It would appear that the propaganda machine of opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) had succeeded in keeping away from the public court of justice, the 5-year minimum hardship its Presidential Candidate, Muhammadu Buhari promised to foist on Nigerians in a recent media interview.
Thanks to Simon Kolawole, former ThisDay Newspaper editor and a columnist in the same paper, Nigerians can now appraise and know what to expect from Buhari if he is elected in the February 14, presidential polls.
He promised at least five years of hardship within which he hopes to work wonders.
We refer Nigerians to Kolawole’s regular back-page column in ThisDay on Sunday where he drew the attention of Nigerians to an interview Buhari granted to an online news medium, the Cable, and where he owned up that Nigerians will have it hard if he is elected.
“It cannot be done overnight. Nigerians have to be prepared, at least from 2015 to maybe about 2018 to really work extremely hard. We have to work extremely hard because a lot of institutions have been compromised. So for anybody to come and create the impression that he can work wonders [is a lie].
Nigerians have to be prepared to suffer for at least five straight years before we can stabilise this country, security wise and economically because so much damage has been done,” Buhari told Cable when asked what he will do differently.
Surprisingly, Buhari who hypes himself and his party, APC, as the only ‘change’ Nigeria needs, acknowledged that the rot he and his military ilk left the country in after over 30 years of unconstitutional governance and which incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan is assiduously working to fix, requires longer than four years to fix.
President Jonathan was elected for four years and now seeks a re-election, but Buhari and APC have refused to give him that benefit of time to complete the work he is committed to.
If it will take Buhari and APC more than 5 years within which Nigerians will be put through hardship, to fix the country, why then do they condemn President Jonathan who in three years is making worthy marks?
Wouldn’t it be a better option for Nigerians to stick with President Jonathan’s Transformation Agenda which has begun to yield results and will become extremely manifest to all in a short while than to vote for the ‘Messiah’ Buhari who is promising Nigerians a minimum of 5 years of sufferings when he gets to power?
Also from the same interview, Buhari does not have any answer to the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) which his fellow ‘progressives’ in the House of Representatives led by Aminu Tambuwal refused to pass in the 7th assembly.
We ask Nigerians to think twice about the man who in the manner of his last time out in military toga, has threatened yet another season of hardship on the country, and therefore plunging us back to the days of dread.
PDP Integrity Vanguard
