As The Broom Turns Nigeria Into A “Fantastically Corrupt” Nation!----Integrity Group

---Buhari is incapable of providing leadership, He was not prepared for leadership----Aribisala

---Buhari has denied all the promises he made during his campaigns…….NANS

----Buhari makes empty promises when N374.00 exchanges for a dollar…NLC

-----APC has married out the Chibok Girls hence he has no clue as to their whereabout

-----Buhari should disclose his health status….Ayo Fayose

-----Buhari should disclose How Much Money he has recovered…Serving Governors

-----Buhari should Resign now before it is too late------Tinubu

----APC operates the worst economy in 43 years; they have wrecked the Economy

---Buhari, Stop Blaming Jonathan for your ineptitude……Murray Bruce

----All APC States have Sacked Civil Servants; that is what they meant by Job creation

-----Buhari is the worst Nightmare Nigeria has ever had------Cardinal John Onayiken

----Nigeria’s economy is Bad, We need an Economic Summit-----Wole Soyinka

----Buhari does not understand the workings of the Economy-----Prof. Pat Utomi

----Buhari has spent $5.8 billion on meaningless Foreign Trips

----Bauhari has not been able to pass the National Budget because it was padded

----Northern APC pass a Vote of “No Confidence” on Buhari

----Cattle –Rearers are now Boko Haram who kill and go without being prosecuted

---- Buhari has not made any economic Policy apart from importing grasses from Brazil

----Buhari is a liability to the Nigerian State ------Cardinal John Onayikan

----APC is Broke……..APC National Chairman

----Bayelsa APC suspends Chief Timipre Sylva
----APC is a House Divided Against Itself
---Kogi State Governor appoints PDP members because he has no confidence in APC

----Jonathan did not teach me how to run the nation……President Buhari

APC has failed Nigerians, Buhari should be impeached………NBA

During the foreign exchange palaver, the CBN Governor Emefiele admitted that President Buhari and wife bought dollars directly from the CBN at the rate of N197.00 Naira and re-sold the dollar for N374.00. Initially so many people regarded it as wretched piece of propaganda.

We were wrong when the President himself was quoted as saying that his children could school abroad because he could afford the foreign exchange, and that those who could not afford it should keep their children in Nigeria. Then it occurred to me that the broom revolution had collapsed. If the President of Nigeria could make a statement like that then Nigeria is finished. That was when the broom revolution was about nine months old.

Britain also alleged that under President Buhari’s watch as President, $42 billion had been fleeced away from NNPC. The Presidency and the massive media apparatus in Aso Rock could not honour Nigeria with a paragraph of rebuttal, tacitly confirming that the allegation is true, especially with Buhari as the Petroleum Minister.

Here and there we could notice visible cracks of division in APC already, and a faction of APC has vehemently called for the resignation of President Buhari because according to them, he lacks the capacity to govern. When ill-health is added to lack of capacity, the result can only be disastrous, so it is with APC.

Nigeria is now a tale of unmitigated disaster such that a colonizing power – Britain could describe Nigeria as “fantastically corrupt”. But why not? Buhari’s anti-corruption was is a political vendetta, as only PDP people are being prosecuted. Buhari can unashamedly investigate the campaign funds of PDP but has said nothing about the APC. Crooks in APC are now being beatified while everybody of worth in PDP is persecuted. Under X-President Jonathan, PMS sold for N86.50 per litre and now the President has officially announced that PMS is N145.00 per litre

From what we have seen so far, what President Buhari actually meant by Change is that he would change his military uniform and put on agbada which comes in different colours; he never promised to change his dictatorial and tyrannical style of leadership. Most of his decisions are unilateral, with little or no consultation and often titrated to favour sectional interest. The interesting thing is that Buhari has not bothered about laying the foundations of the administration that would change Nigeria. Buhari is still obsessed with the ills of the Jonathan administration and by so doing, he is making Jonathan’s image loom larger. Boko Haram is riding roughshod and the bombs are dropping more frequently. More and more innocent Nigerians are abbreviated. The APC Apostle of change appears not to be bothered. Indeed we have entered the era of change in the negative retrogressive direction. Sometimes, one begins to ask; what manner of change is APC bringing to Nigeria? Is it the Zaria massacre that is the change or the Shiite Sunni division leading to killings in parts of the North? Is it the change in the price of Petrol kerosene from N50.00 to N85.00 which Nigerians buy in pains? Under the nose of APC, almost all MNCs are sacking their workers, the few investors the past administration brought in are on the run; the banking industry is embarking on massive downsizing, even private companies are sacking because they cannot afford to pay workers, yet electricity tariffs are jacked-up and this is likely to precipitate a nationwide protest. That is APC’s model of creating jobs. Laughable!

The South-South produces the budget of the Country but the North has contributed so much by sponsoring Boko Haram, a human hyena that has sucked the blood of innocent men, women and Children. I see reasons with Buhari for over-compensating the North. What is more, he has declared Amnesty for Boko Haram yet Boko Haram has not stopped killing. The reason is simple: Boko Haram – is like the donation of Northern Nigeria to the nation. What a horrible donation my Countrymen?

Nigeria is basking in the euphoria of a brand new APC President Muhammad Buhari has been sworn-in at the Centre and many Governors who are newly elected was sworn in more than two months ago. For now, the dominant Party is the APC. President Jonathan handed over power to Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, and Nigerians will certainly hold the new administration to its campaign promises. In sharp contrast to the President’s inaugural speech, the appointments made so far show that Buhari is implementing a policy of Northernization as change mantra.

After President Buhari” gave his speech, I was intrigued by three things. First, he lampooned the murderous outfit called Boko Haram, which hitherto had appointed him a spokesman when the terrorists group founded on the basis of Islamic fundamentalism, The General said” Members of the BokoHarm are not true muslins,; they are criminals. True to type, as the President Buhari is now working hard to dissociate himself from the dreaded terrorist group, but before now, he was appointed spokesman and his reaction was on the affirmative. He never reneged the colony of those who relished in bloodletting, killing, maiming and kidnapping.

The second thing the general mentioned was the accolade he gave President Jonathan. This is a pace setting acknowledgment that former President Jonathan was courageous enough to concede defeat even before the Presidential elections were announced. This action is unprecedented in the history of Nigeria – a reason most people are won’t to think that the real hero of democracy in this Republic is former President Jonathan. President Jonathan is not some Robert Mugabe who is life President. He understands the realities. This appears to have given succor to the Niger Delta especially Bayelsa State where the President’s performance was less than edifying, and several questions must be asked especially those who served as contractors and aides to former President Jonathan. What is important is that we sent out a Jonathan and he played his part as a democrat, and for that we are grateful.

What is perhaps the crescendo of the general’s speech was his acknowledgement of the role of the Social Media. I could recall that Buhari mentioned the Social Media thrice as the driver of the elections and a catalyst of open government. True, the Social Media has even gone beyond what general Buhari adumbrated; it is not a significant determinant of elections and other national issues.

Again Buhari’s assertion that he is for nobody and for everybody kept Tinubu and his cabal frowning. That is expected because the general brainless as he may seem, understands the Yoruba agenda, and he is most likely to truncate it before the barons move against him. That is the nature of leadership. A good leader should be for everybody and for nobody. This is Buhari’s highest expression of patriotism for Nigeria. My prayer is that his principal appointments should not also bring in people who have records of corruption. Corruption is deadlier than denge fever and most of the appointees should be drawn from the technocrats. Now, Nigerians know that Buhari used APC as a ladder to climb to the Presidency to serve himself and a few other Northers.

Buhari’s move that the military formation should be moved to Maiduguiri has been given two interpretations because of his earlier assertion to Islamize Nigeria. One interpretation is to fund Boko Haram to decimate the Nigerian military. Another interpretation is to really wage a war against Boko Haram. In either cases, the peace Buhari said he would make in a very short time is in doubt. I had thought the President might have done his homework on how to annihilate the access of evil and keep Nigeria peaceful. He gave the military a deadline that is not realistic. Again, Buhari cannot distinguish between conventional warfare and insurgency.

For now, the most knotty challenge to Nigerian’s is the chaotic state of our economy. Without recourse to the experience of professional economists, Nigerians are aware that Nigeria’s over-dependency on crude oil is one of the age-long challenges we must overcome. The responsibility of the APC government is to diversify the economy. Our over-reliance on crude oil has led to wide spread peculation. It has also turned Nigeria into a perpetual consumer nation, with a no-grow index in almost all other sectors of the economy. True, the President Jonathan administration made enormous progress in Agriculture and power, but the economic fifth columnists daily wreak havoc to the economy.

Since April 2014, the price of crude oil started to fluctuate and it nosedived to even less than $30 USD. As at November 2014, the price of our only source of revenue plummeted to an all-time low. It was like a hurricane that swept across Nigeria, making it difficult for so many States to foot their statutory obligations of paying salaries. The situation has not changed for the better. Nigeria may be undergoing her economic meltdown and we have a lesson or two to learn on diversification of the economy. The 2016 budget is one based on loans, so Nigerians have started owing before they begin to spend the money. Buhari promised to create jobs but now there are conspicuous signals that there would be massive job losses in 2016 in the Universities, financial institutions and other MDAs and corporate institutions.

Surely, Nigeria’s crude oil deposited in the Nigeria Delta belongs to all Nigerians but the solid mineral resources we find in all parts of Nigeria belong to where they are situated. It is injustice but we are watching. Now the Nigerians know that if the production of crude oil stops, we shall have no budget and invariable the concept of ONE NIGERIA will be called to question. Our economy is certainly not based on revenues from carrots, cows, onions and beans.

Amidst this inequality, the North has produced about 98% of those who have messed up the coffers of the nation. Some of them now wear the toga of statesmen, but why not, with the huge monies they rack in to their offshore accounts through their oil blocks. I must acknowledge that some of these leaders are benevolent enough to use part of their loots to sponsor politically-induced insurgency. Today, not even Buhari and the new administration can stop the menace. The Boko Haram they invented may eventually consume them. For the six years President Jonathan was in power he ran a war economy- an economy that bought more arms than built more hospitals, rehabilitated more orphans than built more schools for the almajiris.

The frustration is such that youths in the North are reported to be burning down the houses of Senators. In the colony of leaders, we have those who are visionary but cannot work hard enough to actualize their visions. There are those who fly on the wings of courage, vision and inspiration and being audacious, they fulfill even higher goals. The Niger Delta Youths “Avengers” have been tempted to go back to the trenches because of Buhari’s inability to fulfil his promises.

The Amnesty Programme is poorly funded. The Maritime University at Okerenkoko is at the point of being scrapped. Most of the people-oriented projects initiated by the Jonathan administration are being abandoned. Ninety (90%) of oil blocks have been cornered by Northerners.

I trust that if these conditions are violated, Buhari’s administration may be running a war economy on two fronts: from the dry arid sahel region to the oil-rich Niger Delta on another. We can avoid this war economy by keeping the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs, NDDC and allow the Amnesty Programme to run. All these palliatives are to douse the potentially explosive situation in the Niger Delta, which of course will not stop a more comprehensive vehement agitation for total resource control or fiscal federalism. It’s 25% derivation or nothing as recommended by the NATIONAL CONFAB. Sadly, Buhari has not given even a casual attention to the aforementioned issues. He dreams corruption, talks corruption, chases corruption but there is a list of most Corrupt Nigerians given to him but he has done nothing with the G-7 list. Most of them are in Buhari’s Cabinet. Sadly, Buhari’s cabinet id inundated with corrupt people and he is very happy working with them.

While Buhari is hounding the OBOTE MEN, the mistakes of ex-President Jonathan are becoming more conspicuous. The South-South is mourning as their sons take turns to visit Kuje prisons on allegations of corruption. The most buffeting is the fact that Boko Haram killings have increased, insecurity is becoming more and more intense, the famed #chibokgirls mystery is yet to be unraveled, the Cabinet has not been constituted and hope appears to be fading even among the stubbornly optimistic. Buhari’s only wisdom is to appoint Northerners and he does not think of Nigeria, let alone moving the country forward. It appears the PDP was right when they said the APC just needed power for its own sake; the members do not know what it takes to entrench good governance. Senator Tinubu just confirmed that when he said APC was just formed to take power from President Jonathan. Nigerians are compelled to watch President Buhari as he implements a pro-North and anti-Niger Delta agenda.

About a year into the Buhari administration, the judiciary has been turned up-side-down. All election petitions must favour the APC even though evidences are to the contrary.

Not even one of the 81 promises made by Buhari during his campaign has been fulfilled. In politics, promises are like debts and when they are not fulfilled then one can say that it is fraud. Most Nigerians may be praying that the price of crude oil should diminish to $10 p/b for that is the only way Nigeria can think of investment in Agriculture and embrace industrialization. By any known standard, Buhari as a primitive feudalistic hegemon, bereft of ideas and who is intent on taking Nigeria back to the Stone Age.

I disagree because he addresses the United Nations and promises to fight corruption but the fight against corruption is not only lopsided but criminally conducted. If it were not so why will Buhari not declare how much he has recovered from corrupt Nigerians? Prof. Pat Utomi has conceded that we are on the slippery slope and I can agree no less. Buhari still acts like a tyrant. He has forgotten that we are in a democratic rule. President Buhari is too archaic to administer a modernizing State. The President rules the nation with the rule of the thumb. To hell with that wretched broom of infamy! How the hell has the broom transformed Nigeria into a “fantastically corrupt nation in so short a period? APC has duped the collective conscience of the Nation.

John Idumange is Deputy President, Niger Delta Integrity Group

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