Bristling
with rage at the unceasing carnage and fecklessness that have bogged down the
nation since the emergence of Gen. Muhammadu Buhari as the president, Prof.
Wole Soyinka recently warned us against the fate of a people whose affairs are
presided over by a leader in a trance. But not a few of those who are befuddled
by their devotion to Buhari sniggered at Soyinka’s position as another instance
of the dramatist over-dramatising the perceived failings of his president.
But those who did not
share Soyinka’s prescience and thus did not appreciate the horrendous
developments that validated his position can no longer ignore what has happened
since that grim verdict.
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| *President Buhari |
Indeed, we have all
been confronted with subsequent stark developments that have been triggered by
the administration of Buhari which show that Soyinka’s position remains
unimpeachable.
