His Excellency
Dr. Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR
President, FRN
Sir,
Remember Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, GCFR

Good day to you your excellency, it sure will look unusual for me to write you this epistle through NAIRALAND forum of all the media out there. Well, it's one of the advantages of the social media - especially when they played a major role in your ascendancy to power sir.

Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, the immediate past President of the country was a good man with a sincere heart and lofty ideas to serve the country and bring about uncommon transformation to all sectors of the economy and make the nation great again.

But unfortunately for him, while he had good intentions, many of his co-travellers in the form of ministers, heads of agencies and parastatals; service chiefs, policy makers, among others did not share the same dreams with him.

While himself and few good ones were busy round the clock to implement his visions for the country, others were busy scheming and positioning themselves for a life of opulence and glamour - via diversion of state resources.

Why I would blame him for trusting so many of them so much as to completely give them free hand to run their respective ministries, agencies, departments, services and others without proper check and evaluation mechanisms, I would equally blame the system for its way of imposing PEOPLE on certain political office holders in the name of repaying loyalty.

The repercussion of the deeds of these different set of people led to the CHANGE MANTRA which formed the basis of change of government. You are the driver of this CHANGE WAGON and it's was your popularity, disciplinarian disposition and anti-corruption stance that made way for the APC.

Today, Your Excellency, you are the President of Nigeria - and let me quickly add that I salute your uncommon consistency and steadfastness in the face of failing elections thrice but still BELIEVED it was possible to win one day. That's an inspiration to us, the youths of today.

To the issue of governance, to align it with your words of CHANGE, anti-corruption, prosperous nation and good leadership - considering that your immediate past predecessor came with the same zeal of MAKING THINGS WORK but fell short due to working with many wrong people: Permit me to ask you the following questions sir:

1. Deep down you in your moment of reflection, do you really believe you are working with the right team of Ministers and Advisers?

2. Deep down you in your moment of reflection, is it true that you treat all Nigerians equally irrespective of their tribes and political affiliations?

3. When you look at APC your party, apart from the initial blocks of ANPP, CPC, ACN, APGA that formed the party - which later absorbed the NEW PDP - do you think the marriage was meant to help you achieve your goals for the country?

4. Of recent, there's been public outcry that any corrupt element who joins the APC would have his past sins forgiven automatically - that is why the anti-corruption light is not beamed on APC members - even with proven evidences against many. Your excellency can you lay these notions to rest?

5. Your excellency, recently there was a global brouhaha about our national budget. Issues of padding, insertion of strange projects, movement of capital votes from one project to another and various other manipulations, all these make passage of the budget to become another seasonal comedy. The Executive later said they have reached compromise on the budget and you finally signed it. Sir, Nigerians were expecting to see people prosecuted for all the manipulations in the budget but none; the details of the COMPROMISE is not clear to Nigerians and they fear that the budget may have been passed with all the paddings SHARED EQUALLY. Can you prove the electorate wrong and put the record straight sir?

6. Recently there's been the issue of herdsmen killing the innocent people in their homes in the name of missing cattle; the issue of them carrying weapons that match that of our armed forces; the notion that the cows in question belong to people in high places that's why they can't be stopped; that there are subtle moves at Islamization through them and elements of boko haram, among other popular beliefs in town. Your excellency, don't you believe addressing the issue of herdsmen personally via a national media would go a long way in fostering unity?

7. The Niger Delta Militants have started bombing national economic assets in a renewed agitation for a federal government attention. From words in the public domain, they believe 90% of the oil blocks belongs to people in the northern part of the country; that boko haram that killed thousands over the years have been given AMNESTY in the name of REHABILITATION; that their environments have been destroyed due to oil exploration, among other notions. Sounds as it may, though there's no justification for economic sabotage: Sir don't you think it will pay better to call for more dialogue and less military action for the sake of stability and long lasting peace?

Overall, there are so many questions to ask you your excellency, but I know and we all know leadership is much better when we join hands together and not to pull apart.

Leadership is much easier when we listen to good counsels and productive opinions including criticisms.

While we all know that you mean well just like Jonathan did - only to have men of easy virtue destroyed his image through corruption - I want you to be aware of the people you TRUST.

While you are working tirelessly to reduce corruption you need to ensure that it is a true fight against graft that you are putting up - otherwise, some present and past STRONG MEN would pick hole and sponsor a lot of evil against your administration.

While having good intentions of righting the wrongs of the past, avoid opening and fight wars from many fronts. Negotiation and diplomacy are never a sign of weakness or cowardice - but rather a compromise and a price to pay for a result oriented leadership.

Remember the downtrodden, they are the ones who brought you to power apart from God. Don't double their sufferings through harsh economic policies.

To try and end my epistle sir, remember you have something in common with Jonathan. He came to build but bad people hijacked his government: You have come to build, don't let bad people hijack your government.


Long live PMB
Long live GEJ
Long live FRN.

I am VVENI

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