Governor El-Rufai Memo To President Buhari: 10 things he said..

1) - RUN AGAIN IN 2019
“As I explained to you shortly after your election in April 2015, you have to run again in 2019 if your objectives of national restoration, economic progressand social justice are to be attained in the medium and long term,”

2) - CONCLUDE SARAKI’S TRIAL ON TIME
“These relationships need improvement as well. The relationship with the Senate was marred by the betrayal the party suffered at the hands of many of its members, while the recent ‘padding scandal’ has created tensions with the leadership of the House of Representativess"

3) - CUT N’ASSEMBLY BUDGET TO N65BN, RAISE VAT TO 10%
“Reduce the National Assembly budget for 2017 to not more than N65 billion and require the publication of all line items for all the Consolidated Revenue Fund Charges (UBE,INEC, NDDC, National Assembly and NJC) in the interest of full transparency, and put every federal employee on IPPIS by January 2017″

4) - RESTRUCTURE APC
“Those of us that look forward to presenting you again to the electorate in 2019 are worried that we need to sort out the party’s membership register,review the primaries system to eliminate the impact of money in candidate selection, and reduce the reliance of the party on a few businessmen, a handful of major financiers and state governments for its operations and expenditures.

5) - GIVE OIL LICENCE TO CHINA, INDIA
“Compile all expired OMLs and offer them to India, China and other interested investors to raise between $20 – $40 billion in signaturebonuses that can be deployed to (i) stabilize the exchange rate by raising the foreign reserves to $40-$50 billion (ii) increase the sovereign wealth fund and (iii) finance essential infrastructure and housing deficits”.

6) - UNDO LOPSIDED APPOINTMENTS
“A clear evidence of this is the lopsided nature of the appointments made so far, and the absence of any objective selection criteria other thanpure chance and closeness to a handful of people around the President,” he wrote.

7) - SELL AJAOKUTA AND NIGERIA’S REFINERIES
“Evaluate some idle assets for privatization like Ajaokuta Steel, Itakpe Iron Ore, NIPP power stations, 40% equity in Gencos and Discos owned by FGN and State Governments, and capital injection to dilute FGN in development banks,”

- MERGE MINISTRIES, REVISIT ORONSAYE WHITE PAPER
The former minister, who worked with former president Olusegun Obasanjo, also wants Buhari to merge ministries and review the modus operandi of the bloated civil service.

9) - UNIFY BIOMETRIC CAPTURES TO DRIVE E-GOVERNANCE
“E-Governance infrastructure with a foundation in a national biometric identification system is almost non-existent. While the NIMC is struggling to register 10 million Nigerian adults out of some 100 million, we have wasted billions in parallel biometric ID systems (FRSC, INEC, PenCom, Nigeria Immigration Service,NCC, CBN’s BVN, etc. to mention a few) without a central,validated and rogue-free AFIS engine. The national potential todeploy these data and linking them with GIS, Land administrationand tax compliance has therefore not been reviewed"

10) - EXPLOIT NOLLYWOOD, KANNYWOOD
“The same attitude applies to service sectors like Art and Sculpture, ICT,Nollywood, Kannywood, music and other creative sub-sectors. Nigerian movies are now selling our nation positively and negatively all across Africa and the Black Diaspora."

By Liberty Badmus