THIS article could have been titled FRIENDS OFBUHARI, PLEASE TELL HIM THE TRUTH. Last week, a few names were disclosed of people regarded as Buhari’s close confidantes.

THE elites who took over from the British colonialists behaved quite badly; within five years, parts of the country including the Middle Belt  and the West were on the boil. Despite the Federal Constitution in place, the centre intervened in the West leading to bloodbath. Given these,  manifest mismanagement and evident incompetence,  the populace reacted quite positively to the coup of January 15, 1966 but it suffered two tragedies. First, the attempt failed, and opportunist officers rather than restore the elected government, imposed  military rule. Secondly, the attempted coup was so badly executed that it could not shake off the tag of  being a sectional one.

The wretched nurseries of unceasing discord and the miserable objects of universal pity and contempt”. That was the way Alexander Hamilton, 1757-1804, one of the founding fathers of America described nations such as ours which were always hotbeds of political upheavals and conflict.

The wild jubilations which greeted the return of President Muhammadu Buhari from his long medical vacation abroad can at best be viewed from two standpoints.

As Levi was in the loins of Abraham when Melchisedec met him, so have we been in the loins of Christ from the foundation of the world