Controversies are not new in Nigeria's political space. As a matter of fact, they are what shape the polity, and put the government of the day on its toes. President Buhari's one year-plus administration is not without controversies, coupled with several hits from the now-opposition party, PDP – that was ousted out of power after 16 years of rule. Though President Buhari has not declared any intention to run for the second term in office, but the controversies that have trailed his administration may send him out of Aso rock after the 4-year single tenure, even if he has plans of a second term. Here is an examination of some of them as compiled by Nigerian Bulletin.


1. Denial of Campaign promises: Some months after President Buhari assumed office, in August 2015, he distanced himself from two documents - “One Hundred Things Buhari Will Do in 100 Days” and “My Covenant With Nigerians.”- containing promises on what he would achieve in his first 100 days in office. A statement from his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu titled: “Understanding Buhari in 100 days” said he has no knowledge of the two campaign documents which reportedly emanated from the party’s “many centres of public communication which, for whatever reason, were on the loose.” According to Garba Shehu, “both pamphlets bore the authorised party logo but as the Director of Media and Communications in that campaign, I did not fund or authorise any of those. I can equally bet my last Kobo that Candidate Buhari did not see or authorise those publications.''

2. 5, 000 Promise to the Unemployed & Vulnerable: Well, stylishly President Mohammadu Buhari has made a U-Turn from the campaign promises of 5,000 to unemployed Nigerian youths and vulnerable. Early this year, President Mohammadu Buhari said he would not pay the N5000 stipend he promised to unemployed youth in the country. He made the remarks while on the visit in Middle East. He said it was wise to use a collation of the funds to put up infrastructures and empower them through agriculture for than to give out monies. According to him: “This largesse N5,000 for the unemployed, I have got a slightly different priority. I would rather do the infrastructure, the school and correct them and empower agriculture, mining so that every able bodied person can go and get work instead of giving 5,000, N5,000 to those who don’t work.”

3. Insecurity: Silence On Fulani Herdsmen Crisis: The brutal killings by men suspected to be fulani herders have left so many families in deep sorrow and anguish. President, Mohammadu Buhari is still silent and yet to address the issue of herdsmen attacks – that have claimed thousands of lives. He is seen as being biased and as he continues to talk tough on the secessionists and militants in southern Nigeria, the Fulani herdsmen from his own ethnic division are ‘spared.’

4. Lopsided Appointments/ Incompetence: No doubt that President Buhari's appointments presently favour the Northern region of the country. This has generated heated debates and raised eyebrows on why Mr. President choose to do so. In addition President Buhari seems to have placed trust above competence in his appointments – reason why there are flops in critical ministries. And as well, these appointments will make him a sectional president, and will hurt his support chances from the South.

5. Anti-corruption Fight: President Buhari's anti corruption war has rounded up mostly members of the opposition party. Many believe Buhari is partisan on the anti corruption fight, leaving members of his own cabinet out. More so, some aggrieved parties think President Buhari is hurting their means of enriching their purses and pockets.

6. Style of Leadership: As a fierce military ex-commander, many believe President Buhari's style of leadership is dictatorial. And with some of his actions that have tilted towards that end.

7. Economic Troubles, Inflation and Others: If the economic troubles continue till late 2018 and early 2019, Nigerians and opposition parties will have a very good excuse to throw not only President Buhari out of office but other APC governors, legislators may lose their sat as well.

Presently, Nigeria economy is in recession, inflation hit has geared up and consumer price sky-rocketed while workers groan on late payment of salaries, non-payment of salaries and so on.


Source: https://www.nigerianbulletin.com/threads/7-controversies-that-may-throw-president-buhari-out-of-office-in-2019.218567/

Free that tin u wrote up there...No be Nigeria we dey? Lot of people are very sentimental in all facets of their lives. He can still right the wrongs in space of 2yrs and I hope so. Presently Nobody is smiling we are all feeling the heat.

8. Certificate saga

2015: The Army collaborated with Jonathan to hide Buhari's certificate...
2016: 13 SANS are with it and it is not necessary for Nigerians to see anymore because they can be trusted.

Ride on PMB ! Enjoy your one term...I know you never had any intention staying beyond 2019.
Enjoy.

All these pdp children are here again, Pls go and hold your convention first.

Nice try though!

hunger dey oo

How about the ones that may keep him in

8. HUNGER

The man knows already now

8. A sharp rise of suicide cases.







Quote me foolishly and collect your portion....

Walahi op na wailler...
Buhari i go rule me till 2023.
Sai baba
*dancing daura dance*

This is the mother of all

By their posts you shall know them


1 Denial of 100 campaign promises ? I just checked google, the news was published by 360snobs and they also quoted Naij for publishing those promises, so , Since presidency denied such promises and no single video on youtube to attest to that promise , You scored Zero, deper analysis of the campaign promises included assets declaration, Buhari was sworn in on May 29th , He declared his assets SEPTEMBER 3, 2015 , I do not think that's too much


2 5000 Promise to Unemployed , I will personally show you news links from different sources and some goats on nairaland here that attacked the move as wasteage and an attempt to misdirect funds, some even claimed it will be paid only to the north !!! Imagine , let's say all of that is more than irritating enough , but still ,Youths were registered for that 5000 , The proof is here on nairaland !

3. Insecurity: Silence On Fulani Herdsmen Crisis: Why emphasize on Herdsmen ? and not Insecurity in General ? How about Ijaw goats raiding SW insecurity ?? Or BH ravaging the north ?? This is just stupid and reeks of hate / bigotry , Buhari ordered clampdown on Herdsmen the last time before he left the country for Saudi or so and gave soldiers orders to arrest anyone who is seen disrupting the peace, but we later found out it's all propaganda because another goat from the Eastern Region shared a video of alleged confrontation on facebook about how cows were eating his crops , The video was copied by Dabullit , and i think i made a topic about it too , The Fulani herdsmen they said are carrying bazookas and AK Rifles had nothing but a stick, a cutlass and a pocket knife ! and worst of all , there is no farm nearby , just a bush path and a broken fence .



4 Lopsided Appointments Bullshyt I think he is appointing those he can trust and can deal with if they messup without people complaining he's dealing with someone because they are from another region, How many people he selected has he sacked ?? Last i heard he replaced minister of Petroleum or something and guess what those he sacked were based on reccomendation from wailers !!!



5 Anti Corruption fight : Nigerian Constitution demands that every new administration probes the previous administration Who were you expecting Buhari to probe ? the APC members who just got there ?? BTW if everything else is blurry , how about this Budget padding saga is that witch hunt too ?? thieves I mean PDP will always be thieves


6 Style of Leadership : You called him baba go slow , you called him tyrant , you called him bubu , you called him "about to die " you called him baba 90 but guess what Archbishop in London called him ? A saint !!! If you don't know this budget padding saga has increased Buhari's rating exponentially , he was being slow for a reason

(i) He knew your murafuckas were adding money to the budget and he refused to sign, after 4 attempts during which your people stole the budget and still made him a laughing stock he finally agreed and ordered CBN not to release money

(ii) He knew you people will cry massacre, annihilation to ICC and EU , US when he starts bombarding the creeks so he gave your brothers chance to messup very very well and he showed them sample in Lagos / Ogun , has any desert or creek rat issued any statement since then ?? NO


Goes to show he knows what he is doing


7. Economic Troubles, Inflation and Others: Kudos to PDP and GoodLuck Ebele Jonathan, they made sure they chopped all the savings in the treasury so much that Nigeria wouldn't have been able to sustain Naira , but everyone seems to focus attention on Buhari's administration , We have heard how $2.1B was shared among PDP members , and that is just one probe, what if he probes pension,health,aviation, infrastructures e.t.c ? Do you think people will be happy ?? Before Jonathan was kicked out Aregbesola owed 6 months salary to Osun people , but today , even if it's half Aregbe has paid up to June / July salaries remaining arrears , so , my point here is Jonathan ruined our economy not Buhari


You don't have to agree with me , I just had to write this even though it took forever and i could not add news links because even i don't read long passages

I hope someone reads this and puts a like or share if they agree with me





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