₦airaland Forum

That man lies anyhow

Buhari the collosal failure

Keep fooling yourself at your age ..shei when you are done you will go to your neighbours house to beg to charge phone still

pedrilo:
Economy, electricity, security and infrastructure shud be 0 or -0.
He took us backward in those areas so he can't possible get a positive score. My humble opinion.

Hmmmm this is worse than I thought

seunlayi:
The raring is not correct, there is nowhere he can be rated above 2/10.
The baba na monumental failure

Na wa ooo..let's be generous to the man small

Introduction

On the 29th of May 2015 Muhammed Buhari was sworn in as Nigeria’s president in an election that could be adjudged as greatly free and fair, he rode on the he popularity of his fabled integrity and sailed to power with ease with millions of Nigerians including my humble self inking thumb to paper for him. Exactly 0ne year down the line how has the fabled General fared as regards the expectations of Nigerians and what was actually delivered. Below is my unbiased assessment of Buhari’s government, a year exactly after he uttered that famous line “ I belong to no one “ I belong to everybody”.

Integrity

The first index we would be scoring is the Integrity of the man Buhari and his government, after all he got 70 percent of the votes he earned based on this.


Integrity : What Nigerians expected.

Based on his fabled integrity of mythological proportions many Nigerians believed if Buhari was made president, state based corruption would be reduced to the barest minimum, we would have a govt that stood by the truth all the time as regards the best interest of the Nigerian state and its great people

Integrity: What we actually got.

Pound for pound I would say Mr President still has his general integrity largely intact but had it dented in one or two places like the issue of asset declaration which was needlessly delayed and then half-heartedly and lackadaisically declared eventually. The President’s integrity also got tested when it came to the office of the First Lady because in the past he had made statements insinuating that since the Nigerian constitution didn’t provide credence for the office of the First Lady when elected, Nigerians will notice a clear detour of what used to happen in the past as regards that office. One year later we can say the office of the First Lady is still in operation like what obtained in the past and it seems the office of the “First Daughter” was unofficially created . The good news is that the President’s integrity has done well in curbing wide spread state sponsored corruption like what obtained in the past, we have seen good policies like the eventual implementation of the TSA and reduction in cabinet level corruption.

Integrity: The Score Card

In the area of integrity I would score President Buhari 8 / 10


Ministerial Team
Ministerial Team: What we expected
When it came to appointing his ministerial team millions of Nigerians including my good self expected a total difference of what we had been used to. So when the President took 6 whole months to make his choice some of us were sure that for the first time in a long time Nigeria was going to get the best cabinet lineup ever with some people even expecting to hear the name of one or two senior Angels from heaven in the lineup.

Ministerial Team: What we actually got

After six whole months and the ministerial list was released, millions of Nigerian were utterly disappointed with what we saw , we didn’t see Angel Gabriel and Angel Jibril in then line up ,okay then maybe God refused to release them to work in some earthly team but then we didn’t see Pat Utomi, Femi Falana, Umar Dangiwa ,Donald Duke etc. Okay there was Babatunde Raji Fashola the former Governor of Lagos state who had built himself the reputation of being a sound administrator in the past , beyond that it was the most boring line up we had seen since Chief Onigbinde’s Super Eagles.

Ministerial Team: The Score Card

For his ministerial team appointment I give President Buhari a 3 /10

Security

Security: What we expected

Before President Buhari was sworn in Nigeria’s security was at an all-time low with the deadly Boko Haram sect holding sway in the North East of Nigeria ,never before had our territorial integrity as a nation been so tested . So on assumption of office Nigerians expected the military experience and political will of President Buhari to immediately put a stop to the madness called Boko haram and also we expected the police force under him to become more responsive to other civil crimes like robberies and kidnappings that were steady on the rise.

Security: What we got

When it comes to overall security President Buhari has performed credibly well, as commander in chief he has rallied his troops to drastically reduce the operational potency of Boko haram, in just 365 days he has demoted Boko Haram from being one of the most deadly terrorist group in the world to a band of bare footed pests who can only roam the Sambisa in the night looking for small rodents to hunt so they can survive. Never before had a terror group been quickly demobilized in such a short time frame. The police under Buhari has also scored fairly well in smashing a lot of kidnapping gangs and scoring the safe release of many kidnap victims. Under his leadership we have also seen some new security threats emerge in the Niger delta and wanton destruction of lives and property by faceless armed herdsmen.

Security: The score card
In the area of Security I would award President Buhari a high 7/10


Fight against corruption
Fight against Corruption: What we expected
Pre his inauguration most Nigerians had no doubt that President Buhari will deliver a massive blow to corruption and politically exposed corrupt persons, we imagined that at most 4 weeks after his inauguration our prisons would be filled with sentenced corrupt politicians of the past.

Fight against Corruption: What we got

While it can be said that corruption within his government at the federal level has greatly reduced, not the same can be said for the prosecution of supposedly corrupt people, despite overwhelming evidence of legendary corruption especially in the petroleum ministry during the last government. It is really surprising that not a single successful prosecution has been scored other than “he said, she said rumors” being peddled by Sahara reporters from its New York office. The EFCC has improved in its will to actually get the Job done but the best result we have seen is some sensationalism on some newspaper headlines.

Fight against Corruption: The Score Card
For me the fight against corruption is a lot more than scoring a sensational headline in some newspaper for this I award President Buhari a 3/10
 
Economy

The Economy: what we expected

To be fair to history General Buhari has never had evidence of being a great economic reformer in the mould of Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore but even though Buhari’s last stint in power wasn’t particularly an economic success a lot of us believed it was a result of the short span of the government, we believed if the General had more time in 1984 Nigeria would have become the Singapore of Africa.

The Economy: What we got

In just a year in power President Buhari’s Nigeria has slid down the economic indicators from being the biggest economy to being just an economy on the verge of a major recession, the truth is that 40 percent of this slide can be attributed to the massive drop in oil price which account for a sizable chunk of what the Nigerian economy can and can’t do but another 60 percent ranging from poor planning from previous governments to a lot of poor decisions on the part of the Buhari-led Government. Poor decisions like the delay in setting up a cabinet, lack of a clear economic plan on what direction the government wants the economy to march too, poor decisions like allowing Minister Fashola illegally increase the electricity tariff when the government knew that it would have no choice but to also increase fuel prices , also the un needed confrontation with the Niger Delta militants in a period where we needed to maximize every opportunity to sell our low priced oil to give the weakened economy a lifeline till we can wean our prosperity’s dependence on fossil fuels. The combination of all of the above have put Nigeria in its gloomiest days ever.

The Economy: The Score Card

The performance of the economy under President Buhari in the last one year has been dismal so for that I award him 2/10
 
Electricity

Electricity: What we expected

If there was one sector Nigerians expected Buhari to perform credibly well in a very short time, it was in the area of electricity supply. Nigerians expected to get more hours of electricity at an affordable cost since their new leader was seen as more of a welfarist than a capitalist and they had seen a certain Barth Nnaji do it in the past before he was ousted from office by Abuja politics.

Electricity: What we actually got

When President Buhari received power from the previous government he received a National grid that was maxed to deliver 5000 mw of electricity on demand , it was an excellent footing to start off on . One year down the line the situation has worsened to being one of the worst in our country’s history, not only did electricity supply become more chaotic the cost of kilowatts to the last leg consumer was increased by 60 % by the Minister of power under the guise of providing funding for the owners of power company to provide electricity in the future meaning Nigerians were forced to pay more for electricity that they didn’t know when it will ever arrive. If you ask me, I would say that was a decision in really bad faith. More surprising is that Nigerians were surprised President Buhari kept silent over this racketeering by Fashola and his capitalist DISCOs.
Furthermore Niger delta based militants dealt a big blow on our gas supply lines critical to electricity generation meaning most of the country went into May 29 2016 in darkness

Electricity: The Score card

Even though we expect things to improve in this sector once the government gets its act and vison together, for the past one year I would score the government a miserable 2/10 in this sector.


Fuel Supply Management

Fuel Supply Management: What we expected

When it came to fuel supply management Nigerians believed that President Buhari will give them the best deal mankind had seen since the release of Ford’s Model T, they expected to get fuel at any time and that the cheapest comparative price after all they had elected a man who had many times let them know they were paying too much for fuel and that subsidy was nothing but a clichés coined to deceive them, in his famous words “what is subsidy?” we didn’t have any reason to doubt him.

Fuel supply Management: What we actually got



To cut the long story short in the past year of governance under President Buhari, Nigerians were made to endure the longest fuel crisis in their history, it spanned an amazing 8 months which saw prices rise to 400 naira a litre in parallel black market and culminated in the eventual increase in fuel prices from 87 naira to 145naira a litre the highest fuel price margin in our history and surprisingly this occurred when global oil prices were at its lowest. Funny the reason for this hike has never been clearly communicated to the masses with the president’s men each giving a different narrative from removal of subsidy to total deregulation to forex benchmarks. As of today the fuel queues have disappeared since 145 naira appeared on fuel pumps.

Fuel Supply Management: The Score Card

[/b]I humbly score the government a 3/10 in this


[b]Agriculture

Agriculture: What we expected

Under the last government Nigeria fared pretty well in the area of Agriculture under the sterling leadership of Akinwunmi Adeshina, so when President Buhari came on board we all expected this sterling performance to continue due to fact the president is also a farmer.

Agriculture: What we actually got

There was some noticeable slide in our agricultural production chain but most of it was due to force majeure ranging from poor rain forecast, herdsmen and farmer clashes to pest invasion. When it comes to agriculture President Buhari really has an explicit vision for the sector which if well delivered will see Nigeria move from being a major food importer to one who is self-reliant.

Agriculture: The Score Card

The score here will be 5/10

 
Infrastructure
Infrastructure: What we expected

General Buhari had in the past as head of PTDF proven himself to be one committed to continuous infrastructure growth so we all expected him to continue on that path once he was elected.

Infrastructure: What we got

Due to budget delays it would be unfair to rate this government’s commitment to Infrastructural development but with a proposed injection of 350 billion naira into this sector with good implementation I would say great thing are about to happen there. I will not be scoring this sector just yet.



Overall score card


I campaigned and voted for General Buhari , for his first year I would be generous and and give my Mai Gaiskiya a 3/10

lalasticala, seun, mynd44

Businessideas:
But Tompolo and his boys are the aggressors.I think the soldiers should ignore these mouthpieces for those militants sabotaging Nigeria and try as much as possible to protect innocent civilians.
I blame the Nigerian security officers for treating the pre-election threats with kid gloves. Our security apparatus should stop waiting for havoc before reacting. If all those people who threatened to cause mayhem once President Jonathan loses the election had been placed on security watch, their phones taped, house and automobiles wired, at least, they will get traces. Now they are wasting our resources and perhaps lives. So so sad.

Sorry

amaechi1:
One thing is clear, this news is not true. It intention is to cause mayhem and confusion. Secondly, even if the ruler was arrested the military are not that foolish not to handle him with care.

Exactly
...but why did they blindfold home when he was arrested

So suddenly the govt has realised that it has spent a full year in office with little or nothing achieved so the think the best way to address this is to invite Omojuwa and his merry band of extortionist to Abuja to recieve the proverbial aso rock brown envelope so they can go on social media and support the govts dismal performance ..it just shows that this govt is not ready to do the right thing but would rather attempt to use social media propaganda to justify the nonsense it's been churning out in the name of governance

Airforce1:
So today I took my niece to go play with her mates at Sweet sensation children funfair in my crib..
She was so happy playing with her mates and I on the other side keeping an eye on her got carried away by the thought of not having enough love by that man that called himself my father back in the days as a kid.

I remember my dad beating me up at every slightest provocation even on children's day.

He is a bad man
I remember catching him with a strange woman while momma was away
But he fucking deceived me she was his course mate back in university.

What made me hate him more was the day he flogged me in the presence of my child hood girl friend .
I can't forget that day.
He messed me up so badly that I had to run to momma to ask if that man was actually my father.

I hate him with passion.

Till these present day that I'm grown up , I don't even call him , I don't care about him... I only care about mom because she gave me confidence , showed me love and treat me right .


So to the parents reading my story, you've got to be not just mom and dad to your children , you've got to be friends with them too so they don't go online and write my kind of story about you when they became adults.


Thanks for reading.
Airforce!

Who cares ..who you and Ur papa don't even epp

mrkayusfit:
By now the Niger delta skies ought to be filled with helicopters and bomber Jets from the Nigerian airforce so they can do reconnaissance and possibly eaves drop on the militants by monitoring their communications and movements.

I guess this loads of problems included in their silly demands started on may 29 2015 after swearing Buhari into power?? Or what's the reason for their current madness When GEJ their fellow Niger deltan ruled for 6 years what efforts did he make to better the lives of the average Niger deltan? Instead he made tompolo and the likes of asari billionaires at the detriment of poor Niger deltans who have no drinking water.

Buhari's first action was to order a $1bn clean up of the Niger delta starting from ogoni land after been sworn in. U people remained quiet for 6yrs since GEJ na your son and hero of corruption. Now you are ranting like a baby as if other regions in nigeria live better than you people.

The government failed us all as Nigerians. We all don't have constant electricity, no good roads, graduate without jobs, no potable water, no welfare package and other problems scattered in every region due to failed leadership.

We are not better than the average Niger deltan. Over 95% of Nigerians live in abject poverty while the elites from every region sit on national wealth.

If we all face this problems nationwide how are we better off? The avengers are another group out to get its share of the National cake. Once the government calls them to the table and settle them with amnesty and they become billionaires like the tompolo's, they cease fire and the problems they lament about remains.

Anyone who think those thugs care about Niger delta and it's environment needs to have his head examined. All they want is money, it has always been the reason for agitations in the past.

Forget their silly demands. If they love the Niger delta so much they won't degrade it further by bursting pipes and bombing of facilities with which all Nigerians and Niger deltans survive with. Every Niger delta state receives monthly allocation from the FG which your governors use to pay workers and develop their states.

The actions of these vagabonds makes your land poisonous for farming, your fishes and aquatic life will not survive. Your economy will be crippled and the after effects will make the non salary payment situation in bayelsa state look like a child's play. The problem of the Niger delta is the man standing in front of the mirror. Every one of u shares the blame because of the our OYEL mentality

These ragtag militants from the 5% region should not be allowed to hold the country to ransom. Buhari should give a shoot at sight order to the military so the avengers can pee in their pants. if not for the innocent people living in the Niger delta, I would have recommended a total leveling of the region if necessary.

Nnamdi kanu is the architect of these presents predicaments. He was beating the drums of war and encouraging rebellion on his treasonous radio before been locked up like a mere church rat. The useless Biafra the IPOB are demanding is an attempt to dominate the Niger delta resources in future. We will not let it happen. Nigeria shall remain one till the earth seize to exist. We the SW and core North are the only region not disturbing the peace of Nigeria at the moment . The 5% people are just a pain in our asses.

Believe serious please ..what jet or helicopter that Nigeria has that can hit anything on the ground ..don't be deceived Nigeria has 4 alpha toy jets and 8 F toys from China and 8 really old super attack copters bought from Russia in the eighties. .please wake up from Ur slumbers the only way to save the economy now is proper dialogue. .remember that We couldn't even defeat Boko Haram on clear terrain

We thought GEJ was the most hated president but it seems my Buhari will break that record

It's sad Buhari will be disgraced for the 2nd time form power ..the man is not OK to lead anything oo

ibedun:
You sound more like an empty head ruled by emotions. A usual partisan IPOB trait. Assume you are in PMB shoes, offer possible solutions. We did not save our precious foreign exchange during a mighty boom, we import just about everything, we don't produce anything and on top we import food? Now our OYEL price has fallen. Buhari is not a magician.

I will reply this fully later my. I am a bit busy now..how are u doing

But why didn't the church act like Christ and forgive the Colonel

Inspectahdeck:
Please leave your ministers for now. It is to early to appraise their performance. Also, they just got their budget to work with so time will time.

Sack fashola after 2 years if he can't come up with innovative ideas to energy other than gas. A region should never hold a nation to ransom. Also, carry all stakeholders in the energy sector along e.g. generator sellers, diesel seller etc. If not they will keep sabotaging your effort.

Nigerians are generally lazy and greedy people, we want fast money. surprisingly, unavailability of raw materials, lack of energy, machineries, staff know-how discouraged local investors from manufacture.

the greedy marketers took control of the industry, killing every production company and potential ones. They buy cheap and substandard products from China and sell at high prices to us, thereby controlling the market.

Like the sustainable economist said on channels daily yesterday, we Nigerian like to artificially create inflation and scarcity to enrich a few. He mentioned the fuel issue, diesel (went up immediately form 125 to 142), food stuffs etc.

We are our problem, not the government per say.

I am sure you have a proposal in front of one the ministers

You can start by changing yourself from Minister of Petroleum then also change that extortionist and racketeer called Fashola ..change Lai Mohammed. .Change Mama Taraba ... change Audu Ogbe

eagleeye2:
Akan Nukak Ante wrote:
My boss says 'EXCUSES ARE FOR THE
INCOMPETENT'. The chicken has come home to
roost, its time to smell the coffee. The aged
palm wine tapper in your village MIGHT have
integrity and discipline but that does not
qualify him to be made the branch manager of
UBA in your village. If you do that........he will
ruin the bank, cause job losses and kill the
branch even with his acclaimed integrity.
But if he employs his integrity in mediating in
the village land disputes, settling of couple's
fight and equitable distribution of community
lands to farmers at farming seasons, he will
remain a champion.
It takes more than just integrity to run over
500 billion dollar economy (the integrity is
even now in question sef.)

You are right ..this is the situation with Nigeria right now

I can't believe I voted for this man ..well the way I see it Nigerians should be ready to queue for food by 2017 ..this man is just an orders and fiat man and not a visionary and wisdom lead leader..My apologies once again

Those of us that voted Buhari need to stop and take a deep breath then say Yes we Ma a big mistake by voting a man whose only pro is integrity and his cons are plenty plenty from lack of intelligence to poor vision

buksaylor001:
You can't vote in an illiterate and expect the transformations of a Harvard trained-
And the worst thing is that the man is not digital,and doesn't even listen to advice,he believes he has all the knowledge without knowing that where his stops is where even a young graduate starts-

So true

fados4sure:
All APC governor are the same, don't be deceived. They will go & borrow money & do heaven on earth in their first tennior & in their second tennior, they will be paying & not do anything. Look at Edo, Osun, Ogun, Oyo? They are all cruck

Hmmmm

Beeman1:
To all Buhari haters,he will complete his 8years in office whether anyone like it or not. We are not moved by all these online blackmailing.

God bless Buhari

God bless Nigeria.

If he doesn't perform he will be sent parking in 2019

The way it's going I see Buhari being disgraced

Ambode distracting that fraud called Fashola daily
...Ambode is just impressive ..I believe Ambode fire

rita25:
SHE DID NOT EVEN MENTION HER DETAINED NIQQA? BITCHES AINT LOYAL I MUST SAY

My thots exactly. .she just kept saying I I I and nothing about we ..she is already talking of knowing where she is going and how no one can stop her including the detention of he really sponsor ..abeg this one no be wife

echodrum:
Thank God his real capacity has been tested as a minister. People would have massively voted for him if he was given a chance to run as a president. Mbong!!

The guys was a just a paid media hype ..I would rather have Ambode be president 100 times over the lame Fashola

Sparkle777:
I tell u. Pls where is Barth Nnaji sef? He s the man we should seek.

I swear after just six months in power Barth Nnaji improved electricity supply by over 60 percent ..my area them used to have light for over 48hrs straight..

Even common Street lighting this conman called Fashola couldn't fix in 8 years and now my able Governor Ambode did it in 2 weeks and till now Lagos Street lighting are working ..Fashola is a fraud and myth propagated by good media propaganda ..I thank God Ambode has shown us the man was a fraud .. I am so in happy with Ambode the best Governor ever

Fashola has been exposed for who he really is ..a failed administrator

Firefire:
It's not how far but how well.

I was wondering why Government at all level are not constructing Ranches and profit from it as they do to shops and malls across the country.

Do you believe Fulanis will pay to use such ranches. .they will rather burn down the ranch and continue their discrete expansionist drive under the guise of grazing cattle

Rxpetite:
Every state has a right to allow or deny herdsmen access to her territory.
Not all herdsmen are evil but one has to be careful. When boko haram started, northerners treated these issues with kid gloves until it started to torment them. They knew the members but protected them until they became uncontrollable. As far as I'm concerned, Northerners grew, groomed and nourished boko haram.
Here in the south we will not tolerate any act of terrorism especially from the north. We have our own issues to deal with.
They ask why we reacted differently to the kidnap of amina and ese ? The answer is simple;
Northern terrorists kidnap their northern schoolgirls in their northern territory and we Southerners can only show our concern(#bringbakourgirls ) and caution the north.
Northern assholes kidnap southern girls from southern territory and we will in orubebe's words , not take it.
States which can monitor the herdsmen can let them roam. If fayose cannot guarantee the security of his state from herdmen, he has every right to ban them from the on set to avoid stories that touch. people learn from their mistakes but smart people learn from other's mistakes.

Believe me all of them are evil ..those one that arrive first pretend to be peaceful but the do that to spy and collect reconnaissance on the strength and weakness of their host community before the attack team arrives