I PLEDGE to Buhari my President, to be , faithful,
loyal and honest. To serve him with all my
strength. To uphold his honour and glory so I will
not be counted amongst his enemies. So help me
God. Knowing that he is an ‘ol soja’ I need to
pledge my one hundred percent loyalty to him as
he marks his first hundred days in office.
Those who asked him to present a score card of
his one hundred days in office, are trying to
introduce an American culture to which we are
allergic. There are also those who want to claim
that he is not implementing the party’s Road
Map. They fail to realise that this was merely a
road map to the Presidency, not the programme
he is expected to implement. In any case, who
but the unpatriotic will expect him to implement
his manifesto when we did not know things were
so bad? All we can do is hope.
I do not think the ruling APC set out to deceive
Nigerians as some claim; it is only that it got its
facts wrong. It was also not dialectical; in its
hurry to move the country forward, it did not go
back to see where we are coming from or where
we are. But we must believe the APC when it told
us, that President Buhari achieved far more in
four weeks, than former President Goodluck
Jonathan accomplished in six years. With such
first class performance, he can politically be said
to have completed his tenure and can retire to
Daura.
But my fear is that such suggestion can be
misconstrued, and I may be counted in the camp
of retired Colonel Sambo Dasuki, the former
National Security Adviser who was caught
planning treasonable felony by having seven high
calibre rifles in his house. That arsenal is enough
to overthrow the combined governments of
Russia, United States and China!
The President is too modest to present his
monumental achievements in his first one
hundred days. So as show of deep loyalty, I have
decided to attempt a summary. First is
insecurity. I echo the popular singsong; Buhari
has degraded the capacity of Boko Haram. We
now have a Commander-in-Chief who stays up to
bolt the doors, when we all have gone to bed.
When in two months, Boko Haram would have
been pulverised; the attention will be on
kidnapping, banditry and cultism.
As Nigerians, we have suffered power blackout
since birth. Now without buying transformers,
generating more power, laying additional cables
or building any new system, this is now a thing of
the past. My brother, Garba Shehu, the
President’s Spokesman in explaining this
phenomenon, said it is Buhari’s body language
that changed the performance of the privatised
power sector. I put it down to a miracle; Buhari
said, Let there be light. As a patriot, I now want
to sell my generators and inverter. A similar
miracle saw the refineries sprouting back to life.
Na God win o!
The signs have been there; but disbelievers have
been blind. In his first one hundred days, the
President has run the country quite efficiently
without Ministers thereby saving us a lot of
money. If he goes on like this for another hundred
days, we will save more money that can be used
to build schools, hospitals, roads and fund social
security. My only regret is that he was too much
in a hurry to inaugurate the National Assembly.
He has also cleansed the Directorate of State
Security by sacking the mouthy Marylyn Ogar and
other senior spooks while also curtailing their
powers in the Presidential Villa.
Our President has also publicly declared his
assets. My fear which he has confirmed, is that
relative to his fellow generals in office, he is a
poor man. But our amiable Vice President,
Professor Yemi Osinbajo rescued the image of a
poor Presidency.
I support all the actions and inactions of
President Buhari, although I confess to being
confused sometimes. For example what are the
summersaults on foreign exchange about? What
really is the policy?
Within hundred days, the war against corruption
is in its last stages. He must resist pressures to
probe beyond the Jonathan years; you don’t
because you want to scratch your body, peel off
your skin or scratch yourself to the bone. Leave
Halliburton, leave Power Sector, leave
Pentascope-NITEL, leave PTF probes!
We should not be so impatient as to assess a
man in his first hundred days in office; I have no
doubt that President Buhari will make all the
necessary changes and fulfill his electoral
promises; all we need is patience and good luck.
It is heart warming to see so many professors
and educated people speaking up for the
President and endorsing all the actions he has
taken, or may take in future. If all the good people
he can find, even for ministerial appointments are
from Daura, he should go ahead and appoint
them.
I am learning to be as patriotic and loyal as one
of my old acquaintances, Sola Salako who
declared on her wall “Just so they know; there is
nothing PMB (Buhari) can do right or wrong that
will ever make me regret supporting his
candidacy or make me wish we had kept GEJ
(Jonathan) in office. NOTHING! No matter how
slow, nepotistic, outdated, self-righteous or
insensitive you claim he is, he is still 100,000
times a better option than GEJ…I don’t care if he
fills the whole country with his family members”
This is so brilliantly put, that I recommend we
replace the National Pledge with it. I am tempted
to go on, but I need to stop here so I don’t get
invited to a duel on the social media where
thoughts are cheap and words are used and
discarded like rain water. I hear that the masses
in our country drink champagne through the
throats of their leaders; on the occasion of a
hundred days in office, let champagne pop, and
let them drink on behalf of the citizenry. Hip, hip,
hip, hurrah! Hundred gbosa to the peoples
general!
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/09/i-pledge-to-buhari-my-president/

this is more like a pledge to be a coded wailer

I do not agree with the writer on most of his assessments. However, I must applaud the subtle sarcasm used in expressing his views.