My watch: As Nigerians look forward to a new dawn in
the administration of their newly sworn President,
Muhammadu Buhari
Article Highlights
– The President has not addressed the real issues affecting
our lives in Nigeria
– It would seem that the President is still on the soap box,
whereby promises and promises and intentions, are the
order
– Buhari would have outlined his main policy direction. But
alas, that has not happened today
“I have read the Inaugural Speech of the President of the
Federal Republic of Nigeria, Major-General Muhammadu
Buhari (Rtd.), delivered immediately after his swearing in. It
is gratifying that General Buhari has vowed to tackle the rot
in the power sector, even though he did not give any
direction on how to do that. By and large, it is my view that
the President has not addressed the real issues affecting
our lives in Nigeria.
It would seem that the President is still on the soap box,
whereby promises and promises and intentions, are the
order. He is the President of Nigeria now and my
expectation was that since March 28, 2015, when he won
the election, when he received the certificate of return from
INEC, when he got assurances from Dr. Goodluck Jonathan,
that his election would not be contested, General Buhari
would have outlined his main policy direction. But alas, that
has not happened today.
For instance, the President did not say anything on his
foreign policy directive, on issues relating to global warming
and climate change, the violence in the Middle East and the
general global economic downturn. Also, the President was
silent on the mode of tackling corruption, which indeed has
been the main thrust of his electioneering campaigns; he
was silent on the collapsing aviation sector, he kept mute on
the unpaid salaries of millions of workers across the land,
the huge debts that the Jonathan administration has
bequeathed to him and indeed the main means of
generating revenue, to run his government, apart from oil.
General Buhari gave no hint on the mode of reform of the
judicial system and the administration of justice generally,
the expected policy statement on NNPC did not come, and
even the Boko Haram insurgency, to which the President
devoted most of his speech, ended up in a policy disaster,
of cause after effect; in that the President will only know the
cause, origin and perspectives of the criminal organization,
only after he has succeeded in killing them all.
In all, the Inaugural Speech became another campaign
promise, a general rendition of statements of intention,
without action. It was too vague and illusory, like a speech
being delivered by a novice in power. This is the President
who has ruled this country as a Head of State, through a
coup detat in 1983, and one that has sought to rule this
nation since 2003, so he had all the time in the world, to
have mapped out his cause of action and strategies. This is
surely not the speech expected from our GMB.
In the coming days however, we expect more concrete
reforms and ACTION”.
God bless Nigeria.
USMAN MUHAMMAD (MOHNICE)

Pointless article.

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The OP opened this thread like a novice on nairaland.

If he had talked deep about all of these things, the title of your thread would have been "president Buhari delivered his speech like a parrot"..

Shut up... if u want to critize him to draw attention to u, try to be more creative

oga ade talk is cheap.....
with all the concrete inaugural speech wey jonathan deliver...wetyn gej achieve at last..



mak una go park well

Shoro Niyen?

The OP, is shameless semi plagiarist, and deserves a giant knock.

This bellyache up here is almost identical to what Ebun olu Adegboruwa came up with.

My question still remains; how many hours was the inaugural speech suppose to last?

Of what benefit is it to Nigeria to roll out a 50 points agenda with zero being done?

We don't need talk, action is what we need.

He doesn't even know u exist..