If I could advise Buhari, I will say that he should buy, rebrand and own the Revolution Now rhetoric. Revolution is not a swear word. In fact, I believe it was what we need in Nigeria presently. The word cannot be outlawed as it is being done presently. Nigeria needs revolutions, which means a new way of doing things; turning things inside-out, revolving.
President Buhari is missing out on yet another golden opportunity. May it not be said that his eight-year regime was all about missed opportunities. In the year 2007 when President Yar'Adua came into government, Nigeria had problems with the boys in the Niger Delta who crippled oil production and took up arms against the state. I recall that in 2008, Yar'Adua paid a courtesy visit to Prime Minister Gordon Brown of the United Kingdom. As usual, Brown put on his salesman cap and tried to schmooze Umaru into a $300 million arms deal to 'secure the Niger Delta and protect the flow of crude oil'. Remnants of that news are here. Yar'Adua stylishly rejected the deal by speaking about how the European and American governments should rather help us in tracking stolen crude oil. Brown and his folks were not happy with Yar'Adua, who came back home and instead embraced a peaceful way out of that insurgency; a deal which has somehow held up till today, warts and all.
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