Latif, the Healthy Mindset, was so full of life and made a truly positive impact, especially on the less privileged. His energy and commitment to uplifting others was so apparent. May Allah accept him, forgive his shortcomings and grant him the highest rank of Jannah. Ameen!
BREAKING NEWS: President Bola Tinubu has announced a landmark partnership between the Federal Government, global aircraft manufacturer Boeing, and the UK-based Cranfield University to establish a world-class Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul facility in Nigeria ๐ณ๐ฌ
I genuinely donโt know where all of this will eventually lead us as a nation. If the rising tensions and the constant reckless narrative are simply because of the combination of the individuals currently occupying the Presidency, then why canโt we just wait and channel our dissatisfaction through the ballot boxes in 2027?
We all clearly remember the events of the 2023 elections. Neither President Tinubu, his Deputy nor the APC built their campaign around religion. They did not tour mosques preaching religious fear. They did not weaponise faith for political gain. Instead, they focused on experiences and regional balance. But Peter Obi, the very candidate many of propagandists supported, went from church to church framing the election as a religious war and busy calling daddies to help him take the message to their congregations.
I genuinely thought that the Tinubu/Shettima ticket would be seen first and foremost as a Yoruba/Kanuri ticket, two ethnic groups coming together to represent national diversity, as people have been preaching that religion should never come before tribe. But now, because that narrative doesnโt fit the current agenda, suddenly everything is reduced to Muslim/Muslim, as their ethnic identities no longer matter.
If we genuinely care about this country, our politics must be guided by truth, not reckless narratives crafted to inflame sentiment. Nigeria deserves better.
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INNA LILLAHI WA INNA ILAIHIRRAJIUUN.
The family of the former president has announced the passing on of the former president, Muhammadu Buhari, this afternoon in a clinic in London.
May Allah accept him in Aljannatul Firdaus, Amin.
TRIBUTE:
WE WILL ALL BE LESS WITHOUT BUHARI.
Muhammadu Buhari was the rarest of individuals to grace political life anywhere in the world: an incorruptible servant of the people. He was not motivated by pride, or by riches - the accumulation of which repelled him. He was drawn to public service, discipline, and patriotism, and the unity of Nigeria as a one nation and one idea.
In his long service, first in the military he campaigned to keep Nigeria as a single country, and later briefly holding the position of head of state, he fought to tackle rampant corruption. ย
Later, as a converted democrat after the return of elections in 1999 he campaigned relentlessly to liberate Nigeria from becoming what he feared would be an elected, but corrupted, one-party state. Without Buhariโs refusal to back down, the disparate democratic opposition may never have united, and there would be no true multi-party system in Nigeria today.
Once that unity was achieved, Buhari โ who else? โ was chosen as the oppositionโs flagbearer. In 2015 he became the first candidate to win election over an incumbent, for Nigeria the first-time power changed hands peacefully between the victor and vanquished.
His two terms in elected office coincided with worldwide economic challenges, and the threat from terrorism in the Sahel. He tackled both, creating new and welcome welfare programmes, and decisively breaking the power of Boko Haram.
Facing down accusations of favouring the north, he created ranches for northern herders to protect the livelihoods of southern farmers, saving lives and fostering better relations.
A deeply religious man, he was the opposite of partisan โ enlisting a southern pastor as his two-time running-mate and regularly writing about Christianity and its relations with his own Muslim faith.
After assuming office, he struck up a lasting friendship with the Archbishop of Canterbury, with tolerance and modesty as well as religious fervor being attributes they shared.
After retiring from office, he returned to his farm and tended to his cattle, staying scrupulously out of the public eye and away from politics โ always and intentionally refusing to comment. It was more important for this modest man to give a wide berth to his successor than to express any opinion, believing intervention in political affairs by ex-leaders was rarely merited, and more often a sign of a vanity he would never personally countenance.
Muhammadu Buhari led a life full enough for many men. He will be remembered best by his own words: โI belong to everybody and I belong to nobodyโ. He was the best of Nigeria, and we are all less without him.
Today, it was General Muhammadu Buhari's turn. Tomorrow, it may be your turn or mine. We do not know how much time we have left, thus, we must use what time we have left as if it is our last time on this realm.