Editor’s note: Expectations were huge after President Muhammadu Buhari’s inauguration, which followed a hard-fought election victory over former president Goodluck Jonathan.

However, following one year of Buhari’s government some Nigerians expressed disappointment over their incumbent leader. Comrade Olayemi Paul, one of the NAIJ.com guest contributors, lists his reasons on why President Buhari is not Nigeria’s messiah.


Nigeria is yet to discover the messiah. President Mohammed Buhari is not the messiah. I am not talking about the previous government or the present government but all I want everyone of us to understand is that we are yet to discover the messiah and we can never discover that not until the time that President Buhari will be ready to leave the office.


The present government was only trying to fix up the things back in a very hard way and that can never be achieve within the short period of four years to be in office. President Buhari can never take us to the promise land and I see his case like the case of Moses in the Bible that lead people of Israelite out of Egypt but yet he can’t make the journey with them to the promise land. A vibrant person will take it up from President Buhari who will never centralize power to a particular zone but share the power round the country key zones. The man that will take us to the promise land will not think it is only northern people that remain honest to him and neglects people from other zones of the country. President Buhari is just there to recover the funds from those who spent the country funds in a wrong way and for their own personal use but yet he is not the man that will take us to the promise land because he shared power to his people by using northerners to head most of the key areas of Nigeria offices.

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Ur commend came too late, u properly during the election period campaigned for buhari

Another wailer in disguise masking in the cloak of sectionalisms to console his fellow naysayers.

Whether Buhari will be the messiah or not,all we need them was a change as we can't continue in the path we already knew the outcome. He might not take us to the 'cannaland' but surely he has led us out of Egypt.

He didn't say he his the Messiah

He promised to fight corruption

He promised to fight insurgency

He promised to fix our infrastructure that is in comatose

He promised to make (Nigeria )image that was battered in international community to a good one

So this is the pmb we voted for not a messiah

I believe he will fulfill all he promised

Messiah? We miss the point. There's never a messiah just group of men who commit themselves to delivering good governance and we'd get there.

If you are expecting a man to show up and correct all the errors in Nigeria you are better off finding a Polar Bear in Sahara Desert.

OBJ did his turn, attracted some industrial giants though the elections weren't as bright. We never knew or believed we could vote out an incumbent and there was corruption.

Yaradua did his thing, appeased people through powerful negotiations. Money flowed with, at least, a certain peace lacked in years. He was wise. There was still corruption.

GEJ did his turn, and made us believe we can vote out an Incumbent. Rochas defeated an Ohakim. There was corruption but he strengthened the electoral process a bit.

Now Buhari is here. He'd also make his mark and leave. That's the little steps we'd keep taking until we get to where we want to be. I hope he does.

If you are waiting for anybody that will cleanse Nigeria in 8 years you'd be wasting your time. After Buhari is done there'd still be corruption.