Revealed: Why God loved Nigeria when Jonathan ruled, not Buhari
Editor’s Note: The controversy surrounding the federal government’s decision to remove the fuel subsidy continues to rage across Nigeria. Naij.com reader Emmanuel wrote in to tell us how lucky Nigerians were to have former president Goodluck Jonathan and how President Muhammadu Buhari’s rule is causing him to weep tears of sorrow for his nation.
I Weep for my Country
By Emmanuel Ogbona
This Country Nigeria and our operation is so nasty… The All Progressives Congress (APC) led federal government is being deceptive and their reign is defective.
Can you imagine that the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo came out last week to say that the fuel price hike is not because of the subsidy removal but foreign exchange and today the petroleum minister Emmanuel Kachikwu confirms it is a subsidy removal.
The vice president came out again to say that we are ready to devalue the Naira currency but the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) denies it.
However, it has been confirmed from all indications that Naira has been devalued and the US Dollar at the CBN rate moved from 197 to 290 as of yesterday, and on the parallel market, the dollar was sold at 355-380.
President Buhari has been under fire recently over the fuel subsidy removal
When someone tries to be mischievous, he does not let people know exactly what he is up to. This is how the federal government has been playing hide & seek game with our economy & Nigerians at large.
When ex-president Goodluck Jonathan proposed a total deregulation of the downstream sector of the petroleum industry, worked out all the modalities in order to ensure a smooth take off, the APC misled the country, and mobilized the masses against the Jonathan led government with misinterpretation of the policy.
However, today they have suddenly realised that deregulation is the way to go and now rather than come out openly to enlighten the nation on their plans and setting out modalities, they begin to play games because they are insincere and insensitive to the masses.
The Jonathan government foresaw rainy days after a critical analysis of our economy by the technocrats that worked with him as ministers.
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They came up with a proposal to the National Economic Council (NEC) made up of all the governors of Nigeria and the leaders of our legislature and the Council of State made up of our past and present heads of state that Nigeria needs to state saving some portion of our oil earnings for the rainy days.
They also proposed that we should build up our foreign reserves in preparation for the rainy days, but guess what APC governors did, they took the federal government to court for them to share the savings (Sovereign Wealth Fund).
In addition, the money was shared to the states & many state governors siphoned the money & starched them in foreign banks. Today, the same people accuse Jonathan for everything. I pity the gullible Nigerians!
How can a government move a harsh economic policy without palliatives? However, Jonathan established SURE-P to cushion the effect of gradual removal of subsidy and it helped in many ways until now.
Ex-president Goodluck Jonathan
However, President Muhammadu Buhari has no plan of action and the next thing is to abruptly hike fuel price with no consideration for the masses… We slept only to wake up and buy fuel at an outrageous price within 24 hours of the announcement.
The dollar then suddenly went up outrageously against the Naira within 24 hours.
The deception of this government and its defective policies have brought fear and too many uncertainties in the polity. A government that has no clear-cut agenda is unfit to be in power.
Another pathetic thing about Nigerians is the “it is well” syndrome, the “God will help us” syndrome. The suffering and smiling spirit has taken over our lives & we sit tight doing nothing while our insensitive/insensible leaders play games on us with our economy.
I begin to wonder whether it is God that will come from Heaven to point out the ills of our leaders as if we are not seeing or experiencing it.
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