I realised that the expectation of our people is as high as their commitment to change has been strong and their believe in us unshaken. While we pledge to begin doing our best without delayed, we will like to appeal to them to appreciate the gravity of our situation so that we become more realistic in our expectation.
President Muhammadu Buhari
A problem known they said is half way solved. The fact is President Buhari knows the bundle of expectation on his administration, but still didn’t say the problems are insurmountable and all that he asked from us was to be realistic in our expectations. And the only way for us to be realistic, is to accept the fact that Nigeria i in shambles and at the verge of collapsing from PDP mismanagement and ‘deliberate’ destruction. Everything good in the country was grounded to a halt, only corruption, insecurity, impunity, unemployment and the rest thrived.
The fact that presidency has recognised the effort of ‘social media change agents’ in its victory at the poll, does not mean their work has ended after mobilising people to vote for change but it should be extended in creating awareness to citizens that change is not an event but a process that doesn’t come at once but takes a very long time for it to be sustainable. All hands must be on deck if really our wishes for change is not temporary. Destruction can be anyone’s cup of water but repairing it or building a new structure is not anybody’s cup of water. Therefore it will not take anything for anyone to caused damage but it will required passion and commitment for somebody to correct such damages.
The president and his team worried so much about ending Boko Haram without knowing vested interest are busy trying to ignite a social problem called ‘Change Haram’. They used every available means in spreading rumour of employment opportunities to the teaming unemployment youths, salary increment or deduction to under employed/under paid staff and making unrealistic promises to Nigerians in the name of change administration and people oriented budget of 2016. They are doing it with sole aim of casting doubt on citizen’s minds and hoping to change their good perception on President’s willingness in delivering us from the current economic instability, security quagmires and moral decadence that are hindering our country from its hitherto forecasted greatness.
God forbid, but If President Muhammadu Buhari fail to meet expectations of a common man, his failure will not be for himself or APC but of all well meaning politicians as per as Nigerian politics is concerned. PMB get this mandate not because of any sentimental reasons rather than his proven integrity as anti corruption crusader. If a man of his calibre did not get it right, Nigerians will doubt if there will be any human among the nation patriots that will ever get it done in the next hundreds years to come. Nigerians didn’t believes APC are far better than PDP when it comes to party policy or Ideology, all they did was to experiment those that were once tested with power and performed relatively okay.
The task before us is more urgent because there is only but a limited time before impatience on the part of the public blends with resistance from vested interests and dilutes the national consciousness for change. Let us embark on awareness campaign and ensures we change our attitude in line with the change administration. Neither APC nor Buhari can change Nigeria without our collective support. We make PMB a leader in our midst and APC a governing party in Nigeria, let’s make the change possible to ourselves and posterity.
Sabiu Zaranda from Bauchi
@binzaranda on twitter.
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