A BUHARI LEASE ON LIFE





Have you ever tried to change? It’s a messy business, whether it’s changing a thousand naira note, or an impression, or a country. The promise of change is in itself rhetoric (powerful and persuasive speech). Just think about it, telling a close friend you’re going to change your great and flaring temper, or a parent that you’re going to change your disrespectful demeanor. You cannot promise change without an elevated language.

No husband says “Okay darling, I’ve been cheating on you, but now I’m going to change.” No matter how genuine the intentions behind the statement, no emotionally bruised wife is going to believe it. But with the same intentions say “I realize that I haven’t been the man I ought to be, the man that you deserve. But I have found that I can’t live without you, and cannot live with you whilst subjecting you to such great pain. I love you, and I’ve decided to change.” Just like that the marriage is back on track, because for the language of change to work, it must assume loftiness.


So when the President of Nigeria states that he is offering us change it is only to be expected that he would do so with great rhetoric. What no one saw coming was the follow up rhetoric that “things must get worse before they get better.”

Disclaimer: This is no political piece trying to correlate the two statements of our dear President. It remains to be seen if his change rhetoric was more than political stimulus and is a genuine intention. However, his follow up rhetoric of change requiring things to get better before they get worse has some truth to it when taking exclusively.





How does a young man change his ways? By taking heed of the word of God. What does the word of God say? Nothing clean, nothing comfortable. To change is to get your hands dirty, to be uncomfortable. It says cut off the right hand if it offends you, evil thinking is sinning, don’t eat meat if it offends your brother. So you let go of close friends, you try to monitor the way you think, you’ve got to be a little concerned about public opinion and the list goes on and on.



Nevertheless the Holy Spirit empowers you, the Word of God strengthens your faith to continue, God does all the real work and all you have to do is co-operate but all the while your flesh is like the Nigerian masses, hating every minute of it, and wishing you would just quit already. The only difference is, man can fail, man can lie, there’s a fifty-fifty chance come 2019 that we would truly start to see the progress that has been promised. But God doesn’t lie, God doesn’t fail, and if He says we will go from glory to glory (with a whole lot of changing and discomfort inbetween), it is not just rhetoric, it is the gospel truth.

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