Buhari, Fashola and An Administration Bereft Of Ideas

by Reno Omokri
Just two days ago on the 11th of November, 2016, Raji Fashola, Nigeria's super minister of power, works and housing, who is more famous for spending ₦78 million on his website in 2014 (an amount then worth $500,000) said that the 7% GDP growth Nigeria enjoyed under the Jonathan administration was solely the result of high oil prices rather than any policy of that administration.

Said Fashola, “I say this in the context of those who are tempted to lay some claim to any form of credit about why our economy was growing at seven percent for almost a decade, and I say very very clearly, without mincing words, that I don’t think that anybody can fairly lay claim to any economic policy that drove that growth.

Why Nigerian Big Men don't want Buhari to Become President

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Osita Okechukwu, has said the Nigerian elite are opposed to the emergence of Muhammadu Buhari as president because they are aware he would wage unreserved war against corruption. 

He said as president, Buhari would rubbish the belief that there is no ideological difference between the APC and the PDP, by implementing the manifesto of the opposition party. 

Mr. Okechukwu stated this in a goodwill message at the launching ceremony of Friends of Buhari, in Abuja. The group is pushing for the election of Buhari as candidate in the 2015 presidential election.

"The tiny top elite are fully aware that General Muhammadu Buhari as a President will stridently, in line with the Manifesto of the APC, wage war against corruption. They know he will build new refineries, having built two before as Petroleum Minister; hence putting a stop to petroleum products importation where they make billions without query. They know he will not carry raw cash to South Africa to buy military equipment or under fund the Army. They know that he and Tam David-West are the only former Ministers of Petroleum who neither own an oil block nor a petrol station...