Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: [africanworldforum] SUNDAY MUSINGS: President Muhammadu Buhari (PMB) at Six Months: My Score-Card

 Bolaji,

No need to be testy; you write these things and I am sure you are expecting feedback. My feedback was honest and polite. You have responded with ribaldry and rudeness. I give it to you, you can be funny when goaded. I didn't think I was goading you, though. Your conclusions just seemed totally disconnected from, out of touch with reality, which is that Buhari and his band of (alleged) thieves are now the laughing stock of Nigerians. By the way, even your numbers don't add up; how can you give Buhari an "A- overall" when he had 2 As, 1 A-, 2 B+ and a regular B. He gets a B, even by your generous, some would say, partisan grading system, lol. And still, don't bring these grades to social media o, they will show you pepper, those rude young ones who have been routinely screwed by our generation of leaders, rulers and looters.

One thing I failed to mention; Buhari as a matter of urgency needs to fire his entire PR team (Garba Shehu and Femi Adesina) and get real professionals to sell his message (whatever it is)  to the Nigerian people, in a credible, holistic and articulate manner. Right now, he is taking a shellacking on social media, it is painful to watch. And it is easy to do, he comes across as someone stuck in the 80's in the worst possible way.

Here is an example of the beating he is taking on Facebook. Once you get over the bad grammar, you can feel the disappointment:

"After six months, nothing has Changed. No one charged and successfully prosecuted and jailed for corruption. Power outages are worse than under GEJ era. Fuel scarcity has remained the order of the day. Insecurity has worsen under PMB. Our gallant armed forces are being slaughtered daily without response from the government The economy is in total comatose. Yet, PMB continue his globetrotting. Where are the much anticipated revolutionary Changes in fatherland? It is time to wail."

The BBC today posted Bloomberg's lamentation on our tanking economy that you gave Buhari an A for:

"Nigeria stocks fall to three-year low

Posted at 16:50

Nigeria's stocks fell to their lowest level in almost three years as foreigners exited the market amid fading hopes that President Muhammadu Buhari's government can revive the Africa's largest economy, Bloomberg news agency reports.

All Share Index dropped 0.8% to 27,385.69 at close in the commercial capital of Lagos, the lowest since December 2012.

The gauge declined on all but three trading days in November for a monthly drop of 6.2%."

Even Tinubu who gave us this monstrosity is tired, he has now joined comedians like Dele Momodu to be a Wailing Wailer:

http://www.post-nigeria.com/buhari-stop-playing-megaphones-outside-the-country-tinubu/

Tunde Bakare too. The situation is dire.

Here Shaka Momodu:

"The promoters of "change" only preach "change", but pay lip service to the attitudinal change required to bring about real and enduring change. The followers on their part have embraced well packaged falsehoods as a way of life. They have even crowned well known villains heroes of a new democratic order and yet yearn for change. Sadly, the country's resources have become the gift of a few people. And Nigeria gets nothing but mismanagement, corruption and devastation in return. The people have been sold on a change that does not exist and they can't seem to see or better still have become numbed by unfolding events."

http://www.thetrentonline.com/the-witchcraft-of-change-has-run-out-of-steam-demystification-begins-read/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=socialnetwork

The situation is dire. We should all put our heads together and find ways to help Buhari get out of the mess he has put us in. I stand ready to help. Always.

Ikhide

 

Stalk my blog at http://www.xokigbo.com/

Follow me on Twitter: @ikhide

Join me on Facebook: www.facebook.com/ikhide

---

From: Mobolaji Aluko <alukome@gmail.com>
To: Ikhide <xokigbo@yahoo.com>
Cc: "usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com" <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>; "africanworldforum@googlegroups.com" <africanworldforum@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Monday, November 30, 2015 1:11 PM
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: [africanworldforum] SUNDAY MUSINGS: President Muhammadu Buhari (PMB) at Six Months: My Score-Card

Ikhide:

You talk and write too much, and too loudly.....if I did not know you face to face, I would tear you to pieces with all this your loud-mouth-edness.

But I will spare you.......for old time sakes.

I advise you to set up your own parameters, and judge Buhari yourself......I won't criticize you for whatever grades you give him.  I have given mine, and no amount of literary terrorism - which is what you tend to be: a literary terrorist, despite all your attempts at democratic credentials.  Anybody who does not agree with you should maybe be - eliminated?

As to doing a doctorate under me at Howard or any where else, I would ask you a few questions, and if you shoot your mouth the way you often do around here, I would not even admit you.

And there you have it.  Behave yourself.

Bolaji Aluko

On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 5:28 PM, Ikhide <xokigbo@yahoo.com> wrote:

Bolaji,

This your grading system sha. Disappointing is not even a word I would begin to use. If you really believe these grades, if you are really this generous with grades, I fully regret not taking a doctorate in engineering from you at Howard. I would have earned 10 of them, By your standards.

Please do not share these grades on social media. You will suffer an extreme case of high tech lynching. The youngsters who helped propel that man into Aso Rock are really upset and are taking no prisoners. Buhari is being lampooned and ridiculed in ways that even I did not think possible. It is pretty bad.

With all due respect, these grades are inappropriate; they lower the bar for acceptable governance to an unsustainable low. And the are quite patronizing. To call Fashola and Amaechi, especially Amaechi "proven performers" seems insensitive to the outrage out there over their alleged looting of state resources. People are really angry. I know they have not been found guilty of anything. No one has since Obi Okonkwo was convicted in Achebe's No Longer at Ease. As you know that was fiction. Obasanjo is a holy man, Goodluck Jonathan is a saint, IBB is a statesman, the treasury simply emptied itself.

This is what you and I know, Buhari is an unmitigated disaster. It is time for good people like you to step forward and be productive. Suggest practical ways to get Nigeria out of the mess that those who engineered his rise got us into.  Once I go past your hagiography (a lead balloon by the way, guessing from the wooden response here) you have started something.  You have asked that he be judged on three areas: Security, Anti-Corruption and Employment. That is exactly what Buhari and the APC should be doing; focusing on a few measurable areas and securing quick wins. I would replace "Employment" with "Economy."

The focus on "anti-corruption" by Buhari as a means perhaps of funding a moribund economy is silly. This is where Nigeria has been failed with loud-mouthed, poorly educated social media overlords and some public intellectuals with zero idea about managing sophisticated systems. Even were we to recover funds from these alleged looters (Fashola, Amaechi, OBJ, GEJ, Diezeani. and co) these would be one-time funds that would only be useful for one-time expenditures like capital projects (razing down OAU hostels and building brand new ones so that children will not be doing 'shot putt' with faeces!). Nigeria needs funds that can be replicated every budget cycle, to pay her bills and revamp the economy. Buhari is quite frankly clueless and you should be alarmed.

 

Buhari needs to talk to our people. Come up with a plan, including a Marshall Plan by the way that hands him and Nigerians some quick wins and some long term sustainable gains. Right now, he has no idea what he is doing.

By the way, I did a survey on Twitter and on Facebook; 3 out of 4 respondents strongly believe that Buhari is leading us on the wrong path. Some of the comments are quite disrespectful of him. He has been demystified. This is what happens when you delete history from the classrooms, youngsters learn painfully.

- Ikhide

 

Stalk my blog at http://www.xokigbo.com/

Follow me on Twitter: @ikhide

Join me on Facebook: www.facebook.com/ikhide

---

From: Mobolaji Aluko <alukome@gmail.com>
To: "africanworldforum@googlegroups.com" <africanworldforum@googlegroups.com>
Cc: NaijaPolitics e-Group <NaijaPolitics@yahoogroups.com>; OmoOdua <OmoOdua@yahoogroups.com>; "nigerianid@yahoogroups.com" <nigerianID@yahoogroups.com>; NiDAN <nidan-group@googlegroups.com>; Ra'ayi <Raayiriga@yahoogroups.com>; Yan Arewa <YanArewa@yahoogroups.com>; NigerianWorldForum <NIgerianWorldForum@yahoogroups.com>; "nigeriaworldforum@yahoogroups.com" <nigeriaworldforum@yahoogroups.com>; USAAfrica Dialogue <USAAfricaDialogue@googlegroups.com>; naijaintellects <naijaintellects@googlegroups.com>; ekiti ekitigroups <ekitipanupo@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2015 4:47 PM
Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: [africanworldforum] SUNDAY MUSINGS: President Muhammadu Buhari (PMB) at Six Months: My Score-Card

Joe Attueyi:

Some quick response, before I head off to do other things:

On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 4:47 PM, 'Joe Attueyi' via AfricanWorldForum <africanworldforum@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Prof Aluko,

Things must getting very desperate in Otuoke --the land of 5 citizens and 5 crocodiles according to my brother Abba. 

No desperation whatsover...Otuoke has never been a "land of 5 citizens and 5 crocodoiles."   In fact, with 1,800 staff and 2,300 students, the once-sleepy town is bubbling with activity..... 

Abba is given to hyperbole, and you are given to rumor-mongering...  He should visit sometime, and you should visit again soon.......

 

Kilode paapaa? Hehehehe!

PMB gets an 'A' on the basis that we had a free and fair election in May, Jonathan peacefully handed over? Really? 

To have gallant loser in GEJ, you got to have a gallant winner....PMB scores an A for being the gallant winner.

 

Na waoh for WAEC. 

It would seem you need some lessons on objective appraisals. You know the type that sets Specific Measurable and Time bound goals BEFORE and measures results against these objectives AFTER.  

A good starting point for your sunday lesson would be the Buharimeter maintained by the folks at BudgetiT et al

 http://www.buharimeter.ng/

Did I hear you say thank you? You are welcome. My public service

To fulfil all righteousness, I have added this table, which I call Project 222 of Buharimetry...:

 

Table 3:  Project "222" of Buharimetry…..

	Sector	Number Of "Promises"	Supervising Ministry
1	Agriculture	19	Agriculture
2	Corruption	13	Presidency
3	Education	30	Education
4	Employment	10	Labor & Employment
5	Environment	13	Environment
6	Foreign Policy	7	Foreign Affairs
7	Health	8	Health
8	Housing	6	Housing
9	ICT	4	Science & Tech
10	Industrialization	13	Industry, Trade & Investment
11	Infrastructure	18	Power, Works & Housing
12	National Security and Defence	22	Defence, Interior
13	Niger Delta	3	Niger-Delta
14	Oil and Gas	11	Petroleum Resources
15	Persons with Disability	1	Health, Labor & Employment
16	Politics and Governance	11	Presidency
17	Social Safety Net	3	Budget & National Planning
18	Sport and Culture	13	Sports
19	Water and Sanitation	5	Water Resources
20	Women and Youth Empowerment	12	Women & & Youth
	TOTAL	222

 

You are welcome to judge PMB's ministries on 222 promises.  I judge PMB only on three promises - Security, Anti-Corruption and Employment.

By the way, please note that "Buharimeter" is an initiative of Center for Democracy and Development (Solids Mineral Minister Kayode Fayemi's is its 1997 founder, and importer into Nigeria in 1999 see http://ngmanifesto.org/about-cdd/), but sponsored by OSiWa, with BudgIt as a listed partner (and designer of the website).  So don't go saying as if it is a BudgIt initiative - it is not.

And there you have it.  Did I hear you deflate - a lesson in objectivity?

Bolaji Aluko

Having a belly laugh....

 

Joe

Having an Alukosque belly laugh!

Sent from my iPhone

On Nov 29, 2015, at 2:18 PM, Mobolaji Aluko <alukome@gmail.com> wrote:

 

 

SUNDAY MUSING:  PMB @ SIX MONTHS:  MY SCORE-CARD

By

Mobolaji E. Aluko. PhD

alukome@gmail.com

 

November 29, 2015

 

TABLE 1: A Score-card of PMB at Six Months

 

S/N	Item	Date(s)	Remarks	Grade	Basis	What is there left to be done?
1	Ascension to Presidency by Muhammadu Buhari (PMB) and Vice-Presidency by Yemi Osibajo (VYO)	May 29, 2015	Preached "Change", he "belong(s) to everybody and to nobody" in particular…..	A	Free-and-Fair election; Goodluck Jonathan handed over peacefully	Focus on mandate delivery in the next three-and-a-half years
2	Filled Various Administration Positions that don't require Senate Approval (SGF, etc.)	Various dates	Criticisms of ethnic unfairness, etc.	A	Has a right to choose these officials; within his constitutional limits.	"6,000" more positions yet to be filled…
3	Filled Ministerial positions (36 in 25 Ministries)	Various dates	Some portfolios were surprising, but all in all competent hands, but will they succeed in present positions? (see Table 2)	B+	Fashola, Fayemi, Ngige, Audu, Amaechi, Udo Udoma…these are proven performers…the taste of the pudding will be in the eating	Ensure that each minister and ministry fit into the three-point agenda of Security, Anti-Corruption and Employment, with growing an INCLUSIVE ECONOMY as the over-arching ambition, not just INDICIAL DEVELOPMENT
4	Security	Various	Chose physically-fit and performing Heads of Military service branches; offensive strategy; increased morale, equipment, intelligence and information.  Gave a target deadline for eliminating Boko Haram; degraded, but not fully yet Regional and international collaboration on cross-border security matters	B+	Whole tracts of land have been recovered from BH, and many IDPs are returning to their homes.  However bombings continue – to be expected of insurgencies of this type	Pressing on with the offensive strategy Looking out for security challenges elsewhere in the country (SE, SS), using lessons learnt in previous instances to stem further conflagration Establish state and community policing in the shortest possible time
5	Anti-Corruption	Various	Initial focus on stemming corruption in Federal public service, in conjunction with its interface with the private sector (particularly oil and gas, as well as agriculture and insurance) Enforcement of Treasury Single Action, Bank Verification Number (BVN) and the banning of payment of foreign currency (cash) into Deposit Money Banks (DMBs) inside Nigeria. Re-energizing EFCC and ICPC, and going after loot recovery, both at home and abroad	A-	These are far reaching steps, that may not yield all fruits right away, but in time, I am absolutely confident that they will.	Asset Declaration by all public officials should be accessible to all registered  NGOs who have "right-to-know" Amend Section 308 of Constitution to enable criminal prosecution of Executives at Federal, State and Local Government levels. Institute absolute zero tolerance for bribery and corruption among (1)  the Police and (2) Judges…zero tolerance…even a hint of it.
6	Employment	Various	PMB has identified ECONOMY DIVERSIFICATION – in non-oil sectors such as solid minerals, agriculture, culture and tourism, infrastructure and service industries – as the key to increasing employment, both on the short run and the long-run	B	Our oil economy has tanked, unlikely to recover any time soon…..yet we still have oil than most countries in the workd, and also have 1 million square kilometers of fertile and God-endowed land, sea and air….Competent ministers have been placed to guide these vital sectors	I am looking forward to the 2016 BUDGET – it will give an indication of the true direction of PMB's ECONOMIC POLICY.  I expect (1) removal of subsidy (2) conditional cash transfer (3) massive infrastructural development coupled with work corps (4) agricultural incentives with low-interest-rate loans, (5) a better balance between recurrent and capital expenditures (6) a quadrupling of the budget quantum etc.
7	OVERALL GRADE			A-

 

 

Table 2:  PMB and His Ministers – My Charge to Them

 

S/N	Zone	S/N	S/N	States	Minister	Portfolio	My Charge
A	North-West	A	A	Katsina	Muhammadu Buhari	President & "Prime Minister"	All buck stops at his desk as the only elected "Minister"; all blame on him, all praise to his team
B	South-West	B	B	Ogun	Yemi Osinbajo	Vice-President & "Deputy PM"	Ditto – Economy matters in particular, as Chair of NEC
1	South-West	1	1	Ekiti	Kayode Fayemi	Solid Minerals	Diversify, diversify, diversify the economy; there is solid mineral of commercial value in each state, unlike liquid mineral (oil)
		2	2	Lagos	Babatunde Fashola	Power, Works & Housing	As "Infrastructure" Minister, Ensure Reliable power, good roads, affordable housing
		3	3	Ogun	Kemi Adeosun	Finance	Manage our money better, re-balance our capital and recurrent expenditures;  balance our budget
		4	4	Ondo	Claudius Daramola	Niger-Delta (State)	Enrich, empower, employ the Golden Goose area that lays the national egg
		5	5	Osun	Isaac Adewole	Health	Strengthen the national health system, particularly health insurance and primary health care
		6	6	Oyo	Adebayo Shittu	Communications	Strengthen our national communication system (postal, tele- and other electronic), remove customer exploitation
2	South-East	7	1	Abia	Okechukwu Enelamah	Industry, Trade & Investment	Enlarge our national industrial base, seek international markets for our goods, increase FDI
		8	2	Anambra	Chris Ngige	Labour & Employment	Increase employment, reduce labor tensions
		9	3	Ebonyi	Ogbonnaya Onu	Science & Technology	Deploy 21st Century S&T in all ramifications, including in education delivery
		10	4	Enugu	Geoffrey Onyeama	Foreign Affairs	Complement our domestic policy in economy, education, security and anti-corruption; engage our Diaspora more positively
		11	5	Imo	Anthony Anwuka	Education (State)	Lift education standards, increase access, including for the girl-child
3	South-South	12	1	Akwa-Ibom	Udoma Udo Udoma	Budget & National Planning	Re-balance capital and recurrent budgets, and offer quality evidence-based planning
		13	2	Bayelsa	Heineken Lokpobiri	Agriculture & Rural Development (State)	Diversify our economy, feed the nation, increase employment,  reduce urban drift
		`4	3	Cross-River	Usani Uguru	Niger-Delta Affairs	Enrich, empower, employ the Golden Goose area that lays the national egg
		15	4	Delta	Ibe Kachikwu	Petroleum Resources (State)	Manage our main resource better, reduce corruption in the industry,   enlarge the value chain
		16	5	Edo	Osagie Ehanire	Health (State)	Strengthen the national health system, particularly health insurance and primary health care
		17	6	Rivers	Rotimi Amaechi	Transportation	Build a national integrated transportation network of land (road and rail), sea and air; improve air service nationwide (including at Port Harcourt Airport)
4	North-West	18	1	Jigawa	Suleiman Adamu	Water Resources	Water is life; enliven the nation for food, transportation and industry
		19	2	Kebbi	Abubakar Malami	Justice	No justice, no peace - Ensure peace through justice; Justice delayed is justice denied – ensure timely justice. Pursue corruption without fair or favor
		20	3	Kaduna	Zainab Ahmed	Budget & National Planning (State)	Re-balance capital and recurrent budgets, and offer quality evidence-based planning
		21	4	Katsina	Hadi Sirika	Transportaion (Aviation, State)	Build a national integrated transportation network of land (road and rail), sea and air; improve air service nationwide (including at Port Harcourt Airport)
		22	5	Kano	Abdulrahman Danbazzau	Interior	Police our nation within its borders; democratize police operations through establishment of state and community policing
		23	6	Sokoto	Aisha Abubakar	Industry, Trade & Investment (State)	Enlarge our national industrial base, seek international markets for our goods, increase FDI
		24	7	Zamfara	Muhammad Dan Ali	Defence	Protect our territorial integrity; crush insurgency of all types
5	North-East	25	1	Adamawa	Muhammodu Bello	Federal Capital Territory	Improve Abuja as national capital, and as a model for state capitals and local government headquarters
		26	2	Bauchi	Adamu Adamu	Education	Lift education standards, increase access, including for the girl-child
		27	3	Borno	Mustapha Baba Shehuri	Power, Works & Housing (State)	Ensure Reliable power, good roads, affordable housing
		28	4	Gombe	Amina Mohammed	Environment	Make our country "green", ensure attainment  of relevant sustainable development goals (SDGs)
		29	5	Taraba	Aisha Alhassan	Women Affairs	Lift our women, unleash their energy into the economy, remove all cultural and religious exploitation
		30	6	Yobe	Khadija Abubakar Abba Ibrahim	Foreign Affairs (State)	Complement our domestic policy in economy, education, security and anti-corruption; engage our Diaspora more positively
6	North-Central	31	1	Benue	Audu Ogbeh	Agriculture & Rural Development	Diversify our economy, feed the nation, increase employment,  reduce urban drift
		32	2	Kogi	James Ocholi, SAN	Labour & Employment (State)	Increase employment, reduce labor tensions
		33	3	Kwara	Lai Mohammed	Information	Inform the nation about government business, banish ignorance, shed light into darkness
		34	4	Niger	Abubakar Bwari	Solid Minerals (State)	Diversify, diversity, diversity the economy; there is solid mineral in each state, unlike liquid mineral (oil)
		35	5	Nasarawa	Ibrahim Usman Jubril	Environment (State)	Make our country "green", ensure attainable of relevant sustainable development goals
		36	6	Plateau	Solomon Dalong	Youth & Sports	Give hope to the Youth, train their minds, enlarge broad sports participation nationwide, and curb strife in national sports administration

 

 

 

--

---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AfricanWorldForum" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to africanworldforum+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
To post to this group, send email to africanworldforum@googlegroups.com.
Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/africanworldforum.
To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/africanworldforum/CAORq2DBXqUHfYiA14e%2BXv8FDms-FV9RXXKYhrUARVo-H%3DJGQBQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

--

---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AfricanWorldForum" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to africanworldforum+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
To post to this group, send email to africanworldforum@googlegroups.com.
Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/africanworldforum.
To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/africanworldforum/F957E455-F7D7-480C-A4DF-FEFB5AC2956E%40yahoo.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

--
Listserv moderated by Toyin Falola, University of Texas at Austin
To post to this group, send an email to USAAfricaDialogue@googlegroups.com
To subscribe to this group, send an email to mailto:USAAfricaDialogue%2Bsubscribe@googlegroups.com
Current archives at http://groups.google.com/group/USAAfricaDialogue
Early archives at http://www.utexas.edu/conferences/africa/ads/index.html
---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "USA Africa Dialogue Series" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to usaafricadialogue+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.