Buhari Is Ticking Time Bomb by Femi Aribisala

Editor’s note: Femi Aribisala, international affairs expert, has severely criticized President Muhammadu Buhari, saying that he wasted 100 days of Nigerian lives. Aribisala claimed that electing Buhari as president was a big national blunder.
Buhari made himself the sole administrator of Nigeria
In the middle of a national economic crisis, the president has been comatose. He made himself the sole administrator of Nigeria; a role not envisaged by the Constitution. These 100 days, Buhari has been the Minister of Finance, the Minister of Petroleum, as well as the Attorney-

General. He has been the Minister of Education, even though we are yet to see his school-leaving certificate. He alone has been the minister in all the ministries of the federal government.
As a result, the country has ground to a halt. There has been no national direction, no economic policy; no government. Only bombastic anti-corruption rhetoric. Not surprisingly, the economy has gone from bad to worse. Official reports from the National Bureau of Statistics indicate that while like Nero, Buhari fiddles as Nigeria burns, our GDP has plummeted to 2.35%; a 40% decline under Buhari. Job-creation has dropped by 69 %.

The CBN, in its monetary policy committee report of August 2015, complained that: “lack of fiscal directives is behind (Nigeria’s) current economic woes.” This is a big indictment of the administration. The coming of Buhari has brought about stagnation in domestic and foreign direct investments. The stock market has nose-dived, with investors scared away due to uncertainties arising from the government’s indecisiveness in the face of national economic adversity.
President’s failed promises

It is now clear that Buhari obtained votes from Nigerians during the election through false presences. Contrary to his highfalutin campaign promises, he has not stabilised the international price of oil. Instead, it has fallen drastically from $60 to $40. Buhari has not made the naira equal to the dollar. As a matter of fact, it has depreciated considerably under his short watch. He has not used his vaunted military experience to defeat Boko Haram. On the contrary, the insurgency has become far more deadly, with over 1,000 innocent Nigerians killed within just three months.
Buhari’s promised free meals for school-children, allowances for discharged youth corpers, and 5,000 naira monthly allowance for indigent Nigerians have all turned out to be poppycock. He has not even mentioned the coal industry in Enugu, how much more made any moves to revive it. His boast to APC governors that he will recover billions of dollars of stolen funds within three months has proved to be hogwash. With the election over, he quickly backtracked on Chibok, saying: “We do not know if the Chibok girls can be rescued.”

In my years as a public policy analyst, I have never seen a government anywhere spend its vital first 100 days doing absolutely nothing like this one. In defence of the president’s ineptitude, Lai Mohammed said in a recent interview that: “Buhari never promised he was going to do anything in 100 days, that’s the honest truth.” This admission by the mouthpiece of the APC confirms conclusively that President Buhari has wasted 100 days of Nigerian lives.
Buhari’s anti-corruption strategy
Buhari’s so-called fight against corruption has already become a farce. The first salvo was to lock up former Jigawa state governor and prospective 2019 PDP presidential candidate, Sule Lamido and his two sons in jail with extreme prejudice. Then when Saraki rocked the boat by steamrolling himself to the Senate presidency without APC endorsement, his wife was peremptorily invited for lunch by the EFCC. The Senate has now retaliated by putting the EFCC Chairman himself on trial on allegation he stole trillions of recovered naira.
The truth of the matter is that any anti-corruption probe is likely to open up a can of worms. Buhari is surrounded by corrupt politicians. Indeed, the APC is so corrupt; the president has not been able to find 36 “clean” ministers among his colleagues in over 100 days. That is some kind of a negative record.

After claiming he did not have the 27.5 million naira required for the APC presidential nomination papers and had to borrow it, Buhari now claims he has 30 million naira sitting pretty in his bank account. How does he account for this discrepancy? Some of us are also wondering where he got all the money used to finance his expensive election campaign.
The president of Northern Nigeria
With 100 days in office, Buhari’s ethnic chauvinism is no longer hidden. We have now discovered that what he meant to say on his inauguration is: “I belong to every Northerner, and I belong to no Southerner.” The president went on official trip to the U.S. without an economic agenda, but with 29 Northerners and only four Southerners. While there, he declared that: “The constituents (that) gave me 97 percent cannot in all honesty be treated on some issues with constituencies that gave me five percent.”

We now understand his thinking. Fulani herdsmen continue to kill innocent farmers while Buhari sees no evil and hears no evil; after all, he called them “my people” to Lam Adesina of Oyo State. Of the 32 critical appointments he has made so far, 27 are from his native North and only five from the South. Not a single appointment from the South-East. When queried about this blatant discrepancy, Femi Adesina from the South, and not Garba Shehu from the North, was craftily trotted out.
Tongue-in-cheek, we are told the appointments were made strictly on merit. But since when did the North acquire a monopoly of merit in Nigeria? How can the region with regularly low cut-off JAMB scores suddenly become the citadel of the most meritorious public servants in the country?

Tick tock

What is an Aribisala? Is it the name of a person, animal, place or thing?

Jwhizzy:
What is an Aribisala? Is it the name of a person, animal, place or thing?

None... it means poo

Jwhizzy:
What is an Aribisala? Is it the name of a person, animal, place or thing?

libertyfather:

None... it means poo

When will All these APC zombies get sense

Tongue-in-cheek, we are told the appointments were made strictly on merit. But since when did the North acquire a monopoly of merit in Nigeria? How can the region with regularly low cut-off JAMB scores suddenly become the citadel of the most meritorious public servants in the country?

Waiting for answers to the above question.

Let him blow #np dem bobo by Femi Kuti

hmmm

fami aribisala the only yoruba man way get sense

Yorubas have a gem in this guy, he is the yoruba writer who has not been swayed by the "chanji Zombies'. Always straight about his talk, no mincing of words. If all yorubas can be like this guy, damn, who born abooki?

Unfortunately, his own brothers will come here and shout him down, the muslim ones from kwara of course, to whom the fulani master is the lord and saviour. They have one thing in common--they are yoruba muslims. Let me calll them.

Cc
vicadex07, passingshot, midolian, eleko1, madridguy opcnairaland, aareonakakanfo.

BrosPeter:
Waiting for answers to the above question.

merit. not high jamb score

ERODEDEAST:
Bull.ari is a Disaster not only to Nigeria but to Africa as a whole.

buhari till 2019

He never writes about anything other than Buhari. He will surely have plenty to write in the next 4years, let him sha not develop hypertension

Am a fan of this man. His analysis gives me hope

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