By Adeleye Kunle
Afenifere, a Pan-Yoruba socio-political group, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to clear the Nigerian Augean stable rather than lamenting on important national issues, TrackNews reports.
Chief Olusola Ebiseni, the party’s General Secretary, made the announcement in Akure, the state capital of Ondo.
According to Ebiseni, the President’s “assertion of the toughness of the assignment is rather amusing for a man who has seen it all as both a military ruler and a democratically elected leader of his people.”
“Like he has done for the past seven years on critical national issues, the President merely lamented the six-month strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASSU) without offering any solution or assurance on when the country’s youths would return to school.”
“It has become his stock-in-trade to merely lament mass killings of civilians by terrorists, who have grown most emboldened and unruly in his seven years.”
“The call, only two months ago, for a Government of National Unity or the President’s resignation would have found justification in this admission.”
“However, the situation today is quite different from the factors that made such suggestions plausible back then.”
“For what it’s worth, the nation is frenzied by electoral activities, which suggests that Nigerians are as eager as Muhammadu Buhari to see the end of his most uninspiring, if not disastrous, tenure.”
“Moreover, this government is virtually a shadow of itself, with the players so deflated of the air of legitimacy that even the most vibrant Deputy has lost steam, having been duped into a disastrous popularity contest within the ruling party, which is made up of only a few Nigerians.”
“In other words, there is no better hand in this government than the President’s to be invested with the destiny of Nigerians.”
Despite the obvious darkness that heralds twilight, the sun in the horizon is still warm enough to dry the clothes.
“Rather than retreat, Buhari could rally his government, including the distraught National Assembly members, many of whom have been rejected even by their parties and will almost certainly not return, to leave last-minute legacies that will temper history’s harsh verdict.”
“The greatest problem confronting the nation, the scale of which is unprecedented under Buhari, is insecurity.”
“Well-meaning Nigerians, drawing on experiences in other federations in particular, have recommended federalisation of its solution through multi-level security architecture typified by the instrumentality of State Police.”
