President Muhammadu Buhari’s commitment to making Nigeria better than he met it is not in doubt, in spite of efforts to rubbish his legacy.
The Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) says this is crystal clear in the manner the country keeps looking like a giant construction site in the last four and a half years.
In a statement signed by its Chairman Niyi Akinsiju and Secretary Cassidy Madueke, BMO said the President has been taking sure but steady steps in leading Nigeria to prosperity and economic development.
“Like President Buhari, we are aware that some Nigerians have tagged him ‘Baba go slow’, but we also know that nobody has called him a looting President.
“The first time the President made reference to the term was when he was responding to a reporter’s question in far away United Arab Emirates (UAE) about the pace of anti-corruption war. He had said: ‘Whoever calls me Baba-go-slow, I’m very conscious of historical antecedents. You know what happened to me the last time… people [now] have to be proven guilty before they are locked up.’
“This was just to let critics know how slow it is to get things done in a democracy, but in spite of that, the Buhari administration is also fully focused on the provision of infrastructure, especially roads, power and rail transportation.
“We also know the role the leadership of the 8th National Assembly played in slowing down the President for political expediency, especially as the then-Senate President and Speaker of the House of Representatives operated like an internal opposition force before they later made their way into the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)”.
BMO is however convinced that the pace of government activities would be faster in President Buhari’s second term in office.
It said: ” It is gratifying that majority of the Nigerian voting public recognized what was the cog in the wheel of progress and ensured that the All Progressives Congress (APC) got a majority of seats in the two chambers of the National Assembly.
“And more important is the fact that all 16 Senators, including the former Senate President Bukola Saraki who left the party to team up with the opposition, were roundly rejected by their respective constituents.
” if this was not a clear vote of no confidence in Saraki by the Nigerian electorate across the country, we wonder what it was.
“And now within only a few months of a new leadership of the Federal legislature, it is clear that the decision-making process would be much faster. A very good example is how quickly the Production Sharing Contract (Amendment) Act and the 2020 budget were passed and signed into law. We dare say this is a sign of things to come.”
The group also urged Nigerians to keep faith with the President on the basis of his reassurances on the three key areas of focus in his second term: the economy, security and fight against corruption.