The trendy hashtag on Twitter #WhereIsBuhari has brought about a dig deep into the past.
There was so much ado and outrage in Nigeria yesterday, May 1 which is Workers’ Day annually.
Some concerned Nigerians took to social media, demanding to see or know where the president was.
Recall that following Buhari’s ill health, he has not been spotted in public in the past few days.
While this left Nigerians worried, Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed said his principal would work from home.
Soon afterwards, Sahara Reporters’ sources revealed that President Buhari is so sick he can’t eat or drink but cabal won’t let him travel.
The question now is, #WhereIsBuhari?
In the meantime, one would only stop to wonder if our President’s current health situation is any different from one time president, late Umaru Musa Yar’Adua.
Recall that in 2010, thousands of Nigerians took to the streets to protest the state of the nation.
The reason for the protest was particularly the long absence of the then President, late Umaru Musa Yar’Adua from the country without officially transmitting power to Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan.
The slight difference here is President Buhari is currently in Nigeria, but has been unavoidably absent from political functions due to reasons ‘best known to the cabal.’
Also, in same 2010, hundreds of angry Nigerians marched down this capital’s broad avenues to protest the long absence of Yar’adua, who was away for nearly two months getting medical treatment in Saudi Arabia.
Buhari’s health, Where Is Buhari, Throwback to where is Yar’Adua
Until a few halting sentences were uttered to the BBC from his hospital, President Yar’Adua had been silent.
His government was uncommunicative about his condition and it left Nigerians in awe and in a puzzling state.
Nigerians were left perplexed about an apparently rudderless nation.
The president was not even around to sign a supplementary budget bill.
Finally, a fragile-sounding Yar’Adua, told a BBC reporter that “I am undergoing treatment and I’m getting better from the treatment I’m getting.
“And I hope that very soon there will be tremendous progress which will allow me to get back home.”
He said he would return to Nigeria “as soon as my doctors discharge me.”
His few words however failed to satisfy the protesters led by the Nobel laureate and writer Wole Soyinka.
They displayed placards with inscriptions:
“Umaru Where Are You?”; “President Yar’Adua Speak to Us”; “Our country is drifting,”; “The people in power don’t respect the Constitution”; “We have no direction.”
Some protesters alleged that the northerners surrounding Mr. Yar’Adua were reluctant to yield power and its perquisites to those from the ethnically separate south.
Well, all these were in the past for #WhereIsYar’Adua?
Now, the trending #WhereIsBuhari got Nigerians digging out photos.
They asked (we are asking) if this kind of protest is needed again.
Can you notice already that there are similarities? What is the problem really?
Don’t Nigerians (we) deserve to know where our own president is?
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