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| Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. PDP's Presidential Candidate. |
Our attention has been drawn to
the launch of the so-called ‘next level’ campaign initiated today by the Buhari
campaign and we congratulate them even as we make bold to ask one or two
questions as part of our efforts to run an issue-based campaign.
Reading
through the presentation, we note that it is very vague on policy and very big
on promises. Promises are cheap. Anyone can make promises and indeed, President
Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress did make quite a number of
promises which they either denied or did not fulfil, such as the promise to
create 3 million jobs per annum and to equalise the value of the Naira with the
dollar.
However,
policies are the plans and roadmaps that will be used to achieve those
promises. Promises made without policies are like a house without a foundation,
they will fall. And we have seen proof of that in Nigeria in the last three
years.
Without
a concrete policy, these ‘next level’ promises are nothing more than next level
propaganda. We counsel the Buhari campaign that the time for propaganda has
gone and Nigerians are now interested in proper agenda.
In
fact, the feedback we have received from Nigerians is one of alarm. Over the
last three and a half years of the Buhari administration, Nigeria was
officially named as the world headquarters for extreme poverty. Nigerians are
asking if this administration is planning ‘next level’ poverty for them?
Under
this government, 11 million Nigerians have lost their jobs and the
administration is so panicky that it has refused to fund the National Bureau of
Statistics to release the latest unemployment numbers. Nigerians are asking if
this administration is planning ‘next level’ unemployment for them?
Under
Buhari, the value of the Naira has been so devalued that Bloomberg rated
the Naira as the worst performing currency on earth. The nation wants to know
if this government plans ‘next level’ devaluation of the Naira for them?
In
2018, Transparency International announced that Nigeria made her worst ever
retrogression in the Corruption Perception Index moving 12 steps backwards from
136 under the Peoples Democratic Party to 144 under Buhari. Nigerians are
asking if this administration is planning ‘next level’ corruption for them?
The
so-called ‘next level’ launch was an anti-climax in that it just exposed the
fact that all that the Buhari government is promising Nigerians is more of the
same. If the state of the average Nigerian has not improved in the last three
and a half years, more of the same is obviously not what they need.
We
therefore urge Nigerians not to lose hope, but to await the launch of the
policies, plans and program of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar to Get
Nigeria Working Again. Remember those who fail to plan, plan to fail. Atiku has
a plan. Atiku means jobs and at 12 noon on Monday, November 19, 2018, you will
hear from the man with the plan.
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