We Go Cast You

IN arriving at the fact that the nation throbs with a plethora of questions over the necessity of the foreign trips of President Muhammadu Buhari, the presidency succeeds in feeling the pulse of the citizens. But it clearly underestimates the difficulty of stemming the impatience of the citizens by offering justification for the president’s travels. The citizens may not have wholly aligned themselves with the Emersonian disparagement of travelling as a fool’s paradise since those who made England, Italy or Greece venerable were not peripatetic. But the urgency of the need to solve the country’s myriad of problems at home and the unsavoury memories of the globe-trotting of past political leaders  have crashed what was left of the brittle confidence in our leaders’ fascination with overseas’ trips. Our leaders have left the stark records of not sparing a thought for the suffering poor citizens. Instead of staying at home to consider strategies for taking the blight of poverty off

The All Progressives Congress, (APC), South East, on Sunday faulted criticisms trailing President Muhammadu Buhari’s incessant trips abroad. Mr Osita Okechukwu, the spokesman, South-East APC leadership caucus, who spoke to journalists in Enugu, said the party “fully supports President Muhammadu Buhari’s frequent trips abroad.” He stated that for the party, “Buhari is acting nobly as any a good father, whose family is not only deadly broke, but his house is on fire. He is running helter-skelter to save our dear country. This is not the kind of task to delegate. “As a father of a broken house, he has no alternative except to run to friends and well wishers in a desperate bid to salvage our dear country, especially, when the money which could have been our reserve for the rainy day had been carted away by marauders. To worsen matters, the price of crude oil is on a free fall. Otherwise, his lethargy and inertia means there will be no food on the table. That’s the truth of th