OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT BUHARI
I hope the President finds time to read this post from
one of his citizens who is interested in the political,
social, and economic future of Nigeria.
Mr. President, I hope I understand you to be interested
in:

1. The economic prosperity of Nigeria.

2. Ensuring that there is accountability in managing
resources at all levels of society (public and private).

3. Improving the economic fortune of the people if only
the crude oil prize can be better.

4. Your government has set a very important national
goal of ending fuel importation by 2019. If this is
achieved you will be President of Presidents.
Employment, pressure on exchange rate, wages, and
the subsidy wahala will experience positive change.

4. You have promised 10,000megawatts of electricity
by the year 2019.

5. Railway projects will also experience some major
changes.

6. I have no doubt that since you have 3more years to
implement federal budget, we can count more project
oriented achievements by your administration.


THE CHALLENGES

1. Poverty is worsening; minimum wage of N18,000 is
worthless.

2. The massive devaluation of the naira has
impoverished the masses, especially those who are out
of employment. Mr. President the number of Nigerians
who are not sure of their daily meal are in millions.

3. These projects that will be executed under your
administration, will not make Nigeria a developed
country. Their impact on the poor will not be
revolutionary enough.


THE REAL CHALLENGE


Mr. President, I am afraid that the assumption that the
problem with Nigeria is essentially economic has been
the bane of governments in this country since
independence.

1. Your election in 2015 raised ethnic, regional, and
religious sentiments in this country to a level not good
enough for us as a people.

2. The feeling of alienation from the rest of Nigeria is
increasing among the poor with very high and rising
crime rate.

3. The political class are increasingly helpless in
developing a comprehensive vision on how to proceed.

4. Ethnic tension has reached a worrisome level with
mutually exclusive claims as to who is right.

5. Two national conferences have recommended the
creation of extra state (Adada) for the South East.
Each time this is put in the cooler. In spite of the
economic crises, we can do justice to the South East
by reducing the Federal share of revenue to 45% from
52%.

6. The Biafra agitations has shown that we are not
united as a people.

7. The agitations from the South South is not new to
the world. Oil politics is the most badly managed in
Nigeria.

8. The abuse of animal and human rights leading to
mass killings in Nigeria. Unfortunately these killings
have put a big question make on the capacity of
government to protect the ordinary people who are in
most cases the victims of these killings. Whether in
the northeast, northwest, middle belt, now southeast,
the poor are the victims.


THE WAY FORWARD

Mr. President, Nigeria's major problem is political in
nature. If we don't fix our politics, we are laboring in
vain.

1. The structure of the Nigerian state is anti-
development. You hinted at this when you complained
that the Constitution imposed 36ministers on you.

2. The states are not able to pay salaries regularly
even when the wages are slave wages.

3. The educational sector is badly structured. The
federal government needs to roll back its presence in
that sector. States and private sector should run
education. That means substantially, we must move
quickly to a federal system.

4. The present 'unitary' system and constitution need
deepened review to recreate Nigeria for transformatory
development.

5. Any system we propose must do justice to all
Nigerians. The system must promote individual and
group rights. FAIRNESS, FAIRNESS, FAIRNESS AND
FAIRNESS unify peoples.


CONCLUSION

Mr. President you have just 3years to face the real
challenge facing Nigeria which is political and
constitutional reform. Only this part can guarantee your
place in history. Projects executed from an unjust, anti-
development structure means nothing to the long term
good of Nigeria. History will confirm this letter was
sent to you via Facebook



# keepthinking.
Andrew Efemini is Professor of Philosophy of
Development at the University of Port Harcourt, now
with Kogi State University

BUHARI go surely read the letter.









vote ivyy for miss nairaland '16 and feel the earthquake.

EFE Buhaari gat no time 4 reading o. If you want to pass any message to him send it as flight ticket. Maybe to Swahili

drtwist:
EFE Buhaari gat no time 4 reading o. If you want to pass any message to him send it as flight ticket. Maybe to Swahili

You're right Bro

But buhari no dey read so how he wan take know wetin u dey gist. Write osibanjo instead

Seen

Caseless:
BUHARI go surely read the letter.









vote ivyy for miss nairaland '16 and feel the earthquake.

He will surely read it but he will surely not understand what is written there,and even of he understand the letter content he will definitely ignore the lessons and stay adamant

There actually was no exceptional thing about this letter. Nothing catchy about it. Obviously sentimental and perhaps not from a professor as claimed by the op.