Opinion: How Buhari’s Second Term Is Evaporating In the 2023 Discourse, By Zainab Suleiman Okino
It thus appear that everything that the Buhari government will do in its second term is about taking a position ahead of 2023 politics and unsurprisingly, appointments have remained lopsided and good governance has since assumed the back seat.
I dare not say a minority from the North-Central can be the president of Nigeria; wishful thinking that is? Who cares about minorities in the Nigeria of today? When we talk of the South, it is either Yoruba or Igbo, and when we look up North, we only think of the Hausa Fulani of the North-West. Part of the bane of Nigeria’s politics is the skewed configuration of the federation, such that we are now wired to think that minorities are not good enough to take a shot at the helms of government.
Tinubu’s double-speak about Amotekun has a 2023 imprimatur. Here is a man who had talked about restructuring, including state and community policing, all his political life, until his party captured power at the centre. He is now cleverly refusing to align with his South-West governor-kits-and-kins to pursue the first concrete effort at tackling insecurity locally.
Upon Buhari’s victory in the 2019 general election, the campaign for 2023 started almost immediately with names such as Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the APC national leader; and Nasir el-Rufai, the governor of Kaduna State and others, dominating discourses. …the All Progressives Congress could face imminent disintegration; therefore it is just as well that the government is strategising ahead with the ongoing amendment of the Constitution to accommodate local government autonomy, of which the establishment of the Nigeria Financial Intelligence Unit served as precursor, in order to reposition the party for 2023.
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