As Nigerians awaited President Muhammadu Buhari’s Democracy Day broadcast on Monday, I could almost tell what the speech would look like. And it was not just because of the delivery style. For the President reads his speech, he does not really deliver it. Of course, he did not disappoint on that score.
I expected the President to give an election-year broadcast – by giving us a scorecard of his three years in office (never mind that he’s the one scoring his own answer sheet). He did exactly that.
I expected that he would avoid getting too deep into the herdsmen imbroglio and dwell more on Boko Haram and Dapchi, where we rescued all, but two, of the kidnapped schoolgirls. Unfortunately, we cannot discuss Dapchi in isolation of Chibok, which has not been such a huge success and, of course, the pesky Amnesty International report.
In all, I did not expect a hate speech. And, thankfully, yesterday’s speech was no hate speech. PMB did not also talk down on us,…
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