As Nigeria prepares for the May 29, 2015 hand-
over of the federal government to the President-
Elect, General Muhammadu Buhari, Associate
Editor, Sam Egburonu, Assistant Editor, Dare
Odufowokan, Assistant Editor, Remi Adelowo and
Sunday Oguntola spoke with some top
professionals and politicians across the country
on what should constitute the top five priorities of
Buhari’s government
Never has Nigerians been so expectant. Across
the length and breathe of the country, the people
say, with so much conviction, that the in-coming
government of Muhammadu Buhari has the
magic wand to solve the multiple socio-economic
and political problems of the country.
Even Buhari, the President-Elect himself, aware
of the high expectations, has expressed hope
that he and his team will not disappoint the
millions of the suffering masses who voted for
him and his team in spite of all odds and have
been waiting so passionately for his emergence
as the president. He has as a result identified
areas he intends to pay special and immediate
attention as soon as he resumes as the
substantive President of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria. In his response to several groups that
have paid him visits and have presented issues
they would want his government to tackle,
Buhari identified three outstanding areas of top
priority. They are insecurity, unemployment and
corruption. As he puts it to one of the groups
that visited him: “We have to get the issue of
the economy right to make sure the jobs are
made available and we should try and kill
corruption before corruption kills Nigeria.”
Other concerned stakeholders, including world
leaders, political and economic leaders in the
country have also offered areas the in-coming
government should place top and immediate
priority.
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, for
example, said Buhari administration should
capitalise on the goodwill of his election in his
first 100 days in office to take drastic decisions
that will impact positively on the economy in the
long run.
Blair, who was represented by Lord Mandelson at
a two-day policy dialogue on the implementation
of the agenda for change organised by the
Policy Research and Strategy Directorate of the
All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential
Campaign Council, said some of the decisions
that require to be made immediately include to
drastically overhaul the oil sector, reposition the
Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)
and eliminate the corruption in the sector.
Nigerian leaders that have so far offered their
preferred priorities include former President
Olusegun Obasanjo, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, the
governor of Osun State and Africa’s richest man,
Alhaji Aliko Dangote. Obasanjo, who constituted
his own think-tank to find solution to the
problems of Nigeria, would want Buhari to
consider education, power, economy, security
and infrastructure as top priorities. The report of
the committee he set up was recently submitted
to Buhari by the committee’s Vice Chairman and
former Minister of Finance, Dr. Kalu Idika Kalu.
While Aregbesola listed insecurity, hunger,
unemployment, decayed infrastructure and
infrastructure as preferred top priorities, Dangote
listed unemployment, increased power generation
and corruption.
Other leaders and professionals who spoke with
The Nation during the week also offered their
preferred priorities.

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He has a Magical Power.

Across the length and breathe of the country, the people say, with so much conviction, that the in-coming government of Muhammadu Buhari has the magic wand to solve the multiple socio-economic and political problems of the country.