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Buhari At 79: A Man Given So Much, Who Gives So Little Back - Vanguard by iwaeda: 7:45am On Dec 23, 2021
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari turned 79 last week. Congratulations are in order. So, happy birthday General Buhari! The choice of words – General Buhari – is intentional! That’s because I’m happy to congratulate Buhari, the man, the retired general, but less inclined to felicitate with Buhari, the president of Nigeria – since 2015. Why so, you may wonder!

Well, here’s why. Buhari, the president, has been given so much by Nigeria, but he has, so far, given so little back. Buhari has been well looked after, he has unashamedly enjoyed the trappings of power and, with a sense of entitlement, has used the spoils of the system to benefit his family and acolytes. But what has he given back? Little. Buhari has been utterly lackadaisical in running Nigeria’s affairs. He’s an absentee president!

One evidence: President Buhari is more at ease abroad than at home. In fact, for him, home is away! Indeed, Buhari marked his 79th birthday last week far away in Turkey, where he spent three days “attending” the so-called “Turkey-Africa Partnership Summit”. He didn’t have to go to Turkey, but Buhari rarely misses any opportunity for a foreign trip.

In a recent editorial, Daily Trust wrote: “In all, of the six years that he has been in office so far, President Buhari has travelled 130 times to 36 countries altogether, spending about 308 days.”

Yet, Buhari’s globe-trotting has yielded miniscule foreign direct investment – in fact, foreign investors are deserting and/or shunning Nigeria. Notwithstanding, Buhari always jets out of the country for the flimsiest of pretexts.

Now, here’s a president who recently suspended a trip to Ogun State “indefinitely”. Here’s a president who, apart from during his presidential election campaigns, has, in the past six years, visited places across Nigeria only a few dozen times. What’s more, Buhari deliberately avoids trouble spots in the North that’s “bleeding”.

Truth is: President Buhari finds running Nigeria a drudgery. He enjoys the perks of the office, but not the hard graft, not the toil.

Just as well, then, that, last week, in a statement on his 79th birthday, Buhari said: “I look forward to 2023; I can’t wait to return to my farm.” Of course, he can’t wait! Why would he?

He has wasted six-and-a-half years, and, going by his record, is likely to waste the remaining one-and-a-half years. That’s not being cynical. Buhari lacks what it takes to run Nigeria and looks likely to leave the country worse than he met it on assuming office in 2015.

Look at the problems: insecurity, poverty, corruption, cost of governance, debt, etc. Buhari is unlikely to leave any of these better than he met it in 2015. And because he lacks the zeal for big, nation-transforming ideas, he would also leave Nigeria’s deeply-flawed politico-governance structure more skewed, and Nigeria’s unity and stability more fragile. Of course, Buhari’s acolytes won’t see things that way. In a country where myopic and vested interests override the national interest, and where mediocrity is tolerated and celebrated, Buhari’s supporters are praising him to high heaven!

Take Bola Tinubu. Congratulating Buhari on his 79th birthday, Tinubu said: “I appreciate the unseen work that you have done and continue to do to guide Nigeria ever nearer to its manifest destiny.” Really? What a grovelling flattery! If Buhari’s “work” to guide Nigeria to its “manifest destiny” is “unseen” after nearly seven years in power, it’s insulting the intelligence of Nigerians to say such “work”exists.

It doesn’t, and Tinubu knows it. If he ever became president, Tinubu would, within six months, blame Buhari for the “mess” he inherited. For now, though, he must play safe and ingratiate himself with the president.

Another acolyte, Yusuf Zailani, speaker of the Kaduna State House of Assembly, described Buhari as “father of modern Nigeria”. My heart sank. Where’s the “modern Nigeria”? Is it the one with acute problem of ungoverned spaces, where organised non-state violence holds sway?

Is it the one that lacks the capacity for essential functions, and can’t deliver basic services to its citizens? Or is it the one that’s the poverty capital of the world? Buhari’s acolytes take Nigerians for fools. Truth is: Buhari lacks the grand vision, the great idea, the great inspiration to transform Nigeria into a modern state.

Take the clamour for restructuring. President Buhari could be the “father of modern Nigeria” by leading the process of restructuring Nigeria into a genuine federation. But, at every turn, he rejects the idea.

He won’t convene a political and constitutional conference; he won’t touch the report of the Jonathan administration’s national conference with a barge pole; and he won’t even consider the report of the El-Rufai committee on restructuring set up by his own party. So, what legacy does Buhari really want to leave behind?

Well, in a recent hagiographic piece to mark Buhari’s 79th birthday, Garba Shehu, the president’s spokesman, regurgitated the usual banalities. He described Buhari as “infrastructure president”, saying he reduced Boko Haram to “a shell of its former self” and “abolished grand corruption”.

The last two claims merit no response, because the facts on the ground put the lie to them. And on infrastructure, no president can claim credit for building infrastructure projects with unsustainable debt and unbearable debt-servicing cost.

Shehu also wrote that President Buhari has taken “historical decisions which have changed the country”, citing the signing into law of the Companies and Allied Matters Act, CAMA, 2020; the Petroleum Industries Act, PIA, 2021; and the Climate Change Act, CCA, 2021.

These are, indeed, significant laws, although implementation remains their Achilles heel. But the same president who signed these legislations into law has just vetoed the Electoral Act Amendment Bill, as he did before the 2019 general elections, for partisan reasons. A credible electoral law is a critical nation-transforming reform. But Buhari doesn’t care!

Truth is: Nigeria has given President Buhari so much. Yet, sadly, he might return to his farm giving so little back! Merry Christmas everyone!


https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/12/buhari-at-79-a-man-given-so-much-who-gives-so-little-back

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Re: Buhari At 79: A Man Given So Much, Who Gives So Little Back - Vanguard by Born2Breed(f): 7:50am On Dec 23, 2021
So true

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Re: Buhari At 79: A Man Given So Much, Who Gives So Little Back - Vanguard by iwaeda: 7:56am On Dec 23, 2021
You can not flogg a dead horse - OBJ

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Re: Buhari At 79: A Man Given So Much, Who Gives So Little Back - Vanguard by Nobody: 8:02am On Dec 23, 2021
The man had the opportunity to write his name in gold but he chose to pursue a parochial and ethnoreligious agenda. Our darling daddy Buhari destroyed Nigeria, Nigeria hasn’t ever had it this bad. So much insecurity, you can’t even go out without being scared of what is next. You can’t even travel from one region to another without being worried about what could happen.

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Re: Buhari At 79: A Man Given So Much, Who Gives So Little Back - Vanguard by Ryda(m): 8:05am On Dec 23, 2021
You can't give what you don't have

Anonymous

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Re: Buhari At 79: A Man Given So Much, Who Gives So Little Back - Vanguard by rayvelez(m): 8:23am On Dec 23, 2021
You can’t flog a dead horse nah Obj talk am...

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Re: Buhari At 79: A Man Given So Much, Who Gives So Little Back - Vanguard by Kosoco(m): 8:31am On Dec 23, 2021
Some points here are not true.... His Excellency will be visiting Borno today.
Re: Buhari At 79: A Man Given So Much, Who Gives So Little Back - Vanguard by iwaeda: 8:37am On Dec 23, 2021
Kosoco:
Some points here are not true.... His Excellency will be visiting Borno today.
Kosco ayare oja to write this angry

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Re: Buhari At 79: A Man Given So Much, Who Gives So Little Back - Vanguard by Kosoco(m): 9:00am On Dec 23, 2021
iwaeda:

Kosco ayare oja to write this angry
he has visited imo.... and he will vist Ebonyi....
Re: Buhari At 79: A Man Given So Much, Who Gives So Little Back - Vanguard by DabuIIIT: 9:07am On Dec 23, 2021
He gives nothing in return.

There's a picture that mannabbqgrillss fella always post how the buhari was bagging his so called masters degree in USA in 1980..I'm sure that was under shagari.. he came back only to sack and overthrow the same govt sponsoring him.
He gives back nothing

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Re: Buhari At 79: A Man Given So Much, Who Gives So Little Back - Vanguard by talktimi(m): 9:24am On Dec 23, 2021
You can't give what you don't have so what do you expect ? It's only a fóol who would expect a miracle from someone whose inept antecedents for the part five decades is public knowledge. Na una know sha

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Re: Buhari At 79: A Man Given So Much, Who Gives So Little Back - Vanguard by 9japride(m): 10:35am On Dec 23, 2021
Those supporting bad government, will never give out their cars, bikes, generators etc to quacks or even dare enter a vehicle or aircraft being managed by quacks. Hypocrisy is another form of knowing how to play their dirty politics they accused others of not knowing how to play. Smh

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Re: Buhari At 79: A Man Given So Much, Who Gives So Little Back - Vanguard by SecretReporter(f): 11:28am On Dec 23, 2021
Worst human to ever live in Nigerianistan, buhari

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Re: Buhari At 79: A Man Given So Much, Who Gives So Little Back - Vanguard by TimeTraveller: 11:28am On Dec 23, 2021
Only an ideeot doesn't know that Vanguard is an opposition news outlet.

Buhari has his failings, but he's done more than all previous Presidents since 1999, will little resources.

Vanguard should write an article about the filth in Abia, the incompetent nincompoo in Benue or the clueless MOFO in government house Abeokuta.

Buhari is not responsible for your incompetent governors, let's be guided.

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Re: Buhari At 79: A Man Given So Much, Who Gives So Little Back - Vanguard by LibertyRep: 11:28am On Dec 23, 2021
Buhari and those of his colleagues have entitled mentality.

Nigeria served them.
They practically enjoyed every good thing Nigeria has to offer while wickedly bequeathing debts for the unborn generations.

Posterity will judge them accordingly.

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Re: Buhari At 79: A Man Given So Much, Who Gives So Little Back - Vanguard by BigSarah(f): 11:28am On Dec 23, 2021
grin You can only give what you have that's all I can say.

Buhari 3rd term

Insha Allah

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Re: Buhari At 79: A Man Given So Much, Who Gives So Little Back - Vanguard by Vinnie2000(m): 11:29am On Dec 23, 2021
Vanguard
MannaVultureGriller begs to Disagree with you Guys! sad

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Re: Buhari At 79: A Man Given So Much, Who Gives So Little Back - Vanguard by chrisifeanyi: 11:29am On Dec 23, 2021
He didn't give anything at all.

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Re: Buhari At 79: A Man Given So Much, Who Gives So Little Back - Vanguard by helinues: 11:29am On Dec 23, 2021


Awon were media dey disguise. Their journalists are not longer using the company cars to cover their coverage but train.

That's actually something except if you guys just want to be ingrates

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Re: Buhari At 79: A Man Given So Much, Who Gives So Little Back - Vanguard by LZAA: 11:29am On Dec 23, 2021
You can't give what you don't have
There is a reason ibb waited for idiagbon to go to Saudi Arabia before overthrowing the dvllard
QED

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Re: Buhari At 79: A Man Given So Much, Who Gives So Little Back - Vanguard by Goldbw122(m): 11:29am On Dec 23, 2021
Buhari is not a citizen of Nigeria, that is why

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Re: Buhari At 79: A Man Given So Much, Who Gives So Little Back - Vanguard by juman(m): 11:30am On Dec 23, 2021
Buhari is usual nigerian general.
Nigerian generals are very useless.

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Re: Buhari At 79: A Man Given So Much, Who Gives So Little Back - Vanguard by Nobody: 11:30am On Dec 23, 2021
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Re: Buhari At 79: A Man Given So Much, Who Gives So Little Back - Vanguard by Nobody: 11:30am On Dec 23, 2021
Buhari is a Failure

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Failure

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Re: Buhari At 79: A Man Given So Much, Who Gives So Little Back - Vanguard by Antoeni(m): 11:31am On Dec 23, 2021
Buhari is a Product of Prayer From Sincere Nigerians, if you Think Otherwise, You can Engage God .
Re: Buhari At 79: A Man Given So Much, Who Gives So Little Back - Vanguard by bikefab(m): 11:31am On Dec 23, 2021
How can the terrorist be 79? A man who said he was 33 when the civil war was fought in Nigeria. The war ended 51 years ago. Is he regressing like the nigerian economy? Or he is using his football age? Do the math.

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Re: Buhari At 79: A Man Given So Much, Who Gives So Little Back - Vanguard by AchalugoNwa(f): 11:31am On Dec 23, 2021
Buhari is a terrorist

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Re: Buhari At 79: A Man Given So Much, Who Gives So Little Back - Vanguard by Wazobia2216: 11:32am On Dec 23, 2021
iwaeda:

Buhari lacks what it takes to run Nigeria and looks likely to leave the country worse than he met it on assuming office in 2015.
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/12/buhari-at-79-a-man-given-so-much-who-gives-so-little-back
Quote of the day!

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Re: Buhari At 79: A Man Given So Much, Who Gives So Little Back - Vanguard by Euegene100001: 11:33am On Dec 23, 2021
First and foremost oga is not 79 oga is 84

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Re: Buhari At 79: A Man Given So Much, Who Gives So Little Back - Vanguard by Raxxye(m): 11:34am On Dec 23, 2021
Time will come when the name Buhari, anywhere it is mentioned, will be treated with disdain and avoided.
History will not be kind to Muhammadu Buhari. He is the worst thing that has ever happened to the Nigerian entity!

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Re: Buhari At 79: A Man Given So Much, Who Gives So Little Back - Vanguard by ChrisIntegral(m): 11:35am On Dec 23, 2021
Buhari de traveler

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