₦airaland Forum

By Gboyega Amoboye


The late Chief Obafemi Awolowo and President
Muhammadu Buhari might have lived at different
times but, like identical twins, possess many things in
common-dynamism, pragmatism, integrity, self-
discipline, vision and passion-to make Nigeria work.
The impeccable past of these tested leaders has proved
that the bane of the country’s slow development since
independence has been lack of purposeful leadership.


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Chief Awolowo


Unlike the reluctant leaders who had been imposed
on us, Awolowo and Buhari, both armed with
impeccable records of performance, the former as
Premier of the old Western Region as well as Vice
Chairman of the Federal Executive Council in the
regime of Gen. Yakubu Gowon, and the latter, as a
military Head of State, etc, adequately prepared for the
leadership of Nigeria. Three times were each
unsuccessful- Awolowo in 1959, 1979, 1983 and
President Buhari in 2003, 2007 and 20011.


Their paths might have crossed in one form or the
other, that may been the unseen hand of God in their
lives preparatory to the task ahead that :”You Obafemi
Awolowo is my Moses and you Muhammadu Buhari,
my Joshua, for the libration of your people from the
‘rats and mosquitoes’ of your country”. Or could it be
by sheer coincidence that, for the first time since
independence, both the North and the South West are
in effective political alliance? The Thomas’s may
continue to doubt.


Like the Nostradamus that he was, Awolowo, in a
paper delivered in Kano in 1970,had proposed a
seven- point agenda which he called national
objectives that should be implemented simultaneously
in all the states of the federation for the rapid and even
development of the country. He explained that the
revenue allocation formula should be based on the
implementation of the seven objectives and, by so
doing, put an end to the “endless search for the
appropriate allocation formula”. He was speaking in a
paper titled, Revenue Allocation Must be Based on Even
Progress and Needs, delivered in his capacity as the
Federal Commissioner of Finance, to the annual
conference of state commissioners of finance.

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President-elect Muhammadu Buhari reviews a
document in Abuja on April 1, 2015. Nigeria’s new
president-elect Muhammadu Buhari hailed polls that
will lead to the first democratic change of power in
Africa’s most populous nation as “historic” hours after
he secured a decisive victory. AFP PHOTO


As if confirming the link between these great national
heroes, Buhari recently implemented item seven of
the Awolowo’s seven- point objectives for national
development of 45 years ago and, by so doing, been
praised for “bailing” out states that could not pay
workers salaries. The late sage had said under this item
that it was imperative to put the federal government
in sufficient funds to enable it not only to perform its
allotted functions but also to come readily to the aid of
any state in need while arguing: “But perchance any
state falls on evil day, it would be the duty of the
federal government, acting as an accredited agent of
all the states, to come to the aid of such a needy state
without delay…Before leaving this topic , one may ask
Buhari’s critics where they were when former
President Goodluck Jonathan granted some members
of the private sector a bail out. For instance, Arik
Airline got 600m dollars, Aero -200m dollars, Air
Nigeria-225.8mdollars, Chachangi-55m dollars etc.
(AMCON) in addition to an attempt to buy aircrafts for
them but for adverse public opinion.

Rilwayne001:
God bless PMB.

SeverusSnape:
Yes, gwod vless him.

Rilwayne001:
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SeverusSnape:
[s] How can they compare Bubu to Awo?? How can you compare a literate and an illiterate How can you compare senility and brain Was it the same Awolowo that Buhari harassed? Awolowo took rodenticide, Should Buhari do the same....SMH! [/s]

SeverusSnape:
I was only imitating the illiterate Presidiot.

Rilwayne001:
God bless PMB. Bàbà ku, Bábà ku.

Rilwayne001:
And what is the meaning of 'presidiot'??

Rilwayne001:
Who do we compare him to? With the coward that led your forefathers to war only to abandon them for ivory coast?

SeverusSnape:
You know what I mean. Stop pretending my boy...

I don't know what you mean my house-boy. You should come out clean and stop using words that are not in dictionary. what is the meaning of presidiot

jcross19:
now the die hard is comparing him with ever live legend to someone who just spent only two months in office. What about if he spends 1year in office with all these propaganda in everywhere and ambiguous promise without anyone been fulfilled, then you will compare him with God. Die hard apc fans , there is no difference between apc touts and arsenal fans.

Rilwayne001:
I don't know what you mean my house-boy. You should come out clean and stop using words that are not in dictionary. what is the meaning of presidiot

SeverusSnape:
A "Presidiot" means an idiotic president.

Rilwayne001:
And whats is your citation for the above?

SeverusSnape:
Baba Buhari.

Illiterate, do you even knoe the meaning of citation Okay, where did PMB made use of the word 'presidiot'?

Rilwayne001:
Bla bla bla....

Rilwayne001:
Illiterate, do you even knoe the meaning of citation Okay, where did PMB made use of the word 'presidiot'?

jcross19:
yes to the blocked head.

SeverusSnape:
Illiterate, It's "know" not knoe. PMB doesn't need to make use of the word before I use it. Look here boy, I've forwarded that word to lexicographers at Oxford. Just watch out for the next edition of Oxford dictionary.

Rilwayne001:
K

Rilwayne001:
I don't know who mumu pass between you and agbàrí ojúkwiu.

Rilwayne001:
Who do we compare him to? With the coward that led your forefathers to war only to abandon them for ivory coast?

jcross19:
compare him with gadafi, suddam hussen or idi amin. Okay ordinary waec , our amiable president could not provide it.

Rilwayne001:
I don't know what you mean my house-boy. You should come out clean and stop using words that are not in dictionary. what is the meaning of presidiot