Just as I am convinced beyond any doubt that Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is a special breed that cannot be pulled down by human machinations, I am also of the firm belief that President Muhammad Buhari is one human being that cannot be easily decoded.
The President and his biggest political ally, Tinubu, have in common a special grace that is not commonly given. They are, to me, the apples of God’s eyes.
God is the final decider in the affairs of man, and I know from how I have personally experienced God, that the Almighty is truly a God of good, who can only permit human wickedness to a point in the life of His anointed, as He did with the Biblical Job.
In that scriptural narrative, God only allowed Job’s sufferings in the hands of Satan to let the world know that His faithful follower was not walking with Him just because he was prosperous or that he would rescind his faith in Him if he suffered any reverse. He allowed Job’s sufferings for a while, to let Satan and those with his demonic tendencies know that they do not have total control over the affairs of man.
I look at what Tinubu is going through as a political leader of distinction and I’m convinced that were he of lesser divine grace, he would have fallen to the evil devices of his detractors who are either genuinely peeved by his style or consumed by jealousy or ingratitude or utter wickedness. Now, even those who are politically opposed to Tinubu are all agreed that he is fabulously rich, and they include those who had benefited from his largeness of heart and charity. Perhaps such people who seem to have resolved in their minds to bring the man down, do not know that generosity, of which Tinubu is now renowned, is a shield against evil.
It is in the accommodating nature of Mr President that these Tinubu detractors and even the President’s ill-wishers seem to be deluding themselves that they can lure or goad the President into aligning with them in their evil plots, which they are naively associating with politics.
Buhari, in my study of him, is not one to be in sync with such people, especially given his own travails at the hands of people like ex-governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State and others of his ilk in the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). It is for that reason the President should distance himself from the antics and infantile pranks of people like Mallam Nasir El-Rufai who was in Lagos the other day to be talking of how to end godfatherism in the state.
The El-Rufai who pranced on the back of President Obasanjo when he held sway as Minister of the FCT or travelled at Tinubu’s feet when he needed his political favour? Sycophancy, indeed, has no shame! On whose back did he ride to get to his present station? His godfathers or babyfathers? Or has he extraordinary credentials beyond bootlicking for his transformation in a space of few years?
He might have wormed his way into the Presidents heart for certain reasons, but he should not push his luck too far or tempt God to want to use someone or allow himself to be used to incur God’s wrath. In any case, El-Rufai has enough blessings to be thankful for than to squander them on the altar of expediency by dabbling into matters that are clearly beyond his ken. He is advised to confine his youthful exuberance to the state under whose watch he has helped to exacerbate religious ill-feelings.
