President Buhari And The People Of Lie

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So dry bones could still rise again? So corpses do walk? So “spot
diagnosis” that can spot the dead from a far without medical prognosis

could fail abysmally? So the one on life-support machine could still walk
on his feet? All these questions ran through my mind on Saturday
morning, the 19 th of August, 2017 as I woke up to read Femi Adesina’s
STATE HOUSE PRESS RELEASE notifying the Nigerian public of the
President’s arrival the next Monday.
After a long wait of over 100 days in London, President Buhari finally
showed up putting to bed all doubts that he is alive after all. It was a long
wait filled with speculations, doubt, disgust, anguish, tensions, and hope
(in some cases, faith). It was a long period when the true natures of some
those we should have called humans were revealed. It was a long period
when we saw the animalism, barbarism, Satanism all combine into some
of us. Truly, evil has no religion!
So with deep emotions, the President’s supporters trooped out to
welcome him. I saw the unemployed, the poor, the less privileged,
though whose hopes are damping since voting him two years ago, their
faith remains resolute of the man seen as an epitome of integrity. Even
though he has not made their lives better, strangely, their love for him
remains unshaken. This I saw with my eyes on Saturday.
Why will anyone that calls himself or herself a human being with human
blood wishes his fellow dead? I have watched the documentary of
elephants who will starve themselves to death simply because a fellow
elephant died. I have seen lions fought each other to death but the
victorious one immediately remains sober for being responsible for the
death of his fellow lion. If animals have the “animalism” in them, why
can’t humans have “humanism” in them? To find an answer to this
question, I have to reread Dr. Scott Peck’s best-selling book, People of
the Lie.
In the book, the famous psychiatrist wrote about the tendency for people
to do evil. He writes,
“In addition to the abrogation of responsibility that characterizes all
personality disorder, this one would specifically be distinguished by: (a)
consistent destructive, scapegoating behavior, which my often be quite
subtle. (b) Excessive, albeit usually covert, intolerance to criticism and
other forms of narcissistic injury. (c) Pronounced concern with a pubic

image and self-image of respectability, contributing to a stability of life-
style but also to pretentiousness and denial of hateful feelings or
vengeful motives. (d) Intellectual deviousness, with an increased
likelihood of a mild schizophrenic like disturbance of thinking at times of
stress.”
I do not necessarily agree with Dr. Peck’s description of “evil” as the
opposite of “good” as such. But, looking at his views about why people do
evil or people become “people of the lie”, one will see the clear
manifestations among those who pronounced him dead.
In July this year, a certain Femi Fani-Kayode, who is ordinarily supposed
to be referred to as a statesman threw caution into the air by going out to
“announce” the death of his imaginary president.
In analysing Fani-Kayode’s manifest “personality disorder” one is
reminded of a chronic drug addict. Living on the “ghetto side” of Mushin,
Lagos I have seen the negative effects of drugs manifest of abusers. I
have seen them deny everything, including themselves. I have seen some
of them deny the integrity of their mental faculties and processes. Some
of them are on record to have denied their families even their own
existence. They deny everything even when the evidence stares them in
the face.
There was nothing anyone will tell Femi about Buhari apart from “he’s
dead” that will make any sense to him. Not even the picture of the visit of
the Archbishop of Canterbury to Buhari was enough. Buhari cannot
recorgnise people; he cannot talk; he cannot think; he even immobile; he
is mortally and clinically dead as far as he was concerned.
Even when people like Governors Nyesome Wike and Ayo Fayose have
since welcomed the President, our friend, whose last known job was a
spokesman for a failed presidential campaign is yet to recover from the
fact that the President is back to his seat to continue his duties. Every of
his antic has failed abysmally since Nigerians will never become a People
of the Lie!

Olalekan Waheed ADIGUN is a political analyst and independent political
strategist for wide range of individuals, organisations and campaigns. He is
based in Lagos, Nigeria. His write-ups can be viewed on his website
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Email: olalekan@olalekanadigun.com, adgorwell@gmail.com

Follow me on Twitter @adgorwell. He is also the author of the book,
Witnessing the Change.