Showing posts with label Fragile States Index. Show all posts
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Monday, September 21, 2020

Why Buhari Should Listen To Obasanjo And Soyinka

 

I don’t envy President Muhammadu Buhari. The sheer enormity of the burden on the leader of a nation like Nigeria is certainly not a thing to trivialise or dismiss with the wave of the hand. Before Buhari’s emergence as president, there were issues that threatened the very existence of the nation and had eaten deep into the very fabric that should hold us together. All these issues preceded the administration of President Buhari. True. 

                                                 *Obasanjo and Buhari

However, and sadly too, nothing much is being done to build this slowly but steadily disintegrating and dysfunctional nation. Every of those fault lines that threaten the nation are daily accentuated by the action and inaction of the Buhari regime. There is a clear lack of willpower to arrest the decline. To this end, we have been regaled with stories of denials and blame trade that will ultimately do no one any good.