I watched and listened with extraordinary attentiveness, a clip of the press briefing of the Senate President, Distinguish Senator Ahmed Lawan, shortly after his appearance before the APC presidential aspirant’s screening committee. Two things compelled me to watch and listen, with the first being his exuded confidence, as he walked down the corridor of the screening venue, with the swagger of a self-important person, and the second and most important, being his fluidity of speech.

Yes, like him or leave him, Ahmed Lawan is lucid in the use of the English language. I don’t know his academic discipline or field of study, but from this particular show with the press, everyone would agree to his affirmation or control, and allegiance to the fluent use of English.

Sure, Nigeria needs a leader with swagger and the ambiance to sell itself to the public and the world at large.

Confronted by the press, he started with the conventional courtesy, used in bribing the members of the fourth estate of the realm, viz:

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“Thank you very much for your interest in what the screening was, and I want to tell you that the screening was very successful. I was asked very fundamental questions about what our party stands for, about what I believe I can bring to the presidency of Nigeria. And of course our party stands for progress, our party stands for national stability, and we have done in the last seven years as an administration, we have recorded so much successes across the country but we also have some challenges that we have to deal with. As someone aspiring to be the candidate of the APC and of course by the grace God the president of Nigeria 2023, I have gone through the mills, I’ve worked before I came to the National Assembly in 1999. And 1999 I came to the National Assembly. Am still in the National Assembly, having served eight years in the House of Representatives, and chaired the two very important strategic and critical committees of Agriculture and Education in the House, and served as chairman, Public Accounts committee for eight years in the Senate, served as chairman, Defence committee in the Senate, served as Senate leader in the Senate and serving as presiding officer, the President of the Senate today. I’ve worked very closely with Mr. President, President Muhammadu Buhari, in my capacity as the Senate leader, in my capacity as the Senate President. I know the issue of development. I know where we have recorded so much successes, I know where we need to rework, retool and rekit our systems and strategies and operations. And by the grace of God, if I am given the opportunity, Nigeria would experience improved education, improved security, improved economy and I want to reform the educational sector, because I want to see an educational sector that serves the sons and daughters of nobody, so that we are able to take away from the streets, the fifteen or so million children out of school, because I believe this has links not only with education but security as well as of course the economy. So I want to see a situation where I come out as the elected aspirant, become the candidate and of course go ahead to beat the PDP and other political parties, to win the presidency for APC and for Nigerians”.

Asked about his position in the event that his party, the APC, goes the way of consensus, and he said:

“You see, we are sons and daughters of the same father the same mother, those of us in APC. All of us who took the forms to run for the highest office, the presidency, believe in the ideals and the ideology and philosophy of our party. And therefore we are one and the same thing. So I would support anybody who the party and the President think can do better for us. I have no problem with that, but I want to also believe that, at the end of the day, that day would be MINE”.

Hahahahahaha! I don’t have any quarrel with Lawan’s confidence, my problem is the position of reliability, truth, or his ability to keep to the creed of that submission.

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Nikita Krushchev, the first Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and one time chairman of the country’s Council of Ministers, made the following mockery of politicians, when he said, “Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers”.

It is the same Nikita that said, “You Americans are so gullible. No, you won’t accept communism outright, but we’ll keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you’ll finally wake up and find you already have communism. We won’t have to fight you. We’ll so weaken your economy until you’ll fall like overripe fruit into our hands”.

With what Nigeria had gone through in the hands of some politicians, and the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine, alongside the gradual demystification of the virtues and values of capitalism, Nikita Krushchev’s postulations, seem like pitifully prophetic.

I don’t have any quarrel with Lawan’s confidence, my problem is the position of reliability, truth, or his ability to keep to the creed of that submission