POLITICAL RIPPLINGS: IS PRESIDENT BUHARI A DEONTOLOGIST OR TELEOLOGIST.

I do not know which pigeon-hole to place the president concerning ethical discourse but what is ruminating my mind is this question bordering on direction/directionless of his anti-corruption policy in respect of cloudy grey areas about official graft in relation to the president's ''confidants.''



Most Nigerians are getting mixed messages, body languages from the president and they are asking obviously fundamental questions as to the ethical methodology, principle and philosophical underpinning of the present administration anti-corruption campaign.
Is president@mbuhari ethical grounding deontological or teleological in nature? Put differently is the president a man about rightness or wrongness of actions or Is he for the rightness or wrongness of the consequences of actions?

Most discussions and commentaries about the president centered around his value and virtue but these commentaries might be misleading given the various ethically challenging events of recent past and his responses, SILENCE.

Babachir Lawal puzzle is a good example we can use to check the president's deontological inclination/teleological preference and virtue ethics. Please, note that this article is not about legal clarification nor is it about justiciability argumentation, here the dilemmas are moral in nature.
Is the action of Babachir Lawal in respect of grass-cutter contract right or wrong? Is it right/wrong to spend huge amount of money cutting grass while IDPs are dying? Is the action of Babachir Lawal in conformity with our moral norm or the virtue ethics of the president?

Do we per assumption accept that this is in line with the teleological inclination of the president that spending that huge amount of money on grass cutting contract embedded with corruption was justified because in the president's opinion the consequences of not cutting the grass might be grievous for the IDPs, so fraudulent grass-cutter contract had saved lives.
Therefore, silence on the matter after Osinbajo's panel report is appropriate.

I am not making any value judgement about the president's action/inaction yet but the president @mbuhari must be encouraged to do a thorough introspection concerning where he stands on this ethical dichotomization because a critical analysis cross-state survey including opinions sampling of electorates reveal patterns reflecting the loss of credibility by the political class, endangerment of public trust and goodwill as consequences of identifiable wrongdoings on the part of officialdom while the president remain silent.

There is a paradigm emerging and a sub-culture of sidestepping discourse about official corruption, grand larceny and disregard for due processes by officialdom in the administration of president @mbuhari thereby given justification to the popular views expressed in the cross-state survey concerning the ubiquitousness of clannish category.

The ubiquitousness of clannish category expressed in the cross-state survey is what I give the nomenclature POLITICAL RIPPLINGS, which are disjointed onomatopoeic crackling political soundbites, opinions in cacophony semblance of wavelike mesmerization though not a seismic activation characteristic of large tsunamic catastrophe yet, but very weighty.

President @mbuhari cannot wave these electorates views with his characteristic silence because the continuum of political scandals, shenanigans, fraudulent machinations unfolding within the corridors of power that are tending toward distinctive extremes are reminders of our past ineffectual buffoonery.

Nigerian electorates are becoming agitated because they do not want a repeat of ineffectual buffoonery. They are telling us that they have no faith whatsoever in the present corps of politicians loitering around the pinnacles of power in Aso Rock because they, the electorates have had enough of the deception, trickery of silence coming from the presidency.

We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us. John Locke

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We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us. John Locke
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/j/johnlocke387233.html?src=t_moral

We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us. John Locke
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/j/johnlocke387233.html?src=t_moral

We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us. John Locke
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/j/johnlocke387233.html?src=t_moral

We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us. John Locke
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/j/johnlocke387233.html?src=t_moral

Anti-corruption cannot be a one man show other members of this administration must key into the policy to eradicate corruption so that we can build an inclusive and sustainable Nigeria.
However, the pictures presented to us are not yet high definition given the lackadaisical attitude to integrity and accountability cum outright failure bullishness-wise to tackle misbehaviour within the presidency notable of which is the grass-cutter Babachir Lawal puzzle.

OTUNBA ADE ILEMOBADE IS A PHILOSOPHER.
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