On the CPC Saga and Buhari

I have been following the recent developments in CPC; the Kano, Katsina and Kebbi saga. I am particularly disappointed by the national chairman Barrister Rufa'i Sani Hanaga. His actions revealed vividly his original self and his desperateness to secure himself the seat of the governorship in Kano at the expense of all and sundry.

Particularly I have the feelings that Buba Galidima's expressions that he may leave the party which by implication means that Buhari may also leave the party is also wrong. This revealed nothing more than Buhari's weakness and inability to politically outmanoeuvre the people who might be plotting against him. As a chairman or member of the Board of Trustees, one is expected to be last in leaving any party as well as being the last decision one may ever make concerning the party.

I was since, critical about Buhari's decision of leaving ANPP. I wish Buhari stayed there, hijacked the party and made it served his purposes. With his reputation in Nigeria, no party Buhari cannot manoeuvre. I find it highly contradictory that opportunist moneybags most of whom are IQ wise below average can every now and then use Buhari's fame and integrity to pave their ways to government houses and House of Assembly and Buhari still cannot use the same fame to give Nigerians what he promises. Maybe Buhari needs better aids than the ones he has right now. Maybe he needs people who not just love him but also believe his ideas, maybe he needs people who share the same ideology with him and to whom the ideas are more important than personalities. Maybe Buhari needs a calibre of people who are more STRATEGIC than emotional; those who can take full advantage of the emotions of Nigerians without being emotional themselves.

Let me tell you what I believe all these while. There are only two options to lead Nigeria. The first is the mediocrity we are in now where the criminals held sway for they can touch an perfectly work on the immediate needs of the masses and the masses in their turn will be compelled to respond to them immediately and continue to hate them without being able to fight them forever as long as the system remains the way it is. The second option is whereby we can have an ideology that can appeal to the inner workings of the masses in which the masses can believe and for which they can sacrifice their lives. At that point, the masses themselves can work on promoting that ideology and make sure the ideology succeeds no matter what it cost them. In this system, personalities don't matter a lot, especially at the execution level. A personality matters only at the level of an ideologue; an image of a charismatic leader whose role is to articulate the ideology, package it in the best possible expressions with lively examples and preach it to the masses as a gospel. This person needs to preach this ideology in a way that he would appear as so much believing in the ideology as he is himself part of the ideology. The danger besieging this personality is at the point where he begins to believe that he really is an integral part of the ideology and therefore no application of the ideology is possible without him.

Why I think, Buhari keeps failing is because he stood somewhere in-between the continuum of the two extreme ends. Buhari is neither corrupt no an ideologues. It is true that Buhari has some good ideas on how to rule Nigeria, but there is a great need for these ideas to be well articulated, to be brought together to form one single and logical sequence that can be a theoretical explanation of what a Nigerian is, what are the natural and artificial features and needs of Nigeria and the Nigerians and why the proposals of that theory are NATURALLY the best options for Nigeria.