The Buhari trekkers

By Joseph Edgar … .
Immediately PMB was announced winner of the Presidential elections, a rash of Trekkers took over the country. People started walking all over the place to celebrate the victory and to also show support. With the avalanche of missteps and false starts, I think they should all start dusting their trekking boots in preparation for another round of Trekking.
The economy is seriously taking a beating. The Naira is at its weakest in years, unemployment figures are hitting the double margins, FDIs are running dry, the CBN is gradually losing the battle to hold together the economy. Methinks someone should start to trek from Oshodi to Daura to protest the inability of this government to show direction with the economy especially at this time where we are being buffeted by terrible economic tides with no seeming answer in sight.
Politically, the long awaited Ministers List has come out with a lame reception. We had been made to wait this long for a list that contained the usual suspects. This is the first batch though, let’s wait and see if the second batch would justify the long wait. Cohesion seems to be wavering within the ruling party. The fight for the Senate Presidency and the ministerial list may have damaged almost irreparably the soul of the party. I just read a report in one national daily that a national Leader of the APC is under security watch for moving against the leadership as a result of being snubbed by Buhari on the list.

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The Trekkers need to come out once again. They should trek and demand for more action. We are not seeing any purpose driven policy aimed at assuaging the challenges we are facing. In fact the question is beginning to play in my mind, were we better off with PDP. At least inflation was single digit despite the massive corruption, unemployment was contained, exchange rate stable, DFIs found a home here and our rating by international rating agencies remained stable and agriculture was booming with the reforms carried out in the fertilizer distribution sector.
Here we have curbed corruption with our body language, seem to be containing the insurgency even though the bombing has commenced again, every other indices of measurement is showing a weakness beside the achievements of the Jonathan administration.
We need to start trekking. The trek must commence from Abuja to Daura. Others can start from Kano to Otueke to go seek advise, for I am beginning to sense that we may have entered the wrong bus as a nation.

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