Sir: “I belong to everybody. I belong to nobody.” That was the golden statement or word on marble credited to President Muhammadu Buhari as part of his Inauguration Speech on Friday May 29, 2015. With that particular statement, among other highlights of his inaugural speech, the nation has been put in a reverse-gear and in a state of despondency. Some of us with the eyes of the Spirit by God’s grace, refused to be cajoled by that statement.

The President actually belongs to the North (especially the Hausa/Fulani) where he hails from and his party – All Progressives Congress -APC (the party that produced him as its presidential flag-bearer).

The clear-cut lopsidedness in the recent appointments into boards of parastatals and key sectors of the economy and the security apparatus has left no-one in doubt of where President Buhari’s spirit, soul and body belong. This unfolding scenario seems to have left the ruling party (APC) dumb-founded and rattled. No one is sure of the President’s next move. Not even his presumed chief advisers or handlers from the South-West can predict him. He has clearly shown to them that the statement in his inaugural speech was just a political statement to soothe the nerves of Nigerians.

And if anybody chose to believe that statement, that person may still be living in a fool’s paradise Despite all these shortcomings, a living dog is still better than a dead lion when this new administration is compared to the one that preceded it.

• Gbemiga Olakunle,
General Secretary, National Prayer Movement [email protected] gbemigaolakunle.blogspot.com