Suffering and Smiling As Buhari Govt Clocks 6
Written by Aladesanmi Oyekanmi
Just last Saturday, the government of Muhammadu Buhari clocked 6.
First term of 4 years between 2015 and 2019 and the second term got to its half on May 29, 2021.
No doubt, Nigerians were clamoring for change before the advent of the APC led government in 2015, the mandate was given to the Buhari/Osinbajo ticket.
The expectation then was that Muhammadu Buhari would represent the biblical Moses who would lead Nigerians to the promised land.
Perhaps the Nigeria’s promised land is far than that of the biblical Canaan land, the distance might be the factor why Nigerians are still trekking in the wilderness.
Mistakes are meant to be corrected, Nigerians were of the opinions that Buhari’s first term might be a test-ground for him and his team as this compelled them to vote him again in 2019 under the guise of Next level slogan.
Arguably, the second coming, which took off on May 29th 2019, is yet to flatten the curve.
The beauty of any government is to reset the economy, where necessary, focus should be on market prices, the gross domestic products, inflation rate, foreign exchange rate, job creation as well as food prices.
Buhari’s government met the pump price at 65 naira per liter when he came on board but as at today, the official pump price stands at 162 naira per liter.
Many Nigerians are suffering and still smiling under a hash economy.
An average Nigerian lives in a country where the government seizes to help, where the society refuses to assist, where many are incapacitated, where the oppressors continue to oppress the oppressed.
Insecurity is another factor that has rubished the present government, both conventional and social media are being awashed with alarming headlines over incidents of killings, series of attacks, robbery and other crime stories.
Nigeria’s poor security has earned many police public relations officers unwarranted popularity bcos they have suddenly become ‘a new wife’ in the bed of news writers.
Although, the forth line of the Nigerian pledge states, ‘to defend her unity and uphold her honour’, national unity remains the responsibility of every citizen.
But if such unity is making a large number of citizens suffering, the iron becomes red when it over-stays in the fire.
ECOWAS leaders are assembling in Ghana on the heels of political crisis in Mali but Nigeria is enmeshed in economic crises with no regional sympathy from the ECOWAS member-states.
Well, today’s news commentary does not support secession but the volume of 2023 will be loud.
