NIGERIA

Before I address the essence of this piece, I will start by addressing the reaction. There are two main elements that are likely to ignore rationality when reading and commenting on this piece; the so called Wailing Wailers and the group of people who are still voting President Buhari despite the fact that he is already president. They are often both irrational groups who hold on to opposite sides of an issue mostly based on where they stood during the last polls.

Of the two, the Wailing Wailers are of course the most disgraceful, colourfully shameless and with zilch credibility. The reason being that, everything they criticize today, they once cheered and supported. Their only anger with anything today is that Goodluck Jonathan is no longer president. For most of them, they would cheer the stealing of billions of dollars, defend same and even protest if you start the prosecution process of the suspects, all because they supported Goodluck Jonathan. They do not love Nigeria and even if they wail from now till 2090, those who know better will never take them seriously.

The other group, those who are still voting President Buhari, are held back by the desperation not to be seen that they made a mistake at the polls. That is an unfortunate state to be in because of the two major options before Nigerians last year, Mohammadu Buhari was a no brainer. Goodluck Jonathan had supervised Nigeria’s longest oil boom, despite that, he left Nigeria with its lowest foreign reserve in a decade, less than 1000 MW of power supply, some 112 million poor souls, over 10 million school kids out of school, gargantuan corruption of which Nigeria would still be recovering the stolen funds 10 years from now.

Buhari was the better candidate of the two and Nigerians rightly settled that argument. What Buhari does with that mandate does not make the Nigerians who voted him the wrong party. If doing the right thing eventually results in a bad thing happening, you do not regret doing the right thing.

But Nigeria is bigger than the so called Wailing Wailers, Nigerians already proved that on March 28, 2015. End of. Nigeria is bigger than the Buharists too, Nigerians proved it three times before the 2015 elections. Buhari became president because non-Buharists voted him. Let this be clear before people get swept off by the wind and tide that swept Jonathan and his “best president ever” court of jesters.

The 2016 budget is a joke, a disgrace and a representation of the unwholesome reality of governance in Nigeria. What that budget simply shows is that we simply are not ready for the change we so mouthed during the last elections. Government officials are speaking of austerity measures and the need for Nigerians to make sacrifices, yet our Budget Office is proposing to spend some bizarre sums on some irrelevant, good for nothing materials that contribute zero-value to the average Nigerian.

The 2016 budget has N1 billion for the purchase of tables and chairs. We cannot introduce PDPian reality into governance and then pretend things have changed. N1 billion? For what? That amount will start a big furniture company with the capacity, not only to make enough chairs for the federal government, it will also create jobs. I don’t believe in government starting companies but I’d rather N1 billion spent that way than spent buying tables and chairs.

Almost N7 billion will be wasted on the Senate President’s residence and some joke consultancy distraction. If we want to run Nigeria down, let us be frank with Nigerians, instead of telling them now things will be different while continuing with the inanities that led us here in the first place.

As we speak, no one knows how the National Assembly spends its allocation. It collects its share and spends it without accounting to Nigerians. We can fool one another, but we cannot fool those watching from outside. So far, nothing has changed here! N4.8 billion has been proposed for operational vehicles for Nigerian Prisons. Let us assume these new vehicles are being bought in anticipation of the billionaires that will be jailed by president Buhari, should they then have access to the same exotic vehicles in prison as they did when eating out our collective wealth out of prison? N237 million was spent in 2015 – at least according to that budget – to purchase kitchen equipment for the state house. Now, another N89 million has been budgeted for same. How is it that kitchen equipment that cost almost N237 million cannot survive beyond a budget cycle? Haba!

We cannot stay repeating the same mistakes – should they be called mistakes if they happen every year? – and expect that somehow things will change for the better. The biggest indication of a government’s direction and intention is its budget. If this budget represents the change the APC promised, we might as well now agree that the disaster that was the “Transformation Agenda” has a match in the joke that this is turning out to be. The most part of this is that those who ought to speak are scared to speak out, they would rather speak angrily against the budget privately, then go into the Senate chamber to praise the very same document they tore apart just minutes before.

If we continue to make government about individuals, our country will not move an inch forward. What has been stated above about the budget is not a finger at who is wrong, it is a finger at what is wrong. The 2016 budget is wrong. Capital Expenditure at 30 per cent, despite an expanded budget essentially means the reality of recurrent expenditure against capital expenditure remains as it was under the Jonathan years. The difference is too marginal to be emphasized as “change.” President Buhari presented a great speech at the National Assembly when presenting the 2016 budget but if he had actually gone through some of the items in that budget, he would have instead sent those who prepared the budget to present it.

This is the first budget under a new party since the PDP’s 16-year reign. It was not expected to be markedly different from theirs because reforms need to be gradual to be sustainable, and to avoid shocks on the economy. Having said this, some items on the 2016 budget could easily have been avoided altogether. Lessons must be learnt, the Buhari administration must do better. If there is one thing this administration can learn from the last, it is this; those who are seen as critics are better than those who praise your every move. We cannot afford to get carried away by the praises of those who will not be there when we are out of power. Those who hailed the last president, as the best thing that ever happened to Nigeria could not even spend a few thousands to wish him a happy birthday just months after he left office. It is the nature of power, it is transient and it carries sycophants along with it, in droves.

Let it not be said that we did not speak when things go wrong. Let it not be said that our voices went dead when the very things we criticized under one government reared its head under another. The Wailing Wailers will say this is being done because people like us were not rewarded with government positions, but those with the power to share the offices know those who are begging them for same. And those who do not care who became what or didn’t. May we know to do better!

This is what led to the IPOB movement!
Omojuwa, Feb. 2016

"The Wailing Wailers are of course the most disgraceful, colourfully shameless and with zilch credibility. The reason being that, everything they criticize today, they once cheered and supported. Their only anger with anything today is that Goodluck Jonathan is no longer president. For most of them, they would cheer the stealing of billions of dollars, defend same and even protest if you start the prosecution process of the suspects, all because they supported Goodluck Jonathan. They do not love Nigeria and even if they wail from now till 2090, those who know better will never take them seriously".

This man is already in d wailers club.is he insulting himself?

Some of you guys may disagree with this guy all you want but this is on point. Some of us believe Buhari didn't read this budget and trusted people to do the right thing. If this is true, these people obviously betrayed his trust. Not trying to dissociate him from this, as president the buck stops at his desk and this is a highly irresponsible act from him by not going through it line by line. Worst still is he was a part of this budget. How can a ministry allocate N1bn for chairs and tables for God's sake? Are we cursed in this country? How do these guys not understand that we'll all do better as a nation if we actually develop it? Osinbajo said it during campaign that our major problem isn't how much Nigeria earns but how well we manage what we have. How's it that they're not practicing what they were preaching? That N1bn could be used to build an ICT village that could create the billionaires of the near future and possibly make these ministers/officials too billionaires in the process but no they just want to gulp a N1bn without lifting a finger. This is disgraceful!!

mrmetoo1:
Some of you guys may disagree with this guy all you want but this is on point. Some of us believe Buhari didn't read this budget and trusted people to do the right thing. If this is true, these people obviously betrayed his trust. Not trying to dissociate him from this, as president the buck stops at his desk and this is a highly irresponsible act from him by not going through it line by line. Worst still is he was a part of this budget. How can a ministry allocate N1bn for chairs and tables for God's sake? Are we cursed in this country? How do these guys not understand that we'll all do better as a nation if we actually develop it? Osinbajo said it during campaign that our major problem isn't how much Nigeria earns but how well we manage what we have. How's it that they're not practicing what they were preaching? That N1bn could be used to build an ICT village that could create the billionaires of the near future and possibly make these ministers/officials too billionaires in the process but no they just want to gulp a N1bn without lifting a finger. This is disgraceful!!

And their perfect God bubu is already on same path cus all we know is that he is too dull to understand that his budget is a budget of yam.

who wrote and for whom?

SolutionsGuy:
who wrote and for whom?

It WS writen by a newly admited wailer.

Omojuwa, u just did what wailer's does.

OVI75:
And their perfect God bubu is already on same path cus all we know is that he is too dull to understand that his budget is a budget of yam.

What's your problem dude?? You're one of those he addressed in the first part of this article. If anyone wanted to maintain the image of Buhari as perfect, would anyone have written an article like this? Would I have posted an article like this? Buhari is human, humans are made to disappoint. I don't put my hope in any human but I just wish for the best. I want this country to be great because I know we have what it takes. This isn't about Buhari, this isn't about Jonathan. This is about our country Nigeria and how our leaders are bent on destroying it. You shouldn't never hate or love a politician too much, as it turns out, they're always after their own interests

ckmayoca:
Omojuwa, u just did what wailer's does.

What Omojuwa did here was constructive. What wailers do is wail even when it's against their interest as long as is anti-Buhari

All i say is: A time is coming

Nigeria is cursed with feebleminded, moronic and dimwitted malefactors as leaders. We make the same mistakes yearly and doltishly expect different results because we are so lazy and wait on God to come down and solve even the most flyspeck of problems.

I see a constructive criticism here.

Omojuwa if it's wailing wailers form you want come and get hit. Every criticism was a hit, From Buhari #missingbudget to #Budgetofyam. Iyalaya anybody wailing ti take over.

mrmetoo1:


What Omojuwa did here was constructive. What wailers do is wail even when it's against their interest as long as is anti-Buhari

You are very funny and restless, though i understand your effort to keep your thread alive. Having said that, i will only tell you that Jonathan is no longer the president, the man is having a well deserved rest in his village.


When Apc submitted their budget of yams sometime in December last, some of you zombies here were quick to boast and saw the early submission as a dividend of body language, who would have believed that the president of the largest economy in Africa didn't read through or at least employed some experts to interpret it to him.


Buhari can never be excused on the budget issue! He is very very complicit! Otherwise, one day, a judge would have to interpret a document he signed without reading!

Even if he didn't read through the budget, didn't the mention of 6trn jolt him? He like all other crooks around him were hoping that the simple majority in the senate would ask him to take a bow immediately!

We are in the era of change, kudos to the fearless PDP senators who raised the alarm and made even the common man on the street become aware of the deceit of Apc!

Let Buhari continue to probe the source of PDPs campaign funds without first examining where his own came from, when he runs into a cul-de-sac, then we will know what next!

Omojuwa can go to hell! You too can join him if you don't like the criticisms this government is courting!

frankyychiji:
You are very funny and restless, though i understand your effort to keep your thread alive. Having said that, i will only tell you that Jonathan is no longer the president, the man is having a well deserved rest in his village.


When Apc submitted their budget of yams sometime in December last, some of you zombies here were quick to boast and saw the early submission as a dividend of body language, who would have believed that the president of the largest economy in Africa didn't read through or at least employed some experts to interpret it to him.


Buhari can never be excused on the budget issue! He is very very complicit! Otherwise, one day, a judge would have to interpret a document he signed without reading!

Even if he didn't read through the budget, didn't the mention of 6trn jolt him? He like all other crooks around him were hoping that the simple majority in the senate would ask him to take a bow immediately!

We are in the era of change, kudos to the fearless PDP senators who raised the alarm and made even the common man on the street become aware of the deceit of Apc!

Let Buhari continue to probe the source of PDPs campaign funds without first examining where his own came from, when he runs into a cul-de-sac, then we will know what next!

Omojuwa can go to hell! You too can join him if you don't like the criticisms this government is courting!

What Please what's this nonsense you just wrote up there? Bros I know your being can't move past politician vs politician. However, believe it or not some people actually care for this country not caring about any politician. I haven't made any excuses for no one, I wrote up there that the buck stops at his desk. I also said it'll be highly irresponsible if he claims ignorance. I don't care about defending anyone, Buhari isn't my father. If you haven't let your hate for the man blind you, you'll have realized this was a clear criticism of the Buhari administration without mincing words. So your rant about not liking criticism of this government doesn't make any sense whatsoever.

Then dude I'm not one of them, I'm not very busy today so I have time to be on here. If my thread dies after the first response who cares?

Omojuwa the coward

mrmetoo1:


What Please what's this nonsense you just wrote up there? Bros I know your being can't move past politician vs politician. However, believe it or not some people actually care for this country not caring about any politician. I haven't made any excuses for no one, I wrote up there that the buck stops at his desk. I also said it'll be highly irresponsible if he claims ignorance. I don't care about defending anyone, Buhari isn't my father. If you haven't let your hate for the man blind you, you'll have realized this was a clear criticism of the Buhari administration without mincing words. So your rant about not liking criticism of this government doesn't make any sense whatsoever.

Then dude I'm not one of them, I'm not very busy today so I have time to be on here. If my thread dies after the first response who cares?

mrmetoo1:
NIGERIA

Before I address the essence of this piece, I will start by addressing the reaction. There are two main elements that are likely to ignore rationality when reading and commenting on this piece; the so called Wailing Wailers and the group of people who are still voting President Buhari despite the fact that he is already president. They are often both irrational groups who hold on to opposite sides of an issue mostly based on where they stood during the last polls.

Of the two, the Wailing Wailers are of course the most disgraceful, colourfully shameless and with zilch credibility. The reason being that, everything they criticize today, they once cheered and supported. Their only anger with anything today is that Goodluck Jonathan is no longer president. For most of them, they would cheer the stealing of billions of dollars, defend same and even protest if you start the prosecution process of the suspects, all because they supported Goodluck Jonathan. They do not love Nigeria and even if they wail from now till 2090, those who know better will never take them seriously.

The other group, those who are still voting President Buhari, are held back by the desperation not to be seen that they made a mistake at the polls. That is an unfortunate state to be in because of the two major options before Nigerians last year, Mohammadu Buhari was a no brainer.
Goodluck Jonathan had supervised Nigeria’s longest oil boom, despite that, he left Nigeria with its lowest foreign reserve in a decade, less than 1000 MW of power supply, some 112 million poor souls, over 10 million school kids out of school, gargantuan corruption of which Nigeria would still be recovering the stolen funds 10 years from now.

Buhari was the better candidate of the two and Nigerians rightly settled that argument. What Buhari does with that mandate does not make the Nigerians who voted him the wrong party. If doing the right thing eventually results in a bad thing happening, you do not regret doing the right thing.

But Nigeria is bigger than the so called Wailing Wailers, Nigerians already proved that on March 28, 2015. End of. Nigeria is bigger than the Buharists too, Nigerians proved it three times before the 2015 elections. Buhari became president because non-Buharists voted him. Let this be clear before people get swept off by the wind and tide that swept Jonathan and his “best president ever” court of jesters.

The 2016 budget is a joke, a disgrace and a representation of the unwholesome reality of governance in Nigeria. What that budget simply shows is that we simply are not ready for the change we so mouthed during the last elections. Government officials are speaking of austerity measures and the need for Nigerians to make sacrifices, yet our Budget Office is proposing to spend some bizarre sums on some irrelevant, good for nothing materials that contribute zero-value to the average Nigerian.

The 2016 budget has N1 billion for the purchase of tables and chairs. We cannot introduce PDPian reality into governance and then pretend things have changed. N1 billion? For what? That amount will start a big furniture company with the capacity, not only to make enough chairs for the federal government, it will also create jobs. I don’t believe in government starting companies but I’d rather N1 billion spent that way than spent buying tables and chairs.

Almost N7 billion will be wasted on the Senate President’s residence and some joke consultancy distraction. If we want to run Nigeria down, let us be frank with Nigerians, instead of telling them now things will be different while continuing with the inanities that led us here in the first place.

As we speak, no one knows how the National Assembly spends its allocation. It collects its share and spends it without accounting to Nigerians. We can fool one another, but we cannot fool those watching from outside. So far, nothing has changed here! N4.8 billion has been proposed for operational vehicles for Nigerian Prisons. Let us assume these new vehicles are being bought in anticipation of the billionaires that will be jailed by president Buhari, should they then have access to the same exotic vehicles in prison as they did when eating out our collective wealth out of prison? N237 million was spent in 2015 – at least according to that budget – to purchase kitchen equipment for the state house. Now, another N89 million has been budgeted for same. How is it that kitchen equipment that cost almost N237 million cannot survive beyond a budget cycle? Haba!

We cannot stay repeating the same mistakes – should they be called mistakes if they happen every year? – and expect that somehow things will change for the better. The biggest indication of a government’s direction and intention is its budget. If this budget represents the change the APC promised, we might as well now agree that the disaster that was the “Transformation Agenda” has a match in the joke that this is turning out to be. The most part of this is that those who ought to speak are scared to speak out, they would rather speak angrily against the budget privately, then go into the Senate chamber to praise the very same document they tore apart just minutes before.

If we continue to make government about individuals, our country will not move an inch forward. What has been stated above about the budget is not a finger at who is wrong, it is a finger at what is wrong. The 2016 budget is wrong. Capital Expenditure at 30 per cent, despite an expanded budget essentially means the reality of recurrent expenditure against capital expenditure remains as it was under the Jonathan years. The difference is too marginal to be emphasized as “change.” President Buhari presented a great speech at the National Assembly when presenting the 2016 budget but if he had actually gone through some of the items in that budget, he would have instead sent those who prepared the budget to present it.

This is the first budget under a new party since the PDP’s 16-year reign. It was not expected to be markedly different from theirs because reforms need to be gradual to be sustainable, and to avoid shocks on the economy. Having said this, some items on the 2016 budget could easily have been avoided altogether. Lessons must be learnt, the Buhari administration must do better. If there is one thing this administration can learn from the last, it is this; those who are seen as critics are better than those who praise your every move. We cannot afford to get carried away by the praises of those who will not be there when we are out of power. Those who hailed the last president, as the best thing that ever happened to Nigeria could not even spend a few thousands to wish him a happy birthday just months after he left office. It is the nature of power, it is transient and it carries sycophants along with it, in droves.

Let it not be said that we did not speak when things go wrong. Let it not be said that our voices went dead when the very things we criticized under one government reared its head under another. The Wailing Wailers will say this is being done because people like us were not rewarded with government positions, but those with the power to share the offices know those who are begging them for same. And those who do not care who became what or didn’t. May we know to do better!

At the bolded, i'm glad you said MAJOR and not ONLY options because we had other options, better options than those 2 we decided to tie ourselves to and now we are paying for it dearly.

I hope the op is a Yoruba as his name suggested, if yes you might have heard of a saying that goes thus, 'Oosa bole gbemi, fi mi le bose bami' which means deity if you can not redeem me, leave me the way you met me. I never liked Jonathan administration in the sense that he could not solve our problems, but when I am asked to choose between them in the course of debate, I always said I would close my eyes and nose in a desperation and choose Jonathan. If Buhari was an unknown person and I was born in the 80s or 90s I would probably be clamouring for him. But having lived through his first administration, the live and let live corruption during Jonathan will not be the same, it will be corruption by the elite using legal means as we have seen in the budget. The system of Talakawa common in the North would be experienced by everybody especially if you are not member of the elite and Buhari would not see anything wrong. What we will get in this administration is poverty for the poor, eradication of middle class common in Jonathan's time. Corruption would be curtailed to only the elites but there would be no visible change in the lives of the common men. As it was in 1980s so shall it be now------------. Not a member of Wailer but wished that Jonathan had allowed somebody else to give us a credible opponent against Buhari, but it is too late now. We can only pray for divine intervention so that we will not go back to that period of total elimination of the middle class as seen during buhari and Idiagbon's first missionary journey. Peace.

The Zombies are finally repenting. One by One

The budget is the biggest scam and the way PMB reacts to the budget will determine whether he really is a party to the contents of the budget.

Clown
Omojuwa that went mute on Dalori attack, but came alive on #Ekitigate!!!

Omojuwa... may angel strike ur mouth!! We d Zombies like the Budget.like dat... Wailing form has finished...
IPOB omojuwa

What...

I want to believe my president did not have time to peruse the budget before presentation because of exigencies, but I believe he would do something about it .