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Old Nigeria Must Be Replaced By New Nigeria by chosengocap: 8:36am On Apr 12, 2018 |
The President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari has formally
declared his intention to contest as President of Nigeria for
another 4 years.
This is sad.
President Buhari represents Old Nigeria, the Nigeria of the
civil war, Federal quotas and crude oil. The old Nigeria of
Federal Character and disregard of human rights, that is
what President Buhari represents.
If you are aged below 50, and you vote for or campaign for
President Buhari, you are simply saying you want to remain
in Old Nigeria, that prioritizes crude oil revenues to
revenues from Services. You are saying you support a
nation where the President is aloof and literally absent,
where the military kill and buried off citizens at will. It is old
Nigeria that killed agriculture in Nigeria by taking
agricultural revenues away from States. It is old Nigeria that
killed off the elite Nigerian civil service by mass purges in
the 1980s..It is old Nigeria that passed a Land Use Act that
took land away from the citizens, made mortgages
expensive and made farmers asset less.
Someone said of Buhari, “the problem with Buhari is not his
age, but the age of his ideas”.
Buhari represents Old Nigeria, he is their mascot. Old
Nigeria does not understand, Human Development Index,
but they understand crude oil prices, old Nigeria do not
understand Gini Coefficient, but they understand Estacode,
Old Nigeria does not understand Freedom Of information,
they understand Mobile Police. We must leave Old Nigeria
and transit to a New Nigeria.
A new Nigeria where every Nigerian can go to school, learn
a skill and move up the income ladder, Old Nigeria has not
built a new school in 3 years
A new Nigeria where we replace crude oil with services
such as Tourism, Agriculture, and IT. Old Nigeria is still
drilling for oil in the agricultural zones
A new Nigeria where millions of jobs are created by simply
giving farmers legal right to land to enable them access low
interest long term loans to farm. Old Nigeria does not want
devolution of power
A New Nigeria where railways are removed from the
exclusive preserve of the Federal Government and devolved
to allow private ownership of rail tracks that increase
productivity. Old Nigeria is still borrowing $billion to build a
Federal railway
A New Nigeria where farmers can farm, and herders can
have expansive green ranches, with farmers selling feed
meal to ranches and ranches selling fertilizer to farmers.
Old Nigeria is casting blames.
In 2019, all of Nigeria will have to opportunity to choose
between Old or New Nigeria, the choice will be yours. do
not let them tell you to vote based solely on corruption of
road construction, that is like choosing a wife based on the
brand of makeup she uses…. immaterial old Nigeria
thinking.
it is old Nigeria that is is pushing Buhari, not the North. 16
Northern based political groups including the Arewa
Consultative Forum have refused to endorse Buhari for a
second term, this is telling. A joint statement issued March
2018 reads, “political office holders from the North are
hereby served a notice that they have failed the test to lead
the region towards economic recovery and growth.”
If President Buhari cannot get an endorsement from his own
regional political groups that endorsed him in 2015, why
should you consider voting him back in?
However, we must address the realities on ground, this
election is an election to replace Buhari, with a candidate
from the Northern part of the nation.
I have lived and worked ni the North a total of 15 years plus,
I have worked with leaders who are from the North, I refuse
to believe the lie that there is only one option and that
option is Muhammed Buhari, there is too much quality in a
region of 19 States to make that argument…..that is Old
Nigeria thinking. Nigerians must choose new leader to run a
New Nigeria. Many have indicated interest, many are from
Old Nigeria but I particularly like Sen Yusuf Datti Baba-
Ahmed. Here is a PhD holder, young Senator, educated in
Harvard and London Business Schools, that owns a
University in the North of Nigeria. This the definition of New
Nigerian. I have not seen his economic plans, I hope to do
so and score him properly, but with him the North does have
an option.
2019 is more than roads and corruption, it is a starting
point for a New Nigeria.
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Re: Old Nigeria Must Be Replaced By New Nigeria by trillville(m): 8:50am On Apr 12, 2018 |
However, we must address the realities on ground, this election is an election to replace Buhari, with a candidate from the Northern part of the nation. Every aspect of this write up was beautiful written until the above statement. Electing a Nigerian president should not be about zoning. This is a product of Old Nigeria. What did the South West benefit from Obasanjo or the South South from Jonathan of the core North from Buhari. Why must the presidency be zoned? This is a ploy to deny Nigeria of the best quality of leadership available and to force upon us undesirable candidates. I just google Senator Yusuf Datti Baba Ahmed and found nothing to prove he understands the core issues with the Nigerian state. As an economist, Sen. Datti needs to give Nigerians a hint on how he is going to reduce mass poverty which is clearly our biggest problems. He is a youth but he has been a part of the system. Is this the type of leader we need? He is also a part of the elite so would he be able to implement policies that may have short-term negative effects on his wealth? The only politician I that has held power I can think of to support is our Comrade Shehu Sani. 1 Like |
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