Chidi,
-- Buhari and the APC made many unrealistic, silly, and deceptive promises. Most literate people knew these promises to be unattainable and deceptive promises. Guess what? They still supported him because he was the only viable alternative to Jonathan, the one who could get Jonathan out of there. Their support for the most part was more about getting rid of Jonathan, who was an unmitigated disaster, in the hope (now proven wrong) that Buhari would be an improvement upon Jonathan, especially since he claimed that he had learned from his previous tenure and had become a "reformed democrat." No one that I know believed that Buhari would make the Naira equal to the dollar or that petrol would sell for N40 Naira per little, or that all unemployed people would be paid a monthly stipend of N5,000 etc. In fact some of us called these silly, deceptive promises out BEFORE the election in our public interventions. While some people feigned surprise when Buhari began to disown those promises and began to attribute them to the APC, some of us who saw the promises as mere political gimmicks and called them that were not surprised.
On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 11:35 AM, Chidi Anthony Opara <chidi.opara@gmail.com> wrote:
Moses,
How could any adult in Nigeria who can read and write not know that Buhari has always been incompetent and would as a result mess things up?
How could any literate person in Nigeria for example, believe that Buhari, even if he stays for two terms in office, can bring the naira at per with the dollar, considering the economic factors that must come into play before that can happen?
The man made that promise and his supporters, even those with PhD in Economics, went to town with that!
You are now telling us that the Buhari supporters couldn't have seen this mess coming?
Well, I saw it coming and I said it here and I am not clairvoyant!
CAO.
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