By Jesse David
Thereafter my last publication on the topic “waging
war on good governance” a respectable political
sycophant inbox me, and commended the message
in the publication but he said and I quote “Mr Jesse
pray that your turn will come, so you can benefit from
the system, if you are not inside the system your
voice will just be an ordinary echo”.
Really!! Care i don’t, for it is much better to echo the
plight of the people than to remain a good voice who
remains eternally mute. Again, on a second thought,
you didn’t ask me to pray when you came to
convince me to vote for you, neither did you ask me
if i took time to pray when i was looking for your party
logo “The broom” to append my thumbprint to it on
the ballot paper which gave you victory, why asking
me to pray for you before you would meet my simple
demands and expectations?
Must we force them to remember that Nigerians are
eagerly looking forward to see the result of the
historical change they supported and stood for, the
regular trademark today is one of sorrow, tears, and
blood? At the initial stage “Body Language” was one
commodity that Mr president offered to we all, Body
language resurrected virtually all death sector, at
some point everything fell in place, everything began
to work indeed we were gratified but we still craved
for more, as it is now, the once upon a time body
language have ceased to exist things are falling out of
place.
From a close look of things, we are gradually driving
to the altar of frustration and hopelessness. Happy
Eid-El-Fitr to the Muslim Ummah and congratulations
to many leaders who made the masses lose their
life’s in stampede trying to grab Sallah food grains
shared by some uncultured politicians, don’t blame
the masses, blame the system which failed to meet
their expectation, blame the system which has failed
to pay them their salaries and have left them and
their families in hunger and abject poverty. The
government is expected to provide urgent solutions to
some of the myriad challenges facing the nation and
it citizens, the people’s expectation for a pragmatic
change in every aspect of national life is quite high
and if they fail to see the change soon, they will be
somewhat disillusioned. We are quite aware that
Nigeria problems are numerous, complex and multi-
faceted, ranging from corruption to insecurity, poor
economy and inadequate electricity supply, threat of
succession by some regions of the country among
others; the hopes and expectation of Nigerians are
obviously very high with most people expressing the
belief that President Buhari will correct all perceptible
anomalies in the political and socio-economic life of
the country. President Buhari himself appears to have
anticipated the high expectation of the citizens,
judging by his acceptance speech after he was
declared winner of the election “we shall correct that
which does not work and improve that which does,
we shall no stop, stand or idle. We shall if necessary,
crawl, walk and run to do the job you have elected us
to do”. It is obvious that the president has a clear
understanding of the expectation of an average
Nigerian but we can’t just justify the reasons stopping
or hindering him from meeting the people’s
expectations.
In a Sallah message to Nigerians, the President said
he is not unaware of what Nigerians are going
through and he commend the amazing sacrifices of
Nigerians in the face of temporary economic and
social challenges, he reassured Nigerians that his
administration will work assiduously towards
providing basic need and other amenities. Indeed the
President feels the pains of Nigerians but rather than
alleviating the pains of the people, under the watchful
eyes of Mr President some few individuals are
inflicting more pains to the masses, little wonder the
prices of Domestic Cooking Gas (LPG), Kerosene, and
Diesel has skyrocketed and no one is saying nothing
about it, not even the one who feels the pains of
Nigerians. I actually don’t kno
