When will all the promises be fulfilled?

Unfolding events in the last seven months particularly in the oil sector show Muhammad Buhari and the All Progressive Congress, APC government is not likely to pull the needed political will that will take Nigeria out of it current challenges. This is even as Muhammad Buhari and his party had consistently maintained they know the […]

Unfolding events in the last seven months particularly in the oil sector show Muhammad Buhari and the All Progressive Congress, APC government is not likely to pull the needed political will that will take Nigeria out of it current challenges. This is even as Muhammad Buhari and his party had consistently maintained they know the solution to Nigerian challenges and have taken responsibility in solving them. Seven months after, for a party that was in existence two years before the election, it does appear the party and its leadership lacks the capacity and competence they had accused the People Democratic Party, PDP of not demonstrating under Mr. Jonathan former Nigerian president.
Prior to taken over power, on May 2015, Daily Trust crew were in Daura, at the home of President Buhari where he granted them an interview. “I asked to be the president, so whatever I meet there I cannot complain. I came out and went through the election processes with my party and I know, of course, that there is a lot of work to be done. If you reflect on the 16 years of the PDP, I think, it was 16 years of  disaster, especially economically and security wise. Economically, if you find out how much the country earned and the state of the infrastructure at the beginning and the state of infrastructure now, then it becomes unfortunate that we found ourselves under the rule of the PDP in this country,” he said in the interview.
On fuel subsidy, Buhari said, “one of the problems I have, other than the military, is the petroleum industry where I served for three and a half years under General Obasanjo. When people start talking about this subsidy I honestly get confused. When I found myself as the Minister of Petroleum I set up another refinery in Warri for 100, 000 barrels per day and the Kaduna refinery a 100, 000 barrels daily. Don’t forget that we didn’t stop at building refineries; we built more than 20 depots during my time, from Port Harcourt to Ilorin, Makurdi, Suleija, Maiduguri and Kano. More than 3,000 pipelines were laid to connect them. A number of stations were also built to take the trailers off the road, save lives and the infrastructure on the road. We did all that in this country and we didn’t borrow any money as far as I know. You can’t defend these corrupt and incompetent people.
There is turn-around-maintenance for refineries, you cannot say the refineries are old and cannot produce.”
What has happened, how come that all the knowledge and solution Buhari has on how to address the wrath in the oil sector and bring Nigerian state out of the mess has suddenly been defiled under his watch? How come the man of the moment has suddenly become helpless and the oil cabal has continued in their economic rape of the country? What has happened to the political will he showed to Nigerians before he was sworn in as the President?
Audu Liberty Oseni works with Arm of Hope Foundation. +2348076501990