By Adamu Aminu.
The time crept so past. What’s is done, has been done. Six years out of eight is enough for the discerning to make a fair judgement.
Those who have confidence in the leadership capabilities of the present crop of leaders have many reasons to rejoiced.
While those who felt disappointed by how the polity is moulded and shapes to the likes of a few have many justifications to cry and writhing.
To the few, running an affluent living on the power corridor have every reason to think, perhaps in a self-deceptive mode, they are the luckiest and the national resources is their patrimony.
In the polity where national resources are scoops deeply by few with Caterpillar shovel and give superficially to the malnourished populace with a teaspoon.
While the majority, the sidelined, the downtrodden and the masses wallowing in penury and tribulations, which attested that commoners were not less than subservient to the dominance of the few.
Some of the key promises made by the gap-toothed leader during the last campaign to the victory include insecurity, unemployment, economic recovery, inflation and fighting corruption from stem to stern, among others.
The question is which one among the aforementioned challenges brought down to its knees within these years?
Down to the state level, most of the pledges and promises made during electioneering campaigns, are seemingly sugar-coated and merely lips-serviced.
Despite all the proclamation of resuscitation of education and health care system, none of them patronizing public schools or hospitals within their states.
Wards enrollment in foreign universities and also going for health tourism to cure even for a mild infection is what’s all about.
Where are the promises being made to improve education and healthcare that will cater for all and sundry?
Of course, the return of President Buhari in 2015 sends jittery down the spine of political pirates, which is reminiscent of his hardline brand of governance in a short-lived 20-month of his military administration.
Which indicated the Messiah has returned to salvage the nation – as he was previously seen and thought like a Tiger, feared for his nigritude in past.
But now seen as a scarecrow – frightening from afar, but harmless at the close range, just for his timidity and indolence when it comes to stamped his hammer at the appropriate time for the misdeeds.
Despite the foregoing, President Buhari still holds the trophy for being a man with integrity and transparency, who is universally known for not upholding the tenets of thievery from the public coffers.
With all the pledges he made to fight corruption in all its ramifications, but his party has glaringly become a haven for those who are overtly ambitious to elevate their self-worth.
This happens at a time, the common man is grappling to survive in a nation sandwiched between economic depressions fuelled by a deluge of debts, currency devaluation, unemployment, hyperinflation and insecurities.
Inarguably, the pledges made to deal with the scorching waves of terrorism and other forms of insecurity were at the top of the scale of preference during the electioneering campaign.
Even though the attacks were relatively subdued, but later catapulted to armed banditry in Sokoto, Zamfara, Kebbi, Niger, Katsina and Kaduna states respectively.
This has turned out to be carnage In the affected states in which dozens of people are massacre, hundreds fleeing their homestead almost daily.
While in the Southeast heightening fears resulted from security breaches from militias in were treated with a pinch of laxity.
What would be the hopes of the people from the arm-bandits riddle states, with regards to the promises to safeguards their lives and properties?
At the time, when a high-profile, glitz and glamour wedding of first Son and Bichi Princess took place in Kano, without considering to make the event low-key to mourned the innocent souls massacre by bandits.
What does that portray in the minds of the surviving victims who will think that this happened under the government of their dreamt Messiah? promises to protect their lives and properties?
And apart from that, even to revamp the economy as vigorously pledged with punching-fisted in the air during the campaign is now appears to be a mirage.
People should forget and look ahead. What wasn’t achievable in six years, can’t be achieved in less than a couple of years to come.
To be truthful, the hard-hitting reality is the majority of Nigerians are in severe poverty due to a malnourished, ailing economy.
Anyway, all that’s done has been done. Thanking God for what one’s have is the viable option, and is much better than groaning for what one’s longing for.
But, People are fed up with the brim of penury.
