Singapore War Against Corruption and the Building of a Modern Nation.
And that's the attitude behind the Defeat of Corruption, and the Making of Modern Singapore. Is there a Presidential candidate with that attitude in Nigeria, today? The I am in charge attitude?
If you want to know the reason some of us turned hostile critics of President Buhari, this video speaks for us.
I pray that one day, President Buhari and his kitchen Cabinet, will find time to watch the video and appreciate the magnitude of the pain they inflicted in the heart of those who campaigned and voted for them in 2015.
We expected him to lock up scammers, terrorists, profiteers, commission agents, and budget-padding civil servants, but he had a different interpretation of the populist mandate handed to him. He turned clannish, refusing to accept that Nigeria is still one country.
When he locked up Col Dasuki on his assumption of office, this author came to his defense and wrote an essay published by the Nigerian Village Square, titled: "Debating the Rule of Law: Why I Stand With President Buhari." For three years running and until I stopped counting, the essay was the #1 read on the online magazine. That explains the extent, to which we wanted him to be heroic.
His trusted cronies, succumbed to inordinate greed and ethnic pressures; acquiring wealth they don't need and occupying positions whose portfolios they cannot define, thus denying history the opportunity to record them as the champions of the Making of a Modern Nigeria.
What makes their misadventures in power so painful is that they are fully conscious of the limits of their managerial expertise. Right now Nigerians can no longer make an informed distinction between the leadership and the terrorists killing our people, soldiers, and security personnel.
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