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What Mr. President Thinks Of You? -By Steven Haastrup

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His People will say because he is thinking about them, then indirectly he is thinking about us. Who is them? Why the obsession about them? Would his thinking about them help me? We want him thinking about us too. We need his attention. How do we get his attention? Only the unruly has gotten his attention so far. We want to stay in your thoughts Mr. President and please don’t send Adesina to tell us that you are thinking about us.

Come to think about it… I think these spokesmen of Mr. President have been showing us what Mr. President is thinking. It’s such a shame that Mr. Adesina said our President shouldn’t be compared to other performing presidents… meaning he wouldn’t want to be compared, that he is perfect for the Nigerian circumstance and that Nigerians don’t understand him, that Nigerians are not patient, that he doesn’t need to visit disaster areas because people died, but that Mr. President is always thinking about us, Mr. Adesina said on Channels TV (17th of July) via Politics Today.

Same Presidential aspirant who travelled round this country with one chattered plane and campaigned in slums has suddenly grown to a Presidential elite that isn’t mindful of the mismatch and gap of his actions but with mere indirect words from his tired looking spokesmen. We need to hear from you Mr. President. Nigerians need practical hope and not just tales of corruption and thieves who are begging via pages of Newspaper.

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To all the advisers of Mr. President, you are honourably failing in your responsibility to guide our President on the right path, if he wouldn’t listen, can’t you resign? Must you hold on when your work is being undermined? The President has misjudged a lot of situations happening, behaving like he has no advisers on very sensitive issues. It is evident with the way he has dealt with the economy, Mr. President has stayed immovable and unyielding on policies that aren’t working thereby leading us to deeper sufferings.

What is Mr. President thinking? I think he his just thinking about the corrupt, I think he is just thinking about making the system work, I think he is just thinking about defeating Boko Haram and maybe he is also just thinking about his health. Mr. President it’s time to broaden your thinking and let your work as President affect the lowest lives on the streets of this country. Even your clan don’t want to be hailed “Sai Baba” anymore.

Nigerians are beginning to believe that they misjudged you and took your perceived integrity as actual competence; that they chose to believe that being a man of integrity equals being a man of ability. We know what we had (Impunity) before you came in so let’s stop talking about how they drowned it all whenever we ask for the solutions you promised. In this time of crisis, we should have a leader who listens and surrounds himself with smarter progressive brains than himself to succeed.

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My quest as a communication expert with an inclination to see Mr. President succeed is that we need the President to become a good listener and an affectionate communicator – Get feedback from the people, address our concerns affectionately and not obnoxiously – your media assistants should also know this. Doing this will help ease the pain while you surround yourself with smarter people and not duplicitous people.

Give us more reasons to prove you are still always thinking about us. We need practical reasons. No media assistant should respond to this by wanting to shove some past reasons down our throat.

Have a good day Mr. President!

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Steven Haastrup is branded ‘The Fixer’, He is a Communication Crisis Expert, an Image Management Consultant and a Public Speaking Coach.

 

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