Buhari is not Nigeria’s problem

I have read several articles, comments and reactions from some Nigerians who perpendicularly thrust a belief that President Muhammadu Buhari is the problem of Nigeria. This is far away from the truth. I want to make some clarifications on the postulations upon which some of them hinge their arguments. Summarily, their claim is based on the problems facing Nigeria which they attribute to him. These problems are Boko Haram, unemployment, herdsmen-farmers conflicts, armed robbery, recession, general insecurity and inequality/injustice in the sharing federal political positions.

I have compassion for Buhari because, like hungry hunters, the Nigerian enemies have continued to hunt him from all angles, trying to confuse, disorganize, frighten, cage or even kill him. What is Buhari’s crime? Is it because he has maintained integrity and honesty in governance? Or he has refused the callous misuse and distribution of the nation’s commonwealth amongst the already rich and influential?

On insecurity, apart from the orchestrated killings across the country, issues like armed robbery, kidnappings and political thuggery are being fought to a standstill. Nigeria is out of recession, though the effect is gradually being felt by the citizens. Inequality and alleged injustice in the sharing of political positions are being gradually addressed. Buhari’s achievements supersede all that have been achieved in the long democratic life of Nigeria. No government can build a nation whose foundation is corruption. The developing African countries like Ghana had to cleanse the country of corrupt-ridden citizens.

On Boko Haram, the world knows that this menace precedes Buhari regime. It is a known fact that the political offshoot of the dreadful group was created and empowered before 2015. The government has been economical in describing its success in the war. The simple expression the government uses is that Boko Haram has been degraded. But if compared with the past, it can be said that the group has been defeated, though not yet annihilated.

Still unlike before, Nigeria has maintained peace with her neighbours: Cameroun, Benin Republic, Niger, Chad and others. Buhari’s April 2016 official visit to China has unlocked billions of dollars in infrastructure funding, primarily for road and rail projects. It also yielded a Currency Swap Agreement between the Peoples Bank of China and the Central Bank of Nigeria. President Trump’s government is supplying 12 Super Tucano Aircraft to Nigeria, as well as repatriating recovered looted monies and assets stashed in the US by corrupt Nigerians. No one for now can discharge this harculean task better for Nigeria save he who has displayed the good leadership qualities so much envied by the opposition.

 Muhammad Ajah, Abuja