The hijab crisis rocking Kwara State, North Central Nigeria may not be over yet following the demand from Muslim community in the State that the names of all schools formerly owned by religious institutions be changed.
The Muslims insist that this is the lasting solution to the crisis that have been plaguing the State for years. The religious crisis worsened early this year after Christians in the State tried to stop Muslim students from wearing the Islamic head covering to schools formerly owned by Christian Missionaries.
The Kwara State Government had just re-opened the Oyun Baptist High School, Ijagbo, the school at the centre of the recent crisis for students to resume academic activities, four months after it was shut to avert confrontation by the parties.
But the muslim community in the state said the lasting solution to the issue is to change the names of schools formerly owned by both Christians and Muslim missionaries.
Many of the schools in contention are owned by Christians even though they are being funded by Government. The State is predominantly Muslim.
In a letter addressed to the State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, the Muslims recommended six actions to be taken by the Government toresolve the issue of hijab-wearing by female Muslim students in all public schools in the State.
The letter dated June 7, 2022, with reference number KWS/MS/01/22 and signed by Alhaji Ishaq AbdulKareem (Chairman) and Professor Ibrahim Abikan (Secretary), demanded among other things compensation for their members affected in the violent hijab crisis.
According to the letter, “The Kwara State Government should change the names of all schools formerly owned by both the Muslim and Christian proprietors by adding’ Government’ into them, e.g, Ansarul Islam Government Secondary School, Ilorin, Bishop Smith Memorial Government College, Ilorin,” the community stated in the letter.
“The Kwara State Government must build a new school mosque for Muslim students/ teachers of Bishop Smith Memorial College, Ilorin to replace the one demolished.
“The Kwara State Government should appoint a new Commissioner for Education and Human Capital Development, while the permanent secretary in the ministry should be moved to another ministry.
The Kwara State Government must enforce freedom of worship in our schools by ensuring that separate devotions are held for Muslim and Christian students at the school assembly, and no external Imam or Pastor should be allowed to participate in morning devotion aside from the school teachers.
“The Kwara State Government should ensure, henceforth, that appointments and postings of Principals into all schools should be based on merit and seniority and should be the sole responsibility of the Kwara State Teaching Service Commission instead of former Proprietors as it is being done now,” the Muslim community said.
Meanwhile, close watchers of events in the State insist that renaming the Schools could lead to fresh religious crisis in the State, particularly, as Christians may resist any attempt by the Governor Abdulrahman administration to change the names of Christian Missionary Schools.
“This would be interpreted as the Government pandering to the whims and caprices of a particular religious community in a plural religious state. It will send a dangerous signal that could lead to a very dangerous dimension of the current crisis,” a politician in the State who does not want his name mentioned told the magazine on Tuesday.
The President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration has borrowed over N19 trillion from the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN since it came to power in 2015. As at April this year the total debt to CBN stood at N19.1 trillion, according to checks from the apex bank.
The information is contained in a CBN data which also showed that the administration increased the debt to the apex bank by close to N2 trillion within the first four month of the year.
The development came exactly a year after Fitch Ratings, a US based ratings agency warned the government to stop borrowing from the Governor Godwin Emefiele-led CBN.
International development partners such as the International Monetary Fund, IMF and the World Bank have also disavowed government’s borrowing from the apex bank.
The IMF for instance, had in February this year cautioned the Buhari’s administration from taking overdraft from the CBN to fund its proposed N2.55 trillion petrol subsidy
Fitch, had in a report titled ‘Nigeria’s Deficit Monetisation May Raise Macro-Stability Risks’, said the government is complicating the nation’s total debt problems by borrowing from the CBN through Ways and Means, W&M.
According to the CBN Act, the federal government is allowed to take an overdraft from the CBN, not more than five per cent of the current year’s Budget. But the administration has flouted the Act consistently by borrowing more from the apex bank and not paying back as provided in the Act.
In the Fitch report, the rating agency said borrowing from the CBN has many consequences attached to it, including the risks to macro-economic stability. The agency had advised the Buhari’s administration to look for other means of borrowing funds, warning also that it’s better not to borrow at all, particularly when the debt is used to finance Budget Deficit.
The agency said the corona virus pandemic which slowed a larger part of the world’s economy has slowed down, and there’s no longer need to borrow.
The report said, “Sustained use of direct monetary financing could raise risks to macroeconomic stability – given the current weak institutional safeguards – but we expect the FGN to reduce its use of the facility in 2021.
“The FGN directly borrowed 1.9 per cent of GDP from the CBN to fund its fiscal deficit in 2020, estimated by Fitch at 3.6 per cent of Gross Domestic Product.
“A number of emerging markets resorted to central bank deficit financing in 2020 against a background of urgent spending needs and temporary market dislocations associated with the coronavirus pandemic.
“However, the use of central bank financing in Nigeria predates the pandemic shock.”
Section 38 of the CBN Act provides for the apex bank to advance loans to the federal government. The overdraft, the Act said must not exceeds five per cent of the Budget of a financial year.
“The total amount of such advances outstanding shall not at any time exceed five per cent of the previous year’s actual revenue of the Federal Government.
“All advances shall be repaid as soon as possible and shall, in any event, be repayable by the end of the Federal Government financial year in which they are granted and if such advances remain unpaid at the end of the year, the power of the bank to grant such further advances in any subsequent year shall not be exercisable, unless the outstanding advances have been repaid,” the Act said.
The significance was not lost on the hundreds of people gathered. It couldn’t have. Nobody could have done it better, or shown a better example than His Grace, Archbishop Anthony Obinna, the retiring Catholic Archbishop of the Owerri Ecclesiastical Province.
His patriotic action was, at once, subtle and punchy. Its impact, immeasurable and unbeatable.
Since the masses suddenly became aware of their electoral power, their power to change the fortunes of Nigeria for the better, their power to change a bad Governnent, their power to vote out their non- performing rogue representatives, their power to take their money (why not, it is public money), and still vote against them, nothing has remained the same. And not a few rogue professional politicians are afraid. They are afraid of what tomorrow will bring. They are afraid of this sudden awakening of the youths. A political revolution is afoot.
In their millions, the youths are registering to get their Personal Voter’s Card, PVC. They are having a ball – singing, dancing, jiving for a change. Not a few of them have turned emergency musicians, emergency actors, emergency commendians just to drive their message home. Go get your PVCs let’s reshape our future, let’s give these politicians a red card. That is their chorus. Their weapon is their PVCs.
His Grace, Archbishop Anthony Obinna
Traders are shutting down markets, their shops, and losing millions of Naira to the bargain just to get their PVCs. Imagine shutting down Alaba International Market, Lagos, where they make about $40b a month. They don’t care. They want a bit of the action. Bad governance is evil, they chorus. We can do something about it, they add.
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, is overwhelmed, so overwhelmed it has created more centres in Lagos and the South-east – a first in the South-east. Hope rising. It will be difficult to see youths turning streets and market squares into football fields on election days, especially, on the day of the Presidential election. That’s gone. It has become history.
Churches are not left out in the PVC “madness”. Priests have become, the three, at once, the Federal Minister Minister for Information and National Orientation, the Public Affairs Director of INEC, and the Director General of the National Orientation Agency. They are harassing their Parishioners over the PVC. They are forcing them to get their PVCs. To them, it has become a ticket to salvation, to heaven.
To achieve that, some of the Priests have gone to the extreme.
On Sunday, June 12, at least, two Catholic Priests crossed the borderline. They embarked on “Operation show your PVCs or go home.” Don’t enter the Church. You will not be allowed to take the Holy Communion. They sent Parishioners home. The action of one of them in particular was more dramatic and ridiculous.
Apparently, the Head of a Roman Catholic Tertiary Institution, he not only stopped his students without PVCs from going into the Church, he told them that any one of them without a PVC would be failed in his/her examination. He said he had told them earlier that any student without PVC would have a “carry-over.” Meaning that student could even repeat a class over PVC.
Some of these Priests want to play God. They think the Cassock they wear is a license to say anything, do anything, talk to anybody anyhow. A number of them think they have the power of life and death. The key to Heaven. They don’t. Their job is to guide the weary, guide our footsteps so we don’t falter, to intercede for us, to uplift the spirit of the weary. It is not to treat us as a village headmaster would a pupil who failed “one plus one.”
The two Catholic Priests should be cautioned by their Diocesan Bishops, and the others warned never to send their Parishioners home over PVCs. That’s an overkill. It is a civic responsibility. As their Priests, their job is to explain how important it is, and persuade them to go and register and get their PVCs.
The Priest who threatened to fail students, especially, should not only be cautioned, he should be sanctioned. He is not fit to head a school. He should be removed from office. Otherwise, Parents and students should watch out for him. If any student without a PVC fails, the circumstances behind the failure should be thoroughly investigated. The paper should be re-marked by an uninterested party.The Priest has confirmed he is capable of corrupting the system, just like some politicians.
But, back to Archbishop Obinna. His Grace is both a Priest and an activist. Every administration in Imo State knows that. As the saying goes, the fear of Obinna is the beginning of wisdom. He does not spare them. He does not condone bad governance, and he tells the Governors off to their face. He is not the “Your Excellency, Your Excellency” type. He cannot be bought. He holds a strong opinion on governance. When he talks, it is from a moral high ground.
On Thursday, June 9, 2022, Archbishop Obinna, as usual, effortlessly, stamped his moral authority on the political freedom of the people. He did so at the Jubilee Hall, Owerri, venue of a reception in his honour.
It was his day. The crowning glory to his decades as a Priest of the Roman Catholic Church. His Golden Jubilee celebration. 50 years as a Priest. It also marked his retirement as the very influential Catholic Archbishop of Owerri Ecclesiastical Province.
Hundreds of people thronged the venue. The crowd was expected. The mighty and the low.
Present, expectedly, were scores of Priests. Scores of Reverend Sisters. The who- is-who in the Catholic Province’s hierarchy. All those were expected.
What was not expected, however, was what Obinna did. His action. As he was being ushered into the Hall by the galaxy of Priests, amidst drums and cymbals, and joyful songs, led by two young girls dressed in their cultural outfit, dancing, His Grace was expected to dance and sing along. You know, swing to the soul-lifting tunes.
He did not.
Instead, he pulled off a revolution. A patriotic revolution. A silent revolution. He showed the way to go.
As he walked in, broad smiles playing on his face, he brought out his weapon of revolution. His weapon for the emancipation of the people. His PVC.
He didn’t need to talk. He didn’t need to make any statement. He did not threaten anybody. He did not ask those without their PVCs to get out of the reception Hall. He did not ask them not to take part in the reception activities. He did not stand by the door of the Hall like a tax collector. Or a toll collector. What he did was disarmingly ordinary. Yet, it carried so much weight. And resonated.
As he marched into the Hall to the glory of God, he waved his PVC, enthusiastically, at the cheering crowd. It was more than words could do. More than any “gra-gra” by any Priest or anybody could do. Without saying a word, he pointed at the way forward. The way to go.
May His Grace, even in retirement, continue to be the moral standard bearer of the people. And may he continue to show the way to go – in good health.
Dr Kingsley Moghalu has resigned his membership from the African Development Congress, ADC. And the former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, did not resign quietly.
Moghalu raised a storm, and dismissed the Party under which he wanted to run and occupy the office of Nigeria’s President as “obscenely corrupt.”
Moghalu resigned following his shock defeat in the ADC Presidential Primary by Dumebi Kachikwu. Kachikwu, a younger brother of the former Minister for State, Petroleum, Ibe Kachikwu scored a total of 978 votes to Moghalu’s 589 votes.
In his resignation letter to the National Chairman of the Party, chief Ralph Nwosu, said: “I have resigned because the process and conduct of the party’s presidential primary on June 8, 2022, at Abeokuta revealed a fundamental clash of values between me and your leadership of the party.”
Moghalu’s resignation takes immediate effect.
His strongly-worded resignation letter reads:
“Dear Mr. Nwosu, I am writing to hand in my resignation from my membership of the African Democratic Congress, effective immediately.
“I have resigned because the process and conduct of the party’s presidential primary on June 8, 2022 at Abeokuta revealed a fundamental clash of values between me and your leadership of the party.
“Despite the circular you issued a few days to the primary committing the party to providing transportation and accommodation for delegates to, and in Abeokuta, and which as we agreed would provide a level playing field for all the Presidential aspirants, the party under your leadership failed to do so.
“Some aspirants, including myself, made donations to the ADC party account as requested by the party for this purpose. This failure, which appeared intentional, created room for massive abuses of the electoral process including delegate capture and financial inducement of delegates.
“This is only one of numerous inconsistencies and the absence of transparency and predictability in the management of the party that I had progressively complained about.
“As you are well aware, I have consistently resisted pressures to join the APC or the PDP precisely to avoid “cash-and-carry” politics. For me to remain a member of the ADC, therefore, after what thousands of party members participated in at Abeokuta, would be to endorse political corruption of a most obscene order.
“I joined the ADC in October 2021 with the best of intentions. Since then, I have put my entire team to work on growing and improving the party, including raising the party’s visibility on all media platforms, recruiting more than 10,000 new members to the party, and providing new offices for various state chapters of the party at my expense.
“It is deeply regrettable that other inducements appear to have played more important roles in determining the outcome of the primary than loyalty to the party.”
When Moghalu addressed the delegates before voting started, he had boasted that he would defeat both Atiku Abubakar and Bola Tinubu, candidates of the PDP and APC respectively, in the 2023 Presidential election.
Surprisingly, he was defeated at his own Party’s Primary by Kachikwu, the founder of Roots Television.
Moghalu was the Presidential candidate of the Young Peoples Party, YPP, in the 2019 Presidential election. He made no impact in that election. He quit YPP in October 2019, and joined ADC in 2021.
In a space of one week, former Governor of Imo State, has had two political loses.
Fresh from losing, woefully, his N100m deposit in the All Progressives Congress Presidential Primary where he scored zero votes, Okorocha has again been dealt a heavy political blow by the Supreme Court of Nigeria.
The Apex Court has affirmed Dr MacDonald Ebere, as the authentic Chairman of the Imo State Chapter of the APC.
By this judgement, the Court has pulled the rug from under the feet of the Okorocha-backed factional Chairman, Dan Nwafor, and thrown out the judgement from the lower Courts which declared him Chairman.
This followed its unanimous judgment setting aside an earlier ruling by an FCT High Court which recognised Mr. Dan Nwafor as the Chairman.
The Supreme Court judgment read by Justice Adamu Jauro on behalf of four other justices, held that the FCT High Court lacked jurisdiction to have heard the suit abinitio.
“The trial court lacked the territorial jurisdictional competence to have entertained the suit in the first place, hence rendering the decision it reached a nullity.”
The Supreme Court further held that: “The law is settled that a suit should be filed in the High Court of the state in which the facts constituting the cause of action occurred; that is the High Court of the state in which the events occurred.”
It further held that for the first respondent to have left Imo State where the events in dispute occurred, and rushed to Abuja to file the suit amounted to “forum shopping and a gross abuse of court processes.”
The Supreme Court therefore struck out the appeal.
“The suit together with the processes filed right from the trial Court are hereby stuck out. Parties are to bear their respective costs.”
The other Justices who presided over the matter are Olukayode Ariwoola, Amina Adamu Augie, Uwani Musa Abba Aji and Abdu Aboki.
Heightened tension occasioned by continued bloody clashes among supporters of candidates of political parties in the June 18 Governorship election in Ekiti state has forced traditional rulers to invoke the spirits of their ancestors.
The State Council of Traditional Rulers called on the gods of the land, and rained curses on any person or group that engages in activities that can disrupt the peace of the State.
The action of the Royal Fathers is sequel to political crisis in itaji and Ado Ekiti at the weekend which led to the death of some persons while several others sustained serious injuries.
Sporadic gunshots still continued Monday morning in Ado Ekiti, but armed Military Men that have been put on alert were quick to abate the situation before it leads to bloodshed.
The Monarchs who took their turn rained the curses in Ado Ekiti during a meeting held with members of political parties, leaders of driver unions and concerned citizens of the state.
Speaking at the meeting, Chairman of Traditional Rulers Council, Ekiti State and Onisan of Isan Ekiti, Oba Gabriel Adejuwon, expressed dissatisfaction over the recent political crisis in the State and cautioned those behind such to stop or face the wrath of Ekiti ancestors.
Also, the Ewi of Ado Ekiti, Oba Adeyemo Adejugbe, called on leaders of drivers and Okada riders to call their members to order.
Some of the major candidates contesting the governorship election including Mr Biodun Oyebanji of APC, Asiwaju Segun Oni of SDP and Erelu kemi Elebute Halle of ADP who were present at the meeting promised to maintain peace during and after the poll.
Investigations reveal that more Soldiers arrived the State on Monday, preparatory for the election.
Identified spots prone to violence, such as atikankan, Ijigbo, Okeyinmi, especially, in the state capital, are being guarded by the Soldiers.
The Super Eagles of Nigeria has recorded its second victory in the ongoing 2023 CAF African Cup of Nations qualifiers.
The Jose Peseiro-led Super Eagles team humiliated their São Tomé and Principe by a whopping 10-0, to record one of its heaviest victory in its history.
Victor Osimhen scored Four goals, while his striking partner, Terem Moffi, scored a brace, with Ademola Lookman, Moses Simon, Emmanuel Dennis and Oghenekaro Etebo scoring one goal each to send their host to one of its heaviest defeat in history.
The match played at the Agadir Stadium In Morocco saw the Super Eagles starting the game with Francis Uzoho In goal; Oluwasemilogo Ajayi, Zaidu Sanusi, Olaoluwa Aina and Calvin Bassey starting in the defense line.
Alex Iwobi, Moses Simon, Oghenekaro Etebo and Ademola Lookman playing in the midfield, while Victor Osimhen and Terem Moffi led the attack.
Osimhen gave the Super Eagles team the lead in the ninth minute, with Simon doubling it in the 28th minute before Moffi added the third goal in the 43rd minute for the visiting team to take a 3-0 lead into the halftime.
On resumption of the second half, Osimhen scored his second goal for the team following an assist from Lookman.
Shortly after, Etebo scored the fifth goal of the match to mark his first start for the team under new coach, Peseiro.
Ahmed Musa came in for substitute, Simon, and played a role in the Sixth goal converted by Moffi.
It didn’t take long before Lookman added the Seventh goal, with Osimhen adding his third and fourth goal of the match in quick succession.
Lookman was replaced by Emmanuel Dennis who completed the goal feast for the Super Eagles with the team’s 10th goal of the match to go top of Group A.
With the victory, Nigeria have recorded an 100 percent record in the qualifying series, with victories against Sierra Leone and São Tomé, the Three Time African Cup of Nations Champions now have Six Points from Two games with +11 goal difference.
This is the second victory in four games that Portuguese tactician would record since taking over the saddle as Super Eagles Coach.
Said a football enthusiast, Agatha Egbujor, “This is basketball. I guess they wanted to score 11 goals to “dash” the players one goal each. But, on a second thought, they spared the Goalkeeper. His deserved gift is 12 strokes of the cain from his people for shamelessly conceding 10 goals within 90 minutes.”
The Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, may not return to the Senate after his shot at the Presidency under the ruling party, All Progressives Congress.
Lawan lost the nomination bid to Asiwaju Bola Tinubu during their just concluded Primary. He was, initially, touted as the President’s consensus candidate.
Before contesting in the presidential nomination exercise, Lawan had endorsed Bashir Machina Sheriff as the Senatorial Candidate for Yobe North.
But Sheriff is now refusing to step down for the Senate President. According to reports, Mr Machina is clinging to the nomination to achieve his childhood dream of becoming a Senator.
Efforts from the Senate President to persuade him to step down has proved abortive.
Nigerian Politicians usually do that. They ask somebody to stand in for them when they are looking for a higher position. When they fail they ask the stand-in to stand-down for them.
Tech and IT savvy Nigerians are volunteering from across the globe to form an impenetrable anti-rigging software that will be deployed to ensure a hitch- free and rig-free Presidential election in 2023.
These IT gurus, who swore loyalty to the Labour Party and Peter Obi Presidential Campaign, understandably feel they are already racing against time in assembling themselves across religious and geopolitical divide for a common goal.
They are reaching out to the Obi Campaign Organisation for approval.
“Mr @PeterObi & @NgLabour party, I’m a trained+ experienced DBA with a top skill set in data analytics/science. I analyze data from some of the biggest enterprise companies in the world to educate the market on trends. Over 10 years I’ve been involved in critical national projects”, one tweeted on his page with the handle @REBEL.
The assembly of experts include-in Tech language-DBAs, those who are versed in Python (Django and flask), Javascript (Node) AWS/GPP, Linux, SQL and no SQL databases, Tensorflow and Tensorflow.js, among others.
Many fear infiltration from opposing political camps, but this Magazine was told they are reaching out to the section of Obi campaign organization intelligence unit to weed out possible human bots.
Last week, news filtered out that a group of volunteers are organizing themselves to use drones to monitor elections and livestream results.
“Obi’s Presidential Campaign has grown beyond him. He cannot back out now or he will be consumed by the backlash from the youths. His Presidential bid has become a silent revolution harnessing the raw energy of the #endsars youths”, a source close to the Campaign Organisation told this magazine.
With the number of volunteers, the team is finding it difficult to accommodate everyone.
It’s a few days after the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential convention, and I would like to commend Vice President Yemi Osinbajo for conducting a decent and effective presidential run that has inspired so many young people and motivated millions of others. Although the VP was not declared the winner, there is no doubt that he’s won the hearts of millions of Nigerians across the country. It is obvious to me that APC will never win the presidential election unless Osinbajo’s supporters are in full support of the campaign. It’s therefore in Tinubu’s interest to rein in his over-exuberant supporters who believe that the best way to celebrate is to insult the losers.
To the millions of the VP’s supporters, the young and the educated middle class, please stay engaged and keep mobilising. I’m happy that Osinbajo did not yield to the immense pressure to withdraw from the race. Stepping down for Tinubu would have been the greatest disservice to the millions of Nigerians who are not only motivated by the freshness he exuded, but also looked up to his leadership. He’s the Obama of our time.
There are indications that Osinbajo would stay engaged in the polity. A few days after the convention, he visited his supporters at the campaign office in Asokoro, Abuja, where he thanked them for their support and pledged to continue to support the party. He said: “This movement is a movement within a party. We are not doing something that has not been heard of before. What is new is that we have a firm belief that a new Nigeria is possible and it is possible through us who are here. We went to the convention, and the results showed us clearly that we lost, but it is only a battle, it is not the war. There are battles ahead, but we will win the war for a new Nigeria. I have no doubt in my mind that we will win that war for a new Nigeria. That is why our movement for a new Nigeria must remain strong and firm. And we will do everything to keep our movement strong and solid”.
According to the vice president, despite the result of the APC presidential primary, “the dream of a new country remains alive and well… We will have at the back of our minds, that what you have started in the various movements, coming into one, is the seed that will birth a new nation. You and I know the time has come and we will devote everything to it”.
“I am committed and will remain committed to that dream (of a new Nigeria), for as long as you are willing and recognize that we have not yet written the story of this country, we have not yet completed the story of this country. As a matter of fact, the story has just begun, this movement has just started.”
The VP further said, “a new Nigeria has only just started, and everywhere across this land, it will be clear to all that a new Nigeria has been born. Once the genie comes out of the bottle, you cannot put it back. The word has been spoken; it cannot be taken back: it is time for a New Nigeria”. Thanking Nigerians at home and abroad, including the Osinbajo supporters’ groups, for the overwhelming support for his presidential bid, Osinbajo noted that, “when we started this race, I never believed that we would have so many young men and women who would believe so passionately in the cause of a new Nigeria”. These are the words of a fighter who is not quitting.
There are a few lessons to learn from the outcome of the primary. First, Nigerian politics is still driven by religion, ethnicity and corruption. Apart from bribing the delegates, I understand that a certain aspirant paid as much as $3 million to each governor, especially the northern governors. Even the family of a very senior government official received luxury largess like houses in Dubai. It is big damage to President Buhari whose anti-corruption campaign has earned him international renown.
The Tinubu win has further stimulated spirited discussions on his frailties. No matter who his running mate would be, Tinubu has inevitably become a risky standard-bearer for his party. The spectre of the Muslim-Muslim ticket has become the most controversial political issue today and an incubus on the Tinubu ticket. Suddenly, Tinubu’s victory is no longer perceived as a slam dunk as it was earlier presented. He is now being defined by a single issue.
I have warned in my previous interventions that the mood of the nation in 2022 is different from that of 1993. We did not have Boko Haram, ISWAP, church bombings and blasphemy killings 30 years ago. I cannot, therefore, imagine what would happen, if, in the midst of these, we are presented with a ticket that excludes the huge Christian community from the top echelon of the nation’s political leadership. In addition, Tinubu looks visibly unwell. His frailty last Wednesday was visibly embarrassing to even his most ardent backers.
And this brings me to the Buhari leadership. The president’s vacillation on his preference in the last week of the convention is quite emblematic of his personality and leadership style in the last seven years. It is now up to him to bear the consequences of his indecision and lack of decisiveness.
