”President has failed to fulfill campaign promises” Arewa Youths
With no more than 365 days left in the lifespan of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration, concerned stakeholders have called on the president to attempt using the remainder of his term to assuage the pains of Nigerians on many fronts due to poor governance.
Largely criticised for having failed in government, President Buhari has been urged to reverse abnormal and deviant political practices, that keep preventing the nation from progressing.
The Executive Director, Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre, (CISLAC), Musa Rafsanjani, while assessing governance under the current regime, noted that the administration had fared poorly in terms of the justice system, anti-corruption, economic regeneration and inclusiveness.
Similarly, some South-West socio-political groups, Yoruba Ronu Leadership Forum, Afenifere and Afenifere Renewal Group, (ARG), called on President Buhari to use the remaining part of his term in office to restructure Nigeria for the practice of true federalism.
While the three groups scored the government low in performance over the last seven years, they noted that the President could still use the remaining year to save the face of his government by taking the bold step of addressing the issue of the governance system in the country.
In separate interactions with newsmen, the spokesman of Afenifere, the umbrella body of all socio-political organisations in the South-West, Jare Ajayi, said the score-card of the present administration is not cheery at all.
In a reaction to the commemoration of the administrations May 29 take-over date, captioned: Seven Years On: Afenifere Scores Government Low, Reiterates Calls For Restructuring, State Police, Ajayi said the score-card of the present administration is not cheery at all.
According to Afenifere, all major yardsticks for assessing an administration show negative results for the current administration going by its performance in the last seven years.
In like manner, members of the Arewa Defense League, (ADL), scored President Buhari low in governance, saying he has failed to salvage the nation from socio-economic woes plaguing the country after seven years in office.
The group stated that the only legacy left the administration could bequeath to Nigerians in its last year in power is to conduct free, fair and credible elections, which will lead to the transfer of power to credible leadership that would reposition the country beginning from 2023.
In the South-East zone, the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, refrained from assessing the president, saying that it would do so at the appointed time, but statesman, Chekwas Okorie, opined that the performance of President Buhari so far has been a mixture of good and bad. He stressed the need, however, for Buhari to rise above ugly perceptions of ethnic bias about his leadership style.
Okorie, who is a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), acknowledged that the president came into office at a time of serious global challenges, which had taken a toll on the economy including developed countries, adding that he had managed the situation fairly well.
Okorie advised President Buhari to, within the next 12 months, address critical areas that could unite the country more and solve the energy crisis.
