Nigeria is indeed a dynamic country where we have found the habit of looking at things mainly upside down and without giving it a second thought or a benefit of a doubt. In most times, we cry wolf where none exist. We are quick to “pull down” and celebrate the consequent downfall. Welcome to Nigeria.
No discerning mind would deny that the Nigerian economy was in absolute brink when President Muhammadu Buhari took over the affairs of government in 2015. Bad enough that those responsible for this malaise have never owned up to their dastardly acts because of how morally bankrupt they are. So for them, displaying remorse is forbidden and taking responsibility for their actions and inactions while they held sway is not even a topic for discussion because as they say, the cake is big enough for everybody.
I am constrained to pen this article when the words merchant went to town turning a statement credited to President Muhammadu Buhari upside down for obvious political reasons. I was astonished. I was also concerned about what it was that the supposed “self-righteous ones” wanted to achieve and what they didn’t achieve when they had the opportunity to put Nigeria on the path to greatness.
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As a start, I would not subscribe to any channel that indicates that President Muhammadu Buhari inherited a vibrant and buoyant economy. I would also not subscribe to any insinuation that the Nigerian economy could be fixed in three years. That is an impossibility, not after 16 locust years under misrule by successive PDP administrations. I think that just before we crucify President Muhammadu Buhari, we should take out time for sober reflection on how previous administrations squandered our commonwealth. Also, on how Nigeria witnessed policy somersault year in year out, not minding the fact that there would be consequences.
Now, the real gist is that after a meeting of state governors with President Muhammadu Buhari, the chair of the governor’s forum issued a statement stating that President Muhammadu Buhari said that “the economy is in bad shape and that we have to come together, think and rethink on the way forward.” And that was it. Appalling a statement coming from the president especially as the elections are around the corner they thought.
The political strategists would see this statement if valid as a political blunder. They would also argue that the president went too far in expressions. But I disagree in totality. As a first, the statement didn’t emanate from the president directly, but through Governor Abdulaziz Yari, a figure who is known to speak from both sides of the mouth. This is also the same governor that was captured on tape threatening the national chairman of the All Progressive Congress for not doing his bidding. This is a topic for another day.
Back to the crux, the simplicity and sincerity of heart and purpose of President Muhammadu Buhari are indeed legendary. It is possible that he called the meeting to inform the governors on the need for them to continually think outside the box in confronting the numerous challenges we are faced with, hence the aspect of the statement that stated that “we have to come together, think and rethink on the way forward.” And not just that, there was a critical part of the statement that the word merchants have decided to downplay for political reasons, which was how the President’s tongue lashed the governors for failing to pay salaries and what led to the introduction of bailout funds to states.
Governor Yari admitted that “When Mr President came on board, 27 states out of 36 could not pay salaries some for 13, 12, 8, five months respectively. Our first encounter with him, he told us that we have no business of being in power if we cannot do the basic, that is pay workers. So he asked that we discussed how we could support those states that cannot pay salaries so that workers will be paid. Those in the position they came up with the idea of bailing out the states so that they can pay the arrears.” That is the quintessential Muhammadu Buhari who listens and carries all along.
In my opinion, it is possible the meeting was held for strategic reasons to encourage the governors to always live up to expectations by thinking and deploying proactive measures in ensuring that governance is not put on hold for flimsy excuses. This is my opinion. And I very much doubt if the president would call a meeting to say that “the economy is in bad shape.” But again, we must come to terms with the fact that we are in a society where sensational news reporting is the order of the day.
And let us assume that the president said the economy was in bad shape to the governors, the question would why did the president call for the meeting and why did he say such? As an expert in Strategy Communications , I know for a fact that nothing happens in a vacuum. There must be a reason. And that reason, in this case, may be due to the profligate nature of some governors. Also, my interpretation of the statement credited to the president is that of a warning than admittance. It’s possible that the president wanted to use the medium to remind the governors, especially the profligate ones that it is not yet Uhuru and all hands must be on deck. Just maybe.
But trust us to always turn things upside down. In truth, I wasn’t surprised by the reportage of the event because its election period again, and all manners of spanners are freely thrown not minding the implications. In all of these, I think it would be morally deficient for anyone to want to crucify President Muhammadu Buhari while sparing those that brought the country to its knees even in the midst of enormous revenue. It is also insulting and despicable.
In all of the ensuing drama, Governor Abdulaziz Yari said: “the president talked to us in a manner that we have a task ahead of us, we should tighten our belt and see how we can put the Nigerian economy in the right direction.” And for me, that is the crux and not what words merchants want the members of the unsuspecting public to believe. And since when has, it becomes a crime to charge people to higher productivity?
Nigeria will be up for sale (auction) by the time Buhari is done changing us!
16years cannot be equal to >3years
Topic: WHY APC IS STRONGER THAN PDP
1. It took PDP 16 years to make a dollar = N197, but it took APC just 1 year to make a dollar N367.
2 It took PDP 16 years to destroy Nigeria, but it took APC just 1 year to massacre, dismantle, kill and bury Nigeria.
3. It took PDP 16 years to make fuel price N87 per litre, but it took APC 1yr to make fuel N145 per litre.
4. It took PDP 16 years to make Nigeria corrupt, but it took APC just 1 year to make Nigeria Fantastically corrupt.
5)It took PDP 16 years to keep the price of rice at N7,000 per bag, but took APC 1 year to project it to N25,000 per bag.
6) It took Jonathan 5yrs to travel to 15 countries, but it took Buhari 1 year to travel to 30 countries.
7)It took PDP 16years to apply resounding economic policies that made banks grow, but took APC 1 year to apply policies which they beg banks not to sack more staff.
8. It took APC only 1-3 year to loot by:
A. spending 700bn naira on bribe in just the first year in office, spending it mostly in the north
B. looting 919m by NHIS in the name of training scheme,
C. Reps using 1.6bn naira to buy cars as national interest.
D. Amechi stealing Rivers state money to fund campaigns for Buhari and APC. The money he stole cannot be quantified till now. The money was so much that he had to be awarded as Minister of Transportation etc.
APC thieves are like pots calling kettles black.
E. N3.4 billion Aso rock clinic allocation looted
F. $25billion contract missing in transit.
G. N700 APC billion bribery scandal
H. N640 billion nnpc loan/contract scandal
I. N120 billion police allegations on corruption.
J. N500 million bribe from mtn to Abba Kyari
K. N182 million fraud/bribe by Dr. Saadu Alabama
L. $43 million of IkoyiGate
M. N273 million grass cutter contract.
N. N9 trillion nnpc scandal
O. Maina who was restored and promoted
by Buhari after being fired by GEJ for
N2billion pension fraud.
P. Where is N22billion given to Fashola monthly to buy gas for electricity. Reps raise alarm that Nigeria is still in darkness.
Q. ETC
9. It took PDP 16 years to keep Nigeria united but it took APC just one year to divided Nigeria into north and south. North is now the NEW NIGERIA.
10. It took law professor Osibanjo 1day to deceive Igbo people with N2billion Niger bridge. It took Osibanjo and APC another 1day to admit it was a mistake. No, it was not a mistake. It was a lie. All APC does is Lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie. They lie about achievements, lie corruption fight, lie about jellof rice, lie about everything. Even Pastor Osibanjo lies too. Buhari, Osibanjo, presidency and APC please just stop lying to Nigerians. It’s enough.
11. How do you complete a contract that has not been awarded?Reps committee says that 2nd Niger bridge contract has not been awarded yet liar mohammed, Pastor liar Osibanjo, Mr. Liar Fashola, Assistant liar Garba Shehu and Mr corrupt Buhari have all said that Niger bridge is already 50% completed. OMG!!!! When? How?
CONCLUSIVELY; I am beginning to think that while PDP is better in administration, APC is better in opposition, that’s why APC is still campaigning,blaming, promising and playing opposition party despite being the Ruling party after
one year.
Buhari is dangerously incompetent and a woeful failure! No wonder he has no waec certificate, sorry he forged his waec certificate.
Buhari, Nigerians are very angry with you….
No more 2nd chance for Buhari with his corrupt APC!
Buhari – APC 2019 Score card
Following the just concluded semester exams, the following is Buhari’s 2019 score card:
Papers 1 to 8 = 80%
Papers 9 to 25 = 20%
1. Basic Policies to stimulate Economy = 0%
2. Security = 0%
3. Corruption fight = 0%
4. Fuel subsidy = 0%
5. Electricity = 0%
6. Exchange rate = 0%
7. Respect for the rule of law = 0%
8. Fulfilment of campaign promises = 0%
9. Unemployment = 100%
10. Stealing/Looting = 100%
11. Inflation/poverty/hardship/suffering = 100%
12. Transformation of Boko Haram from business centre to mega cooperation = 100%
13. Traveling to London = 100%
14. Lies and forgeries = 100%
15. Illiteracy = 100%
16. Suicides = 100%
17. Killings = 100%
18. Destruction of nigeria’s Image abroad = 100%
19. Support for killings by fulani herdsmen = 100%
20. Tyranny, intimidation, dictatorship, persecution, bigotry, marginalization, impunity = 100%
21. Blaming GEJ, past administrations, Gaddafi, bandits, Nigerian youths = 100%
22. Sickness and medical bills abroad = 100%
23. Love for animals such as rats, snake, baboons, jackals, etc = 100%
24. Islamization of Nigeria = result withheld.
25. Restructuring of Nigeria = result withheld
Buhari, following your woeful performance, you are hereby instructed to vacate ASO ROCK and return to daura till further notice.
NO REPEAT, NO CARRY OVER!
Thank you.
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Dr. Acivas McMacillius
LIES LIES LIES…….!!!!!
If Buhari was a commodity in the market, it would have been banned because it is a bad product.
HSBC & UBC Global banks have joined the statistics. They have shut down and packed out of Nigeria. Buhari is a real problem in this country. Again, Foreign investment falls by $500m in Q1 2018. FG has approved N60billion for rice importation subsidy. This is the same rice that they denied importing. Liars! How much money do theses Buhari’s APC want to steal to be enough? Again $18.48million contract has been awarded 4months presidential election as immediately ordered by presidency without due process. How long will Buhari steal from Nigeria?
I didn’t know that Buhari was so lifeless until Trump told us. No wonder he (Buhari) gave 8 dead people appointments while labeling hardworking Nigerian youths as lazy.
Now this corrupt Buhari administration wants to privatise Ajaokuta steel. Who wants to buy it? Dongote again?……And again buhari seeks NASS approval for $2.78 eurobond 5months to presidential election. Why? For what? Nigeria borrows N2.7trillion in one year to do what? Everything about Buhari is forgery and lies:
0. Presidency borrows $3.1bn usd for road and railway 7 months to presidential election.
1. Buhari himself forged waec certificate
2. His finance minister forged nysc certificate, then resigns.
3. The newly appointed finance minister resumes office with lies that Nigeria has not debt problem.
4. Some of his ministers such as Adebayo Shittu, forged nysc certificates.
5. His ministers forged 25billion dollars nnpc contact, then lied till today.
6. In Aso rock clinic embezzlement, documents were forged to cover up. Yet deficit was still short of billions.
7. Buhari himself as protroleum minister till now cut out 50billion naira petroleum account to himself and then forged a cover up. No one can question him on that till now.
8. Assisted by Buhari, Gov. Bello of kogi with inec, forged signatures of the electorate to recall Dino. Thank God kogi people stood their ground.
9. Adamawa state governor (Jibrilla Bindow) sued for forging SSCE certificate.
10. They lie about everything, lie about economy, lie about security, lie about electricity, lie about employment, and even lie about jellof rice.
11. Buhari used 30,000 police officers with Inec officials to rig election in Ekiti for APC.
12. INEC acts on Buhari’s instruction to cancel election result in Osun state just because Adeleke of PDP won gubernatorial election. Then Buhari sends fayemi of Ekiti to woo Omishore to support APC for a rerun after instructing INEC officials to tear ballot papers of those who voted for Adeleke of PDP.
13. APC offered Omisore N450 million to sell osun state to APC and he did. Osun state is so cheap to buy.
14. …….and finally Oshiomole admitted that APC RIGGED Osun gubernatorial election in a press conference.
15. They lie about giving ASUU N20bn and ASUU responded immediately to their lie by cautioning to stop the lying.
16. Even Ganduje, the governor of kano state, who has become dollar machine and who was caught in the act, still lies that he was not the one in the video. Ganduje has become a celebrity as buhari praises his prowess. This governor must go home!
17. Service chiefs attended Buhari’s next level in full uniform and there are pictures of it yet this lying govt. Lied about it.
18. ETC
How many jobs has this government been able to create? 7.9milliion Nigerians who were already employed lost their jobs in just 21 months of Buhari’s administration. Undergraduates are not nigeria’s problems. Buhari is nigeria’s problems. He is supposed to be sent back to school to write waec because he doesn’t have a certificate. He has destroyed Nigeria with his bad policies. You cannot transfer the failures of this government on poor people. This is foolishness.
This is a typical example of how Buhari’s policies has been destroying the country for the past 3 years counting. We have a bunch of clueless individuals in Buhari’s administration. Yet everyday, they boast of their stupidity. What do you expect from a man who cannot produce his waec certificate?
Buhari and APC have completely destroyed Nigeria with very bad policies. It’s a shame that Kenyan airlines has added to the statistics. They lied to us:
LIE NUMBER 1: Corruption is responsible for Nigeria’s economy woes.
The simple question which we all should be asking ourselves is, ‘why is it that EFCC has recovered all these money, from looters, yet nigeria’s economy has not improved and still so bad,? We have all been deceived into believing that it is looted money that is responsible for Nigeria’s economic woes but it is not because one would think that if looted money was recovered, Nigeria’s economy should improve, but this is not the case. The economy is running aground instead. All we do is gabbage in gabage out, swallowing all the lies they tell us, without reasoning. APC has been peddling the lies to the gullible. Meanwhile, EFCC is APC’s mechinery to hunt down all political enemies of Buhari and APC. Where are those recovered loots?
LIE NUMBER 2
Oil price is the cause of Nigeria’s economic woes.
They all give low oil price as reason for failed economic policies, but also forgot to mention that Buhari was aware of dynamic oil price before he made the promise to Nigerians that he will make 1 naira = 1 dollar, deceiving Nigerians to get the votes. Secondly they forgot to mention that oil price during past administrations was not static, yet past governments were able to balance dynamic oil prices with good economic policies to buffer the economy, this was the reason Nigeria became the largest economy in Africa. Almost all oil producing country around the world are now stable except the nigerian economy. So you no longer need to wonder why Buhari is compared to GEJ. More than 40 flights have stopped flighing in Nigeria including international flights. Ethiopian airlines wants to buy Arik Air. More than 37 Companies and foreign investors have stopped operation in Nigeria, including the famous tomato factory. In Buhari’s first yr in office, the banking sector and other institutions fired so many employees increasing the percentage of unemployment. CBN rolled out very bad policies that drove investors out of the country which today they (CBN) have reversed, and the list goes on. All these events are not caused by low oil prices. Buhari and his APC government are just a mess. They messed up this country. They destroyed this country with very bad policies.
LIE NUMBER 3
Lack of diversification of the economy is responsible for economic woes.
Yet instead of spending time and resources on diversifying the economy. They go back to look for more oil in Sokoto, Borno, benue states, etc ….that same oil they are blaming as the cause of Nigeria’s economic woes.
Buhari, APC and FG are liars. They have no viable economic policies to the drive the Nigerian economy.
I can mention a few important achievements that Buhari has made so far:
1. Celebration of Ganduje
2. Commissioning of mango trees
3. Commissioning of shoemaker boxes.
4. Transformation of boko Haram to a mega cooperation!
5. Establishment of killer fulani herdsmen to grab Lands.
6. Forging of his waec certificate
7. Successful killing of Christians and wasting of innocent lives.
8. Kidnap (catch and release) of Chibok girls and detention of leah to hurt the south.
9. Exposition of illiteracy of the IGP and encouraging impunity in kaduna state by using El-rufai.
10. Suppressing the people of south gombe because they don’t want to identify with corrupt APC.
Buhari and his APC have destroyed and buried Nigerian..
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