By Paul Onomuakpokpo
Whether President
Muhammadu Buhari has been irrevocably hobbled by ill-health or is sound in bound and mind
and prancing around in the Abuja House in London
is a puzzle that would not be unravelled until he returns home.
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Even if all the state governors, the officials
of the presidency and political parties travel to London and return with the verdict that
Buhari exudes great health and a stellar sense of humour that belies the stern
stuff he is made of, this would make no difference to Nigerians. Let Buhari
write again to his Guinean counterpart that he is well and that he would soon
return to Nigeria
to assume the responsibilities he has abandoned for months, this would not
still douse Nigerians’ doubts. They would maintain the skepticism that Buhari
is yet to recover from his debilitating sickness that has kept him away from
Aso Rock.
This cynicism is well founded. The officials
of government have so much lost the citizens’ good will that they cannot be
trusted. Remember? It was the same way that politicians and even clerics
visited the late President Musa Yar’Adua but when they returned they did not
tell Nigerians that he was incapacitated. It was only the then Minister of
Information, the late Dora Akunyili who had the courage to shed off the
carapace of propaganda for Nigerians to be confronted with the reality: the
truth that the health of their president was beyond recovery. Yes, we take
cognisance of the fact that a glaring misalignment of the creeds and deeds of
politicians, especially the ones in these climes, oftentimes makes trusting
them as amounting to self-immolation.
