It’s not exactly on the mark yet, but it
would be on September 5. President
Muhammadu Buhari will be 100 days in
office and the question will be, what has
he done for us lately? From what I hear,
the president is not a huge fan of this 100 days business. He is aware that he is expected to
perform the biblical equivalent of feeding
180 million people with five loaves and
two fish but I guess he is also
uncomfortable with being taken hostage
by popular milestones. Yet, there are at least two reasons why
he cannot escape it this time. One, since
former US president, Franklin Delano
Roosevelt, tried to save America from
the Great Depression with remarkable
work done in his first 100 days in office, that record has become a common
standard by which public officers are
judged. Two, shortly before the presidential
election in March, a document, said to be
Buhari’s 100 day covenant with voters,
was widely circulated and taken to be,
well, Buhari’s covenant. It has turned out
that it is not. The document, which covered nearly
everything – from corruption to insecurity
and the Niger Delta, and from agriculture
to diversity and a promise to publicly
declare his assets – was neither issued
by Buhari nor signed by him. But since it has taken nearly 100 days
for this to come to light, a disclaimer
would be even more embarrassing as we
have seen with the assets issue. So, he is stuck. A combination of history
and accident compels us to ask the
question, what has happened in 100
days? If the spokesperson of the opposition
PDP, Oliseh Metuh, were in the room,
your guess is as good as mine what his
response would be. He would say it’s been a 100 days of
witch-hunt, flip-flop and motion without
movement. This response would be
consistent with the excerpt from a
popular online diary kept for former
President Goodluck Jonathan by his supporters when he travelled briefly out
of the country in July. The diary, under the heading, “While you
were away,” gave the ridiculous
impression that the country was missing
Jonathan so badly it was on the verge of
collapse. While he was away, Boko
Haram had seized half of the country. While he was away, Buhari bailed out
some states despite complaining of an
empty treasury. While he was away,
Buhari launched a massive witch-hunt
against those who served in the last
administration. It was pure Fayosespeak. In the last 100 days, Buhari has dealt
with a few issues rather awkwardly: the
flip-flop on a few high level appointments;
the delay in key appointments – for
which the Barack Obama example was
an incorrect reference, and the poor handling of the sharing of offices in his
party, which has had a knock-on effect
on pace and cohesion. Yet, the while-you-were-away diary
couldn’t have been for anyone who lived
in the country in the last 16 years of the
Peoples Democratic Party during which
Jonathan was here as deputy governor,
governor, vice president, acting president and president. It would be dishonest to assess the last
100 days without taking into account
what happened in the last 16 years under
PDP, especially the five on Jonathan’s
watch. The former president came to power
under very difficult circumstances and a
number of the serious problems he
inherited, including widespread
kidnappings, decaying infrastructure and
Boko Haram, predated him. But the problems also presented
opportunities. His predecessor, Umaru Yar’Adua, had
laid the foundation for peace in the Niger
Delta, curtailing years of violence that
had reduced oil production by nearly 50
percent; the power sector reform was
confused but redeemable, as were the institutions charged with fighting
corruption. To top off his luck, crude oil prices
remained at around $100 for four straight
years. Confidence in the economy grew
and the foreign reserves peaked at
$46billion in 2013. Jonathan seized his
spell of luck – or, more correctly, allowed his cronies to seize it – but not for lifting
the burdens of the millions who voted
him into office and the country that
looked up to him for service. Instead, he stretched his luck almost
exclusively for a presidency of five and a
half, comprising four women, some
cowboys and the rest of us. The result is that, by the time we were rid
of him in May, he left behind a country
robbed to a strand of hair and fighting for
its very life. It’s fair to argue that Buhari should – or
ought to – have known what he was
asking for. Why did he come to the party
unprepared? This argument
underestimates the shock, fear and
desperate response of Jonathan’s government when it became clear that
the administration was finally on its way
out. In those final days, the modus
operandi in everything, including the
transition programme, became ‘whatever
cannot be made difficult must be obfuscated’. Still, some progress has been made in
100 days. Terror attacks have not abated
significantly, but for the first time in
years, we have in place a government
that is serious and determined to win the
war. That message is resonating with our soldiers in the frontlines and our
neighbours and partners in the war. Power supply has improved remarkably.
On the day of Buhari’s inauguration, the
total power generated in the country was
3,155 megawatts. It was 4,067.1
megawatts on Monday. And in-between
both values a new peak generation of 4,545 megawatts was recorded on July
7. The improvements have more to do
with a change in attitude than anything
else. Impunity is in regress, confidence is
growing and thieves are running even
when no one’s chasing them – yet.
These may be small, small steps but a
feeling of confidence, of knowing that
there is someone in charge, is crucial to long-term success. Bishop Mathew Hassan Kukah has been
getting the stick for reportedly saying
that, for stepping down, Jonathan should
get a free ride even if he and his friends
stole all the money. That was a mistimed
hyperbole. Stealing was not just a small part of the
16 years of PDP; it was the overriding
purpose of government, which reached
its golden era in the last five years. In contemplating the last 100 days, the
point for me is not whether Buhari has
done anything at all; it is that we have
been saved the utterly disastrous
prospect of another four years of
Jonathan. That is not just Buhari’s greatest
achievement; it’s our collective
redemption song.

nothing except for chronic propaganda.

First 100days in office, Buhari's achievements are:
1. Visits 6countries to increase allowee since salary had been halved.
2. Sack Heads of MDAs and replace them with his cronies without recourse to NASS nor constitutional provisions
3. He is the Minister-in-Chief of the FGN
4. Has not visited the NASS nor allow the Senate Leadership to visit him, ostensibly because his preferred and anointed was not allowed
5. Over 70% of his appointees are northeners
6. His brother says the Southeast can secede if they feel shortchanged
7. They are no angels nor saints to be appointed as ministers in Nigeria.
8. The NASS had been rendered useless by party politics.

He is looking for stolen money that he will never find.

Nothing.

BH is still killing.

Pump prize of pms is yet to become 40 naira.
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All we hear is probe, probe, prpaganda, lies.
And to think that the hypocrites are using propaganda to give pmb a pass mark.

K