You may recall ahead of the March presidential poll in 2015 elections there are key promises to Nigerians if elected that your administration would improve Nation’s Economy where Naira would be equal to the dollar in value if voted into office, It is sad that the value of the naira has dropped to more than N360 to one dollar; this does not speak well for the nation’s economy.
You assured us that if elected your administration will fight corruption totally as ” there will be no confusion as to where I stand. Corruption will have no place and the corrupt will not be appointed into my administration. First and foremost, we will plug the holes in the budgetary process. Revenue producing entities such as NNPC and Customs and Excise will have one set of books only.
Their revenues will be publicly disclosed and regularly audited. The institutions of state dedicated to fighting corruption will be given independence and prosecutorial authority without political interference. But you must emphasise that any war waged on corruption should not be misconstrued as settling old scores or a witch-hunt.
You are running for President to lead Nigeria to prosperity and not adversity. In reforming the economy, we will use savings that arise from blocking these leakages and the proceeds recovered from corruption to fund our party’s social investments programmes in education, health, and safety nets such as free school meals for children, emergency public works for unemployed youth and pensions for the elderly.
A gaskiya am not regional or ethnic bigotry but not happy by the way Mr President aides insulted peoples with genuine passions or expressing their views on sundry issues affecting Nigerians and the country at large with all sorts of names. Mr president you may recall that Northern votes secured your first and second term, northerners raise voices in their demands that your administration needs to secure the region. Your popularity and massive support behind you has been badly ruptured going market shops and stalls one will hear and see the pains peoples going through because peoples believe that the administration appeared helpless in finding solutions to insecurity as well as poverty in the North.
Just recently Northern Elders Forum raise voices that the administration of President Buhari appeared helpless in finding solutions to insecurity as well as poverty in the country. Your Special Adviser To The President On Media And Publicity insulting them for expressing northerners suffering but to many Nigerians never heard him insulting Southwest elders but now have the audacity in insulting peoples and left and centres simple he for drunk with the power you. Mr president let you remember that your own peoples are those that will receive and accommodate the President when done with power; and are the ones to be with you long after those in the palace today have deserted you for new greener pastures.
If Mr President and other Nigerians reflect on his 12 million poor masses and now repentance supporters and some other elite likes of Prof Ango, Dr Hakeem Baba Ahmed and many more in the NEF were PMB’s loyal troops through thick and thin and have never abandoned him even in defeat. These are PMB’s supporters since he joined politics 2002 from the All Peoples Party, the All Nigerians Peoples Party, the Congress for Progressive Change to the All Progressive Congress, When he unsuccessfully ran for the office of president of Nigeria in 2003, 2007, and 2011 general elections.
Let Mr president understand that the issues they raised are real and each and every Nigerian except those are within the power share these concerns, even you as our Commander in Chief claimed not to be aware of our insecurity situation until the likes of NEF raised the red alarm. Find people who are good, honest and knowledgeable enough to represent your vision, and who can be trusted with huge responsibilities. You need to trust more.
Sir, you have to keep trusted people under closer watch. You have to be tougher on security threats and those who fail to exercise responsibility to protect citizens. You have to be tougher on corruption, on insecurity, on secretive employments, poor health facilities etc which may require that you isolate this debilitating scourge from politics. Believe me, what you do from now on as leader will determine whether this nation will be strong enough to deal with challenges of the future, or it will go under because its cumulative problems have been left unattended by its leaders. Mr President, you said your second term will be harsh. I understand that you softened your language later. To be honest, I wish you had stuck with tough because tough is what you have to be. Nigerians need PMB exhibits anticipating hard on yourself and those around you.
Let me remind you concluded your speech at Chatham House UK by saying you cannot change the past. But you can change the present and the future. So before you is a former military ruler and a converted democrat who is ready to operate under democratic norms and is subjecting himself to the rigours of democratic elections for the fourth time. You may ask: why is he doing this? This is a question I ask myself all the time too. And here is my humble answer: because the work of making Nigeria great is not yet done, because I still believe that change is possible, this time through the ballot, and most importantly, because I still have the capacity and the passion to dream and work for a Nigeria that will be respected again in the comity of nations and that all Nigerians will be proud of. One of the most important qualities of a leader includes integrity, accountability, empathy, humility, resilience, vision, influence, and positivity. While management is about persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is about inspiring people to do things they never thought they could.
As a matter of fact, no matter how your admirers want the administration to succeed in its first term in office almost every day there are stories that make them shiver with the way the administration is handling critical issues that affect Nigerians. For President Buhari to achieve desirable goals there is need for him to ditch some of his service chiefs, inner aides and other members that are promoting their selfish interest above the administration’s interest. The actions and conduct of this invisible cabal within the corridors of power are only projecting a negative image for your war at home and abroad. In reality Nigerians are alienated, angry and fed up with the way things going on in the administration as there is not much convincing pointers supporting the once fearful GMB.