Magu was the face of his anti-corruption campaign and he was doing very, very well until Malami found a way to hang him. I spoke audibly like I knew Magu one on one but no, it was only because I love Nigeria and the Buhari government. We know what his successor did despite being a very young boy. That boy’s case will be revisited but not this evening.
Despite that, I did not become a hater of that government as I realized that no government can get all decisions right.
I was disappointed too when Emefiele was given the go ahead to punish Nigerians because the villa cabal wanted power to be retained by a section of the country and therefore wanted to ensure that the APC candidate lost. It was for this reason that the then candidate, now president said in Abeokuta that “bo wun yin, e gbe’po pamo, be k’owo pamo, a ma dibo, a ma wole.” Meaning “if you like, hide fuel and hide money, we will vote and we will win.”
When the supreme court ruled that the old N200, N500 and N1,000 should remain legal tender only for fPMB to address the nation that only N200 will remain in circulation thereby flagrantly disobeying the ruling of the highest court in the land, I was furious but I never hated fPMB.
I never hated the country too.
There were many policy summersaults that hurt me too.
I spoke against what I did not like but I never allowed myself to become a person who disliked good things or good news about Nigeria.
This is why I laugh today when I see those who because of their ulterior motives have turned themselves to haters but called themselves objective critics, elite Buharists and all manner of concocted nomenclatures.
It is really laughable because their hypocrisy is not hidden as they think.
It is obvious.
It is only a moron that can be satisfied with every single thing a government does and that is why I am not comfortable with the removal of subsidy on electricity because all advanced economies do subsidize it to keep their factories competitive and profitable.
But my disagreeing with that is not enough reason to hate the government of Tinubu.
It can only be if I have an ulterior personal motive which I can then cover with the veil of objective criticism or emergency activism.
