General Olusegun
Obasanjo’s Coalition for Nigeria Movement has been expressed as the former
President’s projected avant garde prescription for taking beleaguered Nigeria
out of the political woods into which it had been marooned by successive
visionless administrations. Fiercely patriotic, Obasanjo is touted as the
embodiment of the values for the preservation or continuing corporate existence
of the Nigerian contraption.
*Obasanjo |
For good measure, he
is an inflexible defender of the status quo. He has after all, been a major
beneficiary of the system. Even as the general mood of the nation is in favour
of the political restructuring of the country and of charting a proper course
around the issues of good governance, equity, justice, etc. the Obasanjo
intervention contained in his letter to President Muhammadu Buhari is cleverly
positioned to divert attention therefrom and guide the national narrative in
the direction of a prepared script.