This is a repost please.
“As for the equally partisan Lord Anunoby who says that Brother Buhari has been running his presidential campaigns for quite some time, so, where is all the campaign money coming from? From contributors of course (how do you think Brother Obama got elected?) Lord Anunoby does not ask where the money in the war chest which lubricates Goodluck Jonathan’s campaign engine is coming from...”
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This conversation is on Buhari and not Jonathan in my opinion.
That Buhari has not had a paid job since his last one during the Abacha dictatorship is a fact is it not? He has therefore not earned any employment income for a long time now. He is a pensioner with many dependents. While only he and his financial and investment advisers are privy to the details of his personal balance sheet, his pension benefits are estimatable- there have all been and continue to be paid by government and for so many years so far.
I understand his supporters to be saying he is not corrupt, always lived on legitimate earned employment income as a public servant, owns or runs no businesses, and now lives off his pension benefits, savings, and gifts from his well-wishers. They seem to be saying that he is not rich and is not funding his endless presidential campaigns from personal funds. They now say that he does so from “contributors of course” They do not say who these contributors are. They could be Nigerians and/or foreigners therefore. They could even be Nigeria’s domestic of foreign enemies.
Is it presumptuous to expect a man and politician that Buhari’s supporters say that he is, to not understand that there are legitimate questions about how an unemployed, uncorrupt, and incorruptible pensioner is able to conduct an unending presidential campaign with other people’s money and to answer the questions without further delay? Should Buhari not be accountable to his potential electors if he decide to run again for the office of president of Nigeria? His supporters should encourage and invite questions and answer all them all. They should not discourage or detest them. Buhari should know that supporters those hinder and hurt his chances of election success.
Buhari’s advocates seem to be so consumed by their loyalty to him that they refuse to see beyond their noses. They apparently do not see the gaping holes in the cases they continue to try and fail to make successfully for him? They seem to believe that the man’s due is a rightful coronation as president given that for them, he is the most and perhaps only righteous and therefore most qualified aspirant to the office of president of Nigeria today. He might be but where is their evidence beyond anecdotes, presumptions, and suppositions? Why are they unable to see that this coronation might not happen until important questions about the man’s past and presented are answered satisfactorily? Why are these supporters unable to see that the questions will not go away and that time is not on their man’s side? Do they not know that the man is controversial as a person and a politician?
There are times one’s critics are the one’s best friend. This I believe is one such time. Buhari may indeed be the man his supporters say he is. He may have good intentions. Good intentions alone do not make a person deserving of political office. Actions are important too. Not many of those have been seen of him in my opinion. If Buhari wishes to run for the office of president in Nigeria in 2015 presidential election successfully, he should consider without further delay, encouraging or leading a public conversation on his role as military dictator, his many unwise public statements which understandably portray him as a parochial and partisan politician, and what have caused him to continue to migrate from one political party to another in pursuit of his ambition to be president of Nigeria. He should publicly address the questions asked about him and which questions make many people cringe at the thought of a likely Buhari presidency of Nigeria in all and different parts of the country before he throws his hat in the ring again if he wants a different outcome.
I wish him well.
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