By Tony Afejuku
There
is no iota of doubt about it after all: we have ceaselessly experienced a
crisis of Buharism since our present president, Buhari, was exalted by us into
the presidency of our country.
Glaringly,
diurnally it is entering our exalted consciousness and imagination that our
pre-election idea or picture of him was one that exalted a man who had (and
still has) an exalted impression of himself. But we must make no mistake about
it. The man has elegance, but we have come to realize that this elegance that
enabled some persons to call him “Mr. Integrity” possesses some veneer that is
not well irriguous.
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Perhaps
I, in my creative imagination, am deficient in my employment of language to
characterize the kind of president that we have witnessed since Buharism
entered our authoritative lexicon of political thought. In the present writing
I am not too certain of the language to employ to depict Buharism. In fact, I
am inclined to employ a language that cannot but be deader than Latin: the
language called Fula of the Fulani people.
How I
wish and itch in vain to speak and write Fula! Let me be uneconomical with
words. I itch to understand and express Buhari’s thoughts in Fula, but how
deader than Latin is Fula to me! Thus in vain and in vain will I try to
understand the great man Buhari and his Fula philosophy of political governance
in a democracy and republic such as ours, such as our country’s – our Nigeria’s
that always we must hail. Recently I had a lengthy conversation, which spoke
volumes, with an octogenarian who is based in the South West of our country.
The
octogenarian is fully at breast with our president’s mind-set and the
happenings in Aso Rock. Lengthy conversation He bared and opened ad
infinitum his mind on the Buhari presidency. He informed me, among other things, pertinently of how Hadza Bala Usman came on board as the current
managing director of our Nigerian Ports Authority.
