Politics Opinion - 4 Reasons Why Muhammadu Buhari May Fail As Nigeria's President

[mrsam]

Corrruption: President Buhari's agenda is to rid the counrty of corruption. But what he failed to realise is that corruption has eaten deep into the fabric of the Nigerian system. Even those that brought him to power did so allegedly from corrupt funds. You cannot go digging up your foundation and you keep standing.

His Cabinet: President Buhari took many months to select his cabinet. At the end, his choice of cabinet was disappointing. The finance minster is inexperienced, comminications minster clueless while the others got there due to their efforts during election. They lack merit.

Distractions form Ethnic and Religious Unrest: Religious tensions in the North, Biafra movement in the East, Fulani herdsmen wrecking havoc in the West, militancy in the South, these are unwanted distractions that President Buhari is facing currently which which are capable of derailing the plans he has for the country.

Oil Price: The success of any administration depends on how successfully its budgets are implemented. Nigeria's 2016 budget is based on a crude oil benchmark price of $38 per barrel but for some time, the price has oil has been spiralling downwards. Its latest resurgence is nothing to write home about. It remains to be seen how the budget would be implemented without money.

I am not wishing the president bad luck, but I don't see how he can succeed with the above problems.

 

[OneNigeriaPrince]

Hello, success is upon the citizens of the nation to ensure that their country does not fail. It is not the duty of President Buhari alone to ensure that programs in the Nation, Nigeria, succeeds. Tricks by some regionally minded individuals must be put to a halt; there are a few foxes in APC who will always use the disguise of corruption to steal money from the current government and claim that such sum of money was misappropriated during the Jonathan administration.

President Buhari should enforce some open door policy as well as some transparency into his administration. By February of 2017, President Buhari should open the doors for the so called EFCC to probe members of his (President Buhari's) administration from Chief Bola Tinubu, General Olusegun Obasanjo (his insatiable appetite for N1.5 billion loan for Otta Farm ... every year) to the Federal Ministers in his (President Buhari's) government. All those N500 million loans often granted by the Cnetral Bank to so called government agencies or parastatals or Directors ... all such disbursement of money should be opened up for investigations as to ascertain what was achieved from the money that was collected from Central bank or the 2016 budget.

Japan has no physically defined natural resources, except for their BRAINS and WATER, and yet they (Japan) are one of the most formidable economic powers of the world... number 3 to be precise (USA ... #1, China ...#2, Japan ... #3).

The onus of mentioning Japan is to iterate the fact that Nigerian's should start acquring and exercising scientific knowledge in all aspects of their (Nigerian) lives. We should refrain from the excesive reliance on tricks and generation of disaffection amongst our fellow citizens to "get-by" or "succeed".

Can any Nigerian imagine the fact that $732 million was being sent to Nigeria from General Abacha's "fund or bank account" ... what about Head of State Olusegun Obasanjo and President Olusegun Obasanjo(?) Sounds like Obasanjo never heard of a bank account(?)

Love and Peace to everyone.

Cheers!

 

[Kennemies]

This write up is based on sentiment and bias. Change is inevitable.