Buhari: Nigeria’s Greatest Mistake By Oluyemi Fasipe

From its inception in May 2015 President Muhammadu Buhari’s government has been failing obviously. Recall that the chairman of the Transparency Monitoring Group, TMG, Ibrahim Zikirullahi stated that the continued depreciation of Nigeria’s economy is an indication that the President Buhari led government has no effective strategy to address the problems.


All what the President and his ghost party the All Progressives Congress (APC) are doing is a mere experiment of pet economic theories. The reality of the absence of a well-articulated and coherent strategy to bring Nigeria out of its current economic doldrums can be seen in the excruciating crunch that is currently subjecting Nigerians to untold hardships.

Frightening stories of Nigerians who are now forced to engage in theft of cooked foods in desperate moves to deal with hunger calls for urgent attention.

However, it’s a great regret for a country like Nigeria to have an economic illiterate and cattle oriented person as president. The action of the president has revealed that he values cattle more than Nigerians and their properties. The cattle rearers nearly ruined a whole state (Anambra) without any action from the president. Apparently, the President sees nothing wrong in the inhuman actions of the Fulani militia.

Over 2,000 Christians have being brutally murdered by the same Fulani herdsmen in the southern part of Kaduna state and up till now, not a single statement from the president. The president’s silence on the thousands of Nigerians killed by the Fulanis is a clear message that he respects animal rights more than human rights. What a terrible regret for the Nigerian people.

Furthermore, it has been observed and experienced by individuals that Nigerians are really suffering under this battered economy and the rate of unemployment is alarming due to the drastic job losses caused by the unfortunate economic policies of President Buhari’s government.

Early in January this year, Nigeria recorded an inflation rate of over 13% – the highest in the history of this country. An economy expert has said Nigeria is suffering from “Economic Ebola”. Prices of goods and services have risen above the affordability of the common man, people are starving to death everyday because of the incompetence of the Buhari government, the army of unemployed youths is scary and nobody seems to know what is being done to salvage the nation’s battered economy.

Finally, hope is not lost, Nigeria can be great again if the president can do away with his Present incompetent economic team and employ better hands who can implement necessary economic policies to revive the dying economy.