Dear President Jonathan,As I started
reading the transcript of your speech in
your flag off campaign for 2nd term in
office, my heart was gladdened to know
that the speech was directed to
Nigerian youths of which I am one. I must say that up to this time I decided
to read your manuscript I have heard a
lot of bad things that seemed true about
your government and hence had a poor
view of your time in office. It was only
after working hard to put my sentiments away and after listening to Oguntola
Adelowo, a colleague of mine who has
been preaching about you did I read
online the transcript of your
speech.When you said 'my speech is
directed to the youths, those who will be voting for the first time', I began to
doubt my earlier beliefs of you being
imcompetent and lacking a plan, I was
eager to hear from you what and how
you have worked tirelessly for my
generation in the past 6 years in office and also what you intend to do in the
next 4 years to consolidate your efforts.
Therefore sir, it came as a shock to me
that you spoke of everything but your
plans, you addressed every issue but
the germane ones that has so far affected my generation and is already
shaping out our future.Sir, I did what
you requested, I asked my father, a
middle-class citizen, who is 66 years old
now about Buhari's tenure and here was
his reply 'I remember those days, we had very stable electricity, youths didn't
fancy travelling abroad because they
felt they could get even better here, I
bought a carton of tin peak milk for
#1.20k, I could iron press my clothes
minutes to going out, fuel was sold for 50k per litre, corrupt people like umaru
dikko were jailed and killed, no minister
or government official could be accused
of corruption and resign only to run for
an higher office, and no public official
was alleged with fraud only to be seen on National T.V laughing in court' and
he ended by saying that during those
times, everyone knew the rules and tried
as much not to break the law but that
now the same laws made to protect the
average nigerian like him is what his used to oppress them and he concluded
by saying that there is no perfect
government and that though it was
military they enjoyed many good things
that our own generation may never
enjoy due to the high level of corruption in our government, except ofcourse
things change. Sir, in your speech you
spoke of building 12 federal universities,
yet the one I school in which is 30 years
old can not still provide enough sitting
stools for students. You speak of producing more megawatts, yet I rarely
have power supply to view many of the
interesting programs and football
matches shown on DSTV. You speak of
needing time to tackle insecurity, yet
you have had 6 years already, you fail to forget that Obama took down the
world's greatest terrorist in just 3 years.
You speak of fertilizer distribution, yet
we buy beans for #200 per derica from
#140 in 2010 when fertilizers where
stolen (I think I would prefer to have the fertilizer stolen and buy food cheaper
than now. You speak of improved
economy yet we buy fuel for #97 from
#65 (49.32% increase), beans for #200
from #140 (42.86% increase), housing
#200,000 from #120,000 (66.67% increase), transportation #50 from #30
(increase of 66.67%), Salary #18,000
from #15,000 (increase of 20%). Where
then is the improvement in Nigeria's
economy not to forget ther over 100%
increase in fees paid by tertiary institutions nationwide. Thank you for
admitting that your generation has
failed us, but my generations have
decided to do things differently, to
succeed where our fathers have failed;
to vote for a change in government. Thank you sir for serving us to the best
of your abilities sir, your lack of
confidence to focus on your plans for us
within the next for years during your
speech has betrayed my generations
trust in you.Please ensure our votes count as we intend to have a landslide
victory on Feburary 14th.I am a Nigerian