TonyeBarcanista:

Please who are the "seasoned" economists or financial experts that has HAILED the Buhari administration? Did you read the words of HRH Sanusi Lamidi Sanusi? What about Chukwuma Soludo and Oby Ezeks? Do you think you supported his ascension more than these people?

Nigerians have neither seen any foundation laid since May 29, 2015, and it is sickening. Of course, everyone is waiting and hoping that the government reverts to sanity, but we won't stop talking.

DropShot:

You're trying too hard to justify your biased position. Many seasoned economists appreciate and understand the situation PMB finds himself. Hence you hardly hear or read them castigating him.

DropShot:

The seasoned economists have not hailed him and they're right to offer constructive criticism as they do.

However, they all understand and are unanimous in their agreement that the situation we are was bestowed on us by GEJ.

Done with you!

The blame is unnecessary, Nigerians sacked the former government because they recognised their failures, and were expectant of change of fortune with Muhammadu Buhari. Nigerians are not interested in someone telling them who is at fault in every forum or who is not, Nigerians want to see those that mismanaged our Common wealth punished, and the new helmsman to change our fortune.

Like I opined, the former government flopped and was kicked out accordingly. A new government was sworn in to tackle challenges and not tell us the former flopped. If Obasanjo had towed that line of blaming the military for crumbling the economy and giving us $3.7billion as Reserve and $35billion in debt, he wouldn't have recorded the relative success that he had. Obasanjo wouldn't have achieved $22b ECA, $45 billion Reserve, almost $0 in debt, opened up the banking sector and insurance sector, deregulated the telecommunications sector and strengthening Stock market among others.

Holadpearl:
This is a well written article with facts and figures on ECA, foreign reserves and crude oil prices and even debts profile of ex-presidents'regime. But the moment u got to Buhari........all data were lost. Do Justice to that pls, no matter how poor at least for the love of statistics,except u are thinking its too early to judge this govt? or there is sentiment at play!

TonyeBarcanista:
The reason you haven't seen the debt profile, ECA balance, Reserve balance etc of this administration is because I think it is best we wait till December 2016/January 2017.

Then we shall do a thorough one year fiscal review and pass our independent verdict.

Holadpearl:


Then you agreed with me that the write up is too early to be called holistic? or rather this govt should be left out of the analysis until u have data, no matter how bizzare, to shore up your good analysis.

TonyeBarcanista:

There you missed it bro. The write up dealt with the whole of previous administrations but highlighted the present because it is a work in progress.

I would have left out thjis administration(it was the original plan) but some people may misinterpret that someone is trying to blame this government flop on the past or some may come and use the past to defend the present administration flops.

Holadpearl:


Lol. Am a researcher and am not trying to be political here, you did a good job, but in a comparison article so to say, the measures and data analysis for compared subject matter must be for all the compared, only then can the work be statically appreciated.

TonyeBarcanista:

You see in this country will majority of "educated" people who are only concerned about the symptoms of a problem but not really the disease itself.

In saner climes, citizens will look at the statistics, verify it, and look at what went wrong to really ascertain the problem of our growing challenges. But in this country, that won't be.

As for that on the Present Administration, it will be available in due time. Then we can look at our savings, debts, and reserve health and see if there will be any justification or otherwise.

Ayoola171:


Thank you boss for bringing this up, the Erudite of our time, more wisdom to your brain.
Figures and fact will not lie, i don't have any personal issues with Jonathan, assume He (Jonathan) build on the lagacies left behind by Olusegun Okikiola Obasanjo and Yar' adua, Nigeria could have been far better than where we are today, though Obasanjo has never be a perfect man; which i don't expect him to be, he had contributed his quota to the total well being of this Nation, figures are their to justify my claim in terms of his achievement on Foreign Reserve, External debt, ECA, Growth drive in Economy, Security and so on. Also Yar' adua, was able to sustain and buid on what Obasanjo left behind, not that Jonathan is not without his own achivement but considering all the opportunites at his disposal, he could have done wonderfully well, and most likely we might not find ourself in this urgly situation we are facing presently. For APC admistration lead by Buhari, i think they should stop pointing accusing fingers and forget the blame game, they need to take responsibity for their actions or in-action, what matter to us now is for them to delivered on campaign promises and Economic indices and total well-being of the Nation shall form the determinat factors to measure their contributions to the bottom line.
God bless Nigeria

FastShipping:
It seems Obasanjo 3rd term wouldn't be bad idea at this point.

I was a staunch supporter of Buhari. Looking back now, it was the wrong thing to do. Buhari came in with no economic plan whatsoever. Where are the so called shovel ready Jobs promised by Osinbajo?

Well, Buhari wouldn't be there today if Jonathan had done well.

TonyeBarcanista:



But in this country, we see it differently. We play politics with everything. In this country, we applaud economic terrorism in the morning and cry in the afternoon that governors aren't paying salaries nor executing projects. In the evening we complain of power failure, but the next morning we still hail blowing of oil facilities.

We still turn around to complain of poverty.

Why won't poverty live with us?

TonyeBarcanista:
I assume you are a troll, please allow space for intellectual contribution.

malton:
Obasanjo did his part, and he did it well. Took many out of poverty, and placed Nigeria on the path to prosperity.

Yar'adua would have sustained the tempo or bettered it, but it wasn't to be. He was more or less our own JFK, with vision of peace and rule of law. I especially liked how he carried everyone along.

Buhari vs GEJ was likable to the demon vs the devil. Neither of the two was the ideal man. But like America is about to do, we settled for the lesser evil, or at least so we believe(d), I still do. Goodluck, we have seen, as for Buhari, it's rather too early to reach a conclusion already.

And as your thread is aimed at scrutinizing Buhari (the patriotic stance is a gimmick), I believe it came a tad too early. You should have waited a little longer.

TonyeBarcanista:
It took me time, data, energy and efforts. Enjoy...


Waiting for sensible contribution

HungerBAD:
Tonye make i read your article,specifically the one wey concern buhari brb.

AnonyNymous:
I read the whole thing. Great job TonyeBarcanista. Very good post. What I gathered from it is that Obasanjo's administration was the best, compared to the other ones, but he was too powerful. If only baba had left behind a very strong political structure, and had respect for law and order Nigeria would be better than it is today.
Yarauda initiated the death of Nigeria and Good luck Jonathan started burying the country. About Buhari, I don't know, let's wait till the end of his term

BeeBeeOoh:
I can bet my left blokos in my scrotum that 99.9% of the commenters didn't/will not read this epistle starting from me..

TonyeBarcanista:
It took me time, data, energy and efforts. Enjoy...


Waiting for sensible contribution

TonyeBarcanista:
Well, I wasn't surprised by the lack of economic plan, my surprise is however what took people so long to see it.

The man Buhari in fairness to him appeared like one with a plan going by his 2007 and 2011 pre-election activities. He appeared in political debates and was impressive(still have his video). However, the APC unfortunately saw him as a tool to capture power and not serve using power. Even when they refused having him debate, I disagreed(was a supporter then) because I believe it is good people know what he was bringing on board. Power is good but to the elite, the masses want service delivery.

But nevertheless, people made their choice. Both candidates were like choosing between Devil and Satan(because there was no difference).

On Obasanjo's third term, though he would have stabilised the economy, but it would turn him into a political god, which is dangerous. I wish Obj left behind strong political environment.