Sincerely speaking, by the time President Muhammadu
Buhari finishes his tour of duty as President, he will be the greatest
president Nigeria will ever have. I said this for the following reasons.
1. Just look at the strategic manner, he has handled
the Sheikh ZakZaky's. With the court bail, the Sheikh left Nigeria in a wheel
chair and returned in just 4 days walking with his two legs. Femi Falana
(SAN) lied himself into oblivion and worthlessness, by the strategic
action of this government. Kudos Mr President.
2. The manner he quelled the IPOB uprising in the east.
One strategic strike, codenamed EgwuEke, order was restored in the Eastern
heart land. Without that, Onitsha and Aba and other cities of the East would
have been marooned in desolation. These cities would have been more isolated
that the cities of port Harcourt and Warri after the militancy. Instead of our
guys from the East praising him for this escape from brigandage, they are
vilifying him. It was a great move.
3. The insistence on local Government Autonomy. With up
to three constitutional amendments, governors, refused this to see the light of
the day but President Muhammadu Buhari tactically manoeuvred through the
NFIU, outflanked and out fixed our governor, who since the introduction of
democracy has enslaved and kept the local government under their permanent
suzerainty. Now we are seeing local government autonomy gradually taking root.
5. Judiciary and legislative autonomy, this too is
gradually taking shape. See how necessary this is, the president used his
executive order line of power to initiate this action, and with time, these two
great aspects of governance will be rescued from d choke hold of governors.
6. His efforts at encouraging Nigerians feeding
Nigeria, this is again taking root. We are growing rice to a sizeable
proportion, before 2023 God willing we will turn into a net exporter of rice,
sesame seed and other agricultural products, even palm oil, with which the
Eastern Region sustained itself and built great cities like Port Harcourt,
Enugu, Onitsha and Aba is being encouraged through our Central bank. No he has
asked that we face our dairy production, so that we can produce enough milk for
our children and for our food and confectionery industry.
By the time you know it, we will be producing enough milk
for export too. The greatest part of this ‘Nigerianization’ initiative of President
Muhammadu Buhari is that individuals will start to establish cottage industries
in their rooms, and parlours and garages, producing quality items needed by our
citizens. India did it in the 70-ties and 80-ties. You cannot carry more than
two wristwatches into India, you cannot take more than two cameras into India.
India locked herself away from the rest of the world, never drinking coca cola,
until they were able to manufacture and things for themselves. This President
is gradually but surely steering us out of our profligate lifestyle of
yesterday, driving us into relying on ourselves to a great extent for our needs
and engaging ourselves in jobs, artisanship and other means of survival.
We must work to support his effort. I know that it is only a
dirty hand that brings about an oily mouth, that is what the president is
saying by his Nigerianization effort. Let these voodoo economists that are
prowling our land scape leave us alone, President Muhammadu Buhari is applying
his WAZOBIA economics to pull us out of our current hardship, it is home grown
and must be supported by all Nigerians. We have tried the best economic
theories of the world since 1983, and we are still at the same point.
Let's join hands with President Muhammadu Buhari & build a better
Nigeria. We will enjoy it.
- Anthony Eberonwu
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