Let President Buhari Be Remembered After 2023 But Not In Nostalgia -By Saliu Momodu

It would be perfectly understandable if as a whole, Nigerians today fall into some kind of nostalgic trance and through it chant hearty eulogy for the person of the immediate past President, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, and to his days in office. It is with this consideration that recent distasteful remarks by the Kano State Governor Abdullahi Ganduje and the ostentatious apologies from ex-Senator Dino Melaye should be accommodated.

This perennial sentiment is now iconic as a Nigerian phenomenon which requires no explanation as to it’s origin and triggers that suggest an inescapable unabating decline in the quality of governance around here.
Jonathan certainly was no longer good enough for Nigeria as at 2014 hence the vote of no confidence (or whatever it was in reality) that ousted him for good.

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But this is a very familiar reoccurrence with almost every single one of our past Heads of State (or Presidents if you like) – where the former becomes a darling to the populace immediately they begin to take the spanking from the successor.
Even President Muhammadu Buhari is a living testimony as to how such popular sentiments could be exploited for a second-coming of some sort as witnessed in the 2015 polls.

But one thing I’m sure upon which Nigerians, regardless of region, religion, class or political leaning would readily and unequivocally find unanimity is that Buhari (who currently may be offering his sincere best) may never, for God’s sake, be remembered in nostalgia. The remotest possibility for such could very well pass for cataclysm.

This much I’m sure even the most zealous Buharist would not hesitate to concede.
God’s help is forever sort.

Saliu Momodu
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