Friday, 12 January 2018

JONATHAN VS BUHARI – THE GAME OF COMPARISON


Many Nigerians have been in tears since the beginning of this year. Many Nigerian families are in mourning, and mass burials are ongoing. On the other hand, The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina is busy digging deep to defend the president’s inability to live up to his responsibility.

In a video he posted on his Facebook page, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina insisted that the recent spate of killings by herdsmen in parts of the country had nothing to do with Buhari being Fulani, saying that over 756 people were killed by herdsmen in two years under former President Goodluck Jonathan, therefore, the killing didn’t start under Buhari.

Making statistical comparisons of people killed between Jonathan’s administration and that of Buhari shows that Aso Rock is indeed filled up with bunch of illiterates. How can he even make such comparisons at this time?

President Buhari is not a child and before he came back into power he already knows the height of insecurity in the country. He has been in power before; that means he has got enough experience that should teach him to be proactive. He came back to power with promises that he will stop the killings. As an experienced politician and an elderly Nigerian, his promises only conveyed the message that he has already pre-planned and mapped out strategies on how to protect Nigerians before contesting for presidency. That is what Nigerians expect. They expected him to take over power again adopting proactive measures and not the other way round. Nigerians don’t expect the flimsy reasons coming from the presidency. They are rather disappointed because President Buhari has failed to perform all the magic he promised to perform, which he accused Jonathan countless times of not performing. He should know better; he ought to have come back to power with solutions and not flimsy reasons. Is he no longer the strong man he claimed to be that Jonathan is not?

He should act like the president and give workable commands that will stop the killings of Nigerians, even if it is just to reduce it to the barest minimum. We will not all die before he comes up with a solution that he ought to have entered Aso Rock with in the first place. His Special Adviser on Media and Publicity should stop digging for facts to defend the president’s irresponsibility because it makes him look more stupid than Nigerians think of him.

Written by Olive Chinyere Amajuoyi
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