AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI

not start in my generation. These diabolisms threaten the honour, dignity and respect accruable to the
equality of humanity.
The first issue I would like to sustain its continued existence is that which is on the landmass of
platitude: fulfilment of your campaign promises. What adds importance to this is that, it is the
foundation on which all other errors are built with mighty colonnades. I do not need to rummage my
memory in search of all the promises to remind you of them, for you to know them more than I do. I
would bear my mind on your personality. During your campaign, you presented yourself as one with
single understandable personality. Nigerians rallied around you en masse. The crystal ball showed the
possibility inherent in the effectiveness of positive change. Expectations of better standards of living
drove a greater percentage of voters to your side, and that resulted in your overwhelming victory. But
instead of taking lessons from an incumbent losing an election to you and add to your guiding
principles in the act of governance, you somehow appear to be making everyone pay with their selfesteem,
trust, and expectation. From the time your started making your appointments, you started
generating a lot of uncountable personalities, totally unknown to Nigerians, and these unknown
personalities are difficult to understand much less condone with. Was the earliest personality to serve
as magnet of attracting people to you? The very things you criticized in the past administration of
Goodluck Jonathan are happening in your own administration. Were such criticisms mere meal
preparations? Your Excellency, Sir, this duty calls for honesty, and for the sake of Nigeria and her
future, it is compelling I stick to the bitterness of honesty. When a promise is not fulfilled, it has
negative psychological effects on the person being made the promise. It denigrates their self-esteem,
drive, and focus. On the person that made the promise and failed to fulfill it, it tempers with their
integrity which is the bedrock of good reputation. A good reputation gets tarnished when perforated,
and nothing perforates one’s good reputation like the creation of gap of ay proximity between one’s
word and actions. By not acting on your seductive promises, you are busy perforating your good
reputation. The holes are getting larger day by day. Your teaming critics put their fingers in the holes
and expand them to the knowledge of the public. Such an expansion could form the plinth of the
gallows on which the conscience of the critics will prompt them how best to hand up your presidential
ambition, come two thousand and nineteen.
Under your watch, Nigeria is less secure that ever since the return to a democratic rule. And that
takes me to the area of security a fast declining industry in Nigeria. The spiral of insecurity has now
become like a revolving door; when one side gets pulled to close completely, the other side gets pushed
to reach its maximum openness. No place is anymore: on the roads, people get killed at any time; at
homes, people are either butchered or bombed to dead; in churches, mosques is the same thing; at
markets and other social centres, the cases are not different. People now live in constant fear of being
killed any moment. Parents are afraid to send their children and wards to some schools because they
are no longer safe for learning. From the dreaded Boko Haram in the North, through the brutality of
herdsmen attacks across the country are topical threats to human, infrastructural and social security.
Communal clashes ravaging some parts of the middle belt are loudly calling for urgent attention.
Kidnapping and vandalism in the Niger – Delta and other places follow suit. This is particularly
disappointing. You are a Retired Army General. You fought for Nigeria during the civil war. You