₦airaland Forum

Buhari’s ‘ethnocentric display’ upon public perception

By Adeshina Peter

While the controversy surrounding the leak of Ibe Kachikwu’s letter is still raging on, the Presidency is under fire again following the comments of World Bank’s president, Jim Yong Kim, in an interview where he claimed that President Muhammadu Buhari specifically asked him and his organization to focus on the North in their aid interventions.

Many have held this as further proof that President Buhari is ethnocentric and unfit to preside over a multi-ethnic country like Nigeria.

To be clear, and I have to make this clarification before I proceed, I believe we owe it to the people of North East to help them rebuild their communities and ease them back into life following the carnage they suffered under Boko Haram.

I consider strongly the fact that the context within which the president made the request to the World Bank may have been rooted in the pitiable condition of several states in the North East in areas of infrastructure, housing and basic humanitarian needs – and that is by no means wrong, or a portrayal of ethnocentrism.

These people are after all, Nigerians, and the president swore an oath to protect and care for them.

Also, the scarcity of resources compels the president, at given periods, to prioritize needs in order of urgency or other criteria he deems fit in good faith.

http://www.theguildng.com/buharis-ethnocentric-display-upon-public-perception/

Word...word! we have still have reasonable in this country.
There is hope!

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Yet someone will see jibrin aka buhari and think that he is a good leader... Impartiality will never die in this country

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