Michael Oluwagbemi II
It is almost six
months, half a year, since your administration assumed the mantle of office and
we’ve waited in bated breath for change that we were promised, and have watched
as change have died deaths by many strokes of accommodations.
*Buhari
First we got platitudes of how bad it was and
how short a period you had to understand your new job (discounting the fact
that you badly wanted it for twelve years, and held the same job before); then
we got feedback that you were looking for angels or that your body language did
the magic that woke moribund refineries, convinced crazed kleptomaniacs to
return looted funds and perhaps even rejuvenated national industries! Then it
was the ministerial wait. But alas, the latest pronouncement from you that
we’re broke is becoming quite to say the least unbecoming.
Sir, as an undying Buharist even before it became fashionable
(and I still think you’re miles better than the incompetent and clueless ruler
that we jettisoned for your person by miles), we expect and still expect better
from a General, a strategist and above all- a leader.
Leadership is first and foremost an inspiration game. You cannot
go to the three and half moribund refineries to engineer them back to life;
your honorable person cannot possibly get fitted into yellow suits as one thief
of yore did and inspect or facilitate the completion of Lagos-Ibadan,
Benin-Ore, Coastal Roads or the realization of high speed rail connecting Lagos
to Ibadan & Abuja, Second Niger Bridge or Fourth Mainland Bridge. What your
Excellency can do is to inspire Nigerians to rise above the current morass of mono-economy,
develop an attitude of revolutionaries and kick poverty in the butt!
