In the run up to the 2015 presidential election,
leaders and members of APC were very vocal in
condemning the then president of the country,
President Goodluck Jonathan, for every step he
took. This even included attending churches on
Sunday, Jonathan’s religion’s holy day of
obligation. It was Babatunde Raji Fashola, the then
governor of Lagos State and now Honourable
Minister of Power, Works and Housing, that
succinctly captured the mind of the All
Progressives Congress (APC) leaders and
supporters then when at the sixth Bola Tinubu
Colloquium in Lagos some time in March 2014, he
charged at his listeners by asking them if they
wanted “someone who spends most of his time in
church or mosque, or the man who is ready to
spend his time on the job.”


That was when life was very sweet as an
opposition party especially with the tolerance level
of Goodluck Jonathan. At least, Goodluck was
spending his time in the country even if, in the
hyperbolic words of Fashola, he was spending
“most” of it in church.


However, fast forward to today, we have the same
Fashola who is currently serving as a minister
under president Muhammadu Buhari who would
remain Nigeria’s most travelled president for a
long time in our history. So far, since his
inauguration into office on May 29, 2015, President
Buhari has traversed 24 countries of the world
within a short period of 9 months.


Considering our scarce resources, this is too
frequent, too costly and is a disturbing
development as the nation is in its worst economic
quagmire since independence. Never in the history
of our nation even when we thought we faced
economic recession and hyper-inflation has our
exchange rate run on auto-devaluation as it is
now. The prices of food stuff and basic items are
climbing higher and out of the reach of the
common man. The purchasing power of the
citizens has been badly eroded while people are
not only not getting employed, those who are
employed are losing their jobs in droves.
The economy is at a standstill! No gainful
economic activity going on anywhere.


Infrastructural development that characterised
Goodluck Jonathan’s administration has since
been brought to a halt; our revived agricultural
sector is now in a speedy reverse course. While
harmless and armless youths protesting peacefully
within their constitutional rights are regularly
mowed down by mindless security agencies in
Zaria, Aba, Onitsha etc, the supreme court has
come under several severe attacks from the ruling
party as the Honourable Justices of the apex court
have resisted the “body language” charm and
refused to do the bidding of the party in some of
the judgements given by the court recently.


Kidnapping has not only returned but assumed a
more dangerous and fearful dimension, and the
security agents seem overwhelmed. Power supply
has become more epileptic than ever even as the
DISCO’s have hiked their tariff by about 40% and
they still expect Nigerians to pay for darkness
supplied in the midst of gross financial
powerlessness. There is general disenchantment in
the land as the Buhari administration has
sufficiently demonstrated a total lack of idea on
how to run our economy to attain its full potentials
at this time. This fact is further strengthened by
the shambolic and embarrassing preparation of a
simple budget that is a normal ritual of
governments all over the world.


Nigerians believe that the budget was fraught with
fraud and an indication of the hypocrisy of the
current government’s anti-corruption stance.
Having suffered so much, the Buhari budget is
widely believed to be the “most stolen”, “most
missing”, “most padded”, “most denied”, “most
investigated”, “most withdrawn” and “most re-
presented” budget, yet, there is no outrage in the
land over that garbage. If PDP had made that
“mistake” during its time, of course, the country
would have been on an uncontrollable
conflagration, set on by APC.


Despite the rapid descent of the country into
catastrophic and unbelievable state of socio-
political and economic anomie within a very short
period, President Buhari carries on as if nothing is
wrong. There is no sense of urgency or even
needed level of concern for the state of the nation.
Buhari keeps globe-trotting as if the solutions to
the nation’s woes lie abroad.


The sophistry peddled by the administration’s spin
doctors, as it was during the presidential
campaigns, that the president’s frequent travels
has already yielded much fruits for the country is
only a lullaby-like tale told to children in order to
put them to sleep and prevent their usual late
night tantrums. Obviously, the complaints of
Nigerians about the worrying situation of things in
the country would no doubt have been sounding
like tantrums to the ears of government.


Given Fashola’s lamentations about former
president Jonathan’s frequent presence in church,
one would have expected this same man and his
likes to caution the president about his needless
travels, sit back at home, consult with his cabinet
and concerned Nigerians on how we can all move
this country forward rather than junketing all over
the world in search of foreign solutions to local
problems.


The argument that he is in talks with some oil
producing countries to see how they could help
increase the value of oil in the international market
by scaling down on output is akin to pouring water
in a basket for the purpose of storage. If we are
able to get Saudi Arabia to reduce output will a
country like Iran not take advantage of that and
flood the market with their own oil especially as
they have a lot to unleash on the market having
been shut out from the international market for a
long time as a result of US sanctions until
recently.


This is more so especially when one considers
that Iran would be very happy to do the exact
opposite of what Saudi Arabia does even if it is
just to spite the Saudis owing to the frosty
relations between the two countries. In addition,
the pro-Shiite Iranians expressed very strong
diplomatic reservations over the recent killings of
Shiite Muslims in Zaria by a band of military men
led by the Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen Tukur
Buratai. This might just be an opportunity for a
pay back by them.


It is also instructive to note that a majority of our
oil patrons have either found new buyers or have
embraced alternative sources of energy. So,
whichever way one looks at it, embarking on
extensive and expensive diplomatic shuttles
majorly for this purpose is not only illogical, it is
also antithetic to common sense and beats the
imagination of even elementary economists. Little
wonder then our president seems to be the only
president among the oil producing countries who
think the best way to shore up the price of oil
worldwide is by diplomatic shuttles. No other
president worldwide is travelling for this purpose.


Our nation is dying, the president is travelling and
his party is parrying the truth about the situation of
things and the true outcome of the president’s
frequent travels. Let the president return, sit back
and spend quality time at home and stop working
like a distant learning student!


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Nigeria should go to God in prayers and ask Him for forgiveness,if they really want change,it's takes the grace of God for a nation or person to know that they are suffering because of their sins;until they do so they will suffer for long,their plague just started but they will not know now or believe it if they are ask now to quit their individual and national evil ways,Nigeria Repent And Live the life they all wants.

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ah ah ah ah ah ahha h ah aha ha ha ha ha ha ha ah ah ah ha ha ha ha
make i laugh first
i will comment when APC ZOMBIES come calling

Useless supporters,useless party,useless government.Generation unborn will never forgive those who brought this untold hardship on us.Even PDP didn't put us through one-tenth of this suffering.

The journey just began.
We aren't even on one quarter yet so why the complain...

Naija wants change,Change is here...

Buhari the brainless animal.

Useless change!!! This change dey run belle... The president is still chasing rats and deceiving himself and his gullible followers.

See wailers

Barcanista's alter ego is here o....
The Mala Kachalla affair.....
#PDPHouseOfHunger

cc: Modath

Eternal change

wow... not up to a year and the amount of complaints on the streets and in the media keep swelling.

No gain saying one may win elections with propaganda à la J Goebbels but cannot govern with same especially in this high-tech 21st century.

Zombies (Z) decreasing, Wailers (W) increasing.

Now for some analysis.

If, as is proven in differential calculus, dy/dx is the rate of change of y with respect to x.

Then... abeg my people, what is dZ/dW?

Ain't we in soup?

God alone shall save us.

We thank God for cutting down the opponents 60 years of fake promises to 16 years.

I heard they said we are slow. Yes, we didn't campaign to be fire fighters, but planners and meticulous one at that.

Mr President you started well, you hit the ground running even though the ground was murky.

You promised Nigerians you will address security and your first meeting to ECOWAS was on security because we cannot fight alone. You have been to other places.

If they said it is a ludo, we will tell them it's a serious business.
If they forget G7 we will remind them.

We have faith in you Mr President.
We have faith in your capacity and uprightness.

We promise to continue be with you and support you no matter what they are saying we are not reruning the election until the next 4 years time.

Mr President your hands are on the plough and you'll succeed.

Allow mr PMB to continue junketeering bro when its time he is gonna walk and work very hard to save us...long live sai Buhari long live sai nigeriya

Paperwhite:
Useless supporters,useless party,useless government.Generation unborn will never forgive those who brought this untold hardship on us.Even PDP didn't put us through one-tenth of this suffering.

who else brought this on us if not the tribe that back-stabs morning,afternoon and night? How they made a stark illeterate their choice as president over them is still a mystery.

naijaboy756:
who else brought this on us if not the tribe that back-stabs morning,afternoon and night? How they made a stark illeterate their choice as president over them is still a mystery.

Very true.

Such a shame...Nigeria is in auto-reverse.

But why is only ipob Ranting and complain every time? please stop blame buhari for your predicament but you can blame jonathan because all the problem facing nigeria today was caused by pdp.

Unfortunately, even we the innocent ones who did not want change are forced to experience it.

Those who ensured that GEJ's tenure was devoid of peace shall never enjoy peace themselves

Aufbauh:
We thank God for cutting down the opponents 60 years of fake promises to 16 years.

I heard they said we are slow. Yes, we didn't campaign to be fire fighters, but planners and meticulous one at that.

Mr President you started well, you hit the ground running even though the ground was murky.

You promised Nigerians you will address security and your first meeting to ECOWAS was on security because we cannot fight alone. You have been to other places.

If they said it is a ludo, we will tell them it's a serious business.
If they forget G7 we will remind them.

We have faith in you Mr President.
We have faith in your capacity and uprightness.

We promise to continue be with you and support you no matter what they are saying we are not reruning the election until the next 4 years time.

Mr President your hands are on the plough and you'll succeed.

Zombie suffering and smiling! Still talking election instead of governance only buharists/apc goons see genuine citizens wailing as election lost! Wake up and smell the coffee.
Change is a scam!

johnmartus:
But why is only ipob Ranting and complain every time? please stop blame buhari for your predicament but you can blame jonathan because all the problem facing nigeria today was caused by pdp.

Go to an English school,pass and thereafter, you can make meaningful comments.

Good

Wealthy15:
Nigeria should go to God in prayers and ask Him for forgiveness,if they really want change,it's takes the grace of God for a nation or person to know that they are suffering because of their sins;until they do so they will suffer for long,their plague just started but they will not know now or believe it if they are ask now to quit their individual and national evil ways,Nigeria Repent And Live the life they all wants.

Silly nonsense.

What about first taking an audit of all the megatons of prayer power generated in Nigeria just over the past year alone ?

Repeating the same act over and over again , while expecting a different outcome each time is the clinical definition of insanity.

How long will silly Africans keep looking up to the empty sky to solve their self-inflicted problems.

tuniski:

Zombie suffering and smiling! Still talking election instead of governance only buharists/apc goons see genuine citizens wailing as election lost! Wake up and smell the coffee.
Change is a scam!

Better to be a 'zombie' suffering and smiling with longevity of life than to be an embittered specie wailing ceaselessly and senselessly with a possible short span of life.
Go figure out!

Aufbauh:


Better to be a 'zombie' suffering and smiling with longevity of life than to be an embittered specie wailing ceaselessly and senselessly with a possible short span of life.
Go figure out!

anytime you make sense,let me know!

naijaboy756:
anytime you make sense,let me know!

The truth is not for all men but for those who seek it with a sound mind.

Aufbauh:


The truth is not for all men but for those who seek it with a sound mind.

pls enlighten me! What is the truth? APC and this change we are experiencing? Abi all the lies told to deceive gullible Nigerians like you before the elections. May God forgive you!

A nation where you can be holy by jumping ship......Scam

APC r full of liars and decent, we Hv been scammed.I miss GEJ

johnmartus:
But why is only ipob Ranting and complain every time? please stop blame buhari for your predicament but you can blame jonathan because all the problem facing nigeria today was caused by pdp.

Your inability to construct good English was caused by PDP too right?
Go school, you no go, read, you no read. See your life....

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LRNZH:
Barcanista's alter ego is here o....
The Mala Kachalla affair.....
#PDPHouseOfHunger

cc: Modath

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Nonsense be ashamed of your old age