Dear Mr. President,
\nFirst of all I would like to congratulate you on the recent academic
\nachievements recorded by your children. It is the wish of every father
\nto witness such event in one\u2019s lifetime.
\nMr. President, before I go into details of my letter, I want you to
\nknow that this letter is not written in a spirit of hate, contempt,
\nnor is it motivated in any way by any ethnic intolerance but is
\nwritten with respect due to your office and the awesome tasks that
\nhave been placed on your shoulders by Nigerians. Truth according to
\nSir Henry Fredrick is not violated by falsehood; it may be equally be
\noutraged by silence.
\nI\u2019m compelled to write you because I used to be one of your fans prior
\nto the 2015 polls. I was one of the advocates of \u2018change mantra\u2019 that
\nswept across the land in preparation for the 2015 polls. I believed we
\nneeded a positive change to the negative change we witnessed under
\nformer President Goodluck Jonathan. I believed we needed a transition
\nfrom a government that that suffered from kleptomania to a prudent
\none. I had a \u2018Nigerian Dream\u2019 which I thought would be achieved under
\na man who has an antecedent of honesty.
\nMr. President, it has been over a year that you took over the mantle
\nof leadership of this great nation. During the electioneering period
\nyou and your party, APC made promises which many of us believed. Some
\nof us believed in those promises not because we were fools but because
\nthose promises came from you, a man we once vouched for his integrity.
\nBut, today Mr. President none of those promises has been fulfilled.
\nMr. President, Nigeria has fared badly under your tenure. Since you
\ntook over, you have travelled to abroad more than thirty times and up
\ntill now we have not seen the result of those journeys you expended
\ntax payers\u2019 money on.
\nMr. President, it is true that past government created a lot of
\nproblems for the new government; but for how long are we going to be
\nblaming the past government for our current travails? Does it mean
\nthat we can\u2019t fix these problems?
\nIn the annals of Nigeria\u2019s history, we have never had it this bad. The
\neconomy of Africa\u2019s most populous nation today has become a
\nhydra-headed monster that is difficult to tame or control under you.
\nIt is now a ravaging bull running amok and has defied any solution
\nfrom your government.
\nMr. President, majority of Nigerians have become hopeless in the face
\nof the economic hardship that has plagued Nigeria since you took over
\nmantle of leadership of this great Nation. The vicious cycle of
\npoverty now engulfs the masses to a level of suffocation. Your
\neconomic advisers have even compounded the problems by making careless
\nand contradictory statements on the state of the economy. The other
\nday your Finance Minister said we are in recession and a position
\nwhich was equally supported by the Central Bank Governor. Just few
\ndays ago, your Minister of Budget and National Planning, Udo Udoma
\nsaid our economy will grow by over 3%, rejecting the IMF\u2019s prediction.
\nMr. President, we don\u2019t even know what is happening to the economy? We
\ndon\u2019t know those who are controlling it now? Who are the prime
\nbeneficiaries of this kind of unstable economy when in a year we have
\nlost the single digit inflation status we maintained in past
\nadministrations?
\nUnfortunately, this kind of economy you operate is only being
\nunderstood by majority of Nigerians to be one that has brought untold
\nhardship to the common man on the street. It is an economy that has
\ndeprived the masses basic means of livelihood. Today, workers are
\nbeing owed salaries running into months.
\nMr. President, while you are busy fighting corruption, many other
\nthings that require your attention are left undone. Unfortunately, the
\nfight against corruption which seems to be the hallmark of your
\ngovernment is systematically fighting back. Today, people in your
\ngovernment are equally being accused of corruption. Mr. President,
\nthere are stories making round that you spent fortune to acquire
\nglasses and shoes. You were also accused of hosting a lavish banquet
\nto honour your children who recently graduated from a London school
\nand Law school in Nigeria. Mr. President, you are doing this at a time
\nwhen many Nigerians who voted for you can\u2019t afford to pay for their
\nchildren school fees not to talk of hosting banquet for them. You are
\ndoing this at a time when your government has not shown any holistic
\nor concrete effort at alleviating the hardship of the people not to
\ntalk of raising their standard of living.
\nMr. President, I understand that one of the major problems we have in
\nthis country is corruption. I equally want you to know that another
\nmajor factor that has rendered fight against corruption futile is
\nhypocrisy. Mr. President, there is no corruption-free society anywhere
\nin the world. But it can be reduced to the barest minimum when it is
\nfree from double standards.
\nMr. President, I have to commend you for the success you have achieved
\nso far with Boko Haram terrorists but more still needs to be done with
\nthe displaced people. Fulani herdsmen menace is yet another serious
\nthreat that your government needs to tackle.
\nMr. President, I also want you to understand that the method or
\nstrategy used in tackling insurgency in the North eastern part of
\nNigeria may not be suitable to tackling Niger-Delta or Biafra crises.
\nSigns of a country in a gradual drift to disintegration have always
\nbeen present in the polity, which is why you must handle issues
\nrelating to Niger-Delta and Biafra with utmost political maturity and
\ndiplomacy.
\nMr. President, if there are people you need to distance yourself
\nfrom-they are sycophants and political yes men. They exist in any
\ngovernment and if you desire to achieve anything good; you must not
\nallow them to hijack your government.
\nThese sycophants are already heaping praises and laurels on you when
\nyou have not proved yourself to Nigerians. Sir, if they are deceiving
\nyou; you must avoid deceiving yourself like the Narcissus who fell in
\nlove with his own image reflected from a pool of water.
\nOne major area that needs your urgent attention at the moment is how
\nbest to put an end to the suffering of the masses. Remember that a
\nhungry man is an angry man. One cannot think well, love well or even
\nsleep well, if one has not dined well.
\nI wish you the very best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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