The greatest task we must put to Tinubu is that of restoring Nigeria to a country in which the guilty will get their deserved comeuppance.
Going by logic and antecedents, it will be difficult for Tinubu to properly restore the scales of justice in Nigeria. His IOUs will predictably tilt towards those same principalities and powers for whom injustice is a core condiment in their broth. I pray however that he pleasantly shocks cynics like me. If he does, hope will begin to build in the Nigerian people, as Maya Angelou wrote in her poem, “Still I Rise”… “With the certainty of tides,/Just like hopes springing high.
Of all life’s existential acquisitions – wealth, fame, power and the lot, the most transient, most fleeting and ephemeral of all is power. It is the most un-enduring. Former presidential spokesman, Reuben Abati, put it in its crudest form when he said, eight years ago, that his phone stopped ringing immediately he stepped out of power. Power is the fair-weather friend that will not be there for you in your time of loneliness.
Last Friday, Buhari took the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, round the presidential palace on a familiarisation tour. This is the place that will be Tinubu’s abode of power in the next four years, all things being equal. His wife, Remi, also did her own tour, under the guidance of Mrs Aisha Buhari, the president’s spouse. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo had earlier conducted Kashim Shettima round the Vice President’s wing of the State House.
Akarigbo Oyebajo was appointed in February 1902 as a member of the Central Native Council, and subsequently became high-handed, especially in his relationship with his chiefs. The result was widespread dissension from them. He began to monopolise the stipends accruing to him from the colonial government and refused to share these with the chiefs, as required of him by custom. In 1911, the chiefs then got him tried in court for extortion and larceny.
Gradually, justice began to die in Nigeria. Today, the Nigerian landscape is littered with the blood of the righteous and the gloating of the powerful. With it came the death of shame and the ascendancy of shamelessness. Not long ago, the children of Ejigbadero remembered their executed father in a lavish ceremony that spoke to this new level of societal shamelessness.
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