By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye
A few hours after the Chairman of the
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Attahiru Jega, told
Nigerians that General Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressive Congress (APC)
has won the March 28, 2015 Presidential Elections, a former head of state,
General Olusegun Obasanjo, released his congratulatory letter to Buhari. In it,
he told Buhari, among other things, to rid “our land
of corruption”
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| *Obasanjo |
“With so much harm already done to
many national institutions including the military, which proudly nurtured you
and me, you will have a lot to do on institution reform, education, healthcare,
economy, security, infrastructure, power, youth employment, agribusiness, oil
and gas, external affairs, cohesiveness of our nation and ridding our land of
corruption,” Obasanjo
wrote in the six-paragraph letter.
It was the season of victory
celebrations and hastening to identify with victors, so, such outpour of
sentiments were not unexpected, even from very suspicious and grossly
unqualified quarters. We live in a country of pathetic denialists, where the
citizens are in such a hurry to forget and the media finds the ennobling task
of asking deep questions and reminding us of even our most recent past a very
tiresome and undesirable task.
And so, in such a country, persons like
Obasanjo who deployed enormous zeal and determination to wreak unqualified
damage to their country can afford to rewrite recent history and brazenly crown
and advertise themselves as heroes and patriots.
And our largely pathetic media would eagerly join, if not lead, the celebration
of this unsightly dance in the slimy pond of egregious hypocrisy and
mediocrity.
