PRESIDENT BUHARI AND PROF JEGA DISAGREE OVER NIGERIANS

Only very few people understood the fact that Nigeria was already broke before Obasanjo became president. We had had all our fortunes squandered from good image to natural resources and finances. It therefore took so much work to recover some of these losses. It was not an easy task convincing people to do business with Nigeria but gradually they started seeing reason to trust us and work with us. This had a whole lot to do with the way our leaders presented us before the world. You know a woman is not pretty but you do not have to tell her so. That is how life is. Packaging. It takes an educated man to understand this. Education is no monopoly of the four walls of academic institutions. It is a way of life. Academic institutions only make it easier. Today, we have lost hundreds of FDI because our president raised a national insolvency alarm! Meanwhile, these corporations knew very well that all was not rosy with us. After all, the world was going broke and Nigeria is not in the moon. But the assurance by our leaders kept them in our bed. President Buhari's claim that Nigeria is broke though made in mixed faith seem to have brought us all the bad faith in the world. His intention was to cast the previous administration in bad lights and to attract financial compassion from bigger countries and international bodies. But the reverse is the case. Nobody wants to lend money so easily again let alone grant aides. They do not even have enough themselves. The Greece - European Union drama tells it all. But it seems our president is yet to grasp the consequences of his first alarm on the nation and has gone further to raise another one "Nigerians Are Criminals!" Who achieves positive feats with negative streaks? How in the world does this president expect good people of Nigeria world over to survive after he has officially declared them wanted to the government of the countries they reside and hustle? Even if he has identified looters and their assessors what percentage are they in our population of over 150 million to warrant generalizing us all as criminals? Things like this makes one begin to question the usefulness of a cleric and lawyer as Vice President. Those who never see anything wrong in what president Buhari does will not escape this one when it begins to yield results. Fatuously, they think they are insulated from His Excellency's buffoonery. Thank God, the man who made it possible for Buhari to be President, Prof. Attahiru Jega has come out to counter His Excellency on this one. Meanwhile, I am sure Goodluck Jonathan will be somewhere regaling himself with all these. Especially, the recent harangues from the man who tore his PDP card for Buhari now telling the world that Buhari is not the man they were thinking he would be. But then what do we expect from a president who cannot defend his wealth without controversies or a man who allowed criminals to make him president. Ah, he forgets or perhaps does not even know that one who benefits from crime is also a criminal himself. Come to think of it, what do you call a man who budgets billions for his meals in a broke economy?