You have failed already Mr. President

You have failed already Mr. President

By, Balami Lazarus

“I won’t leave office as a failure”. This statement was made by President Muhammadu Buhari and it was a headline of Daily Trust Newspaper of 20th August 2021.

I laughed my heart out for this singular statement that has made a mockery of the failed government. Writing on this government one has to make a distinction between Muhammadu Buhari as an individual and President Muhammadu Buhari. I personally don’t have anything against Buhari but do have on dozens of issues and matters- arising as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria my country.

Mr President Sir. Other Nigerians like me have been containing the pains of your failures due to your poorly led government. Without even mentioning the word failure, you have failed woefully in your leadership position with a nose-dive.

President Buhari is weak and lacks the political will to implement policies or programs that will step up the country’s economy in a way to improve a lot of the people. He is not decisive on urgent national issues, take the case of insecurity that has eaten deep into the polity.

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Banditry, kidnapping, insurgency, and the challenges of corruption have become household names. Sir, have you not failed in these areas of national interest? Capital YES. Indeed you have.

Your leadership antecedent past and present is nothing to show for, except a scorecard full of red- inks of failures, disappointments, pains, sufferings and disenchantment among the governed.

This government is synonymous with hardship and failures in both the public and in the business/ corporate domain. At this juncture, PMB failed the government that has made the country a saber-toothed tiger. The land today speaks of the work of a Nigerian poet Gbemisola Adeoti (Ambush).

The poem was a clear depiction of sufferings both on land, water, and air, which has enveloped and suffocated the people’s dreams, hopes, and aspirations. Mr President, you will definitely leave office as a failure. Balami, a

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