Dear Wale
I almost believed you in the first 2 or 3 paragraphs, and was nodding my head as I read along, until you started making comparisons. First with OBJ and finally with Ribadu. To the average northerner, the two names (OBJ & Ribadu) are quite synonymous. In the eight yrs misadventure that OBJ took the country through, I was in Kano. Before that period, Kano can boast of about 1000 light & heavy industries, all fully operational and servicing Nigeria, until a Tsunami called OBJ stroked. By the time OBJ was through with the Nigeria, Sharada industrial layout where most of this companies were housed, became a shadow of its old self. And it still is up to date. This disaster, swept through the entire north. With Kano and Kaduna as the most hard hit areas.
As for Ribadu, his crime is two folds, (1) playing to the gallery, too frequently and (2) mistaking governance with police work. The two traits are OBJ's stock in trade. And we have seen where such traits have taken us. So save us from another OBJ.
Wale as a Yoruba man, you disappoint me greatly by thinking that you can read correctly the pulse of every Yoruba man in Nigeria! If you and your few cronies are pro-Ribadu - by all means go for him - but please stop putting Buhari on the same pedestal with your "green & spur of the moment piece". Buhari may have all his flaws, but given the candidates we have today, Nigerians cannot but place their hopes on the doorstep of non other but Buhari.
Mr Wale, I will advise that you push less, issues that seek to divide us, and by extension forcing others to respond to you with sharper divisive views. If you want to campaign for Ribadu, there are better and cleaner ways of achieving your objectives. The days of smear campaign is past, our collective objective is to move the country forward, and if you think you have a candidate that can achieve that, please sell him in such a manner that you don't demean others.
mjdoko
