And in case you are wondering what I mean by email addresses let me bring you up to speed.
One of the
President's many media aides, a certain Bashir Ahmad, proudly revealed
that one of President Muhammadu Buhari's noteworthy achievements is the
provision of "over 40,000 email addresses for government officials under
the gov.ng and mil.ng domains".
I am using his exact words to show you the type of people the President has surrounded himself with.
To crown it
all, this media aide listed this 'achievement' under the hashtag
#PMBTriumphsat2! You can thus see why many of us have said that this
President is doomed to fail going by the characters around him.
Since Mr.
Ahmad likes bandying about big numbers, perhaps he should also list the
massacre of 347 Shiites men, women, children and infants in Zaria as
another of his boss stellar achievements.
While he is at
it he should not forget the bombing of hundreds of Internally Displaced
Persons and the doctors and other medical professionals who looked
after them at Rann IDP camp in Borno state. Those would make for some
very nice 'triumph' for #PMBTriumphsat2!
Now if this is a triump, then what would you call Jonathan's achievements at the 100 day mark of his administration?
Let me just
list 20 key things that former President Jonathan was able to achieve in
his first 100 days in office and I challenge the current administration
to list what President Buhari has achieved in the last two years. If
they are able to surpass what Jonathan achieved in 100 days then I promise to convert and become a Buhari change agent.
By his first 100 days as President Jonathan had achieved the following and much more:
1. Nigeria’s oil industry expanded by 20% and we reclaimed our position as Africa’s
largest oil exporter which we’d hitherto
lost to Angola. (Under President Buhari we have since lost the number one position to Angola again)
2. Recognized by OPEC in July 2011 as the
2nd largest oil exporter in a he cartel, 2nd only to Saudi Arabia. It is the first time Nigeria recorded such a feat.
3. Inflation rate reduced to single digit. In June 2011 the Consumer Price Index
showed an inflation rate of 10.2% which
dropped to 9.4% in July being the lowest
rate in the last 4 years. (Under Buhari we are again at double digit inflation rate).
4. Foreign Reserves rose by 10% to $35
billion.
5. Nigeria’s GDP growth rate month over month grew from 6.7% in May to 6.9% in July of 2011.
6. Nigeria declared top three investment
destinations in Africa (number 2) by the
independent Africa Business Panel in
the Netherlands.
7. Nigeria generated power at her highest level ever (4000mw) which is still
far from enough but which will improve
monthly.
8. Nigerian Railway Corporation
commenced Mass Transit Services in 5 of
6 geo-political zones. Last zone will come
on stream by year’s end.
9. Take off of
the Nigerian Sovereign Investment Authority. With the establishment of
the NSIA the Jonathan administration planned to facilitate direct
investments into infrastructure with priority areas being Power and
Roads.
10. The Federal Government also
awarded contracts for various road
projects
across the country chief of which are the reconstruction of the
Benin-Ore section of the Benin-Ore-Sagamu-Lagos road and the
Kano-Maiduguri dualization.
11. Launch of NigeriaSat-2 and
NigeriaSat-X Satellites to expand
Internet Bandwidth and provide early
warning to prevent natural disasters.
12. President
Jonathan introduced the policy of engaging the Private Sector on
kerosine pricing and price reduced between May and September, 2011.
13. In recognition of the sacrifices of youth
corps members, President Jonathan approved the upward review of allowances from 9,700 to 19,800 Naira.
14. Implementation of Minimum Wage
Increase for Nigerian Workers to 18,000
Naira monthly.
15. Fulfillment of the promise of 35% Slot For Women in the cabinet.
16. Deepening Security and expanding
Peace in the Niger Delta.
17. Reduced kidnapping in the South East
with the implementation of the President’s order to establish the 14 Brigade of the Nigerian Army in Ohafia, Abia state.
18. Ended piracy. Maritime Safety has been ensured and stabilized in the last 100 days.
19. A stellar cabinet comprising former
MDs of the World Bank & Goldman
Sachs, Chairperson Accenture and
multiple PHds.
20. The National Automobile Council
established an Automotive Development
Fund to resuscitate the automobile
industry and generate jobs.
21. Approval for genuine foreign
investors to obtain visas at the port of entry to facilitate FDI investments.
22. Model Skills Training Centers set up in
Abuja- collaboration between Industrial
Training Fund & the Institute for Technical Education, Singapore.
23. Establishment of the Nigerian Vehicle Credit Purchase scheme.
24. Fought
corruption at source with the introduction of IPPIS technology that
eventually eliminated 50,000 ghost workers on the Federal Government
payroll.
Let me add
that though thousands of email accounts were opened for government and
military officials by the Jonathan administration during its first 100
days, it will be pedestrian of me or anyone connected to that
administration to list such a mundane accomplishment as an
'achievement'. Let us leave that achievement for the Buhari
administration.
Let us even go
deeper. President Buhari and the All Progressive Congress called former
President Goodluck Jonathan, who gave Nigerians YouWIN and SURE-P, and
the Presidential Special Scholarship For Innovation And Development,
clueless. So what do we then call the APC administration that gives
Nigerians wheelbarrow?
They said Jonathan was tribalistic yet his National Security Adviser, Chief of Defense Staff, Inspector
General of Police, Chief of Naval Staff, Controller General of Prisons,
Controller General of Customs and minister of defense were from the
North. So what do we then say of President Muhammadu Buhari whose DG DSS
is from his own hometown and whose Minister of Defense, Chief of Army
Staff, Chief of Air Staff, NSA, IGP, CGP, CGI, CGP are all from his
Northern Region? You see, no matter how far falsehood has travelled, it
must eventually be overtaken by truth!
In two years
of Nigeria under President Buhari, the price of everything in Nigeria
has gone up. In fact, the only thing that is cheaper in Nigeria today
than it was in 2015 is the value of President Muhammadu Buhari's
campaign promises!
Even after he
left office, Goodluck Jonathan was and is still keeping his campaign
promises. He promised Abuja-Kaduna rail and finished it for Buhari to
commission. He promised that his ambition is not worth the blood of any
Nigerian and is keeping to that even today. But even while he is in
office, Buhari cannot keep his promises. If you doubt me, then show me
your job seekers allowance or your President that belongs to no one, yet
gave all the sensitive military and security jobs to his fellow
Northerners!
Can you
imagine what President Buhari and the APC would have said and done if
Jonathan had divided Nigeria between those that voted for him and those
that did not? Yet, that is precisely what President Buhari is doing!
I still find
it hard to understand what could have possessed President Buhari to have
said “The constituents, for example, gave me 97% [of the vote] cannot
in all honesty be treated on some issues with constituencies that gave
me 5%.”
You see, the
President has been too busy dividing Nigeria between 97% and 5% that he
has not had time to focus on the economy and of course the economy has
decided to join the unloved and unwanted 5%.
For the fifth
consecutive quarter, the Nigerian economy shrank instead of growing. Our
GDP shrank by 0.52%. The sad thing is that the government seems to be
celebrating the fact that the most recent contraction of the economy is
not as bad as the contraction of the last quarter.
Do you see the
type of government we have? A government that compares which of their
negative growths is better? Yet these people opened and still open their
mouth to call a Jonathan under whom Nigeria became the third fastest
growing economy in the world (according to CNNMoney) 'clueless'.
Jonathan's
cluelessness is 100 times better than Buhari's clue-fullness and you do
not need 40,000 email addresses to see this fact clearly!
And the silly
season in Buhari's administration just continues. Their stories are just
too silly. The other day we read that an administration official said
President Muhammadu Buhari is taking made in Nigeria medicines in his
London clinic. Almost a week after that made the press he is yet to deny
it. Then the next day the minister of petroleum resources, Ibe
Kachikwu, said the President is working and having meetings in London
and then worst of all, Garba Shehu says (and I quote) "Nigerians are
happy with Buhari and would still vote for him".
Sometimes I
wonder if these APC people realize that they should have stopped lying
after they won the elections. Propaganda can win elections but only
proper agenda can govern a country!
And then there
was the coup warnings by the Chief of Army staff, Lt. Gen Tukur
Buratai, who warned the nation that unnamed politicians were actively
procuring military officials for unpatriotic purposes.
Let me be
very, very clear and unambiguous. I am against any coup and will rise
against it, but is it not ironic that the government of Muhammadu
Buhari, a man who staged a coup against a democratically elected
President Shagari today warns against coups?
Some shallow
people say Buhari did not plan the coup and he only benefited from it.
To those who are shallow enough to believe that, I bet you also believe
that President Buhari is taking made in Nigeria medication in London!
Can you
imagine where Nigeria would have been if an over ambitious Buhari had
not toppled a government he swore by the constitution to defend? Under
Shagari the Naira was 50 kobo to a dollar. You could actually step out
of a plane at London's Heathrow or New York's JFK airports and convert
the Naira to the pound and dollar because the Naira under Shagari was a
fully convertible currency globally. Electric power was almost constant
and NEPA would announce before taking power. Nigeria Airways and Nigeria
National Shipping Line were thriving. The Federal Government NEVER owed
salary for even one day. Yet Buhari toppled that government and said
Shagari was bad.
Today Buhari's
administration is by far WORSE than Shagari's government in terms of
performance. If you are one of those children who were deceived by the
APC's lies, go and ask your parents if I am lying in my testimony of the
Shagari administration. I was five when Shagari became President and
nine when he was toppled and I experienced everything I mentioned above.
At age 9, my parents (civil servants) could afford to send me on yearly
foreign vacations under Shagari. Don't you dare believe the lies about
his administration. Shagari is a decent man who did not loot!
The bitter
truth is that if President Muhammadu Buhari submits his certificate and
his resume for a job as a bank manager in say the U.K. or the US, he
will not qualify for the job! What success has he achieved in his
private business? How can a man who cannot generate wealth for himself
in his private business be expected to generate wealth for a nation? It
is not just possible!
If you think I
am being overly critical then ask yourself why the economy and the
value of the Naira picks up when Buhari is in London and tanks when he
returns to Nigeria! Why does the Nigerian Stock Exchange contract when
President Buhari surfaces and expand when he absconds to London? These
are historical facts that cannot be explained away by the usual blame it
all on Jonathan excuse!
After two
years in office, the most successful achievement of the Buhari
administration is the President's departure to London for whatever
reason. One can only hope that his presence in London does not also tank
the British economy!
But there is
one thing I commend Buhari for (although it is Asiwaju Bola Tinubu I
should perhaps be thanking). His choice of a deputy in the person of
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo is "a breath of fresh air" (to borrow the
words Tolu Ogunlesi, my successor in the Buhari administration, used to describe then President Jonathan).
With Osinbajo,
there is hope for Nigeria. I was touched when as acting President (not
coordinator as Buhari would have him be) he personally attended the
#Biafraat50 event that held on Thursday, May 25, 2017 in Abuja. For one,
President Muhammadu Buhari would NEVER had attended such a function.
But by attending the event, the acting President has applied a healing
balm and a soothing salve on the injured feelings of pro-Biafra
agitators. Without firing a bullet and using brute force, as President
Buhari has been doing, he has done more to make those who self identify
as Biafrans feel wanted by Nigeria.
What a man, what a great man. If only he had a boss that was deserving of him!
Reno's Nuggets:
Guys, stop
trying to impress girls with your looks or your charms. Just succeed.
When you have money, there will be more than enough girls to call you
honey. Nothing makes a man as attractive as success. But choose which
one you will marry with wisdom. When satan wants to finish a man he
brings him a bad girlfriend. If he wants to destroy him irreparably he
convinces him to promote her to wife. So put your trust in God when
choosing a wife. If you keep putting your trust in people they will keep
disappointing you until you learn that only God can appoint you
#RenosNuggets
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