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Senatot Ben Murray Bruce Writes An Open Letter To President Tinubu

Mr President,

I write this as a supporter of your administration and as a Nigerian who wants you to succeed. But support must never become sycophancy. Sometimes, the greatest service a supporter can render is to tell the President what others around him may be too comfortable—or too frightened—to say.

Mr President, Nigeria needs more mad men in your government.

And before anybody deliberately misunderstands me, let me explain what I mean by mad men.

I mean men and women who are crazy enough to confront a broken system, step on powerful toes, offend entrenched interests and refuse to accept mediocrity simply because mediocrity has become normal.

We need people who wake up every morning obsessed with results.

We need people who are prepared to become unpopular in Abuja if that is the price of becoming useful to Nigeria.

Look at the Central Bank under Olayemi Cardoso. Whatever disagreements anybody may have with individual policies, there is no question that the institution has undergone a serious reset. Discipline and credibility have returned to monetary policymaking.

That is one mad man.

Look at Mallam Nuhu Ribadu. Nigeria still has serious security challenges, and nobody should pretend otherwise. But there is a seriousness, coordination and strategic direction in the national security architecture that deserves recognition. Ribadu is prepared to work, confront problems and take responsibility.

That is another mad man.

Mr President, two mad men are not enough for a country of more than 200 million people.

We need another one in petroleum.

In fact, give us two more.

Nigeria cannot continue to behave like a poor country sitting on the assets of a rich country.

We produce crude oil. We possess enormous reserves. We have decades of petroleum expertise. We have spent fortunes on refineries. Yet for years we became accustomed to exporting crude and importing the products refined from it.

That is economic madness of the wrong kind.

Now we need madness of the right kind.

Mr President, make the rehabilitation and commercially viable operation of the Port Harcourt, Warri and Kaduna refineries a national obsession.

And please, no more excuses.

Nigerians have heard enough explanations about turnaround maintenance, contractors, technical reviews, committees, timelines and billions spent.

We want products coming out of those refineries.

If government cannot operate them efficiently, find the structure that can. Bring in world-class technical partners. Introduce private capital where necessary. Restructure them. Concession them if that produces the best outcome. But whatever model is chosen, the objective must be brutally simple:

MAKE THE REFINERIES WORK.

Dangote has shown what is possible on Nigerian soil. Its refinery was designed for 650,000 barrels per day and has reportedly demonstrated even higher throughput during performance testing.

So let us establish an audacious benchmark.

Mr President, let the three government-owned refining complexes target, at minimum, the equivalent of 50% of Dangote’s nameplate refining capacity—about 325,000 barrels per day of reliable, commercially viable throughput. Then push beyond it.

Nigeria should not merely aspire to satisfy its domestic demand. Our ambition should be much bigger.

We should become a refining powerhouse for Africa and a major exporter of refined petroleum products.

And upstream, the instruction should be equally uncompromising.

Your administration already has a stated ambition of taking Nigeria towards 4 million barrels of oil per day by 2030.

Mr President, find the mad man who will deliver it.

Find somebody who considers 1.5 million barrels unacceptable when the national ambition is 4 million.

Find somebody who will fight oil theft, confront bureaucratic paralysis, reduce production costs, unlock dormant assets, accelerate approvals, attract billions of dollars of investment and sit on the neck of every agency standing between Nigeria and increased production.

I don’t want another committee chairman.

I want a mad man.

I don’t want somebody who will spend four years explaining why something cannot be done.

I want somebody crazy enough to do it.

We have had enough clowns.

Nigeria is too important, our problems are too serious and the President’s remaining time is too precious for passengers in government.

Every minister, regulator, agency head and presidential appointee controlling a critical part of this economy should understand one thing:

This is not a retirement home.

If you cannot deliver, leave.

If you are afraid of stepping on toes, leave.

If protecting friendships is more important than protecting Nigeria’s interests, leave.

If bureaucracy frightens you, leave.

If vested interests can intimidate you, leave.

And if you are not crazy enough to attempt what everybody else says is impossible, we don’t want you.

Mr President, you have demonstrated that you can take politically difficult decisions.

Now take another one:

Recruit more mad men.

Give Nigeria a mad man for petroleum production.

Give us another mad man whose only obsession is refining.

Give them measurable targets, presidential backing and deadlines, and then get out of their way while they step on every toe that needs stepping on.

Cardoso is doing his job.

Ribadu is doing his job.

Now find us two more.

Four million barrels per day.

Working refineries.

A Nigeria that refines its own crude and exports petroleum products to the world.

No excuses.

No clowns.

No passengers.

Only results.

Mr President, this is a request.

And it is not negotiable.

Senator Ben Murray-Bruce.

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So Wike is not a mad man or is it that l am missing something here.

Is he advertising himself for a job now or what
When is he going to complete payment of his amcon debts or do we need to send a mad man after him to recover the debt? Since he's now advocating for mad men in govt
Sycophants everywhere
And he started his lullaby claiming not to be a sycophant

Sycophancy on steroids. Has he settled his AMCON debts?

Yen yen yen

We don't want mad people that we be pursuing us with cutlass o

Maybe Peter Obi can loan that mad man that give him advice, to the federal government.

Seems like he wants the appointment badly. Btw, tinubu is the petroleum minister and every failure and blame should be on his head. He should be made to account for the billions of dollars already wasted on those refineries since he became the petroleum minister

Ass licking attention seeker.

Wike, Umahi, Tunji Ojo are other 'mad men' in this administration..

We need so many more of the 'mad men'!

Wike and Umahi na craze men be that, we need to upgrade them to mad.

But Tunji Ojo should also be named as one of the mad men, abi dat one too no mad enough or something?

This is a funny but truth letter to the President from Mr. Bruce

If you can't tell Tinubu to account for the billions of dollars wasted and looted on the refineries, then your letter is babablu.

Kukutente23:
Is he advertising himself for a job now or what
When is he going to complete payment of his amcon debts or do we need to send a mad man after him to recover the debt? Since he's now advocating for mad men in govt
Sycophants everywhere
And he started his lullaby claiming not to be a sycophant

We indeed, wetin concern u with his debts, is Oga Silverbird owing u even 10k Naira?

Ben Bruce shouldn’t look too far, Peter Obi has loads of them, in the literal sense

Many people will not understand Murray.

President Tinubu here I come give me a chance and will deliver
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Peter obi or atiku will not become the president of this country in my lifetime

Tinubu has failed already, he cannot deliver anything. Let Obi come and source the madmen. We need to recover the $600B you all stashed in Foreign banks.

It's like people fear this Tinubu too much. Instead of them to tell him the obvious truth that Nigerians are suffering and all his whatever is not working, they will be sugar-coating things for him.

Peter OBi has mad men as his Special Advisors

Maybe he can submit their CV

Senator not senator
Thanks.

The mad men who lead us are the main reason the country is going backwards.

We don't need more mad men, please.

We need a mad man in Power, Electricity Supply!
we have a mad man in Interior.
Aviation is doing well.
We need a mad man in National orientation too.

Person wey i think has reputation

Senator Ben Murray Bruce your Open Letter To President TINUBU is noted

"Senatot"?
A word like this, captioned on front page?
In a worldwide forum
Seun and Mods
Please do the needful

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Senatot Ben Murray Bruce Writes An Open Letter To President Tinubu



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Reject hunger. Ooomoh, hunger is baad.

As Ben Murray Bruce don broke, hunget don catch 'am... na so so praise singing him dey sing now.

Hunger no good.

Count Ribadu out please.

The slaughter across the Mddle-Belt is continuing unabated and no one has heard him speak, visit or tend to anything concerning the systemic genocide going on there, or is that not defined as insecurity in the same lingo as banditry and insurgency in the far north...?

And as for the CBN chief what is he saying about the persistently untenable high rate of inflation that he cannot cool in three years?

Hate him or love him... Wike is doing his job.

He's by far the best and to me, only performing Minister.

Tunji Ojo is ONLY fond of paying for fake PR campaigns. Check all the threads praising him here. ONLY new accounts with same pattern of comments.

I have done passports since GEJ ( 1 day with bribe) , then Buhari ( 1 week first term ) then 2 months ( 2nd term) . Tunji Ojo 1 to 3 days.

All with bribes. Tunji just improved from the disastrous Buhari time, nothing special

These fool is looking for appointments. BAT will.not give you

Pls nothing special about cardoso the airhead who destabilize our exchange rate.

He spoke really well..

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Count Ribadu out please.

The slaughter across the Mddle-Belt is continuing unabated and no one has heard him speak, visit or tend to anything concerning the systemic genocide going on there, or is that not defined as insecurity in the same lingo as banditry and insurgency in the far north...?

And as for the CBN chief what is he saying about the persistently untenable high rate of inflation that he cannot cool in three years?

You dey mind 'am? Pesin wey dey reason with his leg?

Some of them dey try while some dey steal our national cake.
But because all Nigerians are fish eat fish...
They won't see anything wrong in corruption.
As for chalk guys stop placing embargo on the country name.
nA only you dey Nigeria ni