General election in Nigeria is
fast approaching and many politicians are warming up to take their stand; to be
voted for, to vote, to rig the election or to engage in one form of diabolic
activity or the other, etc., in order to win election, or make sure their person
wins. President Muhammadu Buhari has declared his intention to run again come
2019 and no law can stop him. We can only criticize his move to contest but
cannot stop him.
Ideal Olive gathered that President
Buhari declared his intention to seek re-election at the closed-door meeting of
the National Executive Council, NEC, meeting at the national Secretariat of the
APC in Abuja. According to him, he was responding to the clamor by Nigerians to
re-contest in 2019. He can as well ignore the clamor if he so wishes, but he chose
to succumb; he was not forced.
We admit that President Buhari’s
administration achieved much in the area of fight against corruption but we
cannot fail to say that that fight was greatly marred by hate, tribalism and
sectionalism among others. In addition to that, a lot of discrepancies surround
his administration that many Nigerians have been in doubt about his intentions; the mystery behind
the adoption of Chibok and Dapchi school girls. Why was it easy for the
President to recover the Dapchi girls, though one is still in the
captive of the so called boko haram, but not the case for Chibok girls? If the
confession of Mama Boko Haram is true as it seemed, then the release of the
Dapchi girls is not to be credited to Buhari’s administration. Recall that
ideal olive earlier reported about an interview involving Mama Boko Haram, as
regards the activities of Boko Haram and the release of Dapchi school girls. What about the herdsmen killings which intensified in Buhari's administration, and which the federal government or the presidency has been handling lackadaisically and nonchalantly? President
Buhari’s administration indeed has a lot of question mark, but then, this does
not alter the fact that he is coming for a second term.
The heat of the President’s
declaration has generated a lot of controversy; people have been thinking of
what Nigeria will be like in another four years of Buhari’s administration,
when the country is yet to come of the nightmares of mass killings and burials,
abject poverty and hunger in the name of recession, etc. that his present
administration has thrown Nigeria into. The past leaders on the other hand have
been in the business of criticism; either constructive or destructive, to make
sure his second term agenda is ruined.
The
problem at hand is not the president’s declaration to run in 2019 for a second
term neither is it whether he will be voted for or not but who is fit to
compete with him. Who is better than Buhari among other past leaders that are
also popping out their ugly heads to rule Nigeria come 2019? Are they not all
the same? We admit that Buhari is not fit to rule Nigeria for another four
years from 2019 but who can take the mantle from him?
Among
Nigeria’s numerous problems which are insecurity, corruption, unemployment,
poor infrastructures, incessant power failures, mismanagement of public funds,
etc., who is fit to solve at least half? It is not about wanting to answer
president, it is about service and who is ready to render this service? If such
a person did not emerge to be voted for or emerge and win the election, then voting
President Buhari out is not an achievement. Until we find such a person of
integrity as a nation and encourage him, we are still where we are. Meanwhile,
as Nigerians, we have the power to fish out and support such leaders among us;
that is, if we can deal with I, and focus on WE.
Written by Olive
Chinyere Amajuoyi
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