Introduction

On the 29th of May 2015 Muhammed Buhari was sworn in as Nigeria’s president in an election that could be adjudged as greatly free and fair, he rode on the he popularity of his fabled integrity and sailed to power with ease with millions of Nigerians including my humble self inking thumb to paper for him. Exactly 0ne year down the line how has the fabled General fared as regards the expectations of Nigerians and what was actually delivered. Below is my unbiased assessment of Buhari’s government, a year exactly after he uttered that famous line “ I belong to no one “ I belong to everybody”.

Integrity

The first index we would be scoring is the Integrity of the man Buhari and his government, after all he got 70 percent of the votes he earned based on this.


Integrity : What Nigerians expected.

Based on his fabled integrity of mythological proportions many Nigerians believed if Buhari was made president, state based corruption would be reduced to the barest minimum, we would have a govt that stood by the truth all the time as regards the best interest of the Nigerian state and its great people

Integrity: What we actually got.

Pound for pound I would say Mr President still has his general integrity largely intact but had it dented in one or two places like the issue of asset declaration which was needlessly delayed and then half-heartedly and lackadaisically declared eventually. The President’s integrity also got tested when it came to the office of the First Lady because in the past he had made statements insinuating that since the Nigerian constitution didn’t provide credence for the office of the First Lady when elected, Nigerians will notice a clear detour of what used to happen in the past as regards that office. One year later we can say the office of the First Lady is still in operation like what obtained in the past and it seems the office of the “First Daughter” was unofficially created . The good news is that the President’s integrity has done well in curbing wide spread state sponsored corruption like what obtained in the past, we have seen good policies like the eventual implementation of the TSA and reduction in cabinet level corruption.

Integrity: The Score Card

In the area of integrity I would score President Buhari 8 / 10


Ministerial Team
Ministerial Team: What we expected
When it came to appointing his ministerial team millions of Nigerians including my good self expected a total difference of what we had been used to. So when the President took 6 whole months to make his choice some of us were sure that for the first time in a long time Nigeria was going to get the best cabinet lineup ever with some people even expecting to hear the name of one or two senior Angels from heaven in the lineup.

Ministerial Team: What we actually got

After six whole months and the ministerial list was released, millions of Nigerian were utterly disappointed with what we saw , we didn’t see Angel Gabriel and Angel Jibril in then line up ,okay then maybe God refused to release them to work in some earthly team but then we didn’t see Pat Utomi, Femi Falana, Umar Dangiwa ,Donald Duke etc. Okay there was Babatunde Raji Fashola the former Governor of Lagos state who had built himself the reputation of being a sound administrator in the past , beyond that it was the most boring line up we had seen since Chief Onigbinde’s Super Eagles.

Ministerial Team: The Score Card

For his ministerial team appointment I give President Buhari a 3 /10

Security

Security: What we expected

Before President Buhari was sworn in Nigeria’s security was at an all-time low with the deadly Boko Haram sect holding sway in the North East of Nigeria ,never before had our territorial integrity as a nation been so tested . So on assumption of office Nigerians expected the military experience and political will of President Buhari to immediately put a stop to the madness called Boko haram and also we expected the police force under him to become more responsive to other civil crimes like robberies and kidnappings that were steady on the rise.

Security: What we got

When it comes to overall security President Buhari has performed credibly well, as commander in chief he has rallied his troops to drastically reduce the operational potency of Boko haram, in just 365 days he has demoted Boko Haram from being one of the most deadly terrorist group in the world to a band of bare footed pests who can only roam the Sambisa in the night looking for small rodents to hunt so they can survive. Never before had a terror group been quickly demobilized in such a short time frame. The police under Buhari has also scored fairly well in smashing a lot of kidnapping gangs and scoring the safe release of many kidnap victims. Under his leadership we have also seen some new security threats emerge in the Niger delta and wanton destruction of lives and property by faceless armed herdsmen.

Security: The score card
In the area of Security I would award President Buhari a high 7/10


Fight against corruption
Fight against Corruption: What we expected
Pre his inauguration most Nigerians had no doubt that President Buhari will deliver a massive blow to corruption and politically exposed corrupt persons, we imagined that at most 4 weeks after his inauguration our prisons would be filled with sentenced corrupt politicians of the past.

Fight against Corruption: What we got

While it can be said that corruption within his government at the federal level has greatly reduced, not the same can be said for the prosecution of supposedly corrupt people, despite overwhelming evidence of legendary corruption especially in the petroleum ministry during the last government. It is really surprising that not a single successful prosecution has been scored other than “he said, she said rumors” being peddled by Sahara reporters from its New York office. The EFCC has improved in its will to actually get the Job done but the best result we have seen is some sensationalism on some newspaper headlines.

Fight against Corruption: The Score Card
For me the fight against corruption is a lot more than scoring a sensational headline in some newspaper for this I award President Buhari a 3/10
 
Economy

The Economy: what we expected

To be fair to history General Buhari has never had evidence of being a great economic reformer in the mould of Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore but even though Buhari’s last stint in power wasn’t particularly an economic success a lot of us believed it was a result of the short span of the government, we believed if the General had more time in 1984 Nigeria would have become the Singapore of Africa.

The Economy: What we got

In just a year in power President Buhari’s Nigeria has slid down the economic indicators from being the biggest economy to being just an economy on the verge of a major recession, the truth is that 40 percent of this slide can be attributed to the massive drop in oil price which account for a sizable chunk of what the Nigerian economy can and can’t do but another 60 percent ranging from poor planning from previous governments to a lot of poor decisions on the part of the Buhari-led Government. Poor decisions like the delay in setting up a cabinet, lack of a clear economic plan on what direction the government wants the economy to march too, poor decisions like allowing Minister Fashola illegally increase the electricity tariff when the government knew that it would have no choice but to also increase fuel prices , also the un needed confrontation with the Niger Delta militants in a period where we needed to maximize every opportunity to sell our low priced oil to give the weakened economy a lifeline till we can wean our prosperity’s dependence on fossil fuels. The combination of all of the above have put Nigeria in its gloomiest days ever.

The Economy: The Score Card

The performance of the economy under President Buhari in the last one year has been dismal so for that I award him 2/10
 
Electricity

Electricity: What we expected

If there was one sector Nigerians expected Buhari to perform credibly well in a very short time, it was in the area of electricity supply. Nigerians expected to get more hours of electricity at an affordable cost since their new leader was seen as more of a welfarist than a capitalist and they had seen a certain Barth Nnaji do it in the past before he was ousted from office by Abuja politics.

Electricity: What we actually got

When President Buhari received power from the previous government he received a National grid that was maxed to deliver 5000 mw of electricity on demand , it was an excellent footing to start off on . One year down the line the situation has worsened to being one of the worst in our country’s history, not only did electricity supply become more chaotic the cost of kilowatts to the last leg consumer was increased by 60 % by the Minister of power under the guise of providing funding for the owners of power company to provide electricity in the future meaning Nigerians were forced to pay more for electricity that they didn’t know when it will ever arrive. If you ask me, I would say that was a decision in really bad faith. More surprising is that Nigerians were surprised President Buhari kept silent over this racketeering by Fashola and his capitalist DISCOs.
Furthermore Niger delta based militants dealt a big blow on our gas supply lines critical to electricity generation meaning most of the country went into May 29 2016 in darkness

Electricity: The Score card

Even though we expect things to improve in this sector once the government gets its act and vison together, for the past one year I would score the government a miserable 2/10 in this sector.


Fuel Supply Management

Fuel Supply Management: What we expected

When it came to fuel supply management Nigerians believed that President Buhari will give them the best deal mankind had seen since the release of Ford’s Model T, they expected to get fuel at any time and that the cheapest comparative price after all they had elected a man who had many times let them know they were paying too much for fuel and that subsidy was nothing but a clichés coined to deceive them, in his famous words “what is subsidy?” we didn’t have any reason to doubt him.

Fuel supply Management: What we actually got



To cut the long story short in the past year of governance under President Buhari, Nigerians were made to endure the longest fuel crisis in their history, it spanned an amazing 8 months which saw prices rise to 400 naira a litre in parallel black market and culminated in the eventual increase in fuel prices from 87 naira to 145naira a litre the highest fuel price margin in our history and surprisingly this occurred when global oil prices were at its lowest. Funny the reason for this hike has never been clearly communicated to the masses with the president’s men each giving a different narrative from removal of subsidy to total deregulation to forex benchmarks. As of today the fuel queues have disappeared since 145 naira appeared on fuel pumps.

Fuel Supply Management: The Score Card

[/b]I humbly score the government a 3/10 in this


[b]Agriculture

Agriculture: What we expected

Under the last government Nigeria fared pretty well in the area of Agriculture under the sterling leadership of Akinwunmi Adeshina, so when President Buhari came on board we all expected this sterling performance to continue due to fact the president is also a farmer.

Agriculture: What we actually got

There was some noticeable slide in our agricultural production chain but most of it was due to force majeure ranging from poor rain forecast, herdsmen and farmer clashes to pest invasion. When it comes to agriculture President Buhari really has an explicit vision for the sector which if well delivered will see Nigeria move from being a major food importer to one who is self-reliant.

Agriculture: The Score Card

The score here will be 5/10

 
Infrastructure
Infrastructure: What we expected

General Buhari had in the past as head of PTDF proven himself to be one committed to continuous infrastructure growth so we all expected him to continue on that path once he was elected.

Infrastructure: What we got

Due to budget delays it would be unfair to rate this government’s commitment to Infrastructural development but with a proposed injection of 350 billion naira into this sector with good implementation I would say great thing are about to happen there. I will not be scoring this sector just yet.



Overall score card


I campaigned and voted for General Buhari , for his first year I would be generous and and give my Mai Gaiskiya a 3/10

lalasticala, seun, mynd44

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My Buhari rating






0.0000/100

0.00000000.00 seems Buhari doesn't read the news, I doubt someone is telling him this county is falling apart.

The integrity score should be reduced further because he really does appear to belong to a section in this country judging by the geographic spread of his appointees.

4/10

8/10 on security and 4/10 on agriculture is a hype.

Apart from reducing BH, the rate of killing innocent either by the police, herdsmen, robbery or lack of food.

He is currently doing nothing on agriculture, food security level is very low compared to before.

To us ,Nigerians that foresaw the mess ahead of the PDP's profligacy and national mortgaging for several years in form of unbridled stealing n corruption ;lack of adequate infrastructure; insecurity ;unemployment; low patriotism, etc and who had cried to the Lord to send us a savior , PMB scores 50% -total average - the remaining 50% is earnable after our final assessment by 2019. Those who messed the country up can't tell us how we should do our assessment! Sai Buhari!

The raring is not correct, there is nowhere he can be rated above 2/10. The baba na monumental failure

Pfft

Bubuhari score card is minus zero -0 d most clueless fantastically corrupt president ever

Economy, electricity, security and infrastructure shud be 0 or -0.
He took us backward in those areas so he can't possibly get a positive score. My humble opinion.

I will score him 2/10 largely because of reduction in the manace of Boko haram not just general security of live and property

QED

seunlayi:
The raring is not correct, there is nowhere he can be rated above 2/10.
The baba na monumental failure

Na wa ooo..let's be generous to the man small

pedrilo:
Economy, electricity, security and infrastructure shud be 0 or -0.
He took us backward in those areas so he can't possible get a positive score. My humble opinion.

Hmmmm this is worse than I thought

This failure should just tell Kazaure to free NYSC batch A stream 11 this week before thunder strike am! What a dumb broadcast

Adeeko007:
This failure should just tell Kazaure to free NYSC batch A stream 11 this week before thunder strike am! What a dumb broadcast

Hmmmmm

The Ratings everywhere shows People's Anger on Baba's Poor Performance in his first 1-year. I hope he understand this and uses the next two years to make things better for us Nigerians

sholatech:
The Ratings everywhere shows People's Anger on Baba's Poor Performance in his first 1-year. I hope he understand this and uses the next two years to make things better for us Nigerians

You are right

Babacele:
To us ,Nigerians that foresaw the mess ahead of the PDP's profligacy and national mortgaging for several years in form of unbridled stealing n corruption ;lack of adequate infrastructure; insecurity ;unemployment; low patriotism, etc and who had cried to the Lord to send us a savior , PMB scores 50% -total average - the remaining 50% is earnable after our final assessment by 2019. Those who messed the country up can't tell us how we should do our assessment! Sai Buhari!

You alone on this I tell you

sholatech:
The Ratings everywhere shows People's Anger on Baba's Poor Performance in his first 1-year. I hope he understand this and uses the next two years to make things better for us Nigerians

My dear, expect nothing. He is being deceived by his fanatical supporters

Dimienedonkz:
You alone on this I tell you

who says?

Babacele:
who says?

go and read "streamside exchange" by J.P Clark, you will see the answer there

Buhari has really tried in his one year in office... He deserves an awarding winning 00.0000000/100

Dimienedonkz:

go and read "streamside exchange" by J.P Clark, you will see the answer there

oh J.P Clark the writer! I surely will sir.

Dimienedonkz:

go and read "streamside exchange" by J.P Clark, you will see the answer there

Have you read 'PMB's rating is 64% ' by Nigerians and published by NOI? it is the latest book in town.