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Prof Michael Ogueke.

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“Buhari battled two recessions, battled a world wide total crash in the price of crude oil, battled total disruption of oil production by militants from 2.3 million barrels to less than 800,000 b/pd, battled insecurities all over Nigeria & battled the mother of all economic, financial, health & social crisis — Covid 19 — a world wide pandemic that shut the world down for over 7 months.

Yet, throught out these unprecedented difficult periods, Buhari kept prices of food, fuel, goods & services relatively down & stable. Even during the Covid 19 period that the world shut down for over 7 months, Buhari kept local production running & there was no shortage of rice, food staples, fuel, & general goods. He kept the value of the naira relatively reasonable & stable in all this period while at the same time steadily increasing our foreign reserves & meeting up with Nigeria’s debt obligations without blaming PDP for the $67 billion debt they left for him. In these periods of total collapse in the price of crude, disruption of oil production by militants from over 2.3 million barrels a day to less than 800,000 barrels a day: yes, in these periods of two recessions & Covid 19, he never owed workers a single dime & rather increased the minimum wage from 18k to 30k. In this most difficult time, Buhari lifted the over 10 years embargo on federal employment, recruited regularly & increased the salaries of policemen, soldiers & teachers more than twice. He also paid heaps of salaries, allowances & pension arrears owed workers. He equally gave state governments hundreds of billions of naira to clear the ones owed state workers. In the same vein, Buhari cleared the severance benefits owed thousands of workers of sold or liquidated government companies by his predecessors.
During the over 7 months worldwide Pandemic lockdown, Buhari delivered the biggest palliative & relief emergencies this country & Africa have ever seen & paid workers to stay at home throughout this period.

In all these economic crisis, two recessions, world wide crash in the price of crude oil & sponsored insecurity all over Nigeria, Buhari kept prices of food, fuel & consumer goods relatively low & stable, invested trillions into local production of food, vehicles, pharmaceuticals & general manufactured goods that saw the country sustained by local production throughout the Covid 19 world wide lockdown.

He equally delivered against all these odds the biggest agricultural revolution & investment in agric & agro allied industries (fertilizer, chemicals, machinery, irrigation, etc) this country has ever seen.

He delivered against all these odds the biggest social intervention & poverty alleviation schemes (NPower, trader-moni, Conditional Cash Transfer etc) that this country has ever seen.

Against all these odds, Buhari delivered the biggest infrastructural revolution (roads, magnificent multi billion dollars bridges, magnificent airports, railways, power projects, housing projects in all the 36 states of the federation, water & irrigation projects, as well as infrastructures in education, health & human capital development etc) this country has ever seen.

Against crushing economic crisis, Buhari delivered the biggest funding, recruitment, training in the military this country has ever seen as well as the biggest investments in the purchase of first class military equipments in the army, navy & airforce in addition to the establishment of new first class military formations, facilities & military industrial complexes all over Nigeria.”

Again, tell me about your expectations and your own achievements. Talk is cheap. We have willful amnesia.
BUHARI REALLY FAILED?

“Buhari is a failure,” but please who has done more roads and bridges than this Gov’t since the coming of democracy in 1999?

Let’s deal with facts as we move on…

“Buhari is a failure,” but can you tell me any administration that has done more housing projects since 1999 than this Gov’t?

Maybe #StatiSense can help us here!

“Buhari is a failure,” but before Buhari, Boko Haram was having a caliphate in Borno. You needed scanners to screen people in banks and churches. Suicide bombing was a norm, is it still the same today? The NW & NC won’t be different, they will collect too. Considerable success has been made in the North-East as a whole, & even the blind knows that, except the ‘politically blind’. Nothing is insurmountable, we will win in the NW & NC too either now or next admin.

But PMB has laid that foundation already with arms acquisition.

“Buhari is a failure,” but there was a time in this country where the farmers-herders clash became a National problem, and a clout chasing topic. But this same “failed” Gov’t designed the NLTP, and today, has that not minimized? Why are we not talking about this?

“Buhari is a failure,” but since the time of the military days, no President has equipped the Army, Airforce and Navy simultaneously like this administration. It is a fact!

You can also “Go and Verify!”

“Buhari is a failure,” but how many cancer centers were in Nigeria before this failure came, and how many do we have now? Lagos, Umuahia and Kano has world class Cancer Centers today.

How do you measure failure? 🙄

“Buhari is a failure,” but since the war that ended in 1970, it took this failure to recognize the Biafra Army and Police who fought during that war, and even pay their pension and emoluments accrued to them all these years.

Failure?

“Buhari is a failure,” but it took the ‘failure’ to build the Zik Mausoleum after years of neglect; recognizing M.K.O Abiola as a President that he should have been, & awarding him all that is due to him as an ex-President, and even declaring June 12, our democracy day.

“Buhari is a failure,” but this failure has brought reforms into Governance system like implementing IPPIS and TSA for more accountability, even when these 2 has been existing for years before this Gov’t.

“Buhari is a failure,” for having a “rubber stamp” NASS that has passed more important bills that affects the life of every Nigerians, than any Gov’t or NASS has ever done in Nigeria. Every bill has been a huge reforms in all sector — from Energy to electoral reforms.

“Buhari is a failure,” for paying pensioners your “letter writer” & his Vice sold the companies they were working & forced to quit their jobs with no emolument whatsoever.

Go & tell the workers of ALSCON, Delta Steel, NICON, Nigeria Airways, NAHCO, etc that Buhari failed na.

“Buhari is a failure,” but we were only having an unfinished Abuja-Kaduna rail when he took over — he finished it. Now, we have Lagos-Ibadan, Warri-Itakpe, PH-Maiduguri (under construction), Kaduna-Kano (under construction), and he’s a failure? Issokay!

“Buhari is a failure,” but where was ProForce, DICON, NAVMC? While DICON was existing, what were they producing? Today, we have these companies bringing our hardwares for our military like never seen before in this country — and Buhari has taken us back to 1900? 😂😂 If the environment was not created, or Buhari failed, will ProForce be in Nigeria today? Why didn’t they come to Nigeria when Nigeria was in 2050? Would Innoson have been producing parts for our military today? “Buhari failed” kee u dia!

“Buhari is a failure,” but what was the state of our General and Specialist hospitals before this Gov’t came? This Gov’t has not only digitalize them, they have renovated and equipped many. Didn’t we see videos where people’s parents looted money for hospital equipments? Are they the Gov’t? 🙄
The children of the CMD of that hospital in PH and his cohorts that were trying to divert the N900mn Gov’t intervention, they are also here calling their “father” a failure. Hypocrites!

“Buhari is a failure,” but before he came, I remember celebrities doing videos to mock our Int’l airport. In one instance, 2face did a video at the Kotoka Int’l Airport to mock 🇳🇬. We’ve all forgotten all that today, because “Buhari has taken us to 1896” with better airports.

“Buhari is a failure,” but he fought the DISCOS your ‘crooked’ lovers sold our electricity to, and today we are having our DISCOS back one after the other, while SIEMENS deal is bringing that much needed electricity we’ve been yearning for all these years. It’s real, it’s verifiable. If that is what failure looks like, I want to be a failure everyday.

“Buhari is a failure,” but before this Gov’t, piracy on our waters was alarming. Insurance on goods from abroad were in the thousands of $$. This Gov’t investment on our NAVY & NIMASA simultaneously has made our waters one of the safest in the world today. Is this failure?

“Buhari is a failure,” but his Gov’t has promoted “Made in 🇳🇬” goods more than any since 1999. Executive Order was even signed to that effect, & today the benefit can only be well put in words by our farmers (grains & livestocks), manufacturers (Innoson, Nord etc). Failure?

“Buhari is a failure,” but his Gov’t was the first to give some Universities uninterrupted power supply by providing them solar electricity. BUK—Kano, FUAM—Makurdi, UDUS—Sokoto, FUNAI—Ebonyi, and UniMAID (almost completed). You call this failure?

“Buhari is a failure,” but we only had an Apapa & TinCan port before he came — today, Onne & Calabar ports are receiving cargos under his administration. Onitsha Port has just been concessioned. Let’s not even talk about the State ports coming up, like Lekki, Badagry & Ibom. Are we really back to 1924? 🤔

“Buhari is a failure,” but before this ‘failure,’ nobody was bold enough to establish a refinery in Nigeria. Common modular refinery, how many was in Nigeria before this ‘failure’ came? We have modular refineries in Imo, Bayelsa, Edo, and even Delta now.

Dangote and BUA are building refineries, while the PH refinery is being totally turned into a brand new one, but Buhari failed, and Nigeria is now in 1740?

What is your definition of failure? How has not being able to end insecurity turned to failure? How has inflation that is a global phenomenon became the indices to measure failure? Can the Gov’t do better economically and security wise? Of course they can.

Can only 1 Gov’t solve the whole problem in Nigeria? No, of course not. But we must look at where we were coming from, the resources that was available then and now, the pandemic and global economic downturn should be factored in too, if you’re being open minded.

Insecurity can never end in a society, they come in different ways, the only thing is to have a Gov’t that can respond to them as they come.

This Gov’t has done it’s best and we must acknowledge that, while also pointing out where they didn’t met expectations. Using blanket statements like “Buhari has failed” is trying to be politically blind and deaf. Yes, I said it!