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Buhari's Scorecard: All Chatham House Promises And How He's Delivered On Them by baridamben(m): 7:43am On Sep 03, 2018 |
Promise one: Let me assure you that if I am elected president, the world will have no cause to worry about Nigeria as it has had to recently. . How Far? Since Buhari became President, we've seen the president of super power countries like France, Germany, United States of America, China, Britain, visited Nigeria or invited our president to enter into bilateral and multilateral agreements with them on businesses and investment opportunities. This has happened with many African and Arab States as well. They confidently return stolen money to us while doing serious business with us like the fertilizer initiative with Morocco, the road construction partnership with China, and the power facilities partnership with General Electric of Germany. One came here and was talking about allowing Africa a permanent seat at the UN Security Council. Our president is Chairman of ECOWAS, the anti corruption champion of Africa, and he was invited to Haque recently not for war crimes but to teach them how best to fight corruption and crime. Our president has delivered on this promise. Foreign affairs is a strong area in any government, it's one of the three areas covered in American presidential debate, unfortunately Nigerians are too naïve to not appreciate it. Score: 90%. . Promise Two: That Nigeria will return to its stabilising role in West Africa. . How Far? Of course it was the Nigerian military under President Buhari who intervened in the political crises in Gambia and provided stability to that country. Score: 100%. . Promise Three: Boko Haram has sadly put Nigeria on the terrorism map, killing more than 13,000 of our nationals, displacing millions internally and externally, and at a time holding on to portions of our territory the size of Belgium. If I'm elected president, no inch of Nigerian territory will ever be lost to the enemy. . How far? Today, Boko Haram, while they still have their remnants around, they're not holding any territory in Nigeria. Score: 100%. . Promise Four: We will pay special attention to the welfare of our soldiers in and out of service, we will give them adequate and modern arms and ammunitions to work with. . How Far? If you have anyone working in the military today kindly ask them, the government is not joking with them, their salary is not owed, and those of them working in the north east will tell you they've never had it better. Also, our soldiers not only have better weapons now, the US has sold us 12 Super Tucano Planes to our military, to be delivered when they're done coupling them. Score: 100% . Promise Five: We will improve intelligence gathering and border controls to choke Boko Haram’s financial and equipment channels. . How far? In June this year the army arrested Boko Haram logistics supplier in Kaduna. In April they arrested their explosive experts. In Oct. 2015, they arrested one Mohammed Maina from Bama who is Boko Haram financier. There are countless of these cases which shows that the president has delivered on this promise. Score: 70% . Promise Six: We will be tough on terrorism and tough on its root causes by initiating a comprehensive economic development plan promoting infrastructural development, job creation, agriculture and industry in the affected areas. . How far? Of course there is now the north east development commissioned to rebuild the infrastructure of the region. The president also has one of the largest social intervention program in the world today. The agric revolution through the CBN Anchors Borrowers program is heavy in the north. The president just need to keep doing that and improving education as well to completely stop terrorism in its root. Score: 80% . Promise Seven: We will always act on time and not allow problems to irresponsibly fester, and I, Muhammadu Buhari, will always lead from the front and return Nigeria to its leadership role in regional and international efforts to combat terrorism. . How far: Of course Nigeria is today a leader in combating terrorism, nobody can deny that. The president also led from the front when he relocated command and control centre to Maiduguri. But unfortunately, the president failed in his promise not to allow problems irresponsibly fester when it comes to farmers-herdsmen crises. True, there is today a comprehensive response to the herdsmen crises and we're beginning to see the fruit, but the government was not proactive enough which would've prevented some of the killings. There was no response to the media campaign which made the crises appear far worse than it really is and created panic amongst citizens. Score: 39%. . Promise 8: In the face of dwindling revenues, a good place to start the repositioning of Nigeria’s economy is to swiftly tackle two ills that have ballooned under the present administration: waste and corruption. And in doing this, I will, if elected, lead the way, with the force of personal example. . How far? The president is today receiving only 50% of his salary and allowances. The same with his VP. The president also declared his assets publicly. Nobody today can disdiversifirobust with him and his VP, which is the force of personal example he promised. There is a commitment to reduce waste and leakages, which has saved the country billions of naira. While corruption is still there, even the harshest critic of his government who is not ignorant and mischievous would agree that there is no longer the primitive looting of our treasury like we saw in the past. Score: 80% . Promise Nine: On corruption, there will be no confusion as to where I stand. Corruption will have no place and the corrupt will not be appointed into my administration. . How far? The president is right, everybody knows today where he stands on corruption. You cannot even discus the subject with him, which is why some people like Obasanjo are not happy with him. While he has more clean people in his administration than any of his predecessors, one or two persons, however, are not so watertight when it comes to this corruption thingy. His response to the allegation against his finance minister has not been perfect, even though I would do the same as him if I were in his shoes. If corrupt people who can't get their way are blackmailing my finance minister in the hope that I'd sack her, I won't touch her, whether the allegation is true or not, because it will do the country more good keeping her than removing her. Appointees need to have the confidence to say no to corrupt elements in the hope that their bosses would have their back when blackmailed. If you give in, then you make everyone else in the administration vulnerable. Score: 50% . Promise 10: First and foremost, we will plug the holes in the budgetary process. . How far? True, under him he revealed budget padding. He has used technology to stop padding at the executive level, but the national assembly is forcing his hand to swallow their padding at a different arm of government, and Nigeria would suffer if he outrightly refuse. We should be patient with him while he's working on that. Score: 75% . Promise 11: Revenue producing entities such as NNPC and Customs and Excise will have one set of books only. Their revenues will be publicly disclosed and regularly audited. . How far? The president has delivered on this 100% with his restructuring of NNPC, Customs, NIMASA, etc. This is why these agencies of government are now making huge profits for the first time in their history. A senate committee member on petroleum said recently that he has always been in that committee, but this was the first time that they, the committee members, could have copies of the NNPC budget. Score: 100% . Promise 12: The institutions of state dedicated to fighting corruption will be given independence and prosecutorial authority without political interference. . How far? The problem Saraki had with Buhari, apart from his over-ambition, is that the president refused to intervene in his corruption trial. EFCC and icpc under Buhari has his 100% support and zero interference. To be honest however, some element in his administration has the bad habit of manipulating security agents and he rightly gets blamed for it. Score: 70% . Promise 13: In reforming the economy, we will use savings that arise from blocking these leakages and the proceeds recovered from corruption to fund our party’s social investments programmes in education, health, and safety nets such as free school meals for children, emergency public works for unemployed youth and pensions for the elderly. . How far? This is exactly what is happening. When you look at the budget revenue stream, you would see funds recovered by efcc and what the president has budgeted it for. The largest social intervention program in the country today is being funded from this corrupt money, if not how could we have done that in a recession? Score: 100%. . Promise 14: As a progressive party, we must reform our political economy to unleash the pent-up ingenuity and productivity of the Nigerian people thus freeing them from the curse of poverty. . How far: There was a committee headed by El-Rufai set up by the party on restructuring, that committee did a fine job but the party has not progressed from there. The president needs to urge them to move forward, but I suspect they want to do that only after the election. Score: 30% . Promise 15: We will run a private sector-led economy but maintain an active role for government through strong regulatory oversight and deliberate interventions and incentives to diversify the base of our economy, strengthen productive sectors, improve the productive capacities of our people and create jobs for our teeming youths. . How far: To be honest the president tried to sell some of Nigeria's assets to the private sector to fulfill the promise of making us a private-sector led economy, but the National Assembly refused. Even in the US, a president can promise something but if the Parliament does not grant it then he can't do it. Buhari needs to try again and not give up. The economic diversification under this government has been robust with massive investment in Agriculture. Capital sending in the budget has been increased to 30% year-on-year, which the bulk of it directed to areas that helps production. Millions of jobs have also been created. Score: 70% . Verdict: Out of 15 promises, the president has fulfilled 12 of them excellently, one of them good, and failed in two of them. Doing well in 13 out of 15 promises is 87% sucycess rate. This is an excellent performance by our president and he must be encouraged to keep doing well. Ratings done by Baridam Ben |
Re: Buhari's Scorecard: All Chatham House Promises And How He's Delivered On Them by Nobody: 7:51am On Sep 03, 2018 |
Be deceiving yourselves 4 Likes |
Re: Buhari's Scorecard: All Chatham House Promises And How He's Delivered On Them by reiddecuti: 8:24am On Sep 03, 2018 |
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Re: Buhari's Scorecard: All Chatham House Promises And How He's Delivered On Them by Akinwerndey: 8:31am On Sep 03, 2018 |
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Re: Buhari's Scorecard: All Chatham House Promises And How He's Delivered On Them by izombie(m): 8:36am On Sep 03, 2018 |
When the supporters of a president see the visits of other heads of states to the man they are supporting as achievement it means that there is nothing else to brag about. Buhari's scorecard is minus 80. I'm sure that by the end of his tenure it will be minus 100. 2 Likes |
Re: Buhari's Scorecard: All Chatham House Promises And How He's Delivered On Them by StillX10(m): 8:39am On Sep 03, 2018 |
This country have mentally morbid people like the OP how can we go far. 2 Likes |
Re: Buhari's Scorecard: All Chatham House Promises And How He's Delivered On Them by Wiseandtrue(f): 8:46am On Sep 03, 2018 |
OP is it not too early to smoke weed ![]() 4 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Buhari's Scorecard: All Chatham House Promises And How He's Delivered On Them by fergie001: 8:51am On Sep 03, 2018 |
"and he was invited to Haque recently not for war crimes but to teach them how best to fight corruption and crime." I stopped reading here....its all bullcrap..... I would not be surprised if it gets to fp sha...for 'obvious' reasons.. Nonetheless,we insult our leaders because they continuously enrich themselves,embezzle and loot us dry.....they come in with fine promises,deceive us and falter later on.... There is no way to hit at them,than internationally embarass them because they all hate to see their egos deflated especially outside the country....... @ your headline,The hypocrisy part is a typical Nigerian...he fights when its against him and supports when its in his favour.... I personally will not insult my President.....loathe or love him.....but he be told in no unclear terms that as a leader,he has taken back all his promises in 2015......something he should take with him forever... |
Re: Buhari's Scorecard: All Chatham House Promises And How He's Delivered On Them by Kingjames(m): 8:53am On Sep 03, 2018 |
sai baba |
Re: Buhari's Scorecard: All Chatham House Promises And How He's Delivered On Them by Originality007: 9:00am On Sep 03, 2018 |
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Re: Buhari's Scorecard: All Chatham House Promises And How He's Delivered On Them by RevenGeMission: 9:02am On Sep 03, 2018 |
WAILERS WILL ALWAYS WAIL , they are the proverbial rats that bites your toes and blows you breeze , In Yoruba they are Asheni-BaniDaro They said Buhari travels a lot , That's true , his travels are not only for medical checkup , but also to make deals , seek advise , and majorly to put Nigeria on a map , they always complain Buhari is travelling up and down , but they forgot that one Ogogoro drinking bastard once gave his wife access to 3 Presidential jets just to visit an african or was it asian country ?? All my life i have never heard of Aeroplane convoy , But yes it happened , Nigeria became object of scorn in the country visited by the APE illiterate and other countries , This same APE grounded all outgoing flights and caused all incoming flights in LOS to divert to other airports or continue to roam through the skies till she was done , Question is , is that normal ?? I think no ... Did they condemn ?? No , Was any of this instances beneficial to Nigeria as a whole ?? No ........ But if it's Buhari all hell will break loose 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Buhari's Scorecard: All Chatham House Promises And How He's Delivered On Them by Omololu001: 9:04am On Sep 03, 2018 |
baridamben:hope this mumu op knows that most of guma local government is still under the control of armed Fulani herdsmen walking about with AK47 |
Re: Buhari's Scorecard: All Chatham House Promises And How He's Delivered On Them by RevenGeMission: 9:18am On Sep 03, 2018 |
I remember a time when Boko haram had anti-aircraft guns , they used that to bring down at least 3 airfoce jets , captured a pilot, slit his throat on camera , Same people had Armored tanks that they proudly showed off in their videos ,they had rocket propelled grenades , they had several local governments in captivity , they raided markets , kidnapped people anyhow , that's not all , Their guns were brand new as well as their convoy of brand new Toyota Hilux vehicles , they blew up cars , drove into convoys and blow themselves up in coordinated attacks , raided everywhere with impunity Today Boko haram can only flaunt AK rifles, No local government in captivity , no Hilux vans , raiding is limited to most remote areas Shekau has become camera shy e.t.c some bastards are still saying Buhari hasn't done anything for them ... Let's not forget that Boko Haram blew up UN building in Abuja , Attempted to blowup and airline flying to USA , Destroyed a whole car park and hundreds of people died , others lost body parts ... still the narrative is Boko haram is still active , When you have 10% battery , i am sure you won't be playing games on your phone ... that's what is happening to Boko haram right now ... and soon they battery will die / explode 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Buhari's Scorecard: All Chatham House Promises And How He's Delivered On Them by Jflex07(m): 9:24am On Sep 03, 2018 |
Zombies are useless I Swear. 1 Like |
Re: Buhari's Scorecard: All Chatham House Promises And How He's Delivered On Them by RevenGeMission: 9:25am On Sep 03, 2018 |
Corruption As much as Buhari is trying to prosecute people , the thieves of futures employed Wailers to sing for their cause Irritating part is the fools prefer to name other people they think should be prosecuted , one of those people is Fashola , Tinubu's product , in reality apart from one Mercedes SUV , i don't think i have seen BRF driving expensive cars on the street of Lagos and Abuja , Even Tinubu whom they tagged ''frog-eye'' the man who single-handedly laid the foundation for lagos but accused of owning lagos does not have or use expensive cars !! Both people are not decampees , theyve always been in the opposition , The then incumbent was not able to try them of corruption, but because work with Hausa fulani man who wants corruption ended, they are tagged as fraudsters and looters Saraki has trillions , Ekweremadu has 36 houses all over the world , Dino Melaye has collection of world's most expensive cars including Rolls royce Phantoms , bentleys , Aston Martin , Bugatti Power bike and Cars etc Any attempt for EFCC to touch any of the people mentioned here is tagged witch-hunt , Can you see how wailers are bringing down the country ?? 1 Like |
Re: Buhari's Scorecard: All Chatham House Promises And How He's Delivered On Them by RevenGeMission: 9:34am On Sep 03, 2018 |
Until Buhari's first budget , i never heard of padding all my life , the NASS in 2016 padded the budget with sums nearing 100 Billion , Buhari rejected it , NASS rejected it as well , took months before Buhari eventually agreed to sign the budget This year too , They inserted bogus projects, removed genuine and economically beneficial ones , they knew Buhari would read the budget extensively so they used projects as excuse , they intentionally delayed the budget for 6-7 months , but again Buhari found it , Knowing fully well spending without budget approval , he signed their bogus budget and went on live TV to announce the fraud they perpetrated and asked them to remove it .. Do you know what wailers did ?? first they started screaming $1B Buhari wants to withdraw to battle boko haram is illegal , But knowing sweet dream comes but once, Buhari spent ~$600M on Tuscano jets, still not satisfied Wailers went online to condemn the move , called it fraud , called it cheating .... That is until Trump himself confirmed the deal The stupid wailers never for once condemned NASS , the real looters for delaying budget approval for 7 months , isn't that wonderful ? 1 Like |
Re: Buhari's Scorecard: All Chatham House Promises And How He's Delivered On Them by Olatunji1929: 10:11am On Sep 03, 2018 |
Op,buhari did not only embezzle Nigeria wealth but he has also embezzled your brain,your brain needs to regain freedom |
Re: Buhari's Scorecard: All Chatham House Promises And How He's Delivered On Them by baridamben(m): 1:45pm On Sep 03, 2018 |
Akinwerndey:How old are you? What will you tell your children you wasted your life doing on earth? There is no reward for mumurity. |
Re: Buhari's Scorecard: All Chatham House Promises And How He's Delivered On Them by baridamben(m): 1:50pm On Sep 03, 2018 |
izombie:You read but can't understand, study comprehension in school you refused, now see the result. Where in this post did anyone say the visits of head of States was an achievement? Did you miss the bit that talks about the bilateral and multilateral agreements signed (mostly on trade, investment, agriculture and security)? My post is not a breeding ground for imbecility. |
Re: Buhari's Scorecard: All Chatham House Promises And How He's Delivered On Them by papalsbuIl: 1:53pm On Sep 03, 2018 |
[s] baridamben:[/s] claptrap and stupid trash 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Buhari's Scorecard: All Chatham House Promises And How He's Delivered On Them by Nobody: 1:59pm On Sep 03, 2018 |
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Re: Buhari's Scorecard: All Chatham House Promises And How He's Delivered On Them by baridamben(m): 2:03pm On Sep 03, 2018 |
Omololu001:Lies from the pit of hell, criminal herdsmen have been chased out of Benue State since the launch of operation Whirl Stroke. Get yourself informed you chose to carry mat and lantern to sleep on Nairaland where lazy yoots spread fake news. You should be thanking me for coming here today to liberate you, but I'm not surprised, wailers are ungrateful. 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Buhari's Scorecard: All Chatham House Promises And How He's Delivered On Them by trillville(m): 2:38pm On Sep 03, 2018 |
A father that cares about himself more than his children is a wicked foolish father just as a leader that cares for himself more than his people. For 3 years this man has gone to England for treatment. Has he never considered other Nigerians that may be passing through the same ailments he is facing? How many hospitals has he built. Any youth that stands in support of this police escort using old generation, is a bastard. How many schools have been built. We are the poverty capital of the world and you are talking nonsense. Our debt will soon eat up 50 percent of our revenue, we will be forced to sell national assets and you have no shame. These old men have robbed us over and over again, our greatest resource, our people, have been left uneducated and without basic amenities. Human dignity is uncommon in Nigeria and you try to to sell rubbish to us. Don't piss me off today 2 Likes |
Re: Buhari's Scorecard: All Chatham House Promises And How He's Delivered On Them by baridamben(m): 2:50pm On Sep 03, 2018 |
trillville:President Buhari is not your father, he's your president, he can only be your leader but can never fulfil the role of a father in your life, stop reasoning like a cow. This post is talking about his promises at Chatham House and not these trash you're spewing here. Should Buhari relinquish his right as a citizen to seek medical help wherever he likes just because he decided to help your sorry ass? A man who dedicated his entire lifespan to Nigeria must first kill himself before you would know he's trying for you. How ungrateful can wailers be! Is Buhari the result of all your sufferings as an adult? If you contributed to this country 1% of what Buhari has contributed Nigeria would be a great country. Fathers of tomorrow should be thought how to use condoms so they won't give birth to another generation of cretinous elements. Educated illiterates! 1 Like |
Re: Buhari's Scorecard: All Chatham House Promises And How He's Delivered On Them by trillville(m): 3:48pm On Sep 03, 2018 |
baridamben: A president's job is to give all citizens a chance at being the best humans they can be. A president achieves this by investing in human capital and infrastructures. It is not fathers job to provide a career for me. He jobs is to raise me to be morally upright and respectful to my fellow man. The fact that my father is a "poor" man does not mean that without crime I must be a poor man. Most countries provide free quality primary and secondary education to ensure their citizens get standard education. Your thinking shows why Nigeria is a shithole country and will remain one so far majority of our leaders think as stupidly as you do. A leader is supposed to be an example to the people. He/she is supposed to even sacrifice his/her life if necessary to make his country work. Think about Obasanjo going to maiduguri at the beginning of the Boko Haram crisis to broker peace. This is what leaders do. No one is perfect but when you choose to be president, you not only get the perks but also get the responsibilities. If I remember well, Mr Presidents core promises were to improve security of life, fight corruption and improve the economy. Extreme poverty is highly correlated to insecurity, so how can you say security has improved when more Nigerians are going into poverty. When you have head ache and fever, do you only treat the symptoms by taking panadol or you do blood test for malaria and typhoid? You have to treat your ailment and not merely mask it. Nigeria's ailment is extreme poverty. As for corruption, embezzlement is not the only form of corruption. Employing people into the civil service without merit is also corruption. In fact, it is a worse form of corruption because it's effect takes much longer than simply stealing funds. As for the economy, I have nothing to say. 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Buhari's Scorecard: All Chatham House Promises And How He's Delivered On Them by ogwanogwa: 4:12pm On Sep 03, 2018 |
Another coconut head spotted |
Re: Buhari's Scorecard: All Chatham House Promises And How He's Delivered On Them by Akinwerndey: 10:49pm On Sep 03, 2018 |
baridamben:you're ill mannered and your parents must be cursing the day you were born...... Bunkum of a child |
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