According to a Norway's proverb that says necessity teaches naked woman how to knit. The blame game foundation laying by incoming government should stop for them to put on their thinking caps for us to move on.
The downturn in our economy will require our incoming managers to wear double layers of boxing gloves for us to really win. From fuel subsidy to power supply epilepsy, oil price to uncertain revenue and high cost of governance to high rising debt, truly this is a boxing ring adventure for incoming policy makers.
Nigeria has been treading on a risky path of importing fuel, what if our foreign sellers refuse to sell or ban like Iran? Then where do we turn. We are just synonymous to hunter who roast not what he gets from game but selling to mama-put that will curry it and sell higher. Removing fuel subsidy is good but it will have negative impact on citizens purchasing power if we cannot refine locally. For instance, USA has over 140 refineries meeting above their daily needs but here our 4 refineries with installed capacity of 445,000bpd are currently performing below 11%. The puzzle here is that how much is the little locally refined oil and who are the users or is there subsidy on it as well. We have had series of TAM (turn around maintenance) with no result. An effective TAM on our refineries will gulp about $8.5billion but where is the fund? It is high time we allowed private hands in this sector for us to gain. Nigeria is the highest producer of crude oil in Africa with daily consumption of about 40million litres of PMS(petrol). The implication of this is that we are just succeeding in exporting jobs that would have catered for millions of unemployed people to these countries where importing from. Ordinarily, oil price should not be making us to lose sleep if we are refining locally as over 200 products can be derived from this process. Singapore has no oil but running many refineries.
On this note, stopping subsidy and making our refineries to work at the same time will be like standing between deep blue sea and devil. So Buhari should strike balance.


Another attribute of a hunter that Nigeria is demonstrating is killing everything will get. As hunter will always kill any prey that come his way forgetting days where there might be none. We have had about 35 years work experience in spending without investing a dime.
Our recurrent expenditure always outweigh capital folds with 3 to 4 agencies doing the same task. Even monthly security vote(nearly half a billion) for governors is cancerous to development. With this current whopping sky scraping cost of governance draining our uncertain revenue, must we have 42 ministers when USA is less than 15, or why all the specials from states to federal; assistants, advisers and aides. I think we need more than moral justice to lean down our spending. However, this is another herculean task for Buhari to battle, as trimming ministers might contravene federal character laws that says each state must be represented. What a clime we have found ourselves?

The probing gospel of incoming government is another relay race with many batons. This is from revisiting old probe reports to electoral malpractices in selected states. We have had series of all these exercises in futility before, just a flashback to Oputa panel. Buhari will only be taking serious if he revisit all past probing reports such as Haliburton, Seimen, Power, COJA, CBN vs Lamido, fuel subsidy, and so on. Thus any selective war will be taking as sentimental injustice against the outgoing government or a particular region. On electoral probe, if Buhari thinks 2015 election was only free and fair at his winning base it means he is either dancing to tune of his party stalwarts from the lost base or he is being economical with the truth. The road that led him to power was not absolute, what can we deduce from a state that recorded no invalid or cancelled votes but roasting of REC and his family with another state governor reportedly torn result sheet.
Although going this way might not be wrong but do we have laws that will recover the exact stolen amount or jail electoral offender. My candid take is that Buhari should be mindful of resources and time that will be gulped by this probing adventure with loopholes in our law system. He should also remember that election is extremely costly in Nigeria, for him to take loan for just a form and those who funded his victory are part of these probes. As election is win in this clime by hook, crook and cheque book, will these sponsors not request back for their dollars?

To another integrity litmus test, population census will be another arduous task in 2016, considering our slim purse with inconclusive one in 2006 by OBJ we might embark on high spree borrowing adventure. The question is will Buhari stand on his integrity to conduct transparent and realistic census, for it is only in this clime that growth in coastland will be lesser than sahara.

Also, the unseriousness and laziness of some state governors should be of concern to our incoming managers. There is no truism that some states are not economically viable, Nigeria is so blessed with many resources and each state has pecuilar comparative advantage. It is just laziness and over-dependence on federal allocation that is causing their current failure. They should start thinking inwardly and stop enshrine policies of wastage and loans on white elephant project. In today state management, governors control two treasuries; the state and local, there is no governance in our local government again in our nation since 2003.
Therefore, Buhari should not embrace their baseless excuses.

Also, we have not been serious in diplomatic marriages. We are playing big brother roles in our continent and enslaving our nationhood in the hands of Western and Asian world. We dole out contracts without serious responsibility from these foreign parties that will benefit common man. We expose our citizens to ridiculous labour laws in the hands of foreign employers all in the name industrialisation for job creation. Some of these foreign employers are paying Nigerians in Nigeria 1% of what they will pay as salary in their lands with no corporate social responsibility to show us. Apart from salary, they also subjecting them some inhumane tasks. While in some lands you can't even run business without making their citizens priority. The last straw that broken horse back was recent contract awarded to China by FG, it was learnt that it will be the China greatest world contract so far. In fact, we gave it out without any CSR or technology transfer attached. Buhari, please check all these countries romancing you very well, we can't continue this way.

To wrap it up here, Buhari should not compromise to touch all the untouchables that are masquareding change with him, as any act of partial justice like jailing Isaac and putting Ishmael in house arrest(Ekwueme vs Shagari) will not go well. All these impediments are present in the boxing ring for Buhari to battle.

May God help Buhari and his government.

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