Since the advent of the new Change Administration,
there had been an orchestrated gang-up of vicious
criticisms by some unpatriotic Nigerians against every
move made by the President and his economic team to
sanitize the polity of the stench and rot of endemic
institutional corruption bequeathed by past military and
civilian governments in 54 years of the post -
independent nation! No one was put in doubt, right from the campaign period of the 2015 General Elections, in what direction the All Progressives Congress [APC], was headed:

(1) Total war against and elimination of
corruption;
(2) Resuscitation of the fledging and ailing
economy; and
(3) The re-engineering, overhaul and re-organisation of all security agencies for the enabling strategies to contain, defeat and totally eliminate the
national insecurity created through six, very bloody
years (2009-2015), of Boko Haram insurgency which
almost destroyed the very foundation of democratic
governance of Nigeria!

And, of course, the massive support and unprecedented turn out for the APC, on all
election days, (in spite of rigging gimmicks, delaying
tactics and money-induced voting pattern, employed by
the then ruling People’s Democratic Party [PDP] ), were very clear indications of where the pendulum swung and favoured the populist Party into a landslide, convincing and undisputable victory, which prompted Dr. Ebele Jonathan to congratulate his opponent before the official announcement of final results by Independent National Electoral Commission [INEC]!

Those who swore by the "graves of their ancestors",
that President Muhammadu Buhari, would never win the election, were all infuriated with former President
Jonathan, faulted and scolded him for not refusing the
authentic results; and have in the last 25 months,
become "thorn in the flesh" of the new administration in
the area of persistent baseless and unwarranted
criticisms of every move of government!

They have criticized, him for embarking on several unnecessary international journeys, not rescuing the over 218 Chibok Secondary School Girls, abducted by Boko Haram terrorists, since 14th April, 2014, even when 82 more of them were rescued recently; for failing to revive the economy which snow-dived due to international crude oil glut and price somersault from $100 - 48 USD, in 2014; for being a religious bigot who planned to Islamize Nigeria; for loop-sided Federal appointments which favoured the Northerners; for employing security agents to harass only Southern politicians; for "unleashing" the EFCC, DSS and POLICE against PDP Opposition members;
for employing "incompetent" ministers who have no
solutions for the current economic recession; for not
inviting former economists who served under former
Presidents Obasanjo and Jonathan, who piloted the
economic ship of the nation and ran it aground; for the
failures in the power, roads, housing and health sectors;
for not listening to the advice of distinguished, revered
and eminent Nigerians at home and the Diaspora on
matters relating to economic competence; for not
respecting the constitutional laws of separation of
powers between the Executive, Legislators and the
Judiciary; etc.

Though, these contracted critics had refused to see anything good in the APC Government, they were unable to stop the successes that have been
recorded so far in respect of the steady and tacit defeat
of terrorism by Boko Haram, the quick diversification
from oil to agricultural income within the short period,
and all welfare programmes specifically geared towards the alleviation of mass poverty, amongst women, children and the elderly, in spite of the lean purse of government at inception. Presently, more money was being pumped into the economy to support the Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMSEs), which are the backbone and foundation to economic buoyancy of any serious administration which is poised to fulfil its social contract obligations to the citizenry. Apart from the monies looted by Nigerians and deposited in foreign banks, which are being recovered, the World Bank is prepared to support the APC Government with some favourable loan to overcome the travail of the transient economic recession. Enough of these criticisms against Buhari

By Dr Olufon (dvdolufon@gmail.com).

Indeed!