Today is Muhammadu Buhar’s birthday. He is 72 years of age.
According to entries in wikipedia, Buhari was born on December 17, 1942 into the faith of Islam. He is a native of Daura in Katsina State of Nigeria and his ethnic background is Fulani.
A soldier by profession, before he changed his military uniform to the now familiar white garment, he was the military ruler from 31, 1983 to August 27, 1985 and has also ran unsuccessfully for the office of the President of Nigeria in the 2003, 2007 and 2011 elections.
The term Buharism is ascribed to the Buhari military government in reference to his economic principles and political ideology of his then military government.
Now, the quiet but disciplined military turned politician is going for his fourth attempt of running for he office of the President of Nigeria.
Will he be 4th time lucky? Only time will tell.
On his birthday, the APC have given him a gift in the person of Pastor Professor Yemi Osibajo of the Redeemed Christian Church of God with Pastor E.A Adeboye, as the General Overseer.
In the meantime, the President of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan found time, and probably ignored his special adviser Doyin Okupe to congratulate Buhari on his72nd birthday anniversary.
In a statement yesterday (Tuesday), the special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr Reuben Abati said President Jonathan in a congratulatory letter addressed to the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate in next year’s presidential election prayed that God Almighty should grant him many more years of good health and personal fulfilment.
“As you mark your 72nd birthday anniversary, I write on behalf of my family, the Government and people of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, to extend warm felicitations to you. I join your family, friends, and well-wishers to thank God for your life and to pray that He continues to guide, guard and prosper you even as He blesses you with many more years of abounding health and personal fulfillment,” President Jonathan wrote.
He went ahead to wish General Buhari a very happy birthday, the statement concluded.
Now, that is how politics ought to be played. Civility is a requirement in our politics.
What do I know about Buhari’s gift?
I don’t know the man personally but I have had indirect dealings with him and I have friends that have dealt with the man directly.
What I have been told is that the man Professor Yemi Osibajo is a straight forward man. A man who will not bend rules for anyone. Several people have informed me that Yemi Osibajo is a man that can resign whichever position he holds in order to protect his integrity. He is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN). He is firm and strictly adheres to the rules and laws of the Federation. He is well connected as to be expected and he may not be a politician, but what he will bring to the table is his integrity, his finesse and orderliness.
I must confess, I was distracted with Prof. Yemi’s non ability to bring votes to APC, but here I dare say I was completely wrong. The votes he would bring to the party are massive.
As a Pastor, a recognised one at that in the Redeemed Christian Church of God, this automatically makes the wide spread parishes of the church his constituency. You can bet Redeemed members campaigning for a member of their flock.
After a lot of wasting of time in my opinion, as I have opined on several social media platforms, the position of a VP ought to have been concluded a while back instead of all the politicking on the pages of newspaper which could have risked damaging the APC party.
It will be interesting to see the angles Doyin Okupe and Femi Fani-Kayode and their cohorts will attack this formidable pair of Nigerians with integrity. 
UNWRAPPING BUHARI’S GIFT
BIOGRAPHY • PROFESSOR YEMI OSIBAJO
WHO’S WHO LEGAL NIGERIA: LITIGATION
Yemi Osinbajo is the senior partner at SimmonsCooper Partners. Yemi is a professor of law and a former attorney-general of Lagos state and commissioner for justice. He is also a senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN). Yemi was educated at the University of Lagos, Nigeria (LLB, 1978) and the London School of Economics (LLM, 1980). He was admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of Nigeria in 1979. He has authored several books on civil procedure in Nigerian superior courts, rules of evidence and justice reform. 
Yemi has 31 years of litigation experience including significant trial and appellate work. Yemi supervises the commercial litigation group at SimmonsCooper Partners (SCP), a leading commercial litigation and corporate commercial firm in Nigeria. With a multi-jurisdictional competence spanning Nigeria, the United States and the United Kingdom, SCP fuses sound legal counsel with superior advocacy, and personal and responsive service. SCP provides a very comprehensive and integrated range of litigation, transactional, advisory and several support services to a vast array of clients.
Yemi has conducted very important constitutional and precedential cases before the Nigerian Supreme Court. Some of these include fiscal disputes between the federating units and the federal government; disputes regarding the ownership and control of oil and gas resources; town and physical planning disputes between the federating units and the federal government; an international territorial jurisdictional dispute in the West African sub-regional court; shareholder disputes involving a multinational, private investors and state-owned investment corporations and energy disputes arising from multinational participation in power projects in Nigeria. In other cases, Yemi has advised and represented clients in a broad range of commercial and corporate issues including securities litigation, investments and divestments, joint ventures, oil block acquisitions, product liability, fiduciary duties of directors, intellectual property, and corporate valuations. He is also involved in statutory and regulatory appraisal representation before the legislature and federal and state agencies.
While in public office as attorney general, Yemi is credited with undertaking far-reaching significant judicial reform in Lagos state, addressing critical areas as judges’ recruitment, remuneration, training and discipline. In addition, he addressed access to justice for the poor by establishing appropriate institutions in the Office of the Public Defender and the Citizens Mediation Centre. In honour of his contributions to legal reform and the development of law in Nigeria, a compendium of essays on Nigerian constitutional law was compiled. The authors of these essays were senior lawyers and law professors with a foreword provided by a past chief justice of Nigeria.
Yemi is a member of the International Bar Association and the British Institute of International and Comparative Law and has served in the Nigerian Body of Benchers and the Council for Legal Education of Nigeria. He is currently an independent director of CitiBank Nigeria and an ethics adviser to the board of the Africa Development Bank. He has also served in various capacities within the United Nations Organisation. Yemi speaks frequently at several commercial litigation events locally and internationally. He is actively involved in the pursuit of legal education reform in Nigeria.
