A DISAPPOINTING PRESIDENTIAL BROADCAST

Thank God the President is back, praying that God will perfect His healing in Jesus name.

Reading through the presidential broadcast however, one cannot but express a sense of utter disappointment. This is a president who virtually sneaked out of Nigeria, who breached his own self declaration of transparency, by keeping Nigerians in the dark for over 100 days, and in that process grinding the wheel of progress of the nation.

Notwithstanding that the president took Nigerians for granted, he was not impeached, but rather Nigerians were offering prayers for his recovery, daily, only for him to return with a language of combat and insult, describing his own citizens as "irresponsible elements"!

There must just be something about the APC ruling govt that detests truth and consistency. Whist the president was away, his Vice President translated our freedom of expression into hate speeches and terrorism and here is the president, few days thereafter, piling up hatred and animosity upon Nigerians, who are simply demanding restructuring, true federalism and dialogue, asking the president and his party, to fulfill their campaign promises.

This should not be language of a president that has benefited from the goodwill and magnanimity of his people, this cannot be the message of gratitude that Nigerians deserve from the president, who has been absent from duty.

The president has not addressed the questions on the lips of all Nigerians, as to make full and frank disclosures, on the nature of his ailment, that took him out of Nigeria for 103 days, the state of his health presently, and the nature of his treatment, so as to engender hope in this regime and bring certainty to governance.

I had thought that the aides of the president were being unduly diplomatic, all the while, by keeping the sealed lip over his health status, but it is clear now from the president's speech, that they were only acting out his script of secrecy, contrary to his oath of office.

The greatest disappointment in the presidential broadcast is the act of buck passing, on the issue of restructuring, true federalism and devolution of powers, which were the main campaign slogans of the president, as encapsulated in the APC manifesto. So, I now ask: what was it that the president was discussing with the senate president and the speaker of the House of Representatives when they all visited him in London?

Did they not tell the president that members of his ruling APC party killed the demand for restructuring, devolution of powers, true federalism, state police, etc, while he was away?

Did they not tell him that Nigerians are hungry? Did they not tell him that infrastructure has virtually collapsed all over the nation? Did they not tell him that Boko Haram has resurrected? Did they not tell the president of the latest report that corruption is festering under his regime?

The president admitted much in his speech that he had been following developments back home. So he was well aware of the current atmosphere of the Nigerian nation, but he chose to transfer his own responsibility back to the same National Assembly that scuttled the yearnings and expectations of our people.

While we pray that his healing should be permanent, I believe very much that the president owes Nigerians a sacred duty to be open, transparent and forthright with his state of health and medical treatment.

Above all, we don't need a language of war, that will increase the tensions all over the land, we don't need the language of combat, we don't need the language of division, and surely we don't need abuses.

The president should be a man of peace and he should restore hope and confidence in all our people.

If the president has admitted so much in his broadcast that he and his government have failed Nigerians, then he cannot in the same speech be throwing insults and threats to the same people that he has failed.

Long live Nigeria.

Ebun-olu Adegboruwa, Esq
Lekki, Lagos.
21/08/2017.

fayose is only dissappointed cos buhari is not dead like he has said before...



You disappointed in buhari speech goan and die...

From the said speech one could clearly see why he purposely came back.
To start another fight with the ipob.

It's sad for the president to called Nigerians irresponsible elements

The president should be diplomatic with his words threaths don't work anymore

Nigerin problems needs engagement not threaths

where is Fayose in that write up?

the writer is a lagos based lawyer, Ebun-olu Adegboruwa, Esq

lol....Tompolo's Lawyer (fearless and transparent people)

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fayose is only dissappointed cos buhari is not dead like he has said before...




You disappointed in buhari speech goan and die...

hahahaha..this shows that you did not read the message

next time read before commenting

How does knowing the cause of Buhari ailments move Nigeria forward... Some people think with their ass

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fayose is only dissappointed cos buhari is not dead like he has said before...




You disappointed in buhari speech goan and die...

So much in a haste to comment. This statements is not from Fayose. Check the bottom end. The title is misleading.

Quite scintillating speech befitting the person of Buhari Known for the Wrong side of a democratic leader. Buhari should tell us what he's administration has achieved so far. Apologise to Nigerians for violating his own instructions of civil servants not going for medical tourism abroad.

Buhari is by default a typical sample of Hypocrite at its finest orgy for not being accountable to his employers. Hundreds of lives were wasted in the past 105 days, no condolence no direction on how to avert future loss of lives.

How much was the medical fees paid in GBP... Can't that alone build and equip a hospital that can handle cases like the one you went out for