BUHARI MAY BE FRUSTRATED, BUT OBASANJO CAN NEITHER FAULT NOR CONDEMN HIS INTEGRITY!

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.  

(Looking at Nigeria's Political System From a Godly Perspective).

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BUHARI MAY BE FRUSTRATED, BUT OBASANJO CAN NEITHER FAULT NOR CONDEMN HIS INTEGRITY!

An assessment of a recent statement credited to President Muhammadu Buhari that Nigerians could vouch that he and his troop of all political appointees, kitchen cabinet, special advisers, have done their best in  combating insecurity, portrayed unsolicited exasperation /disenchantment of a frustrated Commander-In-Chief  and We want to believe that he was misquoted!

“I want Nigerians to be very conscious of their country and what we inherited when we came in 2015 was Boko Haram in the North-East and the militancy in the South-South…. Nigerians know that we have done our best.”!

According to social media and newspaper reports, the President addressed the statement to Nigerians shortly after performing the Eid prayers with his family and aides at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, to express his annoyance and disgust against the avalanche of criticisms over unabated insecurity upheavals across the six geo-political zones as he further expressed dissatisfaction with the performances of the security agencies (whom he is yet to replace), saying they could do better! “Although, I believe in the military, the police and other law enforcement agencies from the report I am getting, I think they can do better,” he asserted.
In practice, religious bodies hold tenaciously to the doctrine of the efficacy of communicated prayers to the Almighty God who has the ultimate spiritual powers to turn around difficult situations into successes; but in the State House scenario mentioned in the previous paragraphs, the President seemed oblivious to that belief in spite of his Eid communications with the Throne of Grace!

He noted that much had been achieved in the area of security since he took over power in 2015 but added that more still needed to be done in view of the disturbing situation in North Central/North West!
In respect to the  Service Chiefs the President said, “We are making available resources to them to even do better and from the reports I am getting they could do much better… we are keeping them on the alert all the time to do their duties”, he added. The President’s spokesman, Garba Shehu, cleared our doubt in the opening paragraph when he said that his principal had given assurances to security agencies that he would provide more resources for them to deal with the unwanted security situation and described the attack on innocent Nigerians in the North West and North Central parts of the country as “very disturbing”!
Shehu quoted the President as saying that while much had been achieved security-wise, from 2015, more still needed to be done!

A COLLECTION OF REMINDERS FOR PMB!
Going down the memory lane, it is pertinent to remind the President that there was a time when he was a Military Head of State and at another time when he was forcefully retired from office!
There was a time when he was a leading and prominent member of the opposition parties from 2003-2015, when he providentially became the democratically elected President of Federal Republic of Nigeria following his persistent conviction that he was the right person for the top, plum job!
President Buhari also needed to be reminded that he criticized most of the policies of past administrations and promised to rectify all anomalies when given the opportunity to serve!
We must not forget that he was very conversant with all the myriad of socio-economic problems of the nation – especially the recurring issue of – PERENNIAL INSECURITY, ENDEMIC CORRUPTION, DWINDLING ECONOMY, LACK OF POWER/ENERGY TO SERVICE THE ECONOMY,(INDUSTRY/MANUFACTURING);  ABJECT POVERTY, OUT-OF-SCHOOL STREET CHILDREN, UNEMPLOYMENT, ABSENCE OF MODERN  HEALTH FACILITIES;  BOKO HARAM  TERRORISM of the North East and the South-South insurgency which the nation still contends with in the 11 YEARS of the nascent democracy  Nigeria!
We need to tell the President that the citizens are tired of those rhetoric’s he usually resorted to when he finds himself in very tight corners when under public scrutiny/criticisms over incessant and mindless banditry resulting in killings and shedding of blood of innocent citizens virtually on daily basis!

WHEN PRESIDENT SAYS: WE HAVE DONE OUR BEST TO SECURE NIGERIA, WHAT SHOULD THE CITIZENS DO?
Benue State has declared its intention for self protection and is requesting for legislation to arm its citizens which move is an opposite approach to the VIGILANTE INITIATIVE mooted by the South West Geo- Political Zone and others in the Northern/Eastern Zones!
It is not certain that the President’s frustrated outburst was a declaration of abandoning his constitutional duties to protect lives and property of the citizens, ensure their fundamental rights of legitimate freedoms to LIFE AND GOOD GOVERNANCE, because the other two ARMS, Legislature/Judiciary would not take kindly to such attitude without taking appropriate actions to set the records straight and navigate the nation’s ship on the right destination of economic prosperity.
INSECURITY IN THE UNITED STATES HAS NOW BIRTHED ARMED STREET PROTEST AGAINST WHITE RACIST POLICE/PREDATORS!
QUESTION: Can Buhari’s Administration afford to allow insecurity of lives and prosperity to deteriorate to birth CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE OR FRESH INSURGENCY? Definitely NOT! Recently, the NIGERIA CUSTOMS SERVICE Management  Team allegedly raised an ALARM over an impending organized attacks in several parts of the country which went viral on the Social Media; but the government Agency has denied to be the source of the said anti-peace news although the combined security forces of the nation are at RED ALERT to thwart any kind of security threat , NIP AND CRUSH IT IN THE BUD!

BUT MR. LETTER-WRITER:  EX-PRESIDENT AREMU OBASANJO SAYS NIGERIA IS FAST-BECOMING A FAILED STATE?
Here are the new accusations against MR. INTEGRITY, PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI, that were similar to the previous ones through his LETTER WRITING PLATFORM:
“Mismanagement of diversity and socio-economic development of Nigeria;
“Nigeria is fast drifting to a failed state under his administration;
“A badly divided state, economically becoming a basket case and poverty capital of the world;
“Socially firming up as an unwholesome and insecure country;
“Old fault lines that were disappearing have opened up in greater fissures and with drums of hatred, disintegration and separation and accompanying choruses being heard loud and clear almost everywhere;
“The country is fast moving to the precipice due to subtle encouragement for everyone to dance to the drum beat/chorus singing to avoid being earmarked as ethnically unpatriotic or an enemy of its tribe or geographical area!”
The ex-President who vehemently opposed disintegration of the country observed that even if the nation was broken up, the separated parts would still be neighbours or they would be ever at war adding that those who prevent justice to be done invite violence to reign!

WE WILL NOT THROW MR. DO-OR-DIE AND HIS UMPTEENTH MESSAGE AWAY LIKE THE BABY AND BIRTH-WATER!
We have never hidden our disgust for the Peoples Democratic Party Administrations championed by ex-President Obasanjo because they provoked and constituted the “ROOT CAUSE” of all the pains and woes that Nigeria is burden with since 1999 till date! However, ex-President Obasanjo had refused to remove the MOTE in his eyes for him to clearly see that HIS PDP ADMINISTRATION LAID THE FOUNDATION AND ERECTED THE OBNOXIOUS STRUCTURE OF 16 YEARS OF  MALADMINISTRATION OF NIGERIA THROUGH THE WORST TYPE OF INSTITUTIONAL CORRUPTION - EVER WITNESSED ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD AND WHICH BUHARI’S  ADMINISTRATION HAD TO DEAL WITH THE ROT AND STENCH LEFT BEHIND IN THE LAST FIVE YEARS!
During his first tenure, Nigeria became the leading petroleum marketer in Africa and as of the year 2000 oil and gas exports accounted for more than 98% of export earnings and about 83% of the Federal Government’s revenue as well as generating more than 14% of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP); also 95% of foreign exchange earnings and about 65% of government’s budgetary revenues – when crude sold for  between US$100-110 dollars!

There was much money in the economy BUT, consecutive PDP Administrations are yet to account for the windfall which did not reflect on the living condition of the marginalized masses! Thirteen years down the line, the story changed from affluence to absolute national degradation due to leadership mismanagement of crude oil accruals and foreign exchange earnings, deprivation of the citizens’ fundamental rights to decent living wages through regular employment.

Buhari’s new management team of the Change Administration had to grapple with a battered economy, a near EMPTY TREASURY and a 2016 Deficit Budget Appropriation predicated at US$ 35 dollars per barrel of crude oil (US$ 7 dollars short of market price), and created a jig-saw puzzle for the National Assembly (NASS), to set a workable benchmark for the   2015 Appropriation Estimates because the envisaged revenue from the mono-product would not materialize due to global glut and fallen prices!

MASSIVE CORRUPTION DURING CONSECUTIVE PDP ADMINISTRATIONS!
It was revealed by the BUHARI Administration that 55 Nigerians in position of authority stole over N1.34 trillion naira in EIGHT YEARS (2006-2013), an amount that was more than a quarter of the 2015 Budget estimates, which could have built 635.18 kilometres of road; built 36 ultra modern hospitals, 183 schools, would have educated 3.974 children from primary to tertiary and built 20.062 units of 2-bedroom houses! And whereas, ex-president Obasanjo , who had only N20,000 (twenty thousand naira only), in his bank account on his release from prison in 1998, rose to become a multi-billionaire at the end of his two-terms in 2007!
He could not convincingly deny this accusation and several acts of institutional corruption against him and his cohorts during his two-term office!

WHAT BUHARI MUST DO URGENTLY!
The President should resist every spirit of FRUSTRATION, seek the face of the LORD for the gift of WISDOM through resilience, RE-JIG his cabinet with fresh cerebrals, REPLACE the Service Chiefs and VIGOROUSLY pursue his agenda of providing employment for 10,000,000 (ten million), Nigerians annually to erase the doctrine of “A HUNGRY MAN IS AN ANGRY MAN!

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