₦airaland Forum

viktor01:
Another Lunatic spotted.

Viktor1983:
Where are the Howling-Howlers?
They don't wanna talk baa....

Smoke2015:
Look I saw this one legged approach to governance long before the elections. I tried to say it but my tiny voice was drowned by the baying mob of change seekers who refused to see beyond the emotional lynch mob who saw all the evil in the world in Jonathan.
We all failed to look at his past performance as a hamstrung military dictator whose main achievements where the war against indiscipline and the long prison terms that were handed over to hapless politicians. I knew it will come to this, I knew that the only song he could sing was that of the anti corruption lame song.
Even with that, I knew he would still be stunted. I knew he would not achieve much in a democratic state where he would just not be able to throw people into jail without recourse to the judicial system. He has cried out in frustration that the judiciary was aiding and abetting the corrupt officials. What did he expect, that he would just catch people and throw them into the gulag just like that? See the way Sambo Dasuki is embarrassing him in the courts and his personal vendetta against that one is so glaring that it's almost childish.

Look our problems today is much more than corruption. The way things are, I do not even care about any corruption again, I have even began to miss Jonathan's corruption. We need to reflate this economy, this Buhari's regime as presently configured does not have the capacity to understand that and is technically bereft to offer immediate solutions.

Did you all read that foreign opinion which circulated last week. Did you see how they insinuated that these gerontocrats archaic policies was driving away investors. No good news is coming out of our land. Foreign businesses especially South African businesses are being targeted. Just recently the huge Supermarket which employs thousands of Nigerians have been shut down claiming that they are selling expired products. This is a copy cat move by the Lagos government following the 'body Language' they have read from the Federal Government. The implications of this on Foreign Investment and the signal to the economy is lost on these useless marauders.

Today instead of a systematic policy of integration and a coordinated assault on the economy from both the fiscal and monetary angles what we get is a military type regime of fines. My brother at the last count, MTN, Guinness are suffering and I am sure a lot more is coming. This is bully economic tactics. How this will resolve long term infrastructural issues and worsening economic indices beats me.

Today anytime our lanky President speaks, it's about corruption, looters secretly returning the funds and how the judiciary is not helping him jail people. His advisers are left with nothing to proclaim but his body language as his achievements. Which body language can you read from a man who is almost permanently in the air. Fourteen foreign trips in six months, billions spent on the Presidential fleet, nothing fundamental coming out of those trips. The sweet smell of change is gradually turning into a foul smell of fart coming out of Buhari's backside.

We are hungry, we are loosing our jobs and crime is back with a vengeance, the rule of law is witnessing an unusual assault, small business is suffering the financial sector is in a comatose, ideas are drying up and the largest economy in Africa is on its knees in submission to a reformed dictator with no idea of modern economic trends surrounded by a band of advisers who remind me of drunken sailors in children fiction.

Kai, the Banks are beginning to show systemic distress. The CBN has come out to aggressively denounce it. They claim that no bank is in distress. That is the biggest lie from the pit of HELL. We know which banks are dying, we know which banks are no longer liquid and this thoughtless TSA policy is the main death knell to these Banks. The banks should have been given enough time to unlock their positions before this military type order which has led them to unraveling positions in almost a distress type sale to meet up the deadline and those who did not do that on time where slammed with monster fines. I can see that Baba is replacing long term jail sentences with world record fines. Laughter is my companion this Sunday morning as I write. Since the judiciary won't allow convictions, then let's slam Fines. Everything and everybody will be fined.

I saw this incompetence, I saw it very early and I shouted but like the lone voice in the wilderness I was not hearkened upon. Oh yea children of Nigeria, blood and sorrow will continue to be your plight until we stand up in one voice and shout the hallelujah by taking our own cross in our hands for we have no government.

The December deadline for the elimination of Boko Haram will certainly be another joke. I hear over 150 soldiers have been massacred recently. There has been no official confirmation so I will not comment, but whatever is the case, I still see the Boko Haram onslaught going far into our nearest future. The Biafrans are crying although misguided but the steam its gathering is being fueled by the frustrations of joblessness, fuel scarcity, harsh economic climate and rudderless leadership hence the seeming legitimacy of a very stupid and callous crusade.

Was Buhari prepared for this, I think not or why would it take him over six months to promulgate a cabinet of the usual suspects. If you were going to settle for Amaechi and Fashola why take that long. You see the mistake Buhari made was that unlike his predecessors Gowon and Obasanjo he never schooled himself after his overthrow. To the best of my knowledge he went back to Daura to his Cows neglecting to keep himself abreast with the happenings in global political economics. Obasanjo became a world statesman, engaging in various platforms of intellectual sagacity, delivering papers with global dimension and being respected for that. So when he came back, he understood the issues, the need for lesser government, the need to remove the subsidy on petrol, the need to create jobs, push for infrastructure and opening up the telecoms sector with little government involvement. What we saw was the foundations of the rebirth of the middle class and the continous push to the economic eldorado which crystallized in the Jonathan era.

Today what we are hearing is the over centralization of government. A policy of the 70s, a national carrier an idea that reminds you of cavemen tactics and a President who doubles as the Minister of Petroleum. We are back in the olden days of big government with its attendant inefficiencies, painfully slow policy formulation with little or no policy execution. The limiting of ground breaking ideas for fear of being clamped down or being totally ignored.

I saw it. I swear I saw it and I remain complacent fighting to keep a job that is being daily berated with thankless policies which continue to constrict the economy. Buhari, I thank you for the more people that Boko Haram has killed, for the businesses that have died and for the ones that cannot pay salaries, thank you sir. We will soon meet at the polls.

I saw this. I swear, I saw it.

Joseph Edgar is an investment banker, award winning writer/author, and non conformist.
He writes mostly from a satirical point of view and also comments on socio-economic issues.
He blogs at josephedgarng.bogspot.com

http://josephedgarng..com.ng/2015/11/buharis-incompetence-i-saw-it.html

NgeneUkwenu:
Arrant nonsense!!!

mbulela:
Both are failures.
We needed to get rid of Jonathan as we should not be rewarding failure.
Buhari does not have the mental and socialcapacity to lead a nation in the 21st century. Unfortunately, we had no better option.
Unless he has a Damascus experience, this 5 months is a pointer to where he is going.
It is from dawn you tell how a day will be.

texazzpete:
It is the job of these political prostitutes and traitors to make yo believe you made a mistake voting out GEJ. It is your own foolishness to believe such nonsense.

After nearly ruining Nigeria, GEJ is sleeping easily because of sycophants like these. And I weep to see ordinary Nigerians cheering such nonsense on

mbulela:
Both are failures.
We needed to get rid of Jonathan as we should not be rewarding failure.
Buhari does not have the mental and socialcapacity to lead a nation in the 21st century. Unfortunately, we had no better option.
Unless he has a Damascus experience, this 5 months is a pointer to where he is going.
It is from dawn you tell how a day will be.

NgeneUkwenu:
Arrant nonsense!!!

kozmokaz:
International Disgrace: Buhari Embarrass
Nigerians Again - Calls The People of
Malta Great People of Maltina

romzyxy:
You guys shud relax. Its not easy for him. He needs your prayer not your judgement

BOWOTO:
sometimes I begin to doubt Buhari, I also believe he has a grand reason for all the bad state of Nigeria as at now.


Let's give him more time, I believe he has a plan.

God bless Nigeria.

Firefire:


[size=13pt]If Nigerians start the cursing angle, I pity the morons who bestowed a 'dullarpoh' on Nigeria.[/size]

For selfish interest and to own oil wells which is now a curse, politicians in SW being led by an 'imperialist capitalist' repacked an old and outdated dictator whose cult likes followers in the Northern Nigeria is huge, a man whose weeping caused dozens of youth corpers's death in 2011, a man who promised that the baboon and the dogs would soak in blood in 2015 to come rule a democratic nation in 2015 this is beyond comprehension.

I remain resolute not minding the outcast position from my kinsmen that General Mohomodu Buhary is not an option in 2015, I was labeled a political jobber, that is fine. Jonathan could not have been an option as they posited, but Buhary should not be in the race. History and his track records as a weak leader in the '80 is there for all to revisit.

"Buhary insensitivity to Nigeria's diversity and his parochial focus are already well-known" - AIT /

"The sweet smell of change is gradually turning into a foul smell of fart coming out of Buhari's backside".

It is evidence that unless Buhary change his tactics, he is bond to fail.

God help Nigeria.

Cc:

Anonimi
Ajepako

kozmokaz:
International Disgrace: Buhari Embarrass
Nigerians Again - Calls The People of
Malta Great People of Maltina

akinsbaba2015:
All of sudden a few nonentities are burning the mid night oil preparing useless articles to sway peoples' mindsets about the present government. In one breath they prefer that the government should look beyond the failures of GEJ and the next moment they willfully violate their values by constantly reminding us of the fact that they lost woefully at the polls. Bunch of educated illiterates who are yet to come to terms to the fact that no single party/ underperforming president can hold the nation to ransom. The painful part to them is that they wished 2019 to be next year. Let us reiterate to them that the best of this government is yet to come and things will certainly get better.

ajepako:
Oju won ti nja bayi..

Ara won a bale nigbati ise won ba di ise ati oshi

philips70:
You saw incompetence in 6mnths but didn't see the monumental disaster that was given 5yrs and brought us to our knees. The only reason I wouldn't blame you is it has been established Nigerians forget too easily and even the children of Israel cried and cursed Moses asking to be taken back to Egypt.

Standing5:
Exactly!
Jonathan and PDP ruled us with a recurrent expenditure of about 70% with oil selling at over $100/b, with oil now selling at less than $50/b, i will like the wailers to please tell us how they expect Buhari and APC to run govt perfectly with earning that can't even cover recurrent part of our spending.
Don't forget this oil cost a even higher amount to refine now than it cost before.

pikapizy:
must everything be GEJ vs PMB to you? GEJ was a failure we know ...but the truth is that most of his efforts and good intentions for this country was sabotaged by those around him..people who put their pocket and personal interest first before the welfare of the nation.. GEJ fault was failure in calling them to order ...everyone stole and embezzled at will


fast forward to PMB ,a formal general who was feared and respected .more than 60% Nigerians cheered him on and pledged their support, he was loud in condemning the wastage and embezzlement under GEJ..he swore and promised to give Nigeria the change they needed ..he had all it takes to correct the past errors ASAP.. no one was calling him "that small boy of yesterday (like they did Jonathan in his cabinet) he had respect and he was feared .



almost 8 months into his administration nothing has changed to tell us he's working toward the desired and anticipated change ! he's now doing the same wastage he condemned the previous adminstration for ...he's slow and all his campaign promises are fast turning into a mirage ...I'll do this ,I'll do this ...no action half a year gone ...its still " I'll do this ,I'll do this... show us what he has done except travel from west Germany to Malta guiness

I hope I've been able to educate ur ignorant mind .

Ahmeduana:
(O.Y.O) NA ONLY YOU WAKA COME!

nobeku:
This is TOTAL COW DUNG!!!!