The commander in-chief and his men

To smoothen the rough edges of relations between the presidency and the parliament, most governments appoint a liaison officer to do that job. In Nigeria, that job falls on Ita Enang, who has persistently failed the president and by extension, all Nigerians. The presidency has now resort to establishing a committee to do the job that Ita Enang boggled.

The chief of staff job is cut out to protect the president, his presidency and first family against anything malicious, real or imagined; and to also speed up processes where the president seem to be overwhelmed by other presidential responsibilities. Here again, Abba Kyari has failed all of us. In fact, and instead brought the presidency to disrepute and ridicule by immersing the trust bestowed on him in an alleged bribery scandal.

These two scenarios are replicated with same disease in most of the men charged to protect the presidency and its policies. At the height of President Trump's travel ban there was a spat between ministry of foreign affairs and the Special Assistant to the president on diaspora matters was one angle to it. Another one was the avoidable collision between DSS and the EFCC. All these wrangling are symptomatic to lack of clear direction, communication and cohesion.

We could all remember that everything started to function well immediately PMB was sworn in. Palpable fear enveloped the whole country because we all thought that we now have a no nonsense president who is going to be tough on bad governance. But now all that has simmered down. The bad guys seemed to be more daring now, why?

The toughness of PMB has fizzled out. He is sick and weak and so the predators have seen and noticed that. This has emboldened them. Most of these people are within the Senate, the governors forum and unfortunately those that were supposed to help PMB are part of the problem; and they are wielding enormous powers.

The president must come out from this stupor and disband these predators circling around him. It's a tough call but he must do that to save his presidency, his party and those of us who had trust and voted him. He must also be courageous enough to squeeze out those hawks flexing their wings in the senate ( it has happened before and it can be done again, remember Wabara, Ewerem, Salisu Buhari, Patricia Etteh? Even Jonathan tear gassed the senate and nothing happened)

Bukola Saraki is just a lucky chap who got luckier in the remote areas of Kwara state where he got ONLY 118,879 votes to become a a Senator. And he is deftly taunting PMB who had an overwhelming 15,424, 921 majority votes nationwide! 

Those in the governors forum too must be shown proper conduct of governing a people that have been traumatized by the previous government, and also seemed not to have escaped those shackles of disrespect to the common voter; there has to be a way to make them accountable and the commander in-chief must find this way.