By Immanuel Igwu
Within six months of inauguration, the man Nigerians
elected in a historic voter revolution has created an alarming pattern of
absenteeism. President Muhammadu Buhari, who is hyped as an orator of ‘’body
language’’, has been voting with his feet since May 29, 2015.
*Yet another goodbye to Nigeria
An audit of his overseas travel
shows that, so far, he has accumulated more than forty days and forty nights of
elopement!
Though Buhari begged for and
received from Nigerians a clear mandate to help break the free fall of a nation
that is disappearing into an economic abyss, a Nigeria that offers the world
one of the most frequent and highest death tolls due to terrorist attacks, he
shows that he can hardly afford the discipline of sitting down long enough to
master the desperate emergencies of the nation.
With the recurring image of a lanky, bespectacled man standing at the door of
the presidential aircraft, waving and waving an umpteenth good bye, Buhari has
literally compelled the discerning to cotton up to the fact that he would
rather go elsewhere than fulfill the sedentary lion-share of his job!
Time is the easiest to calculate
aspect of Buhari’s wanderlust: By checking his itinerary and adding small
numbers, one can determine that our brand new leader has notched a month plus
stay abroad. The monetary cost is different: It is hidden. Nigerian taxpayers
do not know the irreducible minimum amount of their money that grows wings
whenever he leaves the Nigerian airspace in his presidential glory.
