Buhari, We Don't Want Excuses, Give Us A Miracle!

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The Nigerian people have now become like the historical people of Israel demanding for a miracle. President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari seems to have become the Moses of our time. Just like the Moses in the bible, he has come at a time when the people are in dire oppression and crying out for help, and he came with promises of deliverance.

The APC chant for change awakened renewed hope in Nigerians at home and abroad. Now that Buhari has been given the mandate to 'lead us to the promise land', Nigerians expect to see and receive their miracle. They want to see their 'deliverer' deliver.

After the March 28 elections, Buhari publicly published his 100 day covenant to Nigerians and renewed Nigerians hope and confidence. Not too long after that however, the president elect made a statement that has ruffled feathers across the nation. Buhari was quoted to have said:

“The biggest message is to try and persuade the people that it is not possible to change the state of affairs now. It took 16 years and those 16 years, most of you know it better than myself, Nigeria earned revenue more than what it earned from 1914 to then".

“You know that we used to have Nigeria Airways, Nigeria National Shipping Line, Nigeria Railways. Where are they now? Where is the infrastructure? Between then and now and what we earned in-between and what is on the ground.

“That is how efficiently the PDP managed Nigeria in the last 16 years. Now we have invariably inherited all the problems, especially in the north east.”...

....“The crude price has gone down and 90 per cent of foreign exchange we rely on come from that. So, you have to convince your constituencies that we have virtually arrived at the wrong time and that they have to tamper their expectation with some justice towards the leadership."...

The presidency has seized upon this declaration among others by Buhari to suggest that the latter is already preparing excuses to justify possible failure in the near future. The fervent hope is that these claims are false and that we will actually witness significant and positive change in the next couple of years.

While we all are anxious to see Buhari deliver the change he promised, Nigerians must remember that change is a gradual process and that Rome wasn't built in one day.

God bless Nigeria!