Re: The hopes I had in Buhari’s government

Ihave been following your write ups for quite some time now. I even had to devote some of my precious time in responding to some areas I thought you were genuinely in conflict with some policies of PMB’s govt. However, I’ve come to realize that the whole gamut of your disposition does not support that belief. It does appear that your previous support for the emergence of Buhari as the President nor your present past time of lashing his every step he takes since becoming the President has any altruistic underlining. I’m sure though, that my thoughts will be dismissed as coming from one of those hailing hailers of President Buhari. Does it really matter in this critical time? No, I must say. What informed my opinion, you may ask?

First and foremost, I regard your reproduction of that previous piece on President Buhari and the intended effect, at this material time as an affront on the sensibilities of most Nigerians in the midst of controversies surrounding the health of their President and a complete lack of sympathy for the man.

Indeed I’m quite at a loss, as to why, for someone, who at any opportune time would want to trace his genealogy to Batonu, Kanuri and Fulani, and claim to be a Muslim, would lack that simple etiquette to observe some modicum of respect to an ailing elderly man. I could recall, though, that you dedicated two weeks of touching tribute to your some time ago. I believe this should be the guiding principle for all.

Secondly, I’ve observed overtime that you have turned your column into an opposition platform. Your lenses, as is wont of crude opposition have continuously failed to recognize any iota of achievement by this govt. This to a very large extent has made your column highly predictable. A good columnist must be able to balance his thoughts.

My third observation is that you seem to derive the pleasure in writing to gallery, all the time. Writing for the pleasure of the opposition seems to be your past time, as you most often than not, regale in recollecting all your stinking write ups on the sitting governments. Some guts, isn’t it?

For God’s sake, nobody is saying PMB is infallible & must not be criticized. There are indeed several high points of commendable note of President Buhari’s government, as there are those sore points the wailing wailers are never, ever, ready to key into. The difference between a sound social critic and an opposition writer is the ability & capacity of the former to recognize both indices, while the latter gets himself imprisoned by his warped perspectives.

I wish to humbly admonish you to henceforth strive and aspire to belong to the former, for the good of the country.

Muhammad bin Umar, Abuja