By Dele Sobowale
“I am
eager to go. I can tell you, it has been tough. I am grateful to God that
people appreciate the personal sacrifices we have been making. I wish the
person after me the very best” – President Buhari, Monday, July 11, 2022.
If that was a joke, Buhari, Public Servant Number 1, should know
that, we are not amused. On the contrary, most Nigerians, his employers, take
the entire statement as an insult from a servant who served so badly, those of
us who, at first, believed in him, will spend the rest of our lives regretting
we ever committed such a colossal blunder.
Despite knowing him to be a northern Fulani Muslim and sympathizer of Islamic fundamentalists, I worked tirelessly for his election in 2011 and 2015. To be quite honest, I was persuaded that the man had changed by the late Prince Tony Momoh – who was the Chairman of the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, which Buhari led to defeat in 2011. I repeatedly asked Momoh if he was certain about Buhari; and received an affirmative response.
