—Buhari is incapable of providing leadership, He was not prepared for
leadership—-Aribisala
—Buhari has denied all the promises he made during his campaigns.NANS
—-Buhari makes empty promises when N374.00 exchanges for a dollarNLC
—–APC has married out the Chibok Girls hence he has no clue as to their
whereabout
—–Buhari should disclose his health status.Ayo Fayose
—–Buhari should disclose How Much Money he has recoveredServing
Governors
—–Buhari should Resign now before it is too late——Tinubu
—-APC operates the worst economy in 43 years; they have wrecked the Economy
—Buhari, Stop Blaming Jonathan for your ineptitudeMurray Bruce
—-All APC States have Sacked Civil Servants; that is what they meant by
Job creation
—–Buhari is the worst Nightmare Nigeria has ever had——Cardinal John
Onayiken
—-Nigeria economy is Bad, We need an Economic Summit—–Wole Soyinka
—-Buhari does not understand the workings of the Economy—–Prof. Pat
Utomi
—-Buhari has spent $5.8 billion on meaningless Foreign Trips
—-Bauhari has not been able to pass the National Budget because it was
padded
—-Northern APC pass a Vote of No Confidenceon Buhari
—-Cattle Rearers are now Boko Haram who kill and go without being
prosecuted
—- Buhari has not made any economic Policy apart from importing grasses
from Brazil
—-Buhari is a liability to the Nigerian State ——Cardinal John Onayikan
—-APC is Broke..APC National Chairman
—-Bayelsa APC suspends Chief Timipre Sylva
—-APC is a House Divided Against Itself
—Kogi State Governor appoints PDP members because he has no confidence
in APC
—-Jonathan did not teach me how to run the nationPresident Buhari
APC has failed Nigerians, Buhari should be impeachedNBA
During the foreign exchange palaver, the CBN Governor Emefiele admitted
that President Buhari and wife bought dollars directly from the CBN at the
rate of N197.00 Naira and re-sold the dollar for N374.00. Initially so
many people regarded it as wretched piece of propaganda. We were wrong
when the President himself was quoted as saying that his children could
school abroad because he could afford the foreign exchange, and that those
who could not afford it should keep their children in Nigeria. Then it
occurred to me that the broom revolution had collapsed. If the President
of Nigeria could make a statement like that then Nigeria is finished. That
was when the broom revolution was about nine months old.
Britain also alleged that under President Buhari watch as President,
$42 billion had been fleeced away from NNPC. The Presidency and the
massive media apparatus in Aso Rock could not honour Nigeria with a
paragraph of rebuttal, tacitly confirming that the allegation is true,
especially with Buhari as the Petroleum Minister.
Here and there we could notice visible cracks of division in APC already,
and a faction of APC has vehemently called for the resignation of
President Buhari because according to them, he lacks the capacity to
govern. When ill-health is added to lack of capacity, the result can only
be disastrous, so it is with APC.
Nigeria is now a tale of unmitigated disaster such that a colonizing power
Britain could describe Nigeria as fantastically corrupt. But why
not? Buhari anti-corruption was is a political vendetta, as only PDP
people are being prosecuted. Buhari can unashamedly investigate the
campaign funds of PDP but has said nothing about the APC. Crooks in APC
are now being beatified while everybody of worth in PDP is persecuted.
Under X-President Jonathan, PMS sold for N86.50 per litre and now the
President has officially announced that PMS is N145.00 per litre
From what we have seen so far, what President Buhari actually meant by
Change is that he would change his military uniform and put on agbada
which comes in different colours; he never promised to change his
dictatorial and tyrannical style of leadership. Most of his decisions are
unilateral, with little or no consultation and often titrated to favour
sectional interest. The interesting thing is that Buhari has not bothered
about laying the foundations of the administration that would change
Nigeria. Buhari is still obsessed with the ills of the Jonathan
administration and by so doing, he is making Jonathan image loom
larger. Boko Haram is riding roughshod and the bombs are dropping more
frequently. More and more innocent Nigerians are abbreviated. The APC
Apostle of change appears not to be bothered. Indeed we have entered the
era of change in the negative retrogressive direction. Sometimes, one
begins to ask; what manner of change is APC bringing to Nigeria? Is it the
Zaria massacre that is the change or the Shiite Sunni division leading to
killings in parts of the North? Is it the change in the price of Petrol
kerosene from N50.00 to N85.00 which Nigerians buy in pains? Under the
nose of APC, almost all MNCs are sacking their workers, the few investors
the past administration brought in are on the run; the banking industry is
embarking on massive downsizing, even private companies are sacking
because they cannot afford to pay workers, yet electricity tariffs are
jacked-up and this is likely to precipitate a nationwide protest. That is
APC model of creating jobs. Laughable!
The South-South produces the budget of the Country but the North has
contributed so much by sponsoring Boko Haram, a human hyena that has
sucked the blood of innocent men, women and Children. I see reasons with
Buhari for over-compensating the North. What is more, he has declared
Amnesty for Boko Haram yet Boko Haram has not stopped killing. The reason
is simple: Boko Haram is like the donation of Northern Nigeria to the
nation. What a horrible donation my Countrymen?
Nigeria is basking in the euphoria of a brand new APC President Muhammad
Buhari has been sworn-in at the Centre and many Governors who are newly
elected was sworn in more than two months ago. For now, the dominant Party
is the APC. President Jonathan handed over power to Gen. Muhammadu Buhari,
and Nigerians will certainly hold the new administration to its campaign
promises. In sharp contrast to the President inaugural speech, the
appointments made so far show that Buhari is implementing a policy of
Northernization as change mantra.
After President Buharigave his speech, I was intrigued by three
things. First, he lampooned the murderous outfit called Boko Haram, which
hitherto had appointed him a spokesman when the terrorists group founded
on the basis of Islamic fundamentalism, The General saidMembers of the
BokoHarm are not true muslins,; they are criminals. True to type, as the
President Buhari is now working hard to dissociate himself from the
dreaded terrorist group, but before now, he was appointed spokesman and
his reaction was on the affirmative. He never reneged the colony of those
who relished in bloodletting, killing, maiming and kidnapping.
The second thing the general mentioned was the accolade he gave President
Jonathan. This is a pace setting acknowledgment that former President
Jonathan was courageous enough to concede defeat even before the
Presidential elections were announced. This action is unprecedented in the
history of Nigeria a reason most people are won™t to think that the
real hero of democracy in this Republic is former President Jonathan.
President Jonathan is not some Robert Mugabe who is life President. He
understands the realities. This appears to have given succor to the Niger
Delta especially Bayelsa State where the President performance was
less than edifying, and several questions must be asked especially those
who served as contractors and aides to former President Jonathan. What is
important is that we sent out a Jonathan and he played his part as a
democrat, and for that we are grateful.
What is perhaps the crescendo of the general speech was his
acknowledgement of the role of the Social Media. I could recall that
Buhari mentioned the Social Media thrice as the driver of the elections
and a catalyst of open government. True, the Social Media has even gone
beyond what general Buhari adumbrated; it is not a significant determinant
of elections and other national issues.
Again Buhari assertion that he is for nobody and for everybody kept
Tinubu and his cabal frowning. That is expected because the general
brainless as he may seem, understands the Yoruba agenda, and he is most
likely to truncate it before the barons move against him. That is the
nature of leadership. A good leader should be for everybody and for
nobody. This is Buhari highest expression of patriotism for Nigeria.
My prayer is that his principal appointments should not also bring in
people who have records of corruption. Corruption is deadlier than denge
fever and most of the appointees should be drawn from the technocrats.
Now, Nigerians know that Buhari used APC as a ladder to climb to the
Presidency to serve himself and a few other Northers.
Buhari move that the military formation should be moved to Maiduguiri
has been given two interpretations because of his earlier assertion to
Islamize Nigeria. One interpretation is to fund Boko Haram to decimate the
Nigerian military. Another interpretation is to really wage a war against
Boko Haram. In either cases, the peace Buhari said he would make in a very
short time is in doubt. I had thought the President might have done his
homework on how to annihilate the access of evil and keep Nigeria
peaceful. He gave the military a deadline that is not realistic. Again,
Buhari cannot distinguish between conventional warfare and insurgency.
For now, the most knotty challenge to Nigerian is the chaotic state of
our economy. Without recourse to the experience of professional
economists, Nigerians are aware that Nigeria over-dependency on crude
oil is one of the age-long challenges we must overcome. The responsibility
of the APC government is to diversify the economy. Our over-reliance on
crude oil has led to wide spread peculation. It has also turned Nigeria
into a perpetual consumer nation, with a no-grow index in almost all other
sectors of the economy. True, the President Jonathan administration made
enormous progress in Agriculture and power, but the economic fifth
columnists daily wreak havoc to the economy.
Since April 2014, the price of crude oil started to fluctuate and it
nosedived to even less than $30 USD. As at November 2014, the price of our
only source of revenue plummeted to an all-time low. It was like a
hurricane that swept across Nigeria, making it difficult for so many
States to foot their statutory obligations of paying salaries. The
situation has not changed for the better. Nigeria may be undergoing her
economic meltdown and we have a lesson or two to learn on diversification
of the economy. The 2016 budget is one based on loans, so Nigerians have
started owing before they begin to spend the money. Buhari promised to
create jobs but now there are conspicuous signals that there would be
massive job losses in 2016 in the Universities, financial institutions and
other MDAs and corporate institutions.
Surely, Nigeria crude oil deposited in the Nigeria Delta belongs to
all Nigerians but the solid mineral resources we find in all parts of
Nigeria belong to where they are situated. It is injustice but we are
watching. Now the Nigerians know that if the production of crude oil
stops, we shall have no budget and invariable the concept of ONE NIGERIA
will be called to question. Our economy is certainly not based on revenues
from carrots, cows, onions and beans.
Amidst this inequality, the North has produced about 98% of those who have
messed up the coffers of the nation. Some of them now wear the toga of
statesmen, but why not, with the huge monies they rack in to their
offshore accounts through their oil blocks. I must acknowledge that some
of these leaders are benevolent enough to use part of their loots to
sponsor politically-induced insurgency. Today, not even Buhari and the new
administration can stop the menace. The Boko Haram they invented may
eventually consume them. For the six years President Jonathan was in power
he ran a war economy- an economy that bought more arms than built more
hospitals, rehabilitated more orphans than built more schools for the
almajiris.
The frustration is such that youths in the North are reported to be
burning down the houses of Senators. In the colony of leaders, we have
those who are visionary but cannot work hard enough to actualize their
visions. There are those who fly on the wings of courage, vision and
inspiration and being audacious, they fulfill even higher goals. The Niger
Delta Youths Avengershave been tempted to go back to the trenches
because of Buhari inability to fulfil his promises.
The Amnesty Programme is poorly funded. The Maritime University at
Okerenkoko is at the point of being scrapped. Most of the people-oriented
projects initiated by the Jonathan administration are being abandoned.
Ninety (90%) of oil blocks have been cornered by Northerners.
I trust that if these conditions are violated, Buhari administration
may be running a war economy on two fronts: from the dry arid sahel region
to the oil-rich Niger Delta on another. We can avoid this war economy by
keeping the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs, NDDC and allow the Amnesty
Programme to run. All these palliatives are to douse the potentially
explosive situation in the Niger Delta, which of course will not stop a
more comprehensive vehement agitation for total resource control or fiscal
federalism. It 25% derivation or nothing as recommended by the
NATIONAL CONFAB. Sadly, Buhari has not given even a casual attention to
the aforementioned issues. He dreams corruption, talks corruption, chases
corruption but there is a list of most Corrupt Nigerians given to him but
he has done nothing with the G-7 list. Most of them are in Buhari
Cabinet. Sadly, Buhari cabinet id inundated with corrupt people and he
is very happy working with them.
While Buhari is hounding the OBOTE MEN, the mistakes of ex-President
Jonathan are becoming more conspicuous. The South-South is mourning as
their sons take turns to visit Kuje prisons on allegations of corruption.
The most buffeting is the fact that Boko Haram killings have increased,
insecurity is becoming more and more intense, the famed #chibokgirls
mystery is yet to be unraveled, the Cabinet has not been constituted and
hope appears to be fading even among the stubbornly optimistic. Buhari
only wisdom is to appoint Northerners and he does not think of Nigeria,
let alone moving the country forward. It appears the PDP was right when
they said the APC just needed power for its own sake; the members do not
know what it takes to entrench good governance. Senator Tinubu just
confirmed that when he said APC was just formed to take power from
President Jonathan. Nigerians are compelled to watch President Buhari as
he implements a pro-North and anti-Niger Delta agenda.
About a year into the Buhari administration, the judiciary has been turned
up-side-down. All election petitions must favour the APC even though
evidences are to the contrary.
Not even one of the 81 promises made by Buhari during his campaign has
been fulfilled. In politics, promises are like debts and when they are not
fulfilled then one can say that it is fraud. Most Nigerians may be praying
that the price of crude oil should diminish to $10 p/b for that is the
only way Nigeria can think of investment in Agriculture and embrace
industrialization. By any known standard, Buhari as a primitive
feudalistic hegemon, bereft of ideas and who is intent on taking Nigeria
back to the Stone Age.
I disagree because he addresses the United Nations and promises to fight
corruption but the fight against corruption is not only lopsided but
criminally conducted. If it were not so why will Buhari not declare how
much he has recovered from corrupt Nigerians? Prof. Pat Utomi has conceded
that we are on the slippery slope and I can agree no less. Buhari still
acts like a tyrant. He has forgotten that we are in a democratic rule.
President Buhari is too archaic to administer a modernizing State. The
President rules the nation with the rule of the thumb. To hell with that
wretched broom of infamy! How the hell has the broom transformed Nigeria
into a fantastically corrupt nation in so short a period? APC has duped
the collective conscience of the Nation.
John Idumange is Deputy President, Niger Delta Integrity Group