Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari took office a month ago on a wave of hope that he would quickly deal with a deepening economic crisis and an Islamist insurgency in the north. So far, he hasn’t met those expectations.
While Africa’s biggest oil producer has been hit by a 40 percent fall in petroleum prices in the past year that has slowed economic growth and weakened the currency, Buhari, 72, has delayed naming a cabinet until September. As the momentum of being the first opposition candidate to win power at the ballot box fades, critics are mocking him as a sluggish elderly man, or “Baba Go Slow.”

Buhari has acknowledged the crisis, saying last month that his government is facing severe financial strain, with a Treasury that’s “virtually empty,” and his party is calling for patience. Yet his lack of urgency in tackling economic woes could leave Nigeria badly adrift, said John Ashbourne, an economist at Capital Economics in London.
“Every week that Nigeria goes without a cabinet increases the chance that it will face a dangerous shock -- whether a revenue collapse or a currency crisis,” Ashbourne said by phone Tuesday. “Leaving the federation without a finance minister would be a questionable choice at the best of times; doing so during a period of economic instability is difficult to explain.”

Investor Displeasure
Nigeria’s currency, twice devalued in the past year in an attempt to cope with lower oil income, has weakened 7.7 percent against the dollar this year on the interbank market. The International Monetary Fund estimates that growth will slow to 4.8 percent this year from 6.1 percent in 2014. The naira was trading at 198.85 against the U.S. dollar at 2.38 p.m. in Lagos.
The Nigerian Stock Exchange Index hit its 2015 peak of 35,728.12 on April 2, the day after Buhari was declared the election winner. Since then it has fallen 8 percent.
The cabinet delay won’t please investors, said Alan Cameron, an economist at Exotix Partners LLP. They’re expecting tighter fiscal policy, a currency devaluation and a greater focus on tax collection after the drop in oil prices, he said.
“There was initially some hope that Buhari would be able to tackle these changes more quickly and with more credibility, but the time line has now been pushed back,” Cameron said by phone from London. “It’s going to be a difficult pill to swallow for foreign investors.”

Inertia Concern
The central bank has banned importers from using the foreign-exchange market to buy certain goods as it seeks to stabilize the naira and hold on to external reserves, which are down 16 percent this year to $29 billion.
“Even what little could have been achieved so far, such as the nomination of ministers, has not been addressed, and there is a sense of inertia,” Folarin Gbadebo-Smith, managing director of the Center for Public Policy Alternatives, a Lagos-based research group, said by phone Wednesday.
Buhari’s own party, the All Progressives Congress, has recognized the growing public disenchantment and pleaded for patience.
“Nigerians are right to demand even a faster pace. Nigerians are right to ask that a government be quickly put in place,” party spokesman Lai Mohammed told reporters at a June 30 press conference in Lagos, the commercial capital. “All we ask for is a little more patience, a little more understanding.”

Government Change
Buhari is facing a unique situation because his victory over the incumbent, Goodluck Jonathan, ended 16 years of rule by the Peoples Democratic Party, his spokesman Femi Adesina said.
“This is not a normal changeover, it is from one government to another,” he said.
Buhari, who previously governed Nigeria as military ruler in the 1980s, has moved more quickly in the fight against the Islamist militant group, Boko Haram, which has waged a violent six-year campaign in the north.
He ordered the army to move its headquarters from Abuja, the capital, to the northeastern city of Maiduguri, the scene of some of the worst fighting, and has traveled to neighboring countries such as Chad and Niger to discuss cross-border military cooperation.
It’s the “one area in which the Buhari administration has hit the ground running,” Mohammed said.
Yet, while troops from Nigeria and Chad have largely dislodged Boko Haram from its self-declared caliphate in the northeast this year, the insurgents have stepped up hit-and-run attacks.

Corruption Fight
Buhari will also have to deal with shortcomings in his own army, which Amnesty International said last month should be investigated for war crimes, including unlawful killings.
In a step toward meeting his campaign promise to attack corruption that has crippled Nigeria for decades, Buhari disbanded the board of the state-run Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. The National Economic Council on Monday set up a four-member panel to probe its accounts.
Even some opposition lawmakers say Buhari needs more time.
“His approach may be different, but I am patient, I will give him some time,” Ben Murray-Bruce, a PDP senator, said in a June 29 interview in Abuja.

Where Buhari has come up short is communicating a sense of engagement to the public, said Gbadebo-Smith.
“He doesn’t say anything about anything,” he said. “The public would be satisfied with signals that say we are doing something about this, we are on top of this.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-01/buhari-goes-from-nigeria-s-champion-of-change-to-baba-go-slow-

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Snail Baba

not only go slow one chance nko

No comment..

I just wanna ask " Who is the president of west Germany?"

What do you expect from a president without a CERTIFICATE (Common waec / Neco).

PMB should have been kept in the [size=15pt]NATIONAL MUSEUM.[/size]

In life, you build from the ground to the top. The only thing built from the top to the bottom is the grave.

When building a bridge, the amount of time spent on the foundation alone is enough to build a storey-building. The fact that you aren't seeing the bridge on top of the waters doesn't mean it isn't being built.

For the TANoids making noise online, GMB isn't like the zoologist who couldn't handle a shepopotamus. He is making plans to make your lives better.

Buhari is presently dismantling the economic slums and political shanties built by the Clueless one and his gang of thieves.

Hmmmmm no be me talk, so i'll just wait for others to comment.







ThefakeStan

Lets wait and see what baba does... it is too early to throw punches.

Pls let us try and give baba time, 100 days do soon reach!

[size=28pt] We so close now! [/size]

#NoNameCalling

ajebuter:
Obama, Cameron and even president "Michelle' of West Germany will rue the day the foisted this anomality on Nigeria..
He is beyond slow and comparing the old dude to a snail is a stain to all snails..
Taking selfies is his only achievement so far..
Baba-one-chance

tochstorm:
no worry aftr helipad na 20000 pieces of ipad then 1000 macintosh laptop. na so e dey start.

toshmann:

And when we talk, they say he nova settle
90days after election, 30 days after inauguration,
[size=15pt]Chai Buhari[/size]

Boys Are Not Smiling

Lols

Mogidi will love this.

Only a month in office and has been labelled...

Baba one chance?

One chance is risky o!... Why not double chance?

Where Buhari has come up short is communicating a sense of engagement to the public, said Gbadebo-Smith. “He doesn’t say anything about anything,” he said. “The public would be satisfied with signals that say we are doing something about this, we are on top of this.”

I thought I was the only one who noticed Buhari's silence on most issues. He truly doesn't say anything about anything. And the seriousness of his face most times coupled with his silence seems to say "I don't know how to proceed, I think we are doomed!"
Phew! I could use GEJ's smile right now.

Buhari has really put the country on autopilot.

k

Ok good

Kikikikikiiki..
Unbelievable !!...




Sai Buhari.

No Miracles

I always had this feeling preelection that Buhari will make a terrible president despite all the goodwill he seemed to enjoy then. Everyday his goofs reaffirms my thoughts.

but if am white and u call me white is no insult, if am a student u call me student is no insult, so baba goslow is no insult

[size=13pt] SNAIL BABA
BABA GO SLOW
DULLARD-DINHO[/size]

He's better by far!

space booked

k

A lot of his actions are difficult to explain, not finance minister alone. Getting to 2 months, no SGF, no NSA, nobody nominated for minister, no adviser, all appointments so far only hausa-fulani people

this is serious oh.

They didn't call him "baba go slow" they simply quoted others who call him "baba go slow. Learn to comprehend what u read OP.

slow but steady the tortoise won the race.

God is never in a hurry, but he is always on time
Thank you we like it like that. As you say over there slow and steady....
We will get there...
Oga bloomberg with what PDP has done since 1999 at their fastest pace, yet we clamoured for CHANGE because their fastness only brought us high rate of unemployment, dilapidated infrastructures etc
To me I prefer Buhari slow pace to 16 years of PDP...
The end justifies the means
There is no growth without change, no change without fear or loss, and no loss without pain...

Movement of tortise and snail is better off than his!

WONDERFUL ACHIEVEMENTS OF BUHARI SO FAR:

1. He showed us pictures of himself fastening his shoelace and stepping into his cow farm.

2. He showed us pictures of himself standing like a gateman and waiting for David Cameron in London.

3. He showed us pictures of himself sitting next to Obama at the G7 Summit, wearing headphones and secretly listening to "Baa Turenchi".

4. He showed pictures of himself alighting a golf cart and shaking hands with a man at the G7 summit.

5. He invited pro-Lawan senators to the ICC for a bowl of gworo while national assembly elections were in session.

6. He showed us pictures of himself and his son at his cow farm while Boko Haram was slitting the throats of his citizens in Maiduguri.

7. The same day suicide bombers were detonating at Maiduguri markets, Buhari was receiving a chieftancy title in Daura.

8. He ordered the construction of a helipad in his hometown of Daura. His very FIRST capital project as president.

9. He granted independence to the Republic of West Germany and elected Michelle (from Destiny's Child) as the president.

10. He showed us pictures of himself breaking his Ramadan fast at Aso Rock, holding a microphone at his 10-seater dining table.

Wonderful!
Chai Buhari!