With the current preoccupation of President Muhammadu Buhari with
the setting up of his own university, his flatulent claim of being actuated by
public interest has suffered further repudiation. His pet project has
unravelled him not as a touchstone of integrity, moderation and patriotism but
as another victim of the acquisitiveness of the nation’s leadership that has
ceaselessly undermined good governance.
To be sure, it was not Buhari himself who publicly
vouchsafed his plan to set up a private university. It was his wife who
disclosed that she would set up a university with the name Muhammadu Buhari
University. But even if Buhari were not the originator of the idea, the fact
that his name is associated with the project shows that he is fully behind it.
After all, he has not disavowed his wife’s claim since the news broke.
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| President Buhari and wife, Aisha |
