Dele Momodu, a top member of the ruling All Progressive
Congress (APC) and Publisher of Ovation Magazine had revealed five elementary
behaviours false praise singers around the President have refused to tell him,
which has the capacity to truncate his 2019 presidential ambition.
According to an article captioned “what they won’t tell the
President”, which was published today, 16 July 2016. The Publisher also lashed
Mr. Femi Adesina who is the President’s spokeman.
According to Adesina, majority of Nigerians are happy with
the President’s performance, apart from those nicknamed “wailing wailers”, who
are mourning.
The Publisher highlighted the following fears:
1. Slow Pace of Work
Nigerians are complaining about the slow pace of work. They
want Baba to jazz things up. Not that they expect him to do it all, but they
are hoping he can rejig this government and bring in proven and tested
Nigerians from any part of the world and whatever political or religious
background. It is the prerogative of every government to hone its engine of
governance regularly by discarding worn-out batteries, plugs and pumps. You may
need to flush dirty engine oil and replace with premium lubricant. It should be
obvious that what we have at the moment is far short of the speed and stamina
required to take Nigeria to the next level.
2. Northernization of Nigeria
Nigerians are complaining about the seeming Nothernisation
of the key sectors of the Nigerian economy and polity. I am personally not very
worried about ethnic sentiments as a completely detribalized Nigerian, but
there are those who feel very strongly about this and the President may need to
allay their reasonable fears of being extinguished and exterminated from the
national politics of Nigeria. My honest suggestion is that Baba should come out
to tell Nigerians the criteria he uses in arriving at his choices. He should
confront his critics with superior logic and the mathematics of appointment
distribution.
3. High Cost of Governance
Nigerians are complaining about the high cost of governance
especially in this era of dwindling national fortunes. Many are telling us that
we persuaded them to vote APC, because we flaunted the credentials of Buhari as
a frugal and simple man not susceptible to frivolous spending or profligacy.
They are taunting us that they have seen no evidence of the reduction in the
extravagant spending on presidential jets and the upkeep of government personnel
and their families.
4. Directionless Economy
Nigerians are wondering what direction the economy is headed
with the incessant free-fall of the naira despite all efforts at arresting the
kamikaze plunge. Added to this is the deregulation of the price of petrol and
the pains being felt by these twin policies can only be described as untold
hardship.
While Nigerians are highly impressed that Baba is fighting
looters to standstill, they want to know what is happening to all the humongous
cash already recovered. Many States are still in financial mess, unable to pay
their workers.
5. Agitation for Nigeria’s Break up
Nigerians are also talking about the spate of agitations for
the breakup of the Nigerian State, especially the renewed call by the
pro-Biafra groups of South East Nigeria to carve out an Igbo nation.
While we may not understand the exact mission of the Niger
Delta Avengers, one of the most lethal militant groups in Nigeria today, it is
not likely to be too far from that of the Biafrans ultimately.
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