Who Is Running Nigeria? President Buhari or Jubril From Sudan?

While the headline of this week's discourse may 

appear 

sensational, anyone with half-senility knows that 

President Buhari retains his mandate till May 29, 

2019, 

I assure my readers that I have not sacrificed my 

won't 

of circumspection, sobriety, and rigor in my 

interrogation of social phenomena on the altar of 

satire. I am conscious that giving in to the temptation 

to reduce serious matters to caricature will curry more 

social media engagements from our kin seeking 

comedic reliefs from the ongoing assault at fueling 

stations but is sure to deflect from the message that I 

aim to convey. I will quickly shut down the grandiose 

conspiratorial delusions of the fanatical IPOB foot 

soldiers whose demigod, Kanu, first concocted the 

fable of a theatric clone of President Buhari, Jubril 

from Sudan, as the new resident-in-chief in Aso Villa. 

A keen and perplexed reader will then venture to ask 

why 

I am continuing with the subject matter of this 

discourse, having seemed to have repudiated it. At 

this 

point, I think it is appropriate to appeal to the logical 

senses of readers and ask that they follow me as I 

construct an argument that justifies the posers in this 

week’s discourse.

At the height of the notoriety of the Abacha tyrannical 

odyssey in Nigeria’s browbeaten politics, and 

following 

a series of coordinated international opposition 

against his reign of terror, the Ministry of Foreign 

Affairs under the cap-wearing Benin Chief, Tom Ikimi, 

launched a bold pushback. The propaganda message 

"NOT IN OUR CHARACTER" developed by Ikimi 

targeted foreigners and the few nations that were still 

undecided about what to make of the Abacha 

junta.The aim of that campaign was to 

discountenance a Western media driven message of 

a 

nation in turmoil, under the control of crooks and 

gutotting military brass that was not only looting the 

treasuries of the country on an unprecedented scale 

but eradicating voices of dissent and leading the 

nation into an avoidable violent meltdown. By digging 

into the historical antecedents and accomplishments 

of Nigerians and Nigeria, the ‘Not in Our Character' 

propaganda tried to create an alternative narrative 

through framing the debate to a comparative 

analysis of what is known of the Nigerian character as 

against the stereotype being imposed by the West. 

However, the wisdom of the sages tells us that 

wherever a child keeps pointing at while in fits of 

tears, 

a discreet probe will reveal the presence of one or 

both 

parents within that vicinity. The revelations of 

thegrandtheft, deaths and human rights violations 

under that 

regime have been adequately documented and still 

unraveling.

Perhaps, Jubril from Sudan is a metaphor for a reluctant, impervious and incapacitated president that lacks the will, strength of character and raw courage to act decisively no matter whose ox is gored. As the policy thrust of his presidency stutters to a grinding halt, the president must be reminded that history will only be fair to him for the extraordinary things he did to drive change rather than the maintenance of a status quo of laissez-faire in dealing with his cabal of loyalists.