by Princess Chalya Miri-Gazhi on Facebook
President Buhari, I Am Going To Tell You Something - LISTEN CAREFULLY!
#YouMustSucceed!
I never voted for President Buhari. I voted for then President Jonathan. But Buhari won and even though I was pained that my Jona didn't win, in time I put away my pain and faced the reality that we had a new President who rode on the mantra of change to get into the green house.
The thing is that now that he is in there, he is doing things differently and that is as it should be. If doing things differently for Buhari means not choosing ministers through the random and arbitrary manner that his predecessors did, but consulting broadly, verifying the authenticity and background of the personalities and characters of the ministers he would eventually select, then it isn't a bad thing at all.
At first I was displeased that he has delayed in appointing his cabinet ministers but I am hoping that it is so that he can offer us a better set of well chosen ministers - not just experienced technocrats but people who are passionate about making the sectors they will head become productive, ministers who will dive into their duties, and proffer solutions and policies that would drive their human resources to provide better prompt and quality services to the waiting Nigerian public.
I want Buhari to succeed more than I want him to prove me right. I want Buhari to succeed in restoring sanity to every sector in Nigeria so that the standards of education in Nigeria will best that of UK; so that our health facilities will be equipped with affordable and accessible drugs and quality services for all Nigerians like the NHIS of UK and even better so that we will no longer have to travel outside for foreign care.
Let Buhari succeed in stopping Boko haram and giving Nigeria the peace we are all desperately aching for. Let Buhari succeed in transforming our aviation sector and bringing back the pride of our own national airline carrier as it was in the early eighties. Let Buhari succeed in changing the way business is done in Nigeria so that entrepreneurs and small business owners like me don't need to 'settle' anyone before getting a contract or getting paid for a contract. Let Buhari succeed so that a Plateau woman can one day be governor in Lagos state and a Yoruba man can be governor in Kano state.
Oh how I want Buhari to succeed in unifying every Nigerian to believe once more in the green white green flag and the words of our national anthem and pledge so that social media will no longer be filled with APC versus PDP voltrons but rather Patriotic Nigerians determined to help Nigeria be better; so that all these gloating by APC, and scrutiny of malice by PDP will stop from all and sundry and we can get back to the crux of the matter.
You must succeed Buhari, you must, so that we can move and graduate from this Wizkid mentality of 'twenty man shall fall that day if you cross my lane o' to 'all of us will stand as one on the same lane.'
So you see, Buhari must succeed beyond our personal egos, beyond our political differences, beyond our ethnic ideologies, beyond our cultural and religious faiths and doctrines...he gas succeed or we are doomed for real. Let's get him to give us change, not mock him to give us change.
Anyhow you look at it, whether from the sidelines, or as an insider, if Buhari fails, the ripples of that failure and its ramifications will get to us one way or another because the truth is, if the head is sick, the whole body is affected and it affects the wholesomeness of the polity.
Let's get him to give us change, not mock him to give us change.
So succeed Buhari.
You must succeed.
There's too much at stake for you not to succeed.
I beg you, shame the devil and succeed and Nigerians will forgive you for past and present mistakes - only if you succeed.
Succeed for you, for me, for us, for them and for our unborn children.
Whatever you must do to succeed, do it.
You are now the Grand Commander of the Niger, the Chief Executive Officer, the Chief Security Officer.
The buck stops on your table.
There is still too much power at the center but use it to shake and shape things up.
You've got a one way ticket. Make it count!