President Buhari’s Appointments, Seiyefa And DSS
By Paul Onomuakpokpo When posterity reflects on this dark political epoch whose principal actor is President Muhammadu Buhari, it would be racked by the disappointment that some people were so swayed by self-interest or naivety that they made him their number one citizen. Perhaps, it would be dissuaded from unleashing a harsh judgement on its forbears after the realisation that the emergence of Buhari as the president has eternally served to demystify him. Stripped bare of his much-trumpeted integrity as cases of official sleaze cascade around him, he has irrevocably rendered himself unfit for the pantheon of statesmen. The searing verdict is reserved for Buhari who even after three years since he became president, unflaggingly whines about how unconscionable pillage by his predecessor has hobbled his translation of his noble intentions into reality. But we must appreciate the fact that Buhari has ceaselessly been provided with opportunities to reinvent himself and prove...