Is Buhari already confused?

[FlyJ]

If there is any group of individuals who can manufacture shock, political punditry out of nothing, it is the All Progressives Congress. They cried out that Jonathan was doing a terrible job as President of Nigeria. They said his inability to run the Federal Government is the reason our country has lapsed into wholesale chaos. He is the reason corruption decimated our population, turned brother against brother. He is the reason our military became weak and our borders constantly breached by Niger, Chad and Cameroonian gendarmes. He is the reason our cities have all lost power and we have reclined back into the dark ages. He is the reason why thousands of wild dogs/Boko Haram roam our streets and rip our children apart. With democracy being an institution where we worry about how many people ‘agree’ about certain things, APC must be concerned that Nigerians are actually seeing that Buhari is not the messiah we need. When I wrote that Nigerians shouldn’t celebrate Buhari yet, a lot of his sympathisers reached for my scalp with all types of derogatory vocabularies. Now, just a couple of days into his regime and even before the flag is hoisted up the pole, the same people have started singing the same old song that he is too slow. Just like in the time of Jonathan. Why am I not surprised? When I talked about Buhari’s age, they said presiding over the affairs of a country is different from being a bricklayer. Why is Buhari now wishing he was younger? What has “changed” him? Didn’t he know his age before “borrowing” money to acquire the form to contest for president?

 

Listening to APC and President Buhari’s excuses of just being in government for only few weeks is like watching a doctor on ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ pounding on a patient’s chest until another doctor has to pull him off and say, ‘Sir it’s over!’ That’s what I want to say to President Buhari. Sir, it’s over! We are tired of having president with excuses. You didn’t give us these excuses in any of your campaign speeches. Nigerians, it’s time to move on! There will be other disasters. There will always be presidents with excuses.

 

The president will cut down the cost of governance. He won’t have as many ministers and advisers like Jonathan. How is approving the appointments of two media aides with the same job description cutting down the cost of governance? What is the difference between a Senior Special Assistant (Media and Publicity) and a Special Adviser (Media and Publicity)?

 

The issue of applying the rule of law in certain matters of state that demands immediate and urgent attention is not why we voted for Buhari. For Christ’s sake, the country is in dire straits. We are in desperate times as a country and as such, the streets won’t accept these excuses. President Buhari shouldn’t be telling Nigerians that he met an empty treasury. We want to hear of measures his government is taking to recover the stolen funds. This government seems overwhelmed and confused already like what we’ve had in the past.

 

He should also understand that not having his cabinet in place at this point in time is dangerous. President Buhari should know that he can’t govern this country alone. It will take all hands on deck to get this country back on track. He cannot be the president and the minister of defence and petroleum all by himself. He can’t be at different places at the same time. Being the president of a huge country like Nigeria is different from being the managing director of a business.

 

One does not “run” the Federal Government. You can run a train and you can run your own small business, but the Federal Government of Nigeria is bigger than the largest enterprises of this world.

 

Equating any portion of the Federal Government to a business stretches the meaning of metaphor. No business is attacked by other countries or has to deliberately kill people, or has a board of 469 National Assembly members, majority of which are trying to bankrupt the company in order to make the CEO look bad, nor does any company operate within transparency of allowing thousands of journalists to pore over their affairs, or carry your opponent’s opinions as if they were facts, or react to hundreds of lawsuits per day from its own employees, or thousands of lawsuits per day from third parties. No private company is responsible for accomplishing its mission within tens of thousands of laws that deliberately operate against its efficiency.

 

No private company has a board that authorises spending via commitment of financial resources and then separately approves their payment or its equivalent debt. No business operates from the need to pass legislation in order to change direction, or to accomplish its primary objectives, (environmental safety, energy independence, internet security, university research, election compliance, full employment policies, taxation reform, anti-terrorism, healthcare reform, and intelligence gathering). No organisation has the responsibility to send soldiers to defend its allies or be responsive to the impact that changed laws, policies, and tax provisions have upon other nations, friend and foe alike. And finally, no organisation is responsible for administration and enforcement of tens of thousands of laws, rules, and regulations against millions of separate entities.

 

Is President Buhari capable of providing direction, implementing a NASS approved budget, prioritising and recommending budget changes, negotiating legislation, submitting qualified candidates for the courts, appointing and supervising staff and cabinet members, including the joint chiefs of the military, and effectively communicating volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous issues to the Nigerian public? Absolutely, NO!

 

 

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[Althena]

I didn't read the article but my answer is: YES

[Calllaris]

There's always room for resignation from any job. Though that would be the day! Buhari is more worried that PDP produced the deputy senate president?

 

But... we all knew that 'worse' is what it was going to become. Forget the sectorial support for Buhari at the March 28 elections.

 

Was Nigerians actually fooled to think he is the better? I don't think so. I just think the majority were naïve, helpless and tribal biased. While others were tired of Jonathan and his foot soldiers and their seemingly reserved methods, the majority who sang the chants for Buhari were those who had stake.

 

But I don't think anybody actually believed Buhari's government will be more effective because if we are being rational, efficiency will stem from a formal blue print, a different motive and gusto and a true passion for emanating this country up to standard with its contemporaries; therefore involving the youths. I didn't perceive these from the APC.

 

The three regions in the North wanted their 'own person' the south- west was 'bought over' and the other two regions.., well you know what happened.

 

That is why when sociologist's speak of the demons of tribalism and its perpetrations in our country, one is forced to reckon. How can the best we produced amidst all the bright stars be a former military head of state. Why must you have a second bite of the cake? Forget the issue of age. The man had a right to pursue his dreams yet the youth's had the right to pursue for a better life for the people of this land, after so many years of dearth.

 

The APC were more or less same old Nigerians with good certificates and some job experience in public sectors from previous regimes. The same can be said about the PDP politicians too.

As it stands, only few politicians in Nigeria are there for reasons other than their pockets. Legislative law makers are even 'flying' money around through constituency projects which is not in the constitution and different from what you see in other countries?

 

Interventions to Mr president if he is confused (read with a little humour):

 

I will advice that you overhaul the various structures of this country. What we will be needing more than every other thing is a structural change. Where:

 

*The women are brought to fore. It is only in a decaying society that the majority are overlooked. The women are majority in Nigeria. Any country still claiming women are sloppy seconds is a poor country and a labour based economy, not a skill based one. They do so because resources are scarce therefore the fittest takes it all. But Nigeria is not a labour based economy, it is a country where skilled and educated women are plenty. So begin to ask questions of why? not what?

 

(And women, stop playing the culture and custom game with them. In the olden days, that game only avails men the best parts of the meat because meat was scarce. Today they are still hung on that)

 

Oga, you ll be focusing on women, not because they are weak but to bridge the mighty divide already.

 

*The police recruit requirements should demand at least a reputable tertiary degree, perhaps an OND and pay deserved salaries to them; to improve the quality of their intellectual delivery and curb corruption of the law.

 

* A mandate to flood the populace with about 40,000 or more new police stations. To curb crime considering the geographical area of nigeria.

 

*A monitoring team to check mate the state government projects in the state, -- every state should perform at a certain pace @ state roads, agricultural projects (as of today, Nigeria imports an average of three trillion naira worth of food products annually), employment creation, waste management, and foreign investors/ investment policies -- to have a quarterly fora where reports are tendered. After all we are practising a federal/ presidential system of government where no state in the country receives in monthly allocation, anything less than 18billion naira, so reporting to the federal won't be a crime..

 

*Revive the local government system and include the traditional rulers and customary courts in the federal government budget. This way the government is closer to the people. For now most LGC are redundant with HOD's and HOS's (state government stooges) acting above LG chairmen.

 

*Above all implement the report of the last National conference

 

 

If you can do this, it will be accounted to you as a structural overhaul yet the 'share the money' syndrome will reach the nooks and crannies of the whole country, thereby affecting more lives. Win win.

 

You say you are probing and recalling embezzled funds, from who?, from the banks in the USA? Or from the godfathers who have snuck in their anointed god son's to seat?

[dequeen]

I'll have a really good laugh when people start calling for APC's head..... I knew it before the election, we had no presidential candidate. At least a Muslim is on the seat which equals peace to an extent.

[Fummy]

Change! Change! Change! If they really wanted change, Buhari shouldn't have been the president. Why do we like recycling old officials in Nigeria? Is there anything wrong with the young and able minds? Even in the senate, you will find ex governors and officials . This people just want to ruin Nigeria and are just there for their own interest. Nigerians were shouting change like he was one messiah, am not even surprised by how slow he is, he is even beginning to seem clueless to me. Just a week after assuming office, he was already claiming age can slow him down . Didn't he know that before? Since he has been voted in, Nigerians should just exercise patience as they will need it and those who are expecting him to fulfill all he said he would should just take a seat as they wi'll need it . If anything, the APC promised too much even when they knew they wouldn't fulfill all . Let's see how it all goes though. And Buhari shouting corruption corruption should please start from his party gosh APC is full of corrupt officials just like PDP is, he should fight it without being bias.

[Fummy]

He isn't a magician afterall

[Iris]

The mere fact that this article was written barely a month after May 29 shows this writer is off on tangents! Making a comparison of Buhari's one month and Jonathan's neoteric 16 years in Govt (don't get me started on that one) epitomizes the depth of his silliness and subjectivity. As with his other write-ups on specific artistes, homosexuality, sex-change and so on..