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On the 28th of May, 2019, the first term of President Muhammadu Buhari came to an uninteresting and a dreary end, and on the 29th of May, 2019, another uninspiring and uneventful term in office began. And on the next day, PMB departed for the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) meeting in Makkah, Saudi Arabia for a meeting. What a secular nation (not a multi-religious one) is doing in a religious association is a story for another time! Till this moment, I am not aware of any new appointment made by President Buhari—apart from the vice president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, who was sworn-in together with him.

One thing is not yet clear to us in Nigeria. Our problems are home-grown and it will take home-grown strategies to solve all of them. Foreigners are not going to come here to help us build Nigeria. They are not going to come here to block our porous and embarrassing borders. There is no problem we are facing in Nigeria that is not man-made and it will take man to solve them all, not God. I am of the opinion that insecurity is not our major problem, what is daily killing our people is insincerity.

When Obasanjo was in power, he traveled everywhere (wasting tax payers’ monies) looking for what was not lost. He was in power for eight (8) years, traveling everywhere, without having anything significant to show for it. It will take Nigerians to solve every problem facing Nigeria, because Nigerians are the problems of Nigeria. If any outsiders promise to make Nigeria great, they only want to exploit our idiocy, unawareness and daftness.

Buhari should return home and appoint intelligent and selfless people, who are not hungry-politicians. Let us make use of the best of us. Let us value our thinkers. Let us be deliberate about educating the future of Nigeria. Let us invest money in research. Let us stop playing politics with our every facet of our national life. Let us become history conscious. Many ex-presidents will die sad and unfulfilled; because they wrongly thought money is not everything. If we do not change the way we live, generations unborn will spit on our graves.

Also, we need to stop being vainly religious. Religion has never made any nation great. Nigerians are very religious but very wicked and selfish. We embark on annual fasting and still lie to ourselves and we engage in long prayers and still go ahead to steal money and what money can buy—that do not belong to us.

It is only in Nigeria that we want God to do for us, what sincere governments make happen for their people in saner climes. Most of what we pray to God for—in Nigeria—is as a result of the capriciousness, giddiness and irresponsibility of those in the corridors of power. On the inside of worship centers in Nigeria, we are constantly praying to God to come construct world-class roads for us. We use religious prayers to cover for our docility, as if God is the one who constructs good roads for them in serious and industrious countries.

A few days ago, we were told that only God can help us protect our borders—as if it is God who has been collecting their monthly salaries and bribes at our borders. God has given us the most potent brains across the planet-earth, but we are too lazy and religious to use them. Those who are supposed to be laboring in laboratories are wrongly swimming in the shallow pool of politic and religion, doing what they are not in the midst of the earth for.
Mr. Garba Shehu is supposed to be a former SA Media to President Buhari but not long, without being re-appointed, he came on Social media to speak for PMB on his activities in Makkah, Saudi Arabia. Is this not a constitutional breach? Is this not a misdemeanor? Is this not lawlessness in an administration that claims to be the most law-abiding one in the history of Nigeria?

The question is; when did Mr. President renew the appointment of Mr. Garba Shehu? On the 29th of May, 2019, immediately after PMB was sworn into power, he was supposed to address Nigerians, making some crucial appointments, but instead of doing day, he decided to hop into the newly bought car that does cost a fortune, in a nation that is struggling to pay her workers. And instead of decrying that, it is the same people, who are affected the most, who have been defending the bad precedent set by Mr. President. In the days to come, future generation of political leaders would do worse things!

Apart from a self-appointed Mr. Garba Shehu, we also do not have a legitimate Information Minister yet, so if Mr. Lai also speaks for Buhari this weekend, he should be arrested, because that is equivalent treason. Nigeria is currently running on an auto-pilot and those who are supposed to speak are as quiet as a graveyard! Maybe it is their feasting time. Nigeria is surely a strange nation.