The president

President Muhammadu Buhari did not disappoint in two areas, security and fight against corruption. After that, Nigerians need food to enable them enjoy the security provided by government. This is where the problem lies.The truth is the government lacks economic direction because the president simply refused to draft the right people to show him the way. Listen to the government and you will know it has an idea about the economic problems at hand,but how to go about it is another matter altogether. Nigeria will officially enter recession if figures from statistics bureau record another consecutive zero growth in the second quota.

The Chief of staff

Alhaji Abba Kyari is in his late 60s, a lawyer by profession with a master's degree from Cambridge. He worked with Democrats newspaper as editor, he was commissioner for forestry and Animal resources in Borno State and worked with AIB and UBA as secretary and executive director respectively. He was recommended to the president by Mamman Daura,the power behind the scene in Aso Rock. Abba Kyari was like a PA to Mamman Daura,a trusted nephew and closest person to the president. His appointment was not on merit but trust. Since then,subsequent appointments by the president followed same pattern,the need to trust the person. As Chief of staff,Abba Kyari is without doubt the most important person in Aso Rock,after the President. He serves as buffer between the president and the rest of the members of the cabinet, including the vice President. He is technically in charge of the day to day running of the president's office because the president relies on him for almost every decision of government. With so many responsibilities woven around him,there is no way Kyari can be effective. He is chief of staff to the president ,member of economic team and member in the reconstituted NNPC board. In other words he is Nigeria's chief of confusion, to put it mildly.

Role of chief of staff

Generally the duties of Chief of Staff depend on who he is working with. Working with Buhari is not an easy task. He is known to be of very strong, uncompromising and unbending opinion. In practice, the Chief of Staff is supposed to assist the president to provide strategic vision and direction for the country. He is to assist the President in making key appointments of government, he is to be a peace maker that manages crisis with solutions to issues like the Niger Delta,Boko Haram, resident doctors, Nupeng and Pengassan and other perennial crisis in the economy.In short his job description is tied down to success or failure of the regime. However what we have is the resident doctors on strike and oil workers downing tools while Avengers are refusing to stop their attacks. It shows that the office the Chief of Staff is not functioning. In six months Nigeria lost about N1.0 Trillion due to resurgence of attacks on oil facilities.The problem needed not to degenerate to this level. Someone advised the president to use the Boko Haram treatment on the Avengers.If the chief of staff was up and doing,the insurgency ought not to drag for so long.Today the Southern part of the country is angry even mong the president's party men and supporters with the lopsided appointments the president has been making serially,a violation of Federal character act. The presidency is also at war with the leadership of the senate so bad that the senators are considering impeaching the president. Buhari needs to shop for a new Chief of Staff or find way of making Abba Kyari to function and reduce myriads of tension mounting on the country.

America's chief of Staff

The America we like to copy provides a pointer to the kind of Chief of staff we should look for. A modern,dynamic young man full of energy and resources to take the heat from the president. Denis McDonough, the Chief of Staff to President Barack Obama, is only 46 years old and a graduate of history/Spanish language . He was an aide to foreign affairs committee ,adviser to senator Tom Dascle,legislative director and senior fellow center for American progress. He was head of strategic communication and chief of staff America's Security council. To a large extent, McDonough brought his experience, youth,and dynamism to push the administration of Barack Obama to success.

Nigeria's economy

Nigeria is in serious economic condition, a creation of past leadership no doubt. But what worries observers is the inability of the new government to find solutions to them. The economy is not diversified and all efforts to achieve any measure of improvement has not been based on concrete and actionable plan. The revenue base of the nation has dwindled, further exacerbated by activities of Niger Delta Avengers. Workers are being owed salaries for several months,depressing markets and distressing banks. The ministries and parastatals are decadent. They swallow state and federal resources without helping growth. Yet it is the same institutions and their leadership the FG relies on to drive growth,leaving the entire private sector out of the scheme of things. The solution is well known to everyone, diversify the economy to other non oil sectors like manufacturing, agriculture,services,ICT,entertainment and tourism. Build infrastructure and improve electricity supply. These are easier said than done. The office of the Chief of Staff is the one to shop for the brains to provide a road map to achieve the goals. That has not been done. The government looks within its ranks,among ministers already burdened with their own job description, including the chief of staff,to steer the economy towards recovery and growth.

Way forward

The president lacks quality people that will actualize his dreams for Nigeria and the truth is time is running out on him fast. We are approaching his second year in office and so far apart from defeating Boko Haram and the ongoing fight against corruption, there not much to show. There is crisis after crisis. No single bridge built, no refinery,power plant,road,airport,university or new city. The president that promised reduction of poverty is witnessing Nigerians dying of hunger. Unemployment has never been worse amongst youths. This is a wake up call for the president to retrace his steps and push harder for results.

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A stone words for the president
We are waiting for the people that sponsored buhari to hurl more stone words.
Amaechi, okorocha, tinubu, oyegun, fashola, et'al.