President Muhammadu Buhari has urged Nigerians in the diaspora to support President-elect, Bola Tinubu, who is supposed to succeed him after leaving office in May.
Buhari who is on record to have spent almost one quarter of his sad eight years in government outside the nation said this on Tuesday in one of his vaunted travels while in Doha, Qatar, where he had a town hall meeting with Nigerians in the Asian country.
Presidential spokesman Garba Shehu in a statement said Buhari noted that his administration has set a legacy of credible, transparent and fair elections which will conclude on Saturday, March 11 with the governorship and state assembly elections.
He urged the Nigerians to “support the incoming government of Tinubu so that Nigeria will continue to be the beacon of hope and prosperity in our continent and an example for other African countries to emulate.”
To think that this is a government that came in on the promise that the president will make things better for Nigerians, yet has not acquired the ignoble reputation of a government where more Nigerians have died due to insecurity of terrorists and kidnappers and also poverty and associated hunger and sickness than during the three year Nigerian/Biafra war. It is also on record that more Nigerians in these last eight years of Muhamadu Buhari have fled Nigeria, in search of greener pastures at the unimaginable costs, to lives, limbs and materials, than at a other period.
A man leading his family in prayer asked the great creator to let his children know shame. This is because , one that knows shame will be conscious of what he or she is doing, so as not to cause embarassment to self and affected society.
Nigeria is presently trapped in the grip of a government that is totally and absolutely deevoid of shame, quite far aware from what embarassment is all about and proudly wearing a robe of dishonour. This is a government which its leader instead of improving the health system of the land he is leading, spend months or is years in another country’s hospitals for undesclosed ailments at obviously unmentionable financial cost to the people of his county; Now, this same government has stood insupervision over an election which all the foreign observers bar none stated vehemently that its standard is below par, when compared with any known indices, both local and international. An election that has left Nigerians in the international circuit scratching the corner of their eyes in pure shame. Yet the president has the temerity in his continued and wasteful globe trotting to tell Nigerians outside the country to support his imposition on the land of another health challenged cohort of hes, with family and academic background and obvious criminal record to follow in his muddy footsteps. A man who is rumored to be richer than some countries, yet has no explainable source of honest income to account for such mammoth wealth.
The sad truth of the story is that this president, does not seem to know that those Nigerians in the Diaspora he is asking to support his joker in the pack did not vote for him as their president, neither were they granted the citizen’s right to vote for this one he is telling them fictitious stories about. These are totally disenfranchised Nigerians, who have been denied by his government and sadly others before him, in this day and age of the of the art technology to participate in the election process to choose the leaders of their land. They also, sadly are not counted in the country’s census.
The man however acknowledged the noble roles that Nigerians in the Diaspora all over the world have been playing in the development of Nigeria. But what he did not add is that this is achieved despite all the negative effects of his government to this laudale efforts.
He instead barefacedly added that his administration had approved a National Diaspora Policy and supported Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM) to develop programmes that enable them to contribute to national development. The impact that is yet to be felt after eight years.
