Is Buhari Misleading The World? We Need Another Hero, By Terver Atsar
Terver Atsar is a Port Harcourt-based public affairs commentator, in his piece recently he said he read with suprise some comments Buhari made on Governor Ortom of Benue State while responding to questions during a town hall meeting with the Nigerian community in Dubai.
“This is by far the most direct admission by Buhari that he has no idea what the modern solution to what he described as an old problem is. It is the height of timidity to pay glowing tribute to the age of a problem as a reason why it can’t be solved with modern thinking, a job he was elected to do.
That Buhari is still stuck with a questionable narrative on grazing routes confirms that his exposure and leverage at the vantage positions he has occupied over the years has not cured him of the sedentary lifestyle of his FULANI lineage.
Unfortunately for him but fortunately for us in Benue, history books have no Gazzetted grazing routes in Benue. He cant fabricate those documents he desperately needs to back up the false claims of historic grazing routes in Benue. The reason the people he requested to exhume those documents could not do so is that those documents never existed!
By refusing to admit that even if we had such grazing routes in the past, they should have become obsolete in 2019, Buhari has admitted that he is a leader who is stuck in the past and has no capacity to figure out modern solutions to current problems. We obviously need another hero…apologies to Tina Turner who sang “we don’t need another hero..”
Buhari referred to the problem against all visible evidence as a herders/farmers clashes. Yet curiously he found it expedient to harp on a solution that appeals to the Herdsmen without any concern on the farmer’s plight. Buhari didn’t even pretend to care about the thousands of lives taken by marauders who he admits come from all over west Africa, in Benue. As far as he is concerned we can continue to die as long as we are not willing to surrender our ancestral lands to the FULANI HERDSMEN from all over west Africa.
What greater sacrillage could a leader commit than to admit that he can not protect the sovereignty of his country from invaders from neighbouring countries because he doesn’t know the difference between the invaders and their local accomplices? Why do we have an immigration service if our boarders can not be secured?
By this interview, Buhari has unwittingly vindicated Ortom. Indeed he has confirmed the claim that Orton elected to position himse as a defender of his people against his(Buhari’s) intimidating coercion to surrender his land to Herdsmen! If by his admission Ortom quit the APC to oppose grazing reserves/ routes then he indeed is a hero worth celebrating.
Another expose of his mindset as can be gleaned from this interview is that Buhari used the Party( APC ) as a platform to intimidate Ortom and coerce him into submission. ORTOM chose to risk his political career and even his life by jumping to the other party where his fate was unknown. Shame to some Benue sons who are refusing to admit the obvious that Ortom is the current face of the struggle for survival of the Benue valley, now that Buhari has confirmed him as such.
Whereas Buhari clearly has shown exasperation over the problem, Ortom took the bull by the horns by enacting a law that if obeyed, should put paid to indiscriminate grazing; a law which Buhari is unwilling to recognize because he is averse to modernty and bloodless solution to the problem. Who is a true leader between these two”?
Nasarawa Reporters 