Buharist and non Buharist; Season of Ball Game.

Nigerian Political theatre is getting interesting day by day as derby between Buharist and non Buharist is heating up. Rain of arguments and counter arguments remains. The “ willing buyer and willing seller” for the power sector and “ deregulation of petroleum” are the two unpopular policies that immensely agitate the polities.

The year 2020 plagues Nigerians with many challenges starting from Covid-19, ASUU strikes to ever increase in costs of living. There is perpetual lamentation about the cost of food stuff that is on an increase on a daily basis which is becoming unbearable among vulnerables. And to cap it all, the PMS price and electricity tariff shot up.

This situation has since set the stage for a match between Buharist and non Buharist on the current administration's controversial policies.

Inorder to defend the hike in fuel prices, pro Buharist based their argument on their fact that the deregulation of petroleum market is the best.To confer their claim with some legitimacy, they point out to the fact of fuel availability. they further brought up list of prices of the PMS price for many countries where Nigerian PMS per litre price is the cheapest. This highlights that the Nigerian price is still the best.

But nobody fails when given the opportunity to select facts. Not even pro Buhari they must have carefully selected countries with higher fuel prices to favor their claim. Fact has to be relative in order to get accorded with due consideration.

I once revoked a friend argument in 2018 during the Ekiti gubernatorial election. He had assured PDP victory in the state. He went ahead and showed me results of a ward where PDP was winning with a landslide victory. That was before the overall result had been declared by INEC. I reasoned to him that another APC supporter can simply do the same with result from another ward that favor his party.

That list of the PMS price comparison did not go down well with the non Buharist so they thereafter counter that argument with extended indices to include minimum wage and unemployment. The figures brought therein is a damning blow to pro Buharist. Imagine a minimum wage of a 500k.

However, Jafar Jafar- the Gandollar convener- who usually posts in metaphoric on his Facebook wall, attempted in a similar strategy to disagree on the pro Buhari comparison. He captioned the figures thus; “this is the price of garri, sachet of cowbell and groundnut in some countries of the world” instead of ``this is the price of PMS per litre in some countries of the world”. The post was flooded with utter disagreement. Some posted so much writing on the page just to counter his supposed support on the argument. To many of them he was sporting the government that even garri is cheaper in Nigeria whereas he was nailing the government on the basis of hunger in the nation. Nigerians are too busy, no time to interpret sarcasm.

However it seems this popular debate follows the other never ending one, food items cost comparison between 2015 and 2020.

In that argument, non Buharist try to depict the current masses' hardship. To do so they brought some list of items: rice, sugar, etc and their cost. the argument would become very popular and thought evoking.

Buhari supporters will not carry last, after some thought and reflection they countered that by going down line further. They highlighted even greater worst price differences when they compared those items between 1998 when PDP took over and 2015 when they left. This claim to some extent neutralises non Buharist challenge.

I first heard a similar argument with BBC hausa when they interviewed IBB. There was concern about naira devaluation then. So, in order to give his administration credit IBB mentioned how he left Naira value against the dollar compared to the time he was interviewed, the interviewer got the idea of where he was going. So she asked further questions “ how was the value of Naira when you took over? Actually IBB met 1 dollar tobe 0.89 Naira and at the end of his regime 1 dollar was equivalent to 17 Naira. That question had instantly set the Maradona off balance.

The Buharist have a burden to live with, defence to new policies. It's difficult to be in a position to protect yourself from barrage of blows for some pass through.

But the big trouble with non Buharist however doesn’t lie where to find his weakness but better living candidate. One pro Buhari nailed it where he said when you asked them who’s better than Buhari they replied Yar’adua and Abacha.

Apologies to neutrals

There’s nothing like Buharist and non buharist...

Is APC government Against Nigerians..

Summary pls

Asgard13:
There’s nothing like Buharist and non buharist...

Is APC government Against Nigerians..

YES