Buhari will win this 2015 elections, if elections were to be conducted using my friends on Facebook as accredited participants in the voting. I respect Buhari. I must confess that the support he has earned from respected people on my contact resonates,and it is highly infectious. I love the razzmatazz and the philosophy underlining the support of the really upright and sound amongst his support base. His spartan and relatively pristine nature, in a world where elites flagrantly flaunt sybaritism and hedonism as a normal trademark, appeal to me,an avowed leftist and ardent student of social democracy. However, my ideas of the Nigerian quandary are so clear,and I am convinced that we need beyond such a lofty credential of frugality and sternness ,going forward at this point in our history,especially when those said to be providing for the campaign funds and private jet being flown around by the incorruptible messiah are those with antithetic credentials. Would he bite the heisty fingers that fed him,if he became the President? Honestly, I thought within me that Buhari could be positively disposed to the idea of reducing recurrent expenditure, chiefly by proposing to cut down the outrageous salaries of political office holders. But again, this is not a military system where the President is the alpha and omega. Would these self serving politicians vieing for the Reps and Senate ,having spent so much on getting Party tickets, stomach infrastructure and mobilizations, be willing to sacrifice by assenting to such noble proposal, since their hope of investment recouping is essentially premised on the ungodly largesse ? At the end, we might have business being continued as usual in that end. Would Buhari’s Presidency not also spawn renewed agitation and reinvent acrimony from the Niger Delta over what they justifiably term ethnic and resource justice,the type that can plunge us down the Yugoslavian nether? What I foresee is a President that will innocently strive to achieve efficiency,but would be hobbled by a system that is wired to be a contraption. He could attempt to fight corruption,struggling against the atavistic, and including the corruption personified among his sponsors, but because of his mechanistic state of mind about the secondary nature of a viable diversification plan,his disposition to blocking leakages will not suffice in making us come out of the imminent economic doom intact. Price of oil will continually plunge,and Niger Delta insurgency will frustrate production. Resources, even with the best of management, will be too paltry to cater for over 200 million Nigerians. These are part of the reasons I feel systemic restructuring is the only way forward. Any leader with a robust diversification plan and a pragmatic recipe to wean several regions off their indolence and parasitism is whom we need for the task ahead. In fact,in normal climes where people understand economic issues and can project into the future, not just believing in miracles and dogmatically following leaders, the real poser for the 2015 elections ought to be the viability of diversification plans. We should easily see the danger of the ignorance in deeming an activity that should come across as an immediate expediency a usual rhetoric and a secondary and long term venture. Let me also confess that I could easily identify with Buhari, if his campaigns exude 50% of the message of Atiku, beyond the cliché of corruption fighting.
Posted on: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 07:35:08 +0000
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