Nigeria is at a crossroad and the much predicted doomsday seems to be drawing nearer as things are falling apart and the centre is exhibiting lack of mental capacity to proffer solution to myriad problems facing the nation and move the country forward.
In the over 10 months of the President Muhammadu Buhari led All Progressives Congress administration, it has failed to institute the needed ‘change’, the mantra it used as its crest to wrestle power from the Peoples Democratic Party. We are not saying the damages done over a span of 16 years will be righted in a jiffy, what Nigerians are asking of is government with direction and purpose. And we can’t see this in the 10 months of this administration.
The executives and the legislature are working at cross purposes. Nigerians often wonder if the APC is truly a political party or just an umbrella of public office seekers. No discernible difference between the APC and the PDP, it’s just same of the same.
The obscurity and lack of transparency that marred the 16 years of the PDP governance is been flagrant exhibited by this administration which has promised us so much but has given us nothing in 10 months. The spin doctors led by the loquacious of Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, Femi Adesina and Garba Shehu have lost their voices in recent days. This administration has never owned up to any responsibility, it is always swift at pointing fingers especially to the past administrations of the PDP and others.
The APC made countless campaign promises and propaganda such as N5, 000 monthly stipends for unemployed Nigerians, free school meal, massive infrastructure development, conduct of free and fair election, reform of the judiciary, etc. While all these and many more remained elusive, what we get is protracted fuel scarcity, black out, falling value of the naira and a country in quandary.
Today, we are angry with this administration. In as much as Nigerians totally support the administration’s anti graft disposition, we expected it to institute positive and progressive changes in other facets of our lives such as power supply, availability of fuel, rule of law and infrastructural development to mention a few. The celebratory shout of ‘sai baba’ is now a dirge. We are disillusioned and confused.
It’s high time the President stopped junketing around the world and faces squarely the many hydra-headed problems facing the nations. Nothing is going right at home! INEC cannot even conduct election properly; the judiciary is given variant judgments on related and similar cases; the much touted zero-based 2016 budget was mired in controversy as it was padded and doctored to suit individual whims; blatant and flagrant disobedient of the law by officials and ordinary citizen is as ubiquitous as ever. In short nothing has changed. This government needs to communicate more with the citizens, no rhetoric or falsification, give us facts on the state of the nations. Tell us the bitter truth rather than sweet lies that will give us short lived feel-good-factor. Synchronize your policies, be transparent, show us a direction and we will gladly follow if your intents are right and just.
The President must urgently re-appraise the prevailing situation in the country and quickly bring succor to the people especially by addressing urgently the issues of electricity and fuel supply, or else, he loses the remaining goodwill he has with the people. Nigerians are suffering and we want CHANGE!
