Of Restructuring, Presidential Denial and the Power Behind the Throne.

President Buhari's recent pronouncement on Restructuring and True Federalism stealthily embedded in his New Year message are a far cry from the position of APC. That it fails to garner the expected reactions is not so surprising.

The timing and the mode of the announcement were calculated to elicit little or no resistance from the social media. As always, Nigerians were not paying attention and couldn't connect the dots or establish a nexus between the President's position and the position of the Northern Political Leaders made about a week earlier.

I want to state for the record that the prevarication of the President is exclusively his. It doesn't represent the position of APC as a political party. His nuances on "restructuring and process" are consistent with the position of the Northern Political Leaders - a position that does not sync with the voice of the majority.

We should be very careful wasting time on what is trending and missing out on the bigger pictures, packing along its wake adverse impacts ahead of us.

When the Northern Political Leaders made their demands on Restructuring public, only the Yoruba cultural group, Afenifere and yours truly responded accordingly, knowing full well the enormity of the influence they exercise over our federal government since the amalgamation. See the accompanying discussion.

While Nigerians were busy regurgitating ad infinitum the story of the appointment of a dead man as a member of a particular board, the Power Behind the Throne and our President were on the other hand openly strategizing and taking stand in unison on their understanding of the Nigerian Project and the trajectories of its remake, if at all.

Please, don't be distracted, guys. Learn to connect the dots and react accordingly. You don't want to suffer the same misguided afflictions that humbled those of the wasted generations, erudite and scholarly as they were.