Political contamination

by Eze Eluchie

In my book, 'Reign of Evil’, I did quote Nigeria's ex-Military Dictator, General Muhammadu Buhari’s dictum on Nigeria being our only country and our having to remain in it and ‘salvage it together’.

Though inability to effectively cleanse the polity when he had the opportunity and the lopsided nature of activities of the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) under his watch during the dictatorship of General Sani Abacha remain dark, unfortunate and touchy spots, it is however quite worrisome  that the Nigeria political terrain will force such a man to hobnob with vile characters in his quest to attain political office to sanitize our polity. 

Each time characters like the roguish Nasir el-Rufai and sly Bola Ahmed Tinubu come within 100 meters of General Buhari, talk less of posing for pictures with the General, they further pollute the ambiance around Buhari and stain his character.

With regards to the purported efforts at a coalition with Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Buhari will do himself and his person a world of good to learn from the experience of an opportunist, Nuhu Ribadu, who was comically paraded around Nigeria as a Presidential candidate during the 2011 general elections by the ACN only to be traded off in one of the most despicable acts of political treachery and foolery ever witnessed.

I believe the General remains a good product being wrongly packaged. With the continued romance with impure characters, the product risks contamination.  

Picture: Rtd. Gen. Muhammed Buhari and Bola Tinubu