President Buhari, You Have The Moral Obligation To Resign Now! http://mrrights.com.ng/?p=780

President Buhari, You Have The Moral Obligation To Resign Now! By Elias Ozikpu
PIC.6. PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI ACKNOWLEDGING CHEERS DURING HIS INAUGURATION IN ABUJA ON FTIDAY(29/5/15). 2819/29/5/2015/CH/NAN
PIC.6. PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI ACKNOWLEDGING CHEERS DURING HIS INAUGURATION IN ABUJA ON FTIDAY(29/5/15).
2819/29/5/2015/CH/NAN
After sixteen years of misrule, widespread corruption, oppression and unalloyed despotism overseen by the administrations of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), oppressed Nigerians needed a realistic change in government, preferably by a leader with unquestionable integrity to be at the helm of the nation.
Former military head, Muhammadu Buhari, after three unsuccessful attempts (2003, 2007 and 2011) to re-occupy the nation’s State House from which he was prematurely jettisoned in 1985 by one vicious dictator, became the ideal leader to lead the people after being viewed as having ‘unsullied integrity’. It was like the case of the Biblical Moses who had to rescue the people of Israel from the bondage of slavery to which they had been subjected in Pharoah’s Egypt for several years.
One year later, after cruising to electoral victory on the vociferous promise of “change”, President Buhari has decided to adopt an anti-people policy by criminally removing subsidy on petroleum products (or is it “deregulation” they call it?), an act which stands at variance with his electoral promises. The Buhari-led government is executing this dastardly act without considering the harsh economic conditions surrounding the people. The move is not just bad, it is incurably demonic.
Without mincing words, I must say that Buhari’s recent hike in petroleum products is callous, onerous, evil, inconsiderate, mindless, revolting, anti-people, indefensible, inhospitable, solipsistic, etc. The hike has exposed the guile in this administration. The President CANNOT claim to be a man of unimpeachable rectitude if he is unable to stick to his promises. That is not integrity. That is deception, and the President can proffer no excuses.
Professor Chinua Achebe, in one of his critical essays about Nigeria some thirty three years ago, even when this writer hadn’t physically been in existence, aptly said:
“As we have sunk more and more deeply into the quagmire we have been ‘blessed’ with a succession of leaders who are said to possess impeccable integrity but unfortunately are surrounded by sharks and crooks. I do confess to some personal difficulty in even beginning to visualise genuine integrity in that kind of fix; for it has always seemed to me that THE TEST OF INTEGRITY IS ITS BLUNT REFUSAL TO BE COMPROMISED.”
It goes without saying, therefore, that President Buhari’s decision to dance to the drumbeats of the APC principalities, some whom, like Mr Bola Tinubu, opposed the same move in January of 2012, raises tall questions on the integrity of Buhari.
On March 3, 2015 whilst the nation was overtaken by the torrent deceptions of electoral campaigns, President Buhari remarked:
“But over the last several years our refineries have declined, and we are at the mercy of imports. We must reject a system that has turned one of world’s largest crude exporters into an importer of petrol. Things must change.”
It is now very herculean to decipher the kind of “change” that the President was referring to seeing that the nation’s refineries, if they ever exist, have only been functioning on the pages of newspapers. One year into his administration, our refineries have remained incapacitated, with no realistic plan of resuscitating them. Wherein lies integrity in all of this?
President Buhari’s failure to stabilise the Nigerian economy and then proceed, as if ignorant of the alarming conditions under his own nose, to compound the people’s escalated woes by removing subsidy on petroleum products, a policy already rejected by Nigerians in what was indisputably the biggest uprising the country has ever experienced, is a violent betrayal of trust and confidence. It should not be overlooked.
The Buhari administration, against the wish of the people it claims to ‘serve’, indiscriminately raised electricity tarriffs at a time when the country has remained in total blackout and the people still produce their own electricity. Is the President not aware of this? This is not justice. It is injustice, a state-sponsored robbery against the citizens.
When Jonathan’s terrible administration took this nauseous path of subsidy removal, the Labour Bodies were quick to mobilise and even chanted war songs at some point. But today, I am yet to see any meaningful move from these people, clearly indicating that they have agreed with the oppressors on how to push the masses further down the gutters, knowing that Nigerians have always been too docile to initiate any meaningful action on their own. A people that is so tractable cannot initiate a revolutionary movement even when it becomes their last resort to guarantee survival.
If indeed the 2012 movement, which I was part of, was nationalistic, then the people must always resort to same approach, irrespective of who the President may be. That is my own orientation and that is what true patriotism requires. The silence surrounding the recent hike in the price petrol is disturbing.
In conclusion, President Buhari has the moral obligation to resign this minute if he wishes to retain his tag of integrity. For integrity is not measured by merely declaiming it, it is seen through the actions and conducts of a person.
Elias Ozikpu is a creative writer and social commentator who believes strongly in truth and justice.
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Won't happen; you should know

Henceforth when any Nigerian reads a book and come across the word "CHANGE" they will quickly drop the book and run away.
Note that even my phone fell from my hand while I typed each letter of the the word c*a*g*

Hum

Who are you to ask the President to resigne . Won't happen.

Hmmm

Stupidity everywhere

Don't get you