Ahmed Lawan: The man who killed Nigeria to death

What if tomorrow, the senate president initiates the impeachment of President Muhammadu Buhari on the floor of the national assembly for failing to uphold the terms of his oath of office and fulfill his constitutional responsibilities to Nigerians? How would that change Buhari’s lackadaisical attitude to leadership and the overall topography of Nigeria’s political scene?

Most politicians use the first part of their lives to destroy the last. For Ahmed Lawan, the president of the Nigerian senate, nothing in the first part of his life showed that he has anything to offer a desperate nation in search of heroes to save it. Mr. Lawan’s manner of ascension to the position of senate president ultimately sealed his fate — and the fate of a nation on the verge of death.

To begin with, if you show Nigerians on the street the picture of Mr. Lawan, most of them will not be able to identify him. Though he is third in the line of succession, his national profile is low in the eyes of the public and abysmal in the views of those who understand the importance of the constitutional role that he should be playing in an endangered democracy like ours. From his first beginning, Mr. Lawan chose the role of a self-confessed lapdog of the president that he is making all past senate presidents since 1999 look like heroes of democracy who deserve the “profile…