A university lecturer has reacted to
viral rumours that the controversial American president, Trump referred to
Buhari as being lifeless after their encounter.
The Montevideo conference of 1933 has
spelled out indices for nations to be recognized, independent, free and stand
in their own rights as sovereign states. Hence, once a state meets the
requirements as postulated in the conference of 1933, it becomes a state to
reckoned with among the comity of states and enjoys privileges like respect and
honor from it counterparts.
Invariably, it is worthy to note
that, no nation is independent of others, that means, interdependence and
symbiotic relationship between climes make the world to progress.
Unfortunately, great powers like
US look down on Afrikaans and African nations. These neo-racist views on Africa
leadership and leaders must stop, if the pact of Montevideo conference must be
respected and followed respectively.
About the comment made by the US
government, quoted in New York Times and
published by the same media house based in hub of the world greatest country
USA as stated thus; "I will not want to meet a president as lifeless as
president Buhari" if this statement is true, and if the America
government actually said this crap words, then the United States has failed in
its role as global hegemonic power, or as police of the world.
As a concerned Nigerian, who doesn't
allow party affiliation and leadership skills of leaders to becloud my sense of
reasoning, and as an academician, who believes in building the image of the
nation through writings that are relevant to our foreign image and national and
international views of the nation in the global table of analysis.
I am therefore left with no option than
to describe the words credited to US government to the nation as an absolute
inverity, involute, crass, irrelevant and irritating to say the least.
This can further be described as
hegemonic incompetence from a leader who ought to be leader to all the nations.
The description of the president Buhari as "lifeless " is
inconsistent with reality of respect acceptable among leaders.
If he Buhari is lifeless, why did the US
government entered into agricultural relations with the Nigerian state? Why did
he the president of America choose to invite the lifeless president to the
White House, as the first leader from Sub-Saharan Africa to visit him since his
inception to power as the 45th POTUS of US? Why did he say all the good things
he said to president Buhari during their eventful discus at Rose garden media
chat with him?
There are so many rhetorical questions
to be asked about this lifeless statement saga. I see this statement as distraction
from the United States of America to Africa and Nigeria in order not to help
Afrikaans as promised or supposed as a world hegemon. The US government must
have a rethink over this unfortunate comment in New York Times.
To the youths celebrating this ill
comment, either because of their dislikes on the style of leadership of the
president, I want them to have a rethink; there are certain things that must
unite us as a nation, that's our core national interest.
What is said is to the nation, not just
directed to the image of Buhari, the statement has a multiple effects to the
image of the nation. If you accept that statement because of the personality of
the president you don't admire, that shows that we are all lifeless people in
Nigeria. That statement if true has dent and stained our image among the comity
of states.
The PDP is expected to write a rejoinder
immediately, condemning that statement made by the US government. The statement
was directed to the leader of nation who is also the image of the nation.
The 91 registered political parties must
write to condemn this egregious statement directed to the nation in
general.
While the APC should not take this issue
personal, the president is national image and represent all of us across the
creeds and regions, he belongs to everyone no matter the national divides as
multi lingua country and multi ethnic as well. It will be good for haters and
lovers, hailers and wailers, PDP and APC, stakeholders, clergies, academicians,
friends of the nation, members of the diplomatic Corp, corporate and multi
nationals to come out openly and kick against the potency of the comments
made.
The tag lifeless is not good at all, he
was elected by people full of of life, or is he telling us that the over 15
million Nigerians that voted for the president in 2015 are also lifeless? This
is a bad omen and retrogression to us as people.
The US government must come out in good
time to take responsibility for this statement or condemned it as well, if it
is false and fallacy.
I will recommend that all Nigerians in
diaspora and at home to come up with an anti-lifeless harsh tag
#Buhariisnotlifeless
This is because, no one will build image
of this nation for us, it is our total responsibility and mandate to project
the burgeoning image of our nation.
Undoubtedly, we may have our
numerous challenges as a people and differences, but we must learn to have the
spirit of togetherness and oneness as an indivisible people to stop any forms
of divisiveness such as this "lifeless" quagmire.
This thought is shared out of patriotism
to the country, I am strong advocate of a better Nigeria, I look forward to
seeing us uniting to building our national images across the globe.
The ministry of foreign affairs, the
Nigerian ambassador to the US and all other diplomats representing the nation
all over the globe must preach this in all our embassies. "we are not a
lifeless people and we don't have a lifeless president #PMBisnotlifeless”
God bless the Federal Republic of
Nigeria, and make us a great country amen.
Rwang Patrick Stephen
Department of political
science
Federal University of Kashere
Gombe state
Northeast Nigeria.
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