There
is no better warning about the growing confusion that seems to be gradually
beclouding the federal government’s response to the coronavirus challenge than
the belief it betrayed last week that, perhaps, all it needs to calm the fears
and apprehensions of Nigerians about its ability to halt the spread of the
virus is to reel out a catalogue of activities President Buhari was said to
have undertaken so far concerning the pestilence, whether the people felt their
impact or not.
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| *President Buhari and his spokesman, Femi Adesina |
Now,
if your family is starving badly, do you solve the rumbling signs of biting
hunger in their stomach with some wild tales of the efforts deployed by you so
far to feed them, or just keep quiet, give them food, and they will see and
feel for themselves that you have played your role responsively and
effectively? Or if you must talk, tell them something you have done whose
benefits they can readily verify and identify with.
Indeed,
some Nigerians are beginning to achieve the conviction that there must be
something about being in government in this country that seems to diminish the
reasoning ability of people once they get in there and deprives them of the
capacity to realize when they have stopped making sense or even become
downright annoying. This is very pathetic.
