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| President Muhammadu Buhari |
Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), President of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria, must be a rare genius in a class of his own. A man who
tenaciously pursued his ambition of ruling Nigeria till he eventually
became president after failing three times, must be acknowledged
and saluted.
His love for this country is so great that he would not give up on
his ambition to lead Nigeria out of the woods, from the proverbial
Egypt to the biblical Promised Land. He is a great example to
those who are wont to easily give up on their ambitions at the
slightest obstacle or challenge. That is why I have chosen to
stand with Buhari!
I choose to stand with Buhari because of the way he was able to
confuse a good number of Nigerians to vote him into office
despite his obvious deficiencies in leadership and anti-democratic
credentials arising from when he was military Head-of-State.
I choose to stand with Buhari because just like the chichidodo
bird (apologies to Ayi Kwei Armah) that hates faeces yet feeds on
maggots, Buhari’s main campaign issue was to fight corruption
to a standstill, and he is living up to that billing because right
before him, 10 months after he was sworn in as president,
Nigeria’s corruption rating has hit an all-time high, no thanks to
the padded and fraud-ridden 2016 budget that was signed and
personally presented by the retired General himself and has just
been passed by the National Assembly.
I stand with Buhari because that budget is, indeed, a budget of
‘Change’ as gleefully explained by Mr President to the National
Assembly on the day of presentation. It was a budget that had
fraudulent, frivolous, repeated and non-existent proposed
expenses to the tune of about N668bn as signed, sealed and
presented by the president himself. The National Assembly
passed the budget after removing about N17bn from the N668bn
fraudulently inserted into the budget with an undeclared instruction
to the executive to “go and sin no more”.
Never in the history of our nation have we ever heard the term
“budget padding” until this era of “change”. Even the president
himself alluded to this fact. Only geniuses are pacesetters. Our
president is a pacesetter, reason I stand with him.
I stand with Buhari because he inherited about 5,ooo megawatts
of power from the previous administration but just 10 months
after assuming office, power has dropped drastically and hovers
around 2,000 megawatts while darkness has risen sharply in
geometric progression up to 10,000 megawatts. Rather than
measure power, we now measure darkness in megawatts, no
thanks to Buhari, APC and their “change” agenda.
I stand with Buhari because no other president in the world
knows how best to punish those who were gullible enough to
vote for him despite his obvious bogus and unrealistic campaign
promises than him. The best reward for such people is to make
them sleep endlessly at the filling station while waiting to buy fuel
that would never come. Even the Minister of State for Petroleum,
Ibe Kachikwu, has since waved the white flag over the fuel
scarcity issue saying the federal government has no idea about
how to find a quick solution to the problem. Just another way of
saying those who foisted this disaster on us can go on suffering
for their electoral misnomer.
I choose to stand with Buhari and I have no regrets about my
decision because in the history of our nation, no president has
ever seen the naira fall so helplessly like it is doing right under Mr
President. At N325/$1 and with the possibilities of further slide,
our economy is surely growing stronger! Sai Baba!
I stand with Buhari because since he came to power, all the
elections conducted have been inconclusive. Our president is so
ingenious that we shall be having reruns of reruns in Rivers State.
Never in the history of our modern democracy have we had that.
While Jonathan oversaw elections that were largely peaceful even
at the highest levels, conceded defeat without rancor and handed
over quietly, elections conducted under President Buhari, even at
State House of Assembly level, have witnessed avoidable
bloodshed, militarization of the process, compromise of INEC
officials and continued inconclusiveness. Surely, Buhari is growing
our democracy.
I still choose to stand with Buhari because under him, food prices
have gone up, jobs have been lost in droves, the judiciary is
intimidated and harassed, citizens’ rights are arbitrarily abridged
and abused outright, dissenting voices are hounded, innocent and
defenceless citizens are mowed down by security agents
especially as it was in the case of IPOB members at Aba and
Shiite Muslims at Zaria; Fulani herdsmen have become audacious
in their wiping off of communities and occupying such without
resistance or challenge by security agents. In fact, to borrow the
lyrics of a popular Nigerian musician, “Nigeria scatter scatter”.
These are the lofty reasons why patriotic Nigerians and I have
decided to stand with Buhari, and we shall remain standing with
him until he finally gets Nigeria to a stage where she becomes
absolutely incurable!
-Trent.
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