Mr President, Please Don’t Stop There
Was I happy when I received the news of the sacking of two ministers by my man President Buhari? I know you may be surprised that I am calling him my man. Oh boy! Did you see the blue shoes he wore to his son’s recent wedding? That is the kind of shoe you wear when you want to ‘show them’. Baba probably thought to himself, “shebi you people have been looking at me and saying that I am boring and dour. Let me show you people that papa was a rolling stone.” That was how my guy nack the blue shoes, come pose like James Brown.
Anyways, Daddy has just sacked two Ministers in Agriculture and Power for non-performance. This is nothing but just pancakes. It is but a ruse because there is no way in hell these two or the rest of them would have performed under the circumstances they have found themselves in.
Daddy had better be taking his legacy seriously because history does not do break dancing. It will tell it as it is. If Daddy likes, let him sack the whole cabinet including the First Lady and her makeup artist. If he doesn’t look very critically at himself, his position in history and the opportunity he has to reposition this country, then he is just wasting his time — a commodity he doesn’t have control over.
Lord, you should be focused on security. Simple. Nothing can be achieved again on the other side without securing peace. How can the Agricultural Minister perform when bandits are castrating farmers and throwing their testicles into the rivers that flow through their farmlands? How can the Minister of Power perform when the whole infrastructure is inefficient and corrupt? Sacking these two is shallow.
Please face your security architecture. They are the ones that should take your time and energy. Start to chiefly command well. Let’s decimate these terrorists, bandits, kidnappers, anything you want to call them.
That thing you used to say, abi na Lai Mohammed dey talk am, that terrorists have been ‘technically defeated’ is now the lie of the century.
So, my Lord of the blue shoes and the toothpick, do more. Security is your purpose now, no be Agric and power, that one na playing to the gallery. Thank you and congrats on your son’s recent wedding; it was a beautiful ceremony.