WHEN IMPATIENCE REPLACES CHANGE by
Gbemisola Saraki
Nigeria chose #change as the vista to a fresh
lease of our national life. But the change we
need isn’t so much an issue now as our
impatience to follow through the process of
that change. Unfortunately, the pattern of
our impatience doesn’t rest on a practical
vision of development to see our nation
working per se but the culture of rebuilding
the power peddling as a symbol of new
found political authority and relevance. And
I would explain.
May 29th, when President Muhammadu
Buhari was sworn-in, is less than a month
ago and while government has found a new
gusto (and there is evidence of
improvement in security, electricity, fuel
and an abating impunity), many Nigerians
are rather concerned about the appointment
of ministers and political office holders of
Mr. President's government. The agitating
question now is rather about when and who
PMB would elect as his Chief of Staff than
they are about what steps he has taken
toward fresh lease of our national life in the
last three weeks.
To me the impatience seems to be more
premised on seeing new appointments as a
strategy of lobbying the next set of political
office holders than about the actual change
that is driving the vision. Without
appointments, there is an obvious limitation
on the outlets of political and contract
lobbying and peddling. So, we are basically
having this disturbing cacophony of
irrelevant agitations for selfish reasons
rather than a holistic articulation of change
as a new lease of our national life.
Government is working, question is, are we?
YES for those in the private sector are going
about their business; NO for those in the
public sector!!
We,the political class (and that includes all
potential beneficiaries, namely we the actual
politicians, those who want to be our PA's,
SA's, Orderlies, ADC's, media aides,
pastors, imams, soothsayers, good boys,
supporters, sycophants, etc) are the ones
screaming at the top of our voices about
PMB not moving. Less than 30 days of
taking office - and we are not talking about
a newly appointed Managing Director of a
Bank, we are talking about the Chief
Executive of the Country for crying out
loud!!! PMB must do the right thing, not the
fastest thing. Thoroughness is needed in a
rescue mission. 2007 days of reckless
government and 25 days of deliberate
repair.
But that isn’t all.
In every government, the civil service is an
assemblage of technocrats that drives
policies of the government and their
implementations. The civil service is the
engine room of any and every government,
or rather, should be. The political class
simply provides road maps and pragmatic
leadership imperative to power the visions
for a practical and time-bound development.
In other words, technocrats are the civil
servants, and the political class isn’t a
replacement for the technocratic requisite of
the civil service; the competence and visions
of political leadership are simply to optimize
the civil service to deliver on the
technocratic expectations as the engine
room of government.
The last three weeks of PMB’s leadership has
rightly shown that indeed civil servants can
be what a leader envisions and configures
their roles to be. Permanent secretaries in
various ministries have been holding forth
and their technocratic competences have
been stabilizing the visions of PMB such that
even when substantive ministers are yet to
be appointed, governance isn’t hindered and
government is in full throttle.
Let’s be honest with ourselves amount
ourselves, we need to articulate our
demands and expectations from this new
administration in order to fit change as our
mantra of a new Nigeria. Our impatience is
simply ignited not by the necessity for a
new Nigeria but our detention by the
culture of our political past. Until we live
change in our individual lives, change in our
national life would only be a mirage. That’s
why our impatience must rest on the vision
of change in our national development
rather than the noise of when and who the
next ministers would be.
We should decide - what does Nigeria need?
Functioning government or fast moving
politicians? Pace is always greater than
speed.
We chose President Muhammadu Buhari for
his integrity and unassailable patriotism,
let’s give him that chance to prove the
reasons we chose him as our President.

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How do we know you didn't write this in your sleep. Leo

Good write up

INTROVERT:
How do we know you didn't write this in your sleep. Leo

the content is what is important here and not where it came from..think!!

Was she not part of the then PDP government?

Taich:
Was she not part of the then PDP government?

I wonder o

Gbemisola saraki seeking undue relevance. She Just wants to be on the Good page of Buhari's book.

INTROVERT:
How do we know you didn't write this in your sleep. Leo

How are we even sure she wrote it?

The level of intelligence on this site is alwys close to zero..

leo2020:
the content is what is important here and not where it came from..think!!

Sha buhari is a President Buhari anyways

Apc is a scam

Burukutu sipping dullard president

Miracleojo:
Gbemisola saraki seeking undue relevance. She Just wants to be on the Good page of Buhari's book.

Don't mind that family of theirs, all they are known to benefit from is politicking...

I'm pro PMB but no one asked for her opinion, was it not a week before election that she defected because she took a 100 supporters to Mama Piss campaign in kwara & was given 50k for logistics for all them.. The amount totally infuriated her coupled with the momument of PMB! She didn't want to be caught napping!!!

Nice one! ...Next pls

Taich:
Was she not part of the then PDP government?

Peter also denied Jesus thrice publicly only to go back to weep privately, that is Nigerian politicians for u.

You guys should run for your life when you read from this woman called GBEMI SARAKI,she is one of the the game planner of Saraki's deadly,tortoise politics

modath:


Don't mind that family of theirs, all they are known to benefit from is politicking...

I'm pro PMB but no one asked for her opinion, was it not a week before election that she defected because she took a 100 supporters to Mama Piss campaign in kwara & was given 50k for logistics for all them.. The amount totally infuriated her coupled with the momument of PMB! She didn't want to be caught napping!!!

Her defection was planned to cause chaos in the PDP and drive crowed to APC at last minutes,she is the most sophisticated political tools in Saraki's family

What does she have to say abegi?

Nice write up, why do you guys hate the woman so?

bettercreature:
Her defection was planned to cause chaos in the PDP and drive crowed to APC at last minutes,she is the most sophisticated political tools in Saraki's family

This is too funny!!! It is purely a figment of your imagination.

Gbemi used as what?? They were enstranged for close to 4years (didn't even speak at their father's funeral) till the entire ilorin emirate brokered peace...

She left PDP cos she saw like every sane person did that there was no future for the party at the centre,there was no machination!!

It was purely for political expediency.

This is the real thing. It's only the political gamblers that are making noise about no ministers.
Government is running. Policy is being formulated. Things are getting better slowly and steadily. CHANGE IS HERE. PARTS OF THE CHANGE IS WHAT WE ARE SEEING IN THAT THE PRESIDENT CHOSES TO WORK WITH CIVIL SERVANTS TO KICK START HIS GOVERNMENT.

GEJ is the reason we have light now ooo. Abi buhari built power plants in 29 days

This lady is another dullard looking for political appointment from Buhari. Looking for hubby I am available Gbemi. I am very hot.