I am dead serious. Something is wrong with Senator Abdulfatai Omotayo Buhari, the distinguished Senator representing Oyo North Senatorial District. Haba!
I had always assumed that the man was a normal Nigerian politician—a complete human being with feelings, political calculations, personal ambitions, and the natural capacity to become bitter when things fail to go his way.
But after watching him in this video passionately discussing the ordeal of the kidnapped schoolchildren and teachers from Oriire Local Government Area, I have been forced to reconsider my assumption.
Something must be wrong with this man.
How can a politician who has just suffered a major political disappointment still be speaking with such concern about the welfare of his constituents?
How can he be discussing their rescue, rehabilitation, security and future as though nothing happened to his own ambition?
Is he not supposed to be sulking?
Is he not supposed to have withdrawn into his political cocoon?
Is he not supposed to switch off his telephone, close his doors and tell everyone: “Go and meet those who defeated me.”
Honestly, Senator Fatai Buhari is not behaving normally.
A normal politician should be angry.
Let us be sincere with ourselves.
Senator Buhari recently sought the gubernatorial ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State. He offered himself to become the party’s candidate, but the political contest did not end in his favour.
He was defeated.
Ordinarily, that should have been enough to provoke a respectable season of political mourning.
A normal politician would disappear.
He would stop attending meetings.
He would refuse to answer calls.
He would instruct his supporters to begin insulting everyone on social media.
He would suddenly remember all the injustices committed against him since his primary school days.
He would issue a long statement declaring that the party had betrayed democracy, offended humanity and possibly violated the laws of nature.
Some would even wait quietly for something terrible to happen so that they could say: “Serves them right. They refused to give me the ticket.”
But Senator Buhari refused to behave like a proper victim of political defeat.
Instead of nursing his disappointment, he returned to the business of representing his people.
Instead of embracing bitterness, he embraced responsibility.
Instead of asking who supported him during the primary election, he asked what could be done to rescue innocent children and teachers from captivity.
Something is certainly wrong with him.
Why did he not abandon Oriire?
The kidnapping happened in Oriire Local Government Area, within Oyo North Senatorial District—the constituency Buhari represents.
But that should not have mattered to him after losing the gubernatorial ticket.
