By Chris Gyang
Those Nigerians who once thought that the Buhari presidency would take our country to a destination better than this forlorn outpost of stasis, anarchy and overwhelming misery now know better. They are shaking their heads in utter regret, and sheer bewilderment.
When we warned, even as early as the days before the 2015 presidential vote,
that Buhari’s rabid sectionalism and extreme religious proclivities would push
Nigeria to a sad precipice, we were excoriated and branded as hateful and
irrational peddlers of Islamophobia. But those who pointed accusing fingers at
us then are now also crying, painfully – victims of Islamist terrorism, Fulani
herdsmen’s terrorism and expansionism, armed banditry, kidnapping for hefty
pay-offs and sundry criminalities that have become the chief themes of Buhari’s
reign so far.
But, lest we forget, this is the man whom Boko Haram once penciled down as their spokesman before he became president – based on his strident support for them (once upon a time?) This is a president in whose cabinet a popular and self-confessed Al-Qaeda apologist snugly perches – one of the president’s closest allies.
