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Thursday, January 25, 2018

The tragedy of a Comical Drama played too far;  All salary arrears paid up   All contractual debts paid up  All Pension arrears paid up  All known treasury leakages sealed up  All known treasury thieves being investigated and prosecuted  A recession overcome within one year  The foreign reserve growing  Inflation reducing  The Capital market rated highest globally   The ease of doing business rated high  Greatly reduced food import bills  Greatly increased Internal Revenue Generation drive  Revamped and more effective tax regime  More efficient and more responsible Civil Service  All Federal roads being reconstructed across the Country  Fast rails being constructed between the state capitals  Gas pipeline being laid from South to Abuja, Kaduna and Kano  13 Modular Refineries being built in ND  Private Financing for our three Refineries being negotiated  Private Refineries to collocate with the existing Refineries being concluded  Influx of foreign companies increasing  Increased investments by domestic investors   The Electricity Generating capacity at 7000 MW  Transmission Capacity at 7000 MW  Distribution capacity being restructured to inject more capital and expertise    The economy of Nigeria being Restructured from oil based to Agric, Solid Mineral and Manufacture based  Ranching for meat and dairy industry due to kickoff  Boko Haram now a distant ding in the orchestra of general quietude   IPOB now a mute idea ready for discussions at the right for a  NDA reduced from a movement to Madam’s military wing for retaining her loot.  Herdsmen/Farmers conflict due to be permanently resolved  Military vehicles sourced from a Nigeria car manufacturer for the first time These are not propositions; all these and more will be on the Curriculum Vitae of PMB in the 2019 Presidential Elections. And he did not achieve these by fluke, he was deliberate; the economy he inherited was dire. The country was running on one cylinder and the engine had just coughed its last, the engine was dead and the ”plane” was adrift. What would anyone do with a Country which just had her only source of income cut down to less than one quarter? Inevitably, the economy dived into a recession with nothing to kick start it; there were no savings of any kind. Worse, Nigerians were so used to eating imported food that they did not want to substitute with our home grown food, especially rice. So, when the accursed were busy clapping for themselves for successfully ruining the Country they so much loathed, PMB and his team set out to perform magic; they pulled up their cuffs and went to work, slowly but deliberately. They were booed, they were jeered and they were misquoted, lied against and tempted. Today, the score card scares the nay sayers. They desperately seek for thick black smoke to screen off this beautiful sight from people; they seek for a cacophone to mire this beautiful music from the masses.




The tragedy of a Comical Drama played too far;

 All salary arrears paid up 
 All contractual debts paid up
 All Pension arrears paid up
 All known treasury leakages sealed up
 All known treasury thieves being investigated and prosecuted
 A recession overcome within one year
 The foreign reserve growing
 Inflation reducing
 The Capital market rated highest globally 
 The ease of doing business rated high
 Greatly reduced food import bills
 Greatly increased Internal Revenue Generation drive
 Revamped and more effective tax regime
 More efficient and more responsible Civil Service
 All Federal roads being reconstructed across the Country
 Fast rails being constructed between the state capitals
 Gas pipeline being laid from South to Abuja, Kaduna and Kano
 13 Modular Refineries being built in ND
 Private Financing for our three Refineries being negotiated
 Private Refineries to collocate with the existing Refineries being concluded
 Influx of foreign companies increasing
 Increased investments by domestic investors 
 The Electricity Generating capacity at 7000 MW
 Transmission Capacity at 7000 MW
 Distribution capacity being restructured to inject more capital and expertise  
 The economy of Nigeria being Restructured from oil based to Agric, Solid Mineral and Manufacture based
 Ranching for meat and dairy industry due to kickoff
 Boko Haram now a distant ding in the orchestra of general quietude 
 IPOB now a mute idea ready for discussions at the right for a
 NDA reduced from a movement to Madam’s military wing for retaining her loot.
 Herdsmen/Farmers conflict due to be permanently resolved
 Military vehicles sourced from a Nigeria car manufacturer for the first time
These are not propositions; all these and more will be on the Curriculum Vitae of PMB in the 2019 Presidential Elections. And he did not achieve these by fluke, he was deliberate; the economy he inherited was dire. The country was running on one cylinder and the engine had just coughed its last, the engine was dead and the ”plane” was adrift. What would anyone do with a Country which just had her only source of income cut down to less than one quarter? Inevitably, the economy dived into a recession with nothing to kick start it; there were no savings of any kind. Worse, Nigerians were so used to eating imported food that they did not want to substitute with our home grown food, especially rice. So, when the accursed were busy clapping for themselves for successfully ruining the Country they so much loathed, PMB and his team set out to perform magic; they pulled up their cuffs and went to work, slowly but deliberately. They were booed, they were jeered and they were misquoted, lied against and tempted. Today, the score card scares the nay sayers. They desperately seek for thick black smoke to screen off this beautiful sight from people; they seek for a cacophone to mire this beautiful music from the masses. Today, it’s either Herdsmen killings, the next day it’s kidnappers while before then, it used to be Boko Haram, IPOB or NDA. 
They may have wondered why the people are so disinterested in their distractions; they are so lost in their own thoughts to be able to realize that PMB’s achievements are shared by the people they wish to distract. They are active participants in the PMB Nigeria Project. They are the direct beneficiaries of the outcome. They know what has been done, what remains to be done and why. It is difficult for anyone to get their attention with false tales, false alarms and false predictions. It is difficult to take the people away from PMB. OBJ seems to be the last card of the comical game, and I wonder what he is doing in there; why would he want to throw away the myth of his political invincibility on the altar of theatrical show of shame. He is liable to be stripped naked and that is not a nice lesson to be learnt at his age. Some elders in the North learnt to steer clear of Buhari’s phenomenon far too late to save their honors.
PMB will add this enormous CV to his enormous personal integrity; that is not something any politician in Nigeria can boast of. Some politicians can be credited with some achievements, but apart from PMB, none of them will pass elementary test of personal integrity. Buhari is set to have both at levels of Ahmedu Bello and co. Nobody can take away his Verified and Validated integrity, but obviously, some jokers think they can stop him from attaining his achievements. Perhaps they don’t how late they are; or perhaps they do but think they can still dent him. The town criers are scattered all over the towns and villages, like the mythical EGBERE, making highly confusing statements. “Buhari has achieved nothing” they say, so the solution is for him not to contest again. When asked whether that claim is not an advantage for them to win the election, they tell us that they don’t want to “disgrace” him from power. Some of us have been thinking about the comic tragedy being played by our politicians; repeat some of their silly narratives to a baby and see how the baby will start to cry.