Graft and insurgency: Buhari to the rescue (2)

CONTINUED FROM LAST FRIDAY

IT is not surprising that Buhari is garnering mammoth support across the country, considering his track record of fighting corruption and insurgency. Today, these are the two major problems confronting us as people, and unless we elect a leader with the determination to restore sanity to Nigeria, we face the risk of imminent danger and catastrophe.

  Much as I do not want to sound alarmist, yet this is the stark reality facing us as a people. We cannot afford to act Nero and go to sleep while the nation is burning. We must pull back the country from the brink, or else we shall all suffer for our collective inertia and mindlessness.

     Buhari’s likely victory at the polls next year definitely offers a vista of hope that there is indeed light at the end of the tunnel. As the late Dr. Chuba Okadigbo postulated, “all hands must be on deck” if we must have a chance of reclaiming our humanity from the twin cankerworms of Boko Haram and corruption in high places.

   It is equally consoling that General Buhari in his acceptance speech at the just concluded national convention of APC had promised to rule Nigeria based on equity, transparency, and good governance. As a people, we cannot ask for more, considering Buhari’s pedigree as a man that keeps his words. Indeed, Buhari’s Presidency is the way to go from 2015 thenceforth.

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  •Enekwechi is an Abuja-based journalist and politician,

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