HE ruling elites have us by the balls. Our collective capacity for short memory is like none anywhere else in the world. So it’s usually easy for our rulers to make egregious appointments into critical public positions or to proclaim vexatious policy and then sit back.
We, Nigerians, will huff and puff and threaten fire and brimstone if the appointment or policy was not reviewed or reversed. Our rulers will conveniently keep quiet knowing that ‘nothing mega’ or nothing will happen. After a few days, maximum one week, we will move on and the hitherto concerning appointment and/or policy will disappear from the news media headlines.
Almost every federal administration since 1999 has used this strategy to wear out the people and overcome citizens’ inconveniences. But the extant regime of the All Progressives Congress (APC) political party has elevated this practice to an art form. Whenever it backpedals from chosen options it was usually to create the impression that it was a listening government.
No, it’s not. It has never been since 2015 when its candidate and the affliction of Nigeria, Maj.-Gen.
Muhammadu Buhari, assumed office as president. That utter failure who approximated what a ruler should not be in a country desperate for rescue from political and economic morass and paralysis regarded the presidency as a trophy and not a call to service. When Buhari failed in his three consecutive quests to be elected Nigeria’s president, he publicly bemoaned his fate but.
