Two weeks ago in this column, this topic was discussed. Since then, there has been reactions from readers. Here are some of them.
Karebo Samson LASU
Change is change …breaking away from the norm…so anyhow he starts at all is the change spirit. Let’s pray that he gets it right.
Joseph Ubiagba, Self- employed at Encino Ltd
They say GEJ’s advisers are bad people. But I say Buhari’s are worse. Now he is re-tracting the promises he made to Nigerians; those things his advisers told him to say to Nigerians in order to win election. We plead with Buhari to find and bring back the stolen funds from wherever he knows they are and use them to improve the economy instead of giving excuses. Arrest anyone you know could have taken it. Buhari, arrest, arrest, arrest and bring the so-called stolen dollars b
Ibrahim Dada Disu Telford College of Arts and Tech, Shropshire, UK
Not only the price of oil in world market will affect the change promised by APC, but also the missing billions of dollars of public fund by the current government; money that could transform the whole economy.
Naija Commotion
APC Crisis: Northern leaders move to cut Tinubu to size. Buhari will give Tinubu the Awolowo treatment. Tinubu’s greedy thirst for power will be his greatest undoing.
This is actually expected. Wasn’t it the same thing they did to Obasanjo after Yar ‘adua won? Funny thing, since the beginning of Nigerian history, that same scenario has played out so many times; it is now comical. The North use the Yoruba to get what they want and then drop them when time comes. MKO; Awo, Obj, and now Tinubu.
Awo betrayed the Igbos to please the north, who later turned the heat on him. Northern leaders have given prominent Yoruba men an overdose of humiliation that will last them a life time despite using them to fight the civil war. Awo later died. This is how the scenario will play itself out.
*June 2015……..GMB in power….politics between northern power bloc and southwestern power bloc starts
*2016….full blown crisis leading to South-western APC members decamping to a new party
*2017…South-West politicians start making moves to reconcile with South-East and South-South in order to push out GMB in 2019
*2018…After a lot of deliberations and reconciliations, the stage is set for a North vs South election.
*2019…….who wins?. Will the SE/SS deal with the SW treachery? Yes.
The fact that the Northern oligarchy refused to allow the VP head Buhari’s transition committee should give the Yorubas something to think about. Afonja, Awolowo, MKO, Tinubu; a tribe that fails to learn from history. “Change they said, Change Nigerians Got.” Pity, Nigerians were fooled. Well as I said before, “Nigerians voted in naivety, they shall reap in soberness”
Eyobaba
Change we want and not one chance.
Garden-City Boy
Buhari pleads for patience and most of all for Justice. The justice he demands from Nigerians is for them to show appreciation for lies as “Legitimate Instrument” for winning an election. The plethora of excuses he keeps asking for is to stop Nigerians from holding him to his electoral promises that “swept” him to power. Going further on justice, he admits not knowing what to do as president.
He wants to be allowed indefinite time, may be forever, to “dust books,” take a study program to learn the skills he needs. The presidency has become a classroom of some sort, where politicians are granted the privilege of a learning curve. Buhari has, so early in the day, conceded that he is not the magic-man. Who knows what his supporters will be thinking now that it is clear that he is not a magician. He is now to scout for contractors called “technocrats” to “help” his government.
Akataka, Naija Commotion: Very revealing, can politicians be this mean?
Um2: A welcome write up delivered in the true genre of what the 4th Estate of the realm ought to be. Kudos to Mr. Omoh.
VIP: We must put a stop to the subsidy and importation of fuel. Let us gradually repair our refineries and we should all suffer it all. In two years’ time, we shall have a vibrant economy and a deregulated oil sector.
David Soul: I expected Buhari to be talking like you right now.
Allan Udo VIP: Now you want it but when GJE tried to do it, they called for his head.
VIP Allan Udo
Jonathan was clueless on subsidy. He preferred to import the product without local refining, as marketers sell at varying prices. Buhari wants to locally refine the crude oil and also make the ‘IOCs’ build their own refineries to create employment here in Nigeria.
JayGeeX: That does not add up or make sense. He proposed its removal. The same thing the incoming government is proposing after. As far as I remember, the ‘clueless’ Jonathan not only had a blueprint on how it would play out, he was able to draft one to fit a partial deregulation.
Now, so far the issue is still a bit of a maze for the incoming government, I will rather advise that you read whichever version of the PIB bill with a critical but open mind before making any further comment on either the upstream or downstream sector of the Petroleum industry. When you are done, you will know that the President and his cabinet are all corrupt to the teeth on all subsidy issues.
Karebo Samson LASU
Change is change …breaking away from the norm…so anyhow he starts at all is the change spirit. Let’s pray that he gets it right.
Joseph Ubiagba, Self- employed at Encino Ltd
They say GEJ’s advisers are bad people. But I say Buhari’s are worse. Now he is re-tracting the promises he made to Nigerians; those things his advisers told him to say to Nigerians in order to win election. We plead with Buhari to find and bring back the stolen funds from wherever he knows they are and use them to improve the economy instead of giving excuses. Arrest anyone you know could have taken it. Buhari, arrest, arrest, arrest and bring the so-called stolen dollars b
Ibrahim Dada Disu Telford College of Arts and Tech, Shropshire, UK
Not only the price of oil in world market will affect the change promised by APC, but also the missing billions of dollars of public fund by the current government; money that could transform the whole economy.
Naija Commotion
APC Crisis: Northern leaders move to cut Tinubu to size. Buhari will give Tinubu the Awolowo treatment. Tinubu’s greedy thirst for power will be his greatest undoing.
This is actually expected. Wasn’t it the same thing they did to Obasanjo after Yar ‘adua won? Funny thing, since the beginning of Nigerian history, that same scenario has played out so many times; it is now comical. The North use the Yoruba to get what they want and then drop them when time comes. MKO; Awo, Obj, and now Tinubu.
Awo betrayed the Igbos to please the north, who later turned the heat on him. Northern leaders have given prominent Yoruba men an overdose of humiliation that will last them a life time despite using them to fight the civil war. Awo later died. This is how the scenario will play itself out.
*June 2015……..GMB in power….politics between northern power bloc and southwestern power bloc starts
*2016….full blown crisis leading to South-western APC members decamping to a new party
*2017…South-West politicians start making moves to reconcile with South-East and South-South in order to push out GMB in 2019
*2018…After a lot of deliberations and reconciliations, the stage is set for a North vs South election.
*2019…….who wins?. Will the SE/SS deal with the SW treachery? Yes.
The fact that the Northern oligarchy refused to allow the VP head Buhari’s transition committee should give the Yorubas something to think about. Afonja, Awolowo, MKO, Tinubu; a tribe that fails to learn from history. “Change they said, Change Nigerians Got.” Pity, Nigerians were fooled. Well as I said before, “Nigerians voted in naivety, they shall reap in soberness”
Eyobaba
Change we want and not one chance.
Garden-City Boy
Buhari pleads for patience and most of all for Justice. The justice he demands from Nigerians is for them to show appreciation for lies as “Legitimate Instrument” for winning an election. The plethora of excuses he keeps asking for is to stop Nigerians from holding him to his electoral promises that “swept” him to power. Going further on justice, he admits not knowing what to do as president.
He wants to be allowed indefinite time, may be forever, to “dust books,” take a study program to learn the skills he needs. The presidency has become a classroom of some sort, where politicians are granted the privilege of a learning curve. Buhari has, so early in the day, conceded that he is not the magic-man. Who knows what his supporters will be thinking now that it is clear that he is not a magician. He is now to scout for contractors called “technocrats” to “help” his government.
Akataka, Naija Commotion: Very revealing, can politicians be this mean?
Um2: A welcome write up delivered in the true genre of what the 4th Estate of the realm ought to be. Kudos to Mr. Omoh.
VIP: We must put a stop to the subsidy and importation of fuel. Let us gradually repair our refineries and we should all suffer it all. In two years’ time, we shall have a vibrant economy and a deregulated oil sector.
David Soul: I expected Buhari to be talking like you right now.
Allan Udo VIP: Now you want it but when GJE tried to do it, they called for his head.
VIP Allan Udo
Jonathan was clueless on subsidy. He preferred to import the product without local refining, as marketers sell at varying prices. Buhari wants to locally refine the crude oil and also make the ‘IOCs’ build their own refineries to create employment here in Nigeria.
JayGeeX: That does not add up or make sense. He proposed its removal. The same thing the incoming government is proposing after. As far as I remember, the ‘clueless’ Jonathan not only had a blueprint on how it would play out, he was able to draft one to fit a partial deregulation.
Now, so far the issue is still a bit of a maze for the incoming government, I will rather advise that you read whichever version of the PIB bill with a critical but open mind before making any further comment on either the upstream or downstream sector of the Petroleum industry. When you are done, you will know that the President and his cabinet are all corrupt to the teeth on all subsidy issues.
