As Nigerians Our Leaders Reflects Our Collective

President Buhari on his 1st day back at work after 104 days away, writes to the national Assembly of his resumption.  President Buhari on his 1st day back at work after 104 days away, writes to the national Assembly of his resumption. Acting Vice President Prof Yemi Osinbajo on Saturday the 19th of August  had welcomed back President Buhari to Nigeria after104 days of extensive medical leave of absence to the UK. An ailing President Buhari manages a smile.

The APC governor’s forum visits ailing President Buhari at Abuja House London.

Senate President and House of Representative Leaders; Bukola Saraki and Yakub Dogra respectively visits the President in London.

President Buhari and his communications and publicity aides visits him in London

The Overseer,the RCCG, Pastor Adeboye also paid President Buhari a visit in London.

 Welcome home President Muhammad Buhari.

Thank you for saving the country from the embarrassment of itself, as a country with an economic recovery growth  plan 2017-2020, on the verge of going a borrowing again, yet where its top government officials and leadership sends an entourage and turns the Abuja House presidential lodge in the UK into a Mecca of some sort.

It was already bad enough that your option to receive medical treatment and recovery abroad like your predecessors didn’t set you apart from the culture of self over nation. And who best to defend the health policy and accrued budgets for health in this administration if not the president! None has been exemplary enough to demand to be treated in our local hospitals, for fear of the outcome. An outcome ordinary citizens that voted you in have no choice over but make do with, even when it is like a death sentence and in many cases lose their lives due to errors and poor standard of treatments. 

Yet, your return- the citizens applaud and believe a right decision; more so when you heeded the collective citizens voice and action both home and abroad and returned and resumed promptly like they demanded.

This is not a weak action on your part, nor the need for an alternative reason put out by your media team that it was a mere coincidence and nothing to do with citizen's voice and action in the days building up to your sudden return, an inexperience reaction that is on the part of your aides, if only they understood the intricacies of democracy, that one of its principle according to Andrea Cornwall a professor of Anthropology and International Development in the School of Global Studies, University of Sussex is that democratic governments ought to be accountable to their citizens, and citizens have a right to be informed, consulted and involved in decisions that have implications for their lives.  

Furthermore Sir, your speech at inauguration and in particular that impressionable statement which I quote, "I am for everybody and for nobody" is still in the clouds, or so I thought! But your aides and Minster of Information thinks it has since gathered dust and are back to propaganda and defensive tactics as we witness regularly!

It is high time you had a reshuffle, if Shehu, Adesina and Mohammed respectively will not reflect your good intention to still uphold your vows to the people and portray that the voice of the people is welcomed to freely demand accountability and scrutinize your government. This,they must embrace and not be threatened nor threaten the citizens by. It is in fact the only thing that continues to give you legitimacy of office and by extension them in their jobs. Let them ask Reuben Abati!

To my fellow citizens, since by ourselves we chose an elder statesman as our president over the many thousands or millions middle aged men and women of our country, then why the blame game? Didn't we say the elections were free and fair and the mandates of the people upheld?

We chose to toll the path of the cabals that dictate and give power only across ethnic lines and elitist agreements of how Nigeria must be governed, we give into the many excuses and accept the unspoken notion that we don’t have alternative leaders among us except the same of the same since the days my grandmother was a teenager!

Let’s face it, we fan the emblems of ethnicity,region-It is not about who has the best qualities to lead us,we choose to use religion and ethnicity to divide and rule ourselves.

We agree that there is no equitable nor alternative opposition and held on to the notion that only President Buhari has the sternness and will power to stir the country out of corruption and indiscipline that chokes it, but we forget about his health challenges that comes with his age, and not the technical know how and stamina leaders and global powers of today require. It goes beyond emotions but strategy of world dominance! I even heard Lai Mohammed during the campaign say President Buhari is fitter than any teenager that he knows!

We have President Buhari .We all yearned for him.We must also tolerate and make adequate provision for his many exits from work in order to attend to his health which comes with any ageing over 70;s, his ailments didn’t start when he assumed office, let’s be honest, there is then no need crying over spilled milk, since we didn't resist choosing a man of that age, we then cannot just have the man and not the intricacies entwined.

We as a people must speak truth to ourselves, we are the architect of our own misery, but perhaps we benefit from the statuesque and would rather continue in this quagmire we are in. But I pray we will become wiser and aspire to be at par with the rest world or better still Africa. Perchance we would have learnt better and be better prepared in 2019. But I have lived a while long enough to know that we are too busy with the trivial to fight for a nation that we only dream that we want.  We are as a people that deserve the leadership we have.