Tragedies Of Buhari Presidency

By Ominabo Wealth Dickson

Nigeria is a nation of many ills: recession, impending famine, dearth of justice, political betrayals and humanitarian crisis.  President Muhammadu Buhari, the man of hope and great expectation, is undoubtedly betraying hope. Morning by morning, he leads Nigeria to economic hardship, he beams to the nation light of no rays, he feeds the citizens with meal of lacks, sings to them daily from the songs of lamentations and narrates to Nigerians tall tales of unseen achievements. His sweetest rhetoric is perhaps his ability to deploy many fallacies in attempting to justify his inability to meet with public expectation.

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With inflation hitting 18 percent, economic analysts suggest that the nation’s economic woes are intrinsically linked to the lack of economic direction by the government of the day. Worse still, is the administration’s confusion on economic measures to address the financial hardship in the nation. It is a government of many mouths. In the night, the government tells you it wants to sell the country’s assets but in the morning, it will tell you again that it wants to borrow from agencies to address the country’s economic crisis; the same government comes up again in the afternoon to inform the masses that through its financial prudence, it has been able to save enough money by blocking leakages and recovering looted funds that will meet the social needs of the populace. Which voice would the masses believe?

It has been tales of confusions, contradictions and tragedies of errors since President Buhari came to power.  At one point it was the tragedy of the other room, at some other time it was the error of double speaking, and in many instances it is a tale of confusion and contradiction coming from the President and his team. If Nigerians would permit the ignorance of the President in not knowing the difference between Western Germany and Germany, Nigerians find it insulting that their leader would err in spelling his own name.  In his correspondence to the Nigerian Senate on October 7, 2016,  praying the Senate to confirm  two supreme court justices, the President mistakenly spelt his name as Muhammdu ( instead of Muhammadu) Buhari.  Nigeria also has had reasons to question the President in time past when the President wrote a letter to the National Assembly last year and it was wrongly dated as October, 2016 instead of 2015.

There is hardly anything that the President does that is not characterized with some measures of errors and mediocrity. His public speeches have been subject of many errors and embarrassment, the reality is that the President started with errors and will likely to end his administration with errors. These traces of mediocrity have continued to manifest in all actions of the President. It is on record that President Buhari presided over the most controversial national budget in the history of Nigeria. The 2015 national budget was so erroneous, that it was reported that most ministries just photocopied the budget of the previous year. Yes, no one is attempting to envisage a state of perfection by the President and his team but avoidable errors should as the name suggests be avoided.