who watches blithely as everything around him crumbles, as the nation groans and burns under the weight of his unprecedented ineptitude. And that's why it takes his physical absence for the country to have a chance to see a semblance of the presence of leadership.

When the IGP openly disobeyed Buhari's instruction to relocate to Benue to contain the heartrending bloodletting in the state, nothing happened to the IGP. Kemi Adeosun forged an NYSC certificate and outraged the moral sensibility of the nation. Not a word has been heard from the presidency up to now. Obono-Obla, one of Buhari’s points men in the “war against corruption,” has been conclusively shown to have forged his school certificate. Nothing has been heard from Buhari.

Former SGF Babachir David Lawal fleeced internally displaced people in the northeast of millions of naira. Buhari actually wrote in his personal capacity to defend him! It took the same Osinbajo who fired Daura today to recommend Lawal’s firing. Yet Lawal is still a denizen of the presidential villa, hasn't been prosecuted, and is, in fact, Buhari’s campaign coordinator in Adamawa State as I write this. The examples are almost limitless. Even APC chairman Oshiomhole was compelled to admit recently that Buhari condones “disrespect” to his office, which was a pleasant way to say that the president is an incompetent, aloof “leader.”

Had Buhari been in the country during this primitive, ironclad strangulation of the legislature by forces of the DSS, we wouldn’t have heard anything from the presidency much less seen a swift action. At best, we might have gotten one of those dishonest, mealy-mouthed prevarications called presidential press releases. What we are seeing now is a consequence of what I have referred to as Osinbajo’s “symbolic presence” in previous columns, a quality Buhari sorely lacks. Buhari is a blight on Nigeria and may be the death of the country. Nigeria has never had a more clueless president than Buhari.

No matter how anyone tries to twist this. Osinbajo has no say in this government. He only does or says what he's told. The man is just a dummy.

izombie:
No matter how anyone tries to twist this. Osinbajo has no say in this government. He only does or says what he's told. The man is just a dummy.

who is this pls?...

izombie:
No matter how anyone tries to twist this. Osinbajo has no say in this government. He only does or says what he's told. The man is just a dummy.

Like your name implies: Zombie!

Exactly my stand and that is not because I support osibanjo or the propaganda government which he belong to.

The tyranny meted out to the senate yesterday has the approval of buhari,a nonchalant dullard and unrepentant destroyer of democracy .

Osibanjo a man who have seen that by the time APC will be sent packing next year the dent on his career and family name will be irreparable knowing fully well that buhari handed power to him and will be held accountable after threats that the perpetrators of the civilian coup will have their visas revoked by the UK ,USA and relevant nations he had to do the needful.

Without mincing words i actually do commend osibanjo for the courage he took by sacking daura even though it came a bit late when the world had already beamed their search lights on the happenings.

Ever8054:
who is this pls?...

i am the speaker of the truth. Just as daura acted on orders from buhari so did osinbajo the sell-out act on orders from buhari.

bluecircle470:


Like your name implies: Zombie!

zombies don't think straight but i do. You are the zombie if you believe that osinbajo acted without orders.

izombie:
you calling me a lunatic because i spoke the truth. What is surprising is that you guys believe that osinbajo who has never spoken out against the killings by fulani herdsmen so as not to provoke his master buhari is the person you think had the cajones to sack someone like daura without buhari's approval. You must be delusional. Both buhari and osinbajo are the lunatics. Including you.

He didn't speak against the herdsmen killings or stop them because he wasn't the acting president.

Don't be a dullard!

ModsareChevres:


He didn't speak against the herdsmen killings or stop them because he wasn't the acting president.

Don't be a dullard!

were all those that spoke out against the herdsmen killings acting president? Osinbajo has acted as the president many times during this regime, why didn't he stop them? Osinbajo is a coward period.