Though the Peoples Democratic Party did
an almost irreparable damage to the economy through a deranged
prodigality and declivity in nobility, President Muhammadu Buhari and
his deputy have the integrity and puritanical panache to mitigate the
destruction. But they must be given time to do this. Nigerians must
trade in a Greece-like collapsed future with an ephemeral life of
hardship in the present. Eleven months trajectory cannot do the magic
even though magic is now a national anthem.
The saboteurs cannot hold Nigeria down
for long. This fuel conundrum is going to become history with honesty of
leadership and the forex palaver would ease out ultimately.
Nigeria cannot have any better deal than
with a President who will not steal and will not allow his lieutenants
to steal. One more year of such sanity should translate into a quantum
gain insulating the economy from the vagaries of oil distortions.
President Goodluck Jonathan willingly
handed over power knowing that the fundamentals of the economy have been
irretrievably assailed and any attempt to refuse to hand over would
provoke a damning outrage that could lead to a self-inflicted abnegation
for him at least he cannot be denied the comfort of Caesar fiddling at
the conflagration of Rome.
Nigerians must be circumspect enough not
to play into the hands of the PDP and fifth columnists using the media
to discredit the painstaking efforts of the duo of Buhari and Yemi
Oshinbajo even as the economic parametres are being atrophied on a daily
basis.
Merits of devaluation in an import
dependent economy are not yet advanced beyond the Breton Wood
neo-colonialist stereotypes and the President must not sacrifice the
welfare of the majority navigating an already devalued currency on the
altar of elitist populism.
As Nigerians are pushing through this
unwarranted pains and depravations, the opposition party at the root of
all these is closing ranks to stage a comeback with the same indicted
political outlook.
Nigerians must choose between ephemeral
pains being attenuated with integrity and a mortgaged future being
designed by political undertakers.
Bukola Ajisola,
Oyin Jolayemi Street,
Victoria Island,
Lagos State, bukymany@yahoo.com:
Punch
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