Connect with us

Letters

An Open Letter To President Muhammadu Buhari -By Micheal A. Adeniyi

Published

on

A1 n
Micheal A. Adeniyi

Micheal A. Adeniyi

 

The President of Nigeria,

Greetings, your Excellency

Dear Sai Buhari I know you would be working hard in your office when this piece surfaces on your computer, I wake up in the middle of the night to type this on my PC,I was down-shuttered and under sweating environment because there was no light. My locality is out of power access in this ‘Change Era’ of yours, things seems to be the same since evermore.

Advertisement

I can’t sleep as I reminesce about the wide roads being narrowed by highly concentrated Pit holes which left a tapered space to walk through during the day . We keep galloping like a stallion inside our motor just like we do everyday. A workophile like you can well appreciate this attempt? Do more to building better roads.

This piece needs a serious read and I hope you read it not as the President of Nigeria but as a human with a four-chambered room under your ribs.

I really don’t know how to start, I mean how you start a letter to the GCFR representative of more than 170 million people of a nation which is the largest democracy and economy in Africa whose politicians have walked down the ladder of both Military and democracy constantly.

Advertisement

As a mark of respect if not for your quick war against terror maybe by today I could have written this letter with a blood-soaked brush to you. Damn before now blood is cheaply and easily available here, yes! everywhere in the markets, in the streets, in the crop-fields, in the houses and in the forest eclipsing the moon like a blot on Nigeria. well the bloods are drying off the f because you are ensuring security thrive and there is still a long way to go.

Well I think it is better to start with #Changebeginswithme Campaign. Highly researched speech, Smooth language, poignant ideas and great ideals from your Excellency are appreciable. Your way of making complex things more and more simple is applauded.

I love your art of voicing ‘Change’ but I loose fate when nothing is changing, more specifically in Jailing of those who brought us into the hardships above, Your Excellency (Hope you wont take it easy on being clubbed with a President with respect to one feature of Noise-making when it comes to fighting corruption).
The word ‘Change’ When you used it, we didn’t disbelieve you. Who can doubt the language of the head of a nation? But your actions have mutated our interpretation of the words.

Advertisement

Long before now I know freedom of speech and association meant giving people the power to decide what is better for them but why is Nnamdi Kanu and others still in prison? Charge them to court for their crimes.

By change, we meant embracing everyone as a national figure, absorbing all the cultures and giving them the unified Nigerian colour. Many today sees this govt as loving the Nation and not its people; encaging them physically and financially; unpaid salaries, judicial pendency which points bias towards you.

By Right, we meant stop giving unmatched hospitality and forex to the non-Muslim and Christian pilgrims to taking them to their sacred cave on our shoulders not even when we have dollars issues. Thanks for working hard against brutality and killing of scores of innocent youth and injuring of thousands and blinding the children who are still on lactogen by terror, we believe you delivered everything in proper proportions.
Mr President I know we Nigerians should thank you for the fact that you consume some of our rare resources here and not anywhere else. We should be thanking you for the Made in Nigeria campaign. Agriculture are specially made for us and you are taking us back there, this meant food security which shows how much you care for us.

Advertisement

You have deployed more than enough forces to terrorized areas for our security and spending on such a biggish military cover must be huge. I always imagine if the same amount of money is spent on schools and hospitals, what would happen? Never again will we see terror on our land.

Mr President, On the Agitators issue in Nigeria today, I think peace and normalcy attained at the gun-point is always short-lived, In fact, it can’t be called peace or normalcy if it is forced by controlling brains. This is why we have ‘operation crocodile smile vs operation crocodile tears’ Real peace and normalcy comes by winning the hearts by a National confab.
Surely, bloodshed will stop if the concerned leaders show some real intention, not pretension.

Sir, I think it is apt to turn to your media now.

Advertisement

Well, some of them only impress us with there fluency and labeling we critics a terrorists not knowing the exact condition we are in, and notice the exact mistakes we are pointing out.

Sir, Don’t be misinformed, there is general unemployment: poverty is held responsible for our problems, I also believe in blaming past government. Alas,let’s also note that “The latter is plausible but not the former”.

The problem of unemployment is evenly distributed throughout Nigeria and its fierce because of the absence of industries and entrepreneurial feet.
Your Excellency, we are not sympathizers of PDP or past administrations and we also know they pretend to be sympathetic to us. We hold you slow pace in “Change” to the destroyers of yesterday who have mortgaged our future. Surely unto our problems sustainable solution lies in listening and accepting what Nigerians are saying.

Advertisement

I know you have pressure from back, from the opposition, from the Media and Past Presidents, fear of losing the next general elections which keeps you from trying to throw some people to jail. But you have always created an opportunity for yourself to become the President who stands different in the crowd. Continue to, don’t delay, least you get into the crowd of the likes of Dasuki and GEJ. I guarantee history will remember you as a symbol of peace anti-corruption and Justice. Some hardcore evildoers in Nigeria may curse you for sometime but ultimately you would become an ideal for the whole world.

If we remain stuck to history and wait for it to repeat itself, we can never hope to develop. This century where ideas of liberty and fraternity dominate the “territorial integrity rhetoric” “Security’ and” Economic stability” needs a thinking which is out of box. This is the time you can make Nigeria reach moral integrity and greatness by self-determination.

With Regards,
From @9jaclicktivist
By Micheal A Adeniyi

Advertisement

 

Continue Reading
Advertisement
Click to comment

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Facebook

Trending Articles