President Muhammadu Buhari listed yesterday “nine priority areas” for the next 33 months.
It might not be out of place to say that the President is gradually advancing into the legacy mode. In any case, there have been calls on him to be more conscious of his place in history. He has been urged to reboot the dynamic of his administration. Doubtless, 33 months are enough for the President to make a difference in the identified policy areas given competence in governance and sincerity of purpose. It doesn’t take eternity to demonstrate competence in governance. After all, the idea of celebrating 100 days in office has been traced to the French emperor, Napoleon Bonaparte, who took some landmark political decisions in just 100 days after arriving in Paris on his escape from Elba.
The fact that Buhari did not list national unity as a priority could be an indication that the factor is taken for granted. It has been repeatedly emphasised here that nations are built by a committed people under a visionary leadership. Perhaps the only indispensable ingredient in the making of a nation is what a scholar calls the “collective state of mind.” The leadership should by its action and words promote this “state of mind.” It is the subjective feeling of having a sense belonging to a nation. It is more decisive than ethnicity, race, blood, geography, language or ancestry.
The cry of marginalisation is almost universal in the Nigerian political landscape. It is not only the minority ethnic groups that say that they are being pushed to the margins in the management of national affairs. Every part now claims to be marginalised. The circumstances of many communities in Nigeria are not the type that could generate nationalist feelings.
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