By Dan Amor
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo's recent bombing of
President Muhammadu Buhari does not make him a better candidate for national
heroism. After all, the outcome of his letter to former President Goodluck
Jonathan is the person whom he has just attacked. If care is not taken, the
next president in 2019 might even be worse than Buhari. This is not a death wish
for my beloved country. Never. Far from it!
*Babangida, Buhari, Obasanjo, Shagari and Jonathan |
But Nigeria is a nation of experts
without roots. We are always creating tacticians who are blind to strategy and
strategists who cannot even take a step. And when the culture has finished its
work the institutions handcuff the infirmity. But what is at the centre of the
panic which is our national culture since we are not yet free to choose our
leaders? Seeing how ineligible dunces who don’t even understand the secret of
their private appeal, talk-less of what the nation needs jostle for power, I
realize all over again that Nigeria is an unhappy contract between the Rich and
the Poor. It is not that Nigeria
is altogether hideous, it is even by degrees pleasant, but for an honest
observer, there is never any salt in the wind.