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1. We pilloried Jonathan's administration for
maintaining a wasteful 12-aircraft
presidential fleet (enough to constitute a
modest airline) despite the deepening
hardship and cash crunch in the country. In
response to initial misinformation from
overzealous Buhari supporters about
Buhari's decision to sell off most of the
aircraft, the administration came out and
firmly denied taking such a decision and has
continued to maintain the same presidential
fleet. This inexplicable resolve to continue
with what is universally regarded as a
symbol of executive profligacy is not
attracting any critical attention from
otherwise skeptical citizens. And I don't
want to hear the excuse that Buhari didn't
buy the aircraft, that he inherited them.


2. Staying with the aircraft theme, the new
Customs boss, Col. Hameed Ali, a key
Buhari appointee, travels around to conduct
official business in a cozy private jet, but he
is being praised as a man of action instead
of being criticized with the same vehemence
with which Mrs. Diezani Allison-Maduekwe,
former minister of petroleum, was criticized
for doing the same thing.


3. The economy is reeling from Buhari's
misguided, counterproductive, and
unsustainable policy of defending the naira
at all cost by placing primitive and
economically unsound restrictions on access
to foreign exchange. This currency control
has compounded a curious companion
policy of decreeing bans on certain imports
(both raw materials an finished goods) and
wishing that Nigeria would magically begin
producing them in spite of structural
problems like poor electricity, reliance on
imported heavy machinery, expensive
borrowing rates, a general poverty of
infrastructure, and a volatile policy
environment.
Our reaction to this
cluelessness has been either to stay silent
or to praise Buhari’s intentions, as though
his lofty intentions outweigh the real damage
that this policy is doing to various sectors of
the economy. The road to hell they say is
paved with good intentions, and we may
very well be headed to a figurative hell with
the pronouncement by the CBN that
Nigeria’s economy will enter recession next
year. We scrutinized all of Jonathan's
economic policies, taking them apart when
they did not make sense. But we seem to
have conceded to Buhari the right to make
as many mistakes as he wants even at the
cost of inflicting serious harm on the
economy at a time of low oil prices and a
resulting economic contraction. It's almost
as if we think that the old man knows best
and have suspended our critical faculties as
a result.


4. Several bomb blasts rocked the
northeastern states of Adamawa and Borno
in the course of two days, killing cores of
our citizens and puncturing our already
fragile security. It took the presidency an
entire day to acknowledge the tragedy and
offer words of comfort to a beleaguered and
traumatized nation and to the victims'
families. When Jonathan displayed similar
crass indifference to the nihilist violence of
Boko Haram and to the victims of the
carnage, we spared no outrage in criticizing
him and his team. Today, we seem to have
given Buhari's government an open-ended
benefit of the doubt on the same attitude.


5. When Jonathan failed to articulate a
coherent road map for defeating Boko
Haram, we rightly called him out on the
failure. Buhari has not clued the nation into
his grand strategy for ending the insurgency,
if one exists. Yet we have not demanded
that he communicate clearly with the nation
on this.


6. When Jonathan hired some South African
mercenaries to help drive out the insurgents
from Nigerian's towns and villages, many of
us saw that as a humiliating climb down for
our army and our country, a testament to
the failure to equip and motivate the army to
fight at their maximum ability. Then
candidate Buhari criticized Jonathan for
surrendering and violating Nigeria's
sovereignty, pride, and status as a regional
power. He said the Nigerian army was
capable, by itself, of routing the enemy if
properly equipped and motivated. Several
days ago, however, we read news, still
undenied, that the administration has done
exactly the same thing that candidate Buhari
angrily condemned. They have quietly hired
South African mercenaries to help combat
Boko Haram and to meet the December
deadline issued by the president. We are yet
to hear any serious critique of this decision
to continue with a previously criticized
Jonathan strategy.


7. When Jonathan travelled to Chad to try to
enlist the help of Idris Deby in combating
the insurgency, he was mocked for being
weak and for groveling before regional
minnows. The cantankerous Nasir el-Rufai
even suggested in a tweet that the former
president had gone to Chad to confer with
Deby on how to plan more attacks, an
outrageous nod to the conspiracy theories
circulating in the north about Jonathan's
complicity in, if not sponsorship of, Boko
Haram. Today, Buhari's most discernible
public gesture in the fight against Boko
Haram is his travel around the world and in
our region begging for foreign help and
corporation. And he seems to have invested
all his strategic permutations in the regional
force headquartered in Chad. He is, in other
words, doing what Jonathan did or tried to
do. But the reaction to his actions has been
decidedly and radically different. While
Jonathan was widely condemned, Buhari is
being praised for courting much needed
alliances for defeating Boko Haram.


8. When Jonathan appointed (and defended)
several people tainted by allegations and
revelations of corruption into his
government, we rightly expressed our
disapproval in very strident language.
Today, Buhari has appointed people plagued
by weighty and credible allegations of
corruption into his cabinet and into key roles
in his administration. Instead of dusting up
our anti-Jonathan criticism and applying it
to Buhari, we have now crafted a new
argument for rationalizing this brazen act of
self-contradiction by an anti-corruption
president. We now argue that the appointees
may have been corrupt but that, serving
under Buhari, they will not dare touch
government money. That may be so, given
the personal example of incorruptibility from
Buhari, but that does not invalidate the truth
that such appointments constitute a reward
for corruption — and a bad signal to corrupt
officials. Those who should be answering to
allegations and revelations of corruption will
instead be enjoying the prestige and aura of
high office in an administration purportedly
anchored on an anti-corruption ethos.
This list is not exhaustive. You can add to
it.
http://saharareporters.com/2015/10/26/giving-buhari-long-leash-setting-him-failure-moses-e-ochonu

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Obiagelli:
Is anyone going to counter my points or yall waiting for datolee.

the fear of datolee is the beginin of wisdom

Ezemust:
dox dat permit u to abuse d office of d president?

. I have heard you.

Ezemust:
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. If you think that boko haram is a joke, than u better wake up. My prayer is that none of you shall. Withness what we passed through

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lastmessenger:
And they have investment to do and jets and customized cars to ride while their church members still live in poverty

do u think dat any person that answers pastor is a pastor? Do u think that anybody that owns a Church is a servant of God? Till the day u know the differeCe btw God anD man, for nw I rest my case

Any person that says tithing is unchristian is an advocate of the devil. Pastors are not 9 to 5 workers, they got bills to pay, from wia do u expect them to get money? God is watching

I saw this yesterday nyt on nta network news ;DI

I saw this yesterday nyt on nta network news

If u ar not ok with this, u can go to court.

clean2:
Repent now of your sinful evil ways to avoid eternity in hell fire,,,,Jesus christ love and warn you to repent and convert now to avoid hell fire when you die

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