Actually, I did not plan to focus on Buhari this week but on the rising suicide rate in the country. I had wanted to approach the topic philosophically; why anybody would want to end it all; to go against the very first, and by far the greatest, law of nature which is personal preservation of a being plus the preservation of the species.Then in came a reaction to my offering of last Saturday; “Blind APC LEADING Blind Nigeria.
Now, a word for the spokesman; it may have been some modicum of achievement if the spokesman had in any way in his earlier statement on the President’s trip to the OIC summit suggested that Buhari had in any way had worked towards swaying the OIC leaders to agree to condemn the Islamic religious terrorism ravaging Nigeria and a large swart of West-Africa.
Nigerians everywhere knew that their country had begun to matter and was no longer a big for nothing country, and they began to walk with a spring in their steps. Buhari was a leading member of that glorious administration…so even he is my witness that what happened at the last OIC summit cannot be compared with what Murtala achieved in 1976.
My friend the presidential spokesman should also not forget to publish the soul-stirring speech that Buhari delivered at that summit that became a game-changer and became consequential—just like the “Africa Has Come of Age” speech which the illustrious Murtala Mohammed delivered in Kampala in 1976.