This is one of the reasons I’m not a fan of General Mohammadu Buhari. More than any other leader from the North, he has encouraged this parochial obsession with the office of the President; of We vs Them. He has contested for this office three times consecutively yet, we do not see in him any familiarity with any other region than the Muslim North. As the Boko Haram crisis escalated, Buhari was importuned several times to mediate and facilitate a dialogue with the insurgents. Every such entreaty was angrily rebuffed by him. He would rather focus on deriding Jonathan for his lack of capacity to secure the nation. Yet when the president finally said enough was enough and backed the tough talk with military siege on the insurgents, it was Buhari who protested that the Boko Haram were being treated unfairly in contrast to the generous panhandling of the Niger Delta militants. Amongst all who has had the privilege of holding the highest office in the land particularly from the north, it took Obasanjo from Abeokuta to brave the odds and go to Maiduguri to dare the lion in its den-with a mission to tame rather than kill the lion. To underscore the precarious nature of this mission, the senior brother of the dead Boko Haram leader who hosted Obasanjo was gunned down the following day. Akin osuntokun
Posted on: Sat, 14 Sep 2013 02:01:55 +0000
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