I am not sure I will flaunt my Ph.D degree if I were him. The kind of assessment one has of him about not understanding his circumstance, being reckless with what he says, taking decisions that are ill-advised, are not the sort of decisions someone who prides himself of holding a P.hD would take. Even if he is a vice chancellor, not to talk of a governor or a president, these are not decisions I would expect from him. Hear Prof Yadudu I don’t want to be unfair in assessing the personality of the president because I have not studied him up close. But from the sort of actions that the president takes on a number of issues, one can from a distance make assessment of the kind of personality he has. I think there is no doubt about it that he does not have a clear understanding of the magnitude of the office he occupies. He does not in my view have a clear understanding of the demands of the office he occupies. Two: it seems to me that suffering from this, the total misunderstanding or lack of understanding of the office he occupies, is coupled with the tendency to be reckless in what you say. He does not measure the words he says and then, because you are reckless, you say things that confirm the view one has of you. There are so many instances of his recklessness in what he says. Like At the initial stage of the insurgency of Boko Haram, not once but many times, he said it would end in three months. What sort of police commissioner would make such such statement about a phenomenon that at that time they didn’t quite understand and even today they do not quite understand? The phenomenon you still don’t understand, the intelligence community does not understand and you make such statement. When you lack an understanding of the magnitude of this office and you are reckless in what you say, then there is propensity to take decisions that can be disruptive to the equilibrium because, if you don’t understand the magnitude of the office you occupy and you don’t weigh or choose the words you say, then you take actions that are precipitate and that can disrupt the equilibrium that maintains the society. And what that does is that it can lead to disorder that explodes in your face. Let me give you an example. We don’t know the fact but this was a precipitate ill-thought action to me. The first one I found very troubling was the way, for whatever reason, he dealt with politics at his own backyard. His problem with Sylva, the former governor of Bayelsa State. There is no way the Presidency can wash off its hands off what was happening at that time. There is no way the Presidency could wash off its hand on how this gentleman who is now governor of the state emerged. Even within his own locality, he has disrupted the equilibrium. He is not having the heat because he is in Abuja and he is the president and he thinks everything is okay at home. It is not. And of course you can replicate many of such kind precipitate ill thought, totally unconsidered actions undertaken by somebody who does not understand fully the magnitude of the office he occupies. He jumps before he leaps. The worrying thing about this assessment that I have is that it does not urgur well for the nation because what holds this nation is the skilfull way of handling competing interests and maintaining some form of equilibrium and it seems he does not have advisers who can tell him that these are some of the weak qualities that he has. No president who understands the magnitude of the office would allow the kind of press statements that are being issued in his name to go public. The problem with this kind of attitude, disrespectful, totally ill-thought way of responding also tells about the personality of the president. If I were him, there is no way I would have allowed Obasanjo to resort to publishing that letter. All that would have silenced him would have been if he had said Alhaji Bamanga Tukur was a liability to the PDP, he would have been removed. You think so? At least Obasanjo believed so. I don’t know the workings of the PDP, he does. What was the big deal about Tukur? After all Jonathan sacked Ogbulafor. He sacked Bello Muhammed, Baraje. Sacking Tukur would have taken the discussion between him and Obasanjo to another level, there would have been no basis for Obasanjo to write that letter. So what I am saying is that the action you take and the advice you get could only go so far it meets with the kind of person you are. I don’t want to be uncharitable to the president. I am not too sure I will flaunt my Ph.D degree if I were him. The kind of assessment one has of him about not understanding his circumstance, being reckless with what he says, taking decisions that are ill-advised, are not the sort of decisions someone who prides himself of holding a P.hD would take. Even if he is a vice chancellor, not to talk of a governor or a president, these are not decisions I would expect from him. Of course he has PhD but it does not bear him well from a distant observer of what he does.
Posted on: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 13:32:46 +0000
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