President Muhammadu Buhari and hisparty, the All Progressives Congress (APC) came to power on the mantra of change. However, Buhari’s inability to meet up with his campaign promises has seen him repeat the same mistakes his predecessor, Goodluck Jonathan made. Below are five Jonathan’s mistakes Buhari repeated in his one year in office.

1. Promises and more promises

When former president, Goodluck Jonathan won the 2011 presidential election, he promised to grow the economy, create jobs, and generate enduring happiness for Nigerians under his much publicised transformation agenda.Jonathan said he had the confidence in the ability of Nigerians to transformthis country, adding that his administration will provide a suitable environment, for productive activities to flourish in the country. However lofty as those promises were, the Jonathan administration failed to execute half of its promises. At the end, Jonathan lost the 2015 presidential election to Muhammadu Buhari because there were too many promises he had failed to keep.Now, President Muhammadu Buhari has begun to repeat the same mistakes of the Jonathan administration, making empty promises without efforts to keep them. This has made Nigerians tag the All Progressives Congress party (APC) as All Promises Cancelled. It is certain that Nigerians have taken noteof the fact that the current administration is a serial promise breaker and this might lead to the downfall of the Buhari administration just as it did the previous.

2. Coping with incompetent ministers

After President Muhammadu Buhari was sworn in, it took the president about six months to name his ministers, when some Nigerians complained, the APC urged Nigerians to be patient saying the president wanted to get his selection of ministers right. After the months spent shopping for the ‘right‘ ministers, Nigerians were shell shocked to find out that none of those on the ministerial list stood out.They were all chips of the old block.

Months after the ministers resumed duties in their respective portfolios, Nigerians are yet to feel the impact of their reign, till date, no minister in Buhari’ cabinet has stood out, at best the minister of state, petroleum, Ibe Kachikwu and the minister of power, works and housing, Babatunde Fashola have stood out for all the wrong reasons.This is reminiscent of the Jonathan era where the president was accused of dealing with incompetent ministerswho were seen as clueless in the faceof challenges the country was experiencing.Like a deja vu, it appears President Buhari has also fallen into this trap of surrounding himself with incompetentmen which could spell doom for his administration.

3. Gallivanting when the country needs their president

During the previous administration, the APC accused Goodluck Jonathan displaying insensitivity to the plight of Nigerians for embarking on a campaign a day after almost 50 students were killed and about 80 injured in a suicide bombing in Potiskum, Yobe state. The party accused the president of dancing on the graves of the students as well as of all the victims of the Boko Haram insurgency.
Since his inauguration in May last, 2015 President Buhari has visited 22 countries.On another accession, Nigerians reacted with outrage over Goodluck Jonathan’s visit to Kano to welcome former governor of the state, Ibrahim Shekarau, to the PDP a day after a carbomb killed dozens of Nigerians and injured several others in a suburb of Abuja.Jonathan’s actions were described asinsensitive, irresponsible, terrible, andwicked.However, it seems the Buhari administration is beginning to repeat the same mistakes of the previous administration by embarking on frivolous foreign trips when there is so much work to do in the country occasioned by the continuous attacks by Boko Haram insurgents, Fulani herdsmen and blackouts whichdemand immediate and focused attention.
Since his inauguration in May last year, 2015 President Buhari has visited 22 countries, some of them even for several times.
When criticised for the trips, the presidency justified the trips, saying they were necessary to bring the country back on the track of development and growth.But the average Nigerian sees the president’s foreign trips as a display of insensitivity to the plight of those who are still waiting for the elusive change.

4. Failing to protect Nigerians from rampaging herdsmen

The Boko Haram insurgency was one the death blows to the previous administration because many Nigerians lost faith in the ability of the federal government to defend its citizens from rampaging terrorists.
Muhammadu Buhari promised to tackle the Boko Haram insurgency head-on and the administration has succeeded in curbing the ability of the insurgents to launch spectacular attacks.
However, the administration’s response to the attacks by rampaging Fulani herdsmen across communities in Nigeria has been described as indifferent.Jonathan was accused of lacking the will to contain the Boko Haram insurgents because he felt the insurgency was a northern agenda to ruin his administration, likewise, Buhari has been accused by some Nigerians of lacking the political will to tackle the attacks by Fulani herdsmen because they are his kinsmen. If Buhari does not correct this perception in time, he might lose the confidence Nigerian have in him to keep them save.

5. Failure to diversify the economy

President Muhammadu Buhari promised that his administration would include fresh policies and measures to encourage the rapid diversification of the Nigerian economy away from its current over-dependence on the oil and gas sector.Nigeria’s over dependence on oil has led to the abandonment of other sectors of the economy.But currently, the Nigerian economy is under tremendous stress as a result of the steep fall in the price of crude oil which has been the mainstay of the economy.Just like Jonathan failed to do, Buhariis yet to implement a road map for the diversification of the Nigerian economy away from oil.Even though Buhari said his administration would enact new policies to diversify Nigeria’s economy from oil to other sectors such as agriculture, mining and manufacturing among others, it appears these promises may have fallen into the endless catalogue of Buhari’s unmet promises.

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tank God for dis op.... U nail it

SMH

All politicians are one.

Buhari Pls act fast.

I thought the "Messiah "was infallible
Funny enough Nl zombies worship him!

They've both made same mistakes but his one year rule has been worse than Jonathan's 6-year rule combined!..

Hell on earth!

This man is on a mission to ruin Nigeria.
I'm so glad I'm not even among the 5% that voted him in..

At least, my conscience is so clear that I did the right thing at the polls last year .
And I don't regret 1 bit!

A word is enough for the wise!

Change indeed.

Gallivant? Did he?

All politicians are the same, they only care about themselves and their families as for the masses u r OYO

wail

thunder faya that dullard

It's okay to make mistake

For real ?

Jonathan did not gallivant. Obasanjo and Buhari are the men of the skies.

Jonathan ' s unkept promises are very few when compared to what we will face in this dispensation.

Other mistakes are correct.

From one clueless president to another, chai naija don suffer

One prepared more for election than governance because the other's governance didn't prepare him for election. The problem is always the same in Nigeria. We know the solution yet we find it hard tackling the problem

gallivant?

6. increase in the price of petrol therefore causing more hardship to the masses

PDP biggest mistake is Importation of petroleum products an essential commodities and Buhari is making the same mistake.

If trillion naira spend on importation and subsidies in last 5 years is put in our economy, today Nigeria will be great.

No nation can survive on importation.

Why can't we build refinery and refine locally instead of importing wasting our forex on importation of petroleum for 17 years now a country with crude?

Nigerians are really suffering under this current administration. The president needs to come up with ideas to make the living conditions in this country better than he meet it. This government needs to start the implementation of what was promised to us or else 2019 is around the corner. Nigerians are wiser now and can no longer be taken for a ride. The era of unfulfilled promises are over.

The sooner we diversify and develop this economy, the better for us. A president that will do that will eventually be the Messiah

Thats the solution. And lets move towards producing rather than always consuming

The only reason why the price of dollar is affecting us is because we consume everything and produce only oil, and we still import the oil. May God help Nigeria

Just like sh!t saying poo smells...

somehow true but there's still time..let's wait n see..

When Fayose said that during buhari's reign, prices of goods and price of petrol will hike and they economy will suffer an inflation. They man never lied...

That is politic for you,it shows apc league are still learning