Buhari May Have Made Good on His Promise As Video Of His 2015 Post-election Interview Resurfaces

A Twitter user, @fomax112, on Friday, posted a 2015 video of President Muhammadu Buhari saying that his government may not include areas where he got 5 percent votes as against areas where he got 95 percent of votes cast.

The video, captioned “Buhari is a failure long time ago…”, was posted in reaction to a tweet by another twitter handle @ConcernedNigerians, a movement convened by Deji Adeyanju.

President Buhari may have actually held on to his words almost six years after, looking at the trajectory of his administration’s appointments and treatment of the Northern part of the country of which he is an indigene.

Nigeria is a country with diverse ethnic and religious constituents. While the President might be from the Fulani tribe, the office he holds (the moment he gets sworn in) makes him an indigene or member of other states or tribes as diverse as they are.

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The present reality is that President Buhari’s political appointments are soiled with stains of ethnic and nepotistic colourations which may be what he meant when he made the statement back in 2015 while fielding questions from journalists in the United States.

The country’s constitution has entrenched in it, principles of federal character, which basically allows for every Nigerian, irrespective of tribe, religion or ethnicity to enjoy uniform growth and development, unity and an inclusive and shared society.

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, in a 2019 interview with PremiumTimes, submitted that “the kind of situation you have now cannot allow those assumptions to become reality. Now you have a situation where three top officials of government will be from only two northern zones. Ahmed Lawan (who has been pencilled down as Senate President) is from the North-East, the acting chief justice of Nigeria is from the north-east, The President of the country is from the north-west. They are all from what we call the core north. How can you have that kind of arrangement and then be absolutely insensitive to it (lack of geographical diversity)?

“So the prescription that our constitution makes of the kind of leadership that should emerge, we have failed to achieve that with the present leadership we have in place. The Constitution expects the executive to care for the welfare and security of every Nigerian. But in the present situation, they don’t seem to care.”

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