By Gbenga Faturoti, Osogbo
The Osun Positive Force (OPF), has urged Nigerians to be patient with President Muhammadu Buhari, since the President never promised to turn around within 100 days what had been spoilt by past administrations.
The state of hopelessness created by the former President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration and his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 16 years could not be fixed in just 100 days, the group said.
Media director of the OPF, Yinka Diamond, stated this in a press release issued at the weekend in Osogbo, the Osun State capital.
According to the group, “It is very ludicrous, to say the least, for any reasonable person to evaluate someone with a four-year mandate in 100 days, it is not possible for President Buhari to put things right in one-stop check, considering endemic nature of corruption perpetrated by the successive administrations since 1999.
“The comatose bastardisation of Nigeria’s economy in the hands of few cabals in the Peoples Democratic Party cannot magically be fixed in 100 days, and President Buhari’s steps so far have given majority of Nigerians a rare hope of better tomorrow.
“The documents being paraded as promises made by President Buhari does not emanate from his party, the APC, or the campaign team that handled his electioneering. The two veritable documents, ‘My Covenant with Nigerians’ and APC manifestos’ are documents upon which Nigerians should hold him responsible and not the unfounded timeline document flaunted around.”
The group also added that the President has done much, as, “Incontrovertible, in the last three months of the administration, the country has witnessed a significant change in terms of improved security, with relocation of military base to the theater of war in the North-East, which has cumulated into uncoordinated attacks by the insurgents; support by multi-national forces and relationship with Western countries strengthened. The opaque state-owned oil facilities revived, along with clean-up of environmental degradation in the Niger-Delta region, and cancellation of unfavourable oil contracts fictitiously shared among the nation’s economy parasites.
“The debate here should not be what President Buhari has been able to do within this period but how Nigerians’ morale has been boosted to a point that, for the first time in the recent past, they have a leader who feels their pains, ready to work for them and transparently living by example.”
The group admonished Nigerians to cooperate with Buhari as he steadily brings to an end age-long underdevelopment and corruption in the country: “Nigeria has a great destiny ahead of her, requires everyone to stand by the government in achieving its set-out goals.”