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Tuface is feeling the heat because oga at the top is also complaining

Biafra President to be

Jonathan the worst President Nigeria ever had

Some people glamourize regret as if regret is a virtue or an endowment. All some posers need to do to remain relevant on social media is to say they regret voting Buhari. Others less imaginative ask, “Is this the change we voted for?” Whenever I hear these, I am reminded that loyalty is a high-price commodity.

What are you regretting? IF you really voted “Change”, what did you have in mind? Instead of reveling in your ignorance, should you not be ashamed that you lacked the basic understanding of what you espoused? At your age and with your level of education you still dance to every beat? Shame!

This is the “Change” I campaigned and voted for. From inception, I know real, lasting change comes at a high cost and discomfort. Have you ever attempted to change your life, weight, values or complexion? Did it come cheap or easy? Why do many people fail to live up to their New Year resolutions? Genuine change at any level is tough and cruel at first. Nigeria will not be an exception.

What happens when corporate organizations decide to change processes and procedures in the workplace? It is usually resisted because most people prefer the status quo. Corporate changes like mergers, acquisitions and reconstructions create imbalance and uncertainties in the concerned entities. I know a man whose workforce reduced by 75% when he restructured (or effected change in) his company. Today, the same man is shouting his voice hoarse that Buhari’s change is draconian and insensitive. Hypocrite!

How do we become self-sufficient in food production? The answer is simple: make heavy investments in agriculture and ban importation of foods that deplete our foreign reserve. Take rice for instance. As long as there are no restrictions on the importation of rice, local farmers will not grow rice and our exotic taste buds will not be retrained. If I were Buhari, I would put a total ban on the importation of rice.

Take cars, fabrics and wines (and spirits) for another instance. Something drastic needed to be done about our appetite for cars, clothes and wines. The cumulative costs of importing this trio into Nigeria consumed a substantial share of our foreign reserve. Buhari says NO. He argues that if you must use these imports, then be ready to pay a premium price for them. This is simple logic and economics. This is especially so since global oil price has dwindled and tempers are high in the Niger Delta.

Goods are more expensive in Nigeria today because Buhari insists that most of the products we import can and should be produced locally. By so doing, he has flung open unending investment and job opportunities for Nigerians especially. While reserving limited foreign exchange for some critical sectors of the economy, Buhari is urging them to make hay while the sun shines. Buhari is CHANGING the way we live, and the pains we now experience are his instruments of CHANGE. You can only take it, but you can’t reject it.

Why is Buhari putting these strategic restrictions on our consumption patterns? If you are PDP or a hater, these restrictions are to punish Nigerians. But to the dispassionate observer, Buhari’s stance is the most effective route to Nigeria’s escape from economic doldrums festered by inordinate importation of all and every product. Some countries in Asia, Africa and North America have provided infallible precedents to what Buhari has set out to do.

What has happened so far? Buhari is in a mad hurry to fix the refineries. About 6 states are now producing rice in commercial quantities. Cross River state has almost completed what is arguably the largest textile mill in Africa. Buhari is challenging Nigerians to introspect and unleash their creative geniuses. Unfortunately, politics is providing a distracting counter-intuition to these breath-taking developments.

Where will Nigeria be in 10 years if we continue (or forced to continue) to look inwards? Imagine what will happen if we continue to produce a larger chunk of what we eat, wear and drink. Imagine when Aba, Sokoto, Nnewi, Kano, Ondo, Osun, Benue and Nasarawa turn natural endowments into skills. Imagine when our universities and polytechnics wake up. Imagine when our industries and blue-chip companies begin to produce. Only a bold step like Buhari’s CHANGE will give form to these imaginations.

If you did not understand Buhari’s change, it is not Buhari’s fault. Regretting voting Buhari says so much about your character. Asking “Is this the change we voted for?” is the clearest indication that you must never be taken seriously again. You are a plastic supporter, and we will not need you in 2019.

It is very certain Fayose will soon be kicked out

After returning 1k to your mum and 1k to your dad,So you are paying back 98k,not 100k
You bought Laptop of 97k,plus 1k that is with you, total of that is 98k

A tree cannot make a forest, Buhari cannot do it alone, inasmuch all these rogues and thieves we called politicians don't give him full support CHANGE might become CHAIN.

Tuface should not forget to invite David Mark children

stephnie1:
you bad o

Is that not too much,150 cows

That is a good move,they want to do his pre-burial

Obasanjo opened his mouth and rubbish was coming out

Tuface or what he called himself is free to stage the protest,but he should invite all David Mark children and others that are sponsoring him

37 years,is that not too much
Thanks God for Mandela's life,he spent 4 years, despite his country men and women begged him to do another 4 years he said no that he had laid the presiding and the young ones should continue where he stopped.

They should tell Mugabe,he will have something to say

They are welcome to their father's land

Happy birthday to the boy,my prayer for him is that,he will not pay for what he did not buy,IJN.

creepsyme:
the thunder that will fire u is still doing press up in sambisa forest! Quote me and die by fire.....

How many members of your family had die by fire

If they ask you to do evil and you do it, definitely you too you are a evil person

Who is fooling who

His name even sound as 419 pastor," JOHNSON SULEMAN"

This is the day that JonaTAN and PDP will never forget, though they are trying to turn back the hand of the time.Welther PDP like it or not, Nigeria will come out of bondage they put her.

They don't need to invite outsiders because they are more than enough for the burial

Platform of which party,is it PDP the glory killer

New political party full of old rogues and thieves

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Hello Nairalanders. I'm an ardent fan of Gov.Fayose. I have never seen him before but I so much like him as a person.I started liking him since 2003 when he was campaigning for Governorship. I'm based in Ilorin and my wedding will be taking place in March in Kwara State. I've been dreaming of having Governor Fayose as the Chairman of the occasion. Please, how

can I make this dream come to pass

, as I have no idea of how to see him. Oga Seun, please help me move this to the front page. Thanks.

A dream that cannot come to pass,unless your father is among the rogues and thieves.

dplordx:
Lol. My amiable governor was in coma for good six years. Amosun the king of half completed projects. I heard he won't even be completing the plenty ones littering the state and that he wants to start a rail road project, an airport. The people in ota, ifo, voted massively for this man and his only focus is only Abeokuta while ordinary transformer he didn't even provide for this pepple. What a totally useless man.

What is the achievement of your uncle" OGD" for 8 years

This message also good for our police officers,stop begging for money

McBrooklyn:
Ah no fine??

You fine wella,but why your head cum be like badagry coconut

Nigerians don't really know the impact of war against corruption of Buhari administration,but internationally,it is meaningful.For instance,then it was of these names were reigning but now they are silence.

Shallow imagination

Me and you shall not be a victim of motor accident,IJN,