Why I Will Keep On Criticizing The President

I criticize Buhari because I want him to succeed. I criticize Buhari because I owe him and our democracy the duty to continue to hold our leaders accountable.

I criticize Buhari because he will owe his success more to listening to criticisms than to praise-singing. If I were Buhari, I will read more of the comments of my critics than those who see nothing wrong in everything I do.

If this democracy will survive, it will be due more to the efforts of the opposition than the party in power. That was why the opposition of APC when PDP was in power was a welcome development. This time around, the opposition of PDP and others should be a welcome development.

Don't get it wrong. Buhari was elected to serve us. And the servant is not greater than his master. In democracy, he is accountable to us. You and I have a right to raise the bar of expectation and demand the highest level of performance.

That is why my tax goes towards sustaining Buhari in office. I pay to fuel the Presidential fleet of planes and cars. I pay to feed him in Aso Rock. I pay to give him the comfort and lifestyle he now enjoys as the President.

He owes his privileges and the perks of his office to ME and also to YOU. Let me make it plain so you can understand: Buhari lives on me. I am a stakeholder in the Nigeria Project.

If you're a stakeholder in a company and you feel the Managing Director is not running it efficiently and you keep quiet, you are an irresponsible stakeholder. And that I don't want to be.

If you're constantly praising Buhari and he can never do any wrong to you, you are the real enemy of the nation. Buhari should be afraid of you. You are the one setting him up for failure.

You are the enemy who pretends to be a friend. You are Brutus who kept on goading Caesar until one day he put a dagger into his heart.

Buhari does not need to fear those who criticize him. He needs to fear those who praise him ceaselessly. A man's enemies are the men of his own house (Micah 7:6).

(I wrote this exactly 5 years ago (Nov 30, 2015) on Facebook. I still fully align with this view.

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