An emerging scenario has shown President Muhammadu Buhari, engrossed in fighting “corruption” via the critically acclaimed “body language” while the economy is grinding to a halt right smack in the midst of what has become known as a “conspiracy of silence.”
As Nigerians groan under the weight of a failed economy accessioned by insecurity, fuel scarcity, the nose diving Naira, pro-Biafra protests and flagrant flouting of court orders, Buhari has jetted out to Tehran, Iran, to participate in the Gas Exporting Countries Forum, GECF, which started on Monday November 23, 2015.
His previous trips abroad have been fraught with statements that have “demarketed” Nigeria as it were, without providing solutions that ought to cut down the myriad of problems staring the country squarely right now.
The Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Resources, Ibe Kachikukwu, who is part of the presidential entourage to Tehran did not make any concrete step to address the lingering problem of fuel scarcity but is currently with his boss in the Middle East.
Scarcity of Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, otherwise known as petrol, hit major cities in Nigeria as long queues of vehicles continue to form a huge part of the nation’s visual description.
Some independent marketers have claimed there is no product available for sale while some have sold at the rate of N200 per litre rather than the official pump price of N87.
The two arms of the National Assembly have already debunked claims from both Petroleum Ministers saying the President sent a proposal approving the payment of N413bn in subsidy arrears to marketers as a way of averting the impending doom.
Both the Green and Red Chambers barely came short of accusing the President of lying. So who is telling the truth?
Buhari who during his inaugural speech on May 29, promised to make security his top priority has remained largely mute following a succession of bombings.
A large blast that ripped through a busy mobile phone market in Nigeria’s biggest northern city, Kano, just a day after more than 30 were killed in the northeast city of Yola, Adamawa is becoming all to common a sight to behold.
Again on Monday November 23, 2015 Boko Haram members struck in Maiduguri. There was no message from the President condoling with families of the affected but there was at least one message of another kind from him.
Buhari wasted no time in sharing in the grief of losing a key member of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Audu Abubakar who unexpectedly passed away on Sunday.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with paying respect to the dead but as a President of the living much more is surely expected.
Buhari had never visited the IDP camps after assuming office apart from the stopover he made in one of the camps in Adawawa en route former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar’s daughter wedding.
Power supply has dipped immensely nationwide and this is barely weeks after appointing Babatunde Fashola as a “Super Minister” as several excited Nigerians had called him.
More jobs are being lost and the nation faces a period of more questions than concrete answers. Buhari has always enjoyed a considerable amount of goodwill but with even that dwindling, his change mantra remains threatened.
Many expect more answers than what the President’s three pronged oracles Lai Mohammed, Garba Shehu and Femi Adesina have offered in recent weeks.
Insecurity = Unlook Judicial Reforms = Unlook Power = unlook Economy = Unlook Fuel Scarcity = Unlook
— Emmanuel (@emma_dele)November 24, 2015
Six months in is perhaps too early for Nigerians to begin to doubt their choice of voting in change. Dividends of democracy as promised remains the expectation not what resembles a well calculated conspiracy of silence.
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