THINGS have not been going according to plan for President Buhari. For the last four months since his famous victory, the president has been engaged with a battle royal with the very people who put him in power. In order to win the election, Buhari had to form an alliance with wily politicians of the old-school; men seasoned at getting their hands dirty and adept at manipulating the system to power-political advantage.

LAST week, Americans witnessed a bout of unusual political drama. With majority control of the both houses of Congress, the thinking when Republicans swept into power in last year’s mid-term election was that they had formed a formidable bloc that will govern as their hearts desired.

I just read in your column, Candid Notes, your article titled, Hopelessness of our anti-corruption war(2).
I did not read the first part so I wouldn’t know exactly what you said or you did not say there.

FOR four months, President Muhammadu Buhari was busy in his one-man conclave spinning an elaborate mystery about the character and quality of people he would nominate into his cabinet.

THE President, Muhammadu Buhari is a victim of the high targets and expectations he and his lieutenants are setting. They do not appear to have learnt lessons from the Road Map and manifesto they made which are littered with promises, very difficult to fulfill.