The Humbling of The Butcher of Kaduna By General Buhari

I have to say that my impression of General Muhammadu Buhari changed for the better after he released his statement restating his loyalty and commitment to the All Progressives Congress and discountenancing Nasir el-Rufai, who had tried to use clever rhetoric to project the illusion that the former President was tacitly behind his treacherous move to the Social Democratic Party.

Indeed, President Buhari put fidelity to the country above attachment to ethnicity. I did not expect this from him, and now that he has done this, he has given hope to those of us who believe in the idea of one Nigeria.

President Bola Tinubu gave the right hand of fellowship to General Buhari, who only became President because of the support of Asiwaju.

Throughout the Buhari years, through thick and thin, Jagaban stuck with Buhari, even at the expense of losing some peripheral support among fringe elements in the Southwest, who felt that Buhari was running a very imbalanced administration that majorly favoured his Fulani ethnicity.

Even when herdsmen killed Mrs Funke Olakunrin, daughter of the leader of the apex Lukumi-Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere, Pa Reuben Fasorantin, Asiwaju remained steadfast in his support for General Buhari.

And when he was slapped in the face by the Quisling, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, who bit the finger that fed him and challenged the big masquerade that made him, Asiwaju did not blame General Buhari.

Since becoming President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu has not uttered one word of criticism against his predecessor, even though there were sordid revelations that would have caused another leader to question the preceding government.

Therefore, it is appropriate that President Buhari cast his lot with the incumbent President rather than with a man who President Obasanjo described as having "an inability to be loyal to anybody or any issue consistently for long, but only to Nasir el-Rufai."

I was wrong about General Buhari. He can be honourable and has demonstrated the courage of his convictions. If he had thrown his weight behind Nasir el-Rufai, it would have given that payer of killer herdsmen the ability to be a thorn in the flesh of the Tinubu administration.

But General Buhari's rebuff shows that he is little more than a nuisance whose attempt at name-dropping Buhari led to an embarrassing disappointment!

With this, other recalcitrants who were beginning to gather around el-Rufai will see him for what he truly is: a disgruntled schemer whose plan to ride on Tinubu's back and become a powerful minister who would control Kaduna from Abuja to eventually make his son the Governor failed spectacularly.

He is not fighting for Arewa. He is fighting for his relevance.

Reno Omokri


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What do you all think about this?


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