We are not all endowed
with the peculiar gift of clairvoyance like Nostradamus, the famed fourteenth
century astrologer -cum- physician, who arguably foretold great happenings and
events that would later shape centuries he could only imagine. But when an
audacious attempt is made to do a post-mortem of a presidency that is yet to
round off its first tenure, then, one begins to wonder whether such a
presidency has crossed the Rubicon on policies with disastrous effects from
which returning may be impossible or perhaps, difficult. Who would expect
something good from an administration whose actions and inactions conjure
pictures of hopelessness even in its final days?
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| *President Buhari |
There is a limit to the propaganda machinery
any government in the world can set in motion to inveigle her citizenry into
giving it their unalloyed support, if there is great gulf between actual
falsehood and reality. It is only a matter of time before the propaganda
messages being deployed to influence public opinions, metamorphosed into an
uncomfortable jarring sound that must be turned off to prevent the people from
losing their sanity. The once fervent converts have now taken a deep dive into
the rivers of apostasy because in vain, have they laboured for the religion of
change.
