For Segun Gbadegesin
Buhari and Osinbajo have vision and mission to accomplish, let Nigerians give them time for restructuring of damages done by past government. From Gordon Chika Nnorom
Nice piece, back page article of The Nation, but fighting corruption up to 774 LGAs, you indirectly said President Buhari cannot because he is not omnipresent. Bad publicity for the President.From Joe Amah
Please, I’m worried about the current infighting in the APC by NASS members-elect over leadership positions. Please if you can get across to any of the party leaders, warn them that millions of Nigerians who voted for CHANGE will never pardon them for toying with the mandate freely given to them. Remind the leaders that it’ll be a tragedy if, because of selfish interest, they lose the leadership of the two houses to the opposition. They should be careful in dealing with most of those APC members-elect who only recently defected from PDP. Most of them are still loyal to PDP. Unless maturely handled, there may be surprises, but God forbid. Thank you. Anonymous
Re: “Why Buhari should ignore the national conference report.” Your piece on the above made a good presentation of the matter quite alright. Yet I don’t think it is proper to reject the national conference report whole-hog simply on the assumption that its implementation would favour only a section of the country. Buhari, to the extent the constitutional power conferred on him as the president can allow, should cause the 8th National Assembly to look into the conference report holistically and then get back to him to crosscheck and assent. His Change and Transformation policy should include the revisitation of some of the projects past administration didn’t complete or do properly and making the best out of them in the interest of all Nigerians. From Emmanuel Egwu,
Sir, President Buhari’s first week appears slow but your piece has unveiled its trail-blazing potency! The man is surely on his way to becoming one of the genuine fathers of this nation. He knows that power, corruption, militancy, the bad economy, etc must be frontally tackled. But negative elements such as near zero sense of our past history, lack of patriotism, eroded national unity, hopelessness, despair and laziness must be rooted out. Buhari has started well indeed!From ‘Tunde Smith, Ilishan-Remo, Ogun State
Re-The first week. I noticed that Mr President had swung into action by visiting countries like Chad and Niger in pursuit of solutions to the Boko Haram insurgents. The President was less bothered about ‘who would be the Senate President’. President Buhari is most likely going to live up to expectation as he does not veer into areas outside his purview. He did not also interfere in the Ekiti saga. Were it to be some others, Governor Fayose would have gone! Pa Muhamadu Buhari really went for democracy tutoring before he became the President. Long live, Nigeria. From Lanre Oseni.
I agree completely with your piece. I believe so much in this president, whose sincerity of purpose is already exuding sweet breeze so magical and soothing. Can you feel it? I feel it every day. From Julia, Uyo.
Hailing you, for your extra efforts on this affirmative and inspiring write-up, the First week. I don’t know why some Nigerians cannot wait a little bit, exercise patience, they have started complaining about Buhari,and it’s a contagious complains from his antagonists. He has not done this and that, then the question that crossed my mind was that for how many days? At least he should be given more time to settle down very well. Before any querulousness and inquisitiveness. Do they think Buhari is there for self-enrichment? What a great and grave mistake. Buhari is more contented and committed than that. Qualified intellectually. Equally he is a man of his words, integrity, credibility, magnanimity, probity, honesty who fears Allah in his dealings, you can see, despite the notions and believes from many, that he will jail, intimidate, castigate, captivate, vilify and oppress Jonathanians. President Buhari has disappointed the fake-sooth sayers when he said “None of them should be harassed at the airport or at any points of entry and exit. From Surveyor Amidu Saheed, Ifo.
For Olatunji Dare
It is a done game for change of what Nigerians are looking for. Nigeria is going to have new look under the leadership of President Buhari. From Gordon Chika Nnorom
As usual, a nice piece. An error, though. The PDP National Secretary is Prof Oladipo and not Olajide. Kindly keep it up sir. Anonymous
Your piece: Matters miscellaneous, was both interesting and hilarious. First, you know as I do that when Yoruba Kabiyesis’ want to bless people, they don’t point their royal walking sticks at the subject. They lay their usually lily white ‘Irukere’ (horse tail) on him or her. Those walking sticks? Secondly, you can see how PDP is populated by the problems of Nigeria and not its solutions. Can anybody explain what a nuclear physicist is doing mounting a desk in a noisy political party office? How many of them do we have in Nigeria? That guy should be ashamed of himself! Regards. From Olu.
Re-Matters miscellaneous. All is a lesson to us. The broom danglers are in power and positive changes are expected at its second year – 2016 June. Mama Peace in future, will know that ‘Power should not corrupt, absolutely’. The fuel prices had been let loose everywhere -N100-N170. Change is expected to help the masses! Citizens are difficult to predict now, in Nigeria as no political party could be a tin god henceforth. Voters remain the kings. Ex-governor Aliyu Babangida did not deserve the annoyance-misbehaviour of stone-pelters. They are vultures perching where corpes are available. PDP will now learn that a decisive leader needs to lead. You meant to write ‘Oladipo’ instead of Olajide. My nominee is either Emir Lamido Sanusi or the Channels TV. From Lanre Oseni.
Sir, Wale Oladipo did Chemistry Education and not Physics and his sure name is Oladipo. He was at the Centre for Energy Research and Development, OAU, Ile-Ife. Anonymous
For Tunji Adegboyega
Re: leading Nigeria aright: Tunji, your scintillating Sunday articles always hit my heart and portrays you as a genuine patriot. Thank God almighty that the collective wish of Nigerians eventually metamorphosed to produce Buhari as president. This reminds me of a Yoruba adage that says “alagemo ti bi omo re, aimojo ku sii lowo” which literally translates that the people have convincingly given their mandate to Buhari; it is now left for him to make the best use of it or thwart the golden opportunity. It is now stale news to enumerate the destruction of our landscape with a ‘Tsunami’ magnitude under Jonathan. If Buhari wishes, he can disappoint the masses by not taking immediate and drastic action to retrieve the ill-gotten wealth from PDP locusts. History will never be kind to him. What further impetus does Buhari want when the main irritating PDP stalwarts are now the most vociferous by clamouring for a magic wand from Buhari? Is that not enough gratuitous insult on our collective senses? For how long will the stinking so-called PHCN continue to ‘rape’ us? What about the infectious NNPC? No wonder why an ordinary primary school leaving certificate holder at the Central Bank could amass opulent buildings, with N132million sleeping coolly in his bank account under a regime that qualified such as ordinary stealing. And what a sore situation when an elected governor sits in his bedroom to brazenly re-allocate state funds into his private pockets only to get reelected into the same office by “muguns’ (fools)? All said, what the ordinary people want now is real, I repeat, real action from our respected, urbane Mr. President. From Ch Soji Oniayiye, Ijabo Street, Igbemo-Ekiti.
So far, President Muhammadu Buhari, to me, has not faltered! He has begun by tackling insecurity headlong by visiting Chad and Niger Republic on Boko Haram. Secondly, he did not meddle in the choice of leadership of the National Assembly, showing that democracy is being nurtured. Finally, he did not interfere in the Ekiti 19 – 7 legislators’ imbroglio. All these show PMB as considerate, knowing the role Gov Fayose played during the electioneering campaign. We should know that 0.6 percent of four years is too early to judge. From Lanre Oseni.
President Buhari should hit the ground running by keeping promises made during his campaign. Nigerians are full of expectations of taking the nation to the Promised Land despite the empty treasury he inherited. From Gordon Chika Nnorom, Umukabia, Abia State.
Tunji, your piece on Buhari getting cracking seems too much in a hurry. Remember, slow and steady wins the race. All of us are anxious for a better life which has been denied us for too long. Mind you, it is easier to destroy than to build. From Olabode Majekodunmi.
Those who think President Buhari will perform magic within his 100 days in office should rethink because the situation on ground does not guarantee that. This is a country where everything was almost at the dead end before his arrival. The president should pray and watch his back because those who sucked the country are still very much around. The president should also not take Nigerians for granted because those who did it yesterday are nowhere to be found politically. It will be very disastrous if Buhari allows himself to be gagged by the vultures in the country. From Hamza Ozi Momoh, Apapa, Lagos.