Enlightened and progressive societies elect and select their best into governance positions. Governance is at the heart of development, economic growth and the enhancement of the living standards of any nation. It is about taking the heat off the people; as a result, anyone who is not ready for the heat has no business in the kitchen section of the house – the governance section. The extent and level of good governance are linked with the adherence of the government to a rule-based system of policy formulation and implementation and engagement of the populace to ensure success of projects and programmes.

Nigerians went to the polls in March and April 2015 to elect new governments at the federal and state levels that will move the nation in a new direction, the direction of change which will signal a discontinuation of the business-as-usual approach and the discontinuation of the existing norm of governance that alienates the majority of the population. The election was also to reaffirm the mandates of governments that were leading in the right direction. We recall that in 2011, Nigerians voted for “transformation” and some “fresh air”. In four years, the promise did not materialise and in 2015, the wave of voting tilted in favour of the “change” agenda. But how are we going about the change agenda? The vote was a statement that we considered the offer of change to be a better deal than what we enjoyed under transformation.

Governments enjoy some period of honeymoon after they have been elected. The populace normally gives the new governments the benefit of doubt to roll out their programmes and to watch the effectiveness of the programmes. Essentially, the people watch to see how new measures are curing existing maladies and mischief in the system. But sooner than later, the honeymoon is over and that is exactly what has happened in Nigeria. The mantra of change has worn thin and Nigerians are no longer interested in anything that sounds like “I will do X and Y.” They are more enquiring about, “What have you done since we gave you the mandate?”



It is trite that good governance that is hinged on change should involve some good authentic and original ideas to drive the change agenda. There should be sufficient clarity about the change plan beyond the campaign promises in the All Progressives Congress manifesto, some part of which has been discredited by repudiation from the highest office in the land. Key issues around prosecution of the anti-corruption war, fuel subsidy, funding the budget, reinvigorating the economy through enhanced production and service delivery would have been on the front burner of the road map to be unveiled.

For instance, beyond one or two persons who have been charged for corruption, there seems to be no road map for this issue which formed a large plank of President Muhammadu Buhari’s credibility. The expectation was that the President would have even named his Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation on the first day of assumption of office considering that prosecution and technical legal negotiations are imperative for the anti-corruption war to succeed. But that was not done. And we are at a critical stage where the first actions of the new Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, are not inspiring confidence in the rule of law. First, the continued detention of the immediate past National Security Adviser, Lt. Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.) in flagrant disregard of court orders and justified by the Attorney-General to be in the public interest is an affront on the rule of law and administration of justice. It is an invidious attack of incalculable proportions on the integrity of the judicial system and if unchecked, lays the foundations for the emasculation of the judiciary. The second is the Attorney-General’s directive to the Independent National Electoral Commission on the Kogi governorship constitutional crisis; a direction which is illegal and unfounded in law, seeking to meddle into the affairs and policy direction of a constitutional commission which enjoys autonomy and independence of action. Malami was expected to have posed the question to the courts for its resolution considering that there is a lacuna in the extant laws.

This is the sixth month after the swearing in of the President and the policy direction seems as fussy as it was on the first day of takeover. What are the indicators of change and how do we know the direction the nation is being led to? What is the policy document that is undergirding the change agenda? Beyond the President and the Vice-President, where are the change champions? What is the track record of those selected to pilot the change reform? Can we in all honesty assert that we are using our first 11 in this assignment of changing Nigeria? Nigerians and indeed, friends of Nigeria are simply guessing on the direction of the policy thrusts. Meanwhile, virtually all economic indicators are headed south with strong headwinds buffeting the investment, production and service delivery space.

We have not had the benefit of a presidential address or media chat with the Nigerian media that focuses on the striving, achievements and challenges of the Federal Government and what is being done to realise the change agenda. The few snippets of news on developments usually filter out each time the President travels outside the country. The latest is that the administration has so far been recovering some of the funds looted by past political office holders. How much has been recovered was not disclosed and where the money is lodged is also unknown. Even the Minister of Finance, Adekemi Adeosun, is reported to be in the dark about such recovery. What is the official policy on fuel subsidy and availability of fuel? Is there any change from where the last government left it? Must we continue with the norm of paying about N1tn in subsidies each year to susidise jobs in foreign countries at the expense of our people?

It may interest the President to note that with six months gone in his tenure, he has completed one-eight of his tenure and he may think he has all the time in the world. But that is not true. Time waits for no one and this assertion is not about to change. Travelling round the world for major conferences, meetings and events may be a good proposition for a President who has a stable country where the major challenges have been surmounted and the systems put on auto-pilot to continue with the status quo. However, it makes no meaning to a country where there is no clear policy direction with the attendant associated volatility of policy and programming. Mr. President should unveil and give us the change agenda. We have waited long enough.

For the governors who have no clue(s) about how to pay the N18,000 national minimum wage and who have come to the end of the road in terms of their thinking capacity of preventing their states from going bankrupt, considering the poor state of their finances, I have just one advice: Simply, tender your resignation letters, apologise to indigenes and residents of your states because you were not qualified to be governor from day one.

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Senseless Article.

It took President Obama, almost 5 Years to undo the rubbish of the 8 Years of President Bush.

It will take President Buhari years, to undo the 16 Years of a PDP plunder.

For those crying in just his 6th Month in Power, apparently knows nothing about Governance.

True to their words, APC hit the ground running; BACKWARDS.

the dullard aka minister of tourism ,has no mind of his own making he is been remote control from Daura, kano,and zazzau shrine called emirs palace.

Another lamentation by the same wailers and cast of characters masquerading with yeye center for social justice.

The crooked and comedic jokers sat dumb and quiet during 16 years of PDP calamity, but they found their crooked and corrupt voices withing 6 months after the death of PDP...


This record is well overplayed and redundant.

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aresa:
Another lamentation by the same wailers and cast of characters masquerading with yeye center for social justice.

The crooked and comedic jokers sat dumb and quiet during 16 years of PDP calamity, but they found their crooked and corrupt voices withing 6 months after the death of PDP...


This record is well overplayed and redundant.

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yeah tell that to the millions of Nigerians that spend the whole day buying fuel in this dulllard administration while the local gworo chewing dulllard keep flying without any meaningful deal being agreed between Nigeria and those country he went to


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*Grabs microphone
Punch if you aask mee, na who I go aask?
The matter wey you see so'o e get as e be
No be me go talk say'a'a e be like SCAAM

*fades

aresa:
Another lamentation by the same wailers and cast of characters masquerading with yeye center for social justice.

The crooked and comedic jokers sat dumb and quiet during 16 years of PDP calamity, but they found their crooked and corrupt voices withing 6 months after the death of PDP...


This record is well overplayed and redundant.

your bosses . dele momodu, obj, omojuwa, bakare etc have turned wailers too the joke is on you because calling us wailers nowadays makes u look fooolish cause your oyo

HungerBAD:
Senseless Article.
It took President Obama, almost 5 Years to undo the rubbish of the 8 Years of President Bush.
It will take President Buhari years, to undo the 16 Years of a PDP plunder.
For those crying in just his 6th Month in Power, apparently knows nothing about Governance.

Buhari told us he gat the magic stick . so stop the silly comparison
2 months to eradicate bh . 500k jobs immediately. millions of houses one refinery a year so tell your moses to wake up no one is giving an illiterate years to ruin this country cause by 2019 he wud be chased out of aso rock

the few remaining zombies. your population is dwindling by the day

I still believe in PMB, but baba please biko, wailers are laughing at us and I am personally tired of defending you... please start acting, campaign is over

Change dey sleep now e Neva weke up ...loi in Greek.

ORACLE1975:
Change dey sleep now e Neva weke up ...loi in Greek.

meanwhile oby ezek is blocking anyone who asks her about BBOG on twitter

HungerBAD:
Senseless Article.

It took President Obama, almost 5 Years to undo the rubbish of the 8 Years of President Bush.

It will take President Buhari years, to undo the 16 Years of a PDP plunder.

For those crying in just his 6th Month in Power, apparently knows nothing about Governance.

You will have a whole 3 years and 6 months of defending . Hope you are getting set?

God help my Nigeria

A clownish, vindictive and neo- military dictatorship, what can he do? Junketing the world and leaving Boko haram to select his teen girls. Smmm

Nothing has changed, apart from federal civil servants not being paid their salaries as at when due, Permanent Secretaries still connive with their directors to steal while PMB Junkets around the world as if Babangida seized his international passport in 1985.

Very interesting article.

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rozayx5:

your bosses . dele momodu, obj, omojuwa, bakare etc have turned wailers too the joke is on you because calling us wailers nowadays makes u look fooolish cause your oyo



Buhari told us he gat the magic stick . so stop the silly comparison
2 months to eradicate bh . 500k jobs immediately. millions of houses one refinery a year so tell your moses to wake up no one is giving an illiterate years to ruin this country cause by 2019 he wud be chased out of aso rock

the few remaining zombies. your population is dwindling by the day

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If wailing is your portion in life, wail till you kpafukah.... Na ya miserable life be that...

HungerBAD:
Senseless Article.

It took President Obama, almost 5 Years to undo the rubbish of the 8 Years of President Bush.

It will take President Buhari years, to undo the 16 Years of a PDP plunder.

For those crying in just his 6th Month in Power, apparently knows nothing about Governance.

Zombie oooo




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aresa:
Another lamentation by the same wailers and cast of characters masquerading with yeye center for social justice.

The crooked and comedic jokers sat dumb and quiet during 16 years of PDP calamity, but they found their crooked and corrupt voices withing 6 months after the death of PDP...


This record is well overplayed and redundant.

You are myopic in reasoning.

HungerBAD:
Senseless Article.

It took President Obama, almost 5 Years to undo the rubbish of the 8 Years of President Bush.

It will take President Buhari years, to undo the 16 Years of a PDP plunder.

For those crying in just his 6th Month in Power, apparently knows nothing about Governance.

Zombie oooo..

The article isn't expecting him to fix Nigeria in 6months..same Nigeria that was damaged by ppl which majority of them are nw in APC as change agents.. The article is simply asking for a sense of direction from this govt.. No policy, no direction.. He has even cancelled the weekly FEC meetings held by past govt. If his reason was that the past govt weren't discussing useful things, isn't it left for the APC thieves to discuss the useful things instead of cancelling it and moving it to every two weeks..
Worst part is that he keeps travelling like someone without ambition. He wouldn't even be around on Dec 2, to attend the next due date of the so called meeting with his noise makers..

Stop being a Zombie... We are just asking him to give us policies and direction.. Shikina






Meanwhile, visit this thread for sales and installation of wallpapers, 3D panels etc..

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Nigerian electorate is simply silly and emotional.

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MuamarGaddaffi:


You are myopic in reasoning.

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Nigerians kicked jona out of office and sent him back to his village because he failed them and even jona and his own ijaw people have moved on and even criticizing him and his administration so You people really need to move on and quit disturbing us with your endless crying, wailing and lamentations.

Change.it can be positive or negative.

Am perplexed, angry and at the same time disgusted at comments insinuating Buhari hasn't achieved anything this year. When:

- boko haram members are running Maiduguri, Yola, Adamawa (and recently Kano) down (having killed over 4 thousand people since May 29).
- book haram killed about 144 of our gallant soldiers as the media kept it hidden from the masses.
- Fulani herdsmen are distroying farmlands and killing farmers with full force? Presently these useless pests kidnapped my uncle, his wife and son and were paid ransom..
- cancellation of PRESSID.
- fuel scarcity.
- hike in price of PMS, kerosene and diesel.
- banning of small generators and hence crippling small scale businesses.
- the economy is already on recession.
- DSS, CCT and EFCC are now been used to fight perceived enemies.
- INEC has been changed from an Independent Electoral body to a partisan organization.
- our media no longer dish out reliable news.
- the Nigerian Army is now been used to deceive gullible Nigerians and also, instead of fighting boko haram head on, they are busy issuing warnings and dishing out propagandas.
- it took the president five - six months to release his thank you/noisemakers' list in the form of ministers (having some of the most corrupt and senile politicians just like the president himself).
- no project has been commissioned.
- refinery that was due for operation in 2016 was forcefully put to operation and subsequently shut down.
- body odour generated power has declined back to it's epileptic state, as Lying Mohammed told us that we reached the peak of power generation even in darkness.
- de-marketing Nigeria to foreign investors.
- confusion everywhere as most statements released by one media aid of the president is refuted by the second aid before the day runs out.
- all campaign promises has been denied.
- the president converted Nigerian economy to a northern empire by choosing mostly northerners to head important posts and tagging the regions that didn't vote for him as 5 percent.
- crime rate has quadrupled.
- the only economic direction of the president is blames, blames and multiple blames.
- the president misses important functions and goofs at important meetings/interviews abroad.
- the president only speaks to Nigeria via BBC Hausa or via foreign media stations while only his aids speak to us via Nigerian stations.
- job losses everywhere, with job creation at it's lowest since 1984 (talk about breaking his own record).
- JP Morgan delisted Nigeria from its bond index.
- fighting perceived enemies and using judges to criminally upturn elections in opposition states.
- further deplating our researves by embarking on fruitless journeys outside Nigeria.
- running a government where some gullible Nigerians equal performance with number of snapshots pa day, as this administration has been rightfully tagged photocracy.
- first ever president to be campaigning after election by making new promises albeit denying the ones made during his presidential campaign.

Truthfully, Buhari has achieved a lot but unfortunately/sadly, the achievements were negative ones..

zubizareta:



Zombie oooo..

The article isn't expecting him to fix Nigeria in 6months..



[s]same Nigeria that was damaged by ppl which majority of them are nw in APC as change agents.. The article is simply asking for a sense of direction from this govt.. No policy, no direction.. He has even cancelled the weekly FEC meetings held by past govt. If his reason was that the past govt weren't discussing useful things, isn't it left for the APC thieves to discuss the useful things instead of cancelling it and moving it to every two weeks..
Worst part is that he keeps travelling like someone without ambition. He wouldn't even be around on Dec 2, to attend the next due date of the so called meeting with his noise makers..

Stop being a Zombie... We are just asking him to give us policies and direction.. Shikina

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So why all the silly and crocodile tears noise barely 6 months into a 4 years administration..


Or you people are just clueless and confused as usual? And the rest of your nonsense is the same wailing and thoughtless rubbish..

I'm sorry for this country.This is the time for us to pray and put our sentiment apart.If people were privileged to some truths.They will curse PDP for what they have done with this country.I won't give up cos I believe in this road to greatness of my country.To all those who wish to wail should keep wailing cos I know that comes 2019,Most of you will die in shame.Progressives!!!Let us criticise with facts and intelligently.Don't give up and keep praying for this country.Pastor Tunde had said it all.God bless Nigeria.God bless PMB.God bless me.

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aresa:
Another lamentation by the same wailers and cast of characters masquerading with yeye center for social justice.

The crooked and comedic jokers sat dumb and quiet during 16 years of PDP calamity, but they found their crooked and corrupt voices withing 6 months after the death of PDP...
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This record is well overplayed and redundant.

icedfire:
I still believe in PMB, but baba please biko, wailers are laughing at us and I am personally tired of defending you... please start acting, campaign is over

You err there with your comment.Those who know the state of the nation will know that things will take time before we start seeing the positive.I believe in this change and know comes 2019,Nigeria will laugh last.Keep calm and do your part.

aresa:
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So why all the silly and crocodile tears noise barely 6 months into a 4 years administration..


Or you people are just clueless and confused as usual? And the rest of your nonsense is the same wailing and thoughtless rubbish..

Lol.... Mumu... Practically everybody is now wailing.. Tunde Bakare is nw wailing, Dele Mumudu is nw wailing, passingshot nw wails more than us.. So its an honour to wail...

I knw your wailing too, buh the difference is that you are wailing inwards nd that is dangerous because it can kill you.. Please free feel to join us and wail outwardly...

rozayx5:

your bosses . dele momodu, obj, omojuwa, bakare etc have turned wailers too the joke is on you because calling us wailers nowadays makes u look fooolish cause your oyo



Buhari told us he gat the magic stick . so stop the silly comparison
2 months to eradicate bh . 500k jobs immediately. millions of houses one refinery a year so tell your moses to wake up no one is giving an illiterate years to ruin this country cause by 2019 he wud be chased out of aso rock

the few remaining zombies. your population is dwindling by the day

Some people are goats.When you can read and can't comprehend what you read.Ain't difference between you and goats.I like what the progressives are doing by not wording with those wailers.Progressives!!!keep calm and see what will happen.Change is here to stay.