THIS DAY ~ Saheed Fasanya:

"On this day a year ago, Jonathan made that call to concede. We were all full of hope...
Events since may yet prove to be misplaced optimism as patience is running thin. I've been a Buhari supporter all my adult life and I've to say that he's been underwhelming. He needs to stay home and do this work. He needs to listen to wise counsel. He needs to delegate to capable hands and he needs not to be a minister of Petroleum.

He needs to know that the year is 2016 and not 1978 or 1984 even. Heck, the knowledge of 2014 is obsolete. This is why he needs to listen to those who know. There's no shame in a leader seeking wise counsel. The IMF is not our enemy, neither is Emir SLS, Charles Soludo et al.
Giving all our dollars to Dangote at half the market price would have been laughable if not that SMEs are closing shop and jobs are being lost in droves. This is the law of unintended consequence right here. Ajaokuta Steel is dead on arrival. The furnace there is obsolete. Tata is closing its steel plant in the UK because China has flooded the market with cheap and durable steel. No right thinking government should want its citizens to be buying the most expensive cement in the world so that one individual that pays little or no tax can be the richest man in Africa at the expense of everyone else. Nor should we be made to buy the most expensive steel from a plant that is the definition of elephant project. No, we also do not need national carrier!
Provide rail to connect the whole country, power to jumpstart the economy, affordable internet via sound policies on right of way for fiber optic cables. Good roads, outlaw omo onile, agberos and clean up the land use law. Ease of doing business should be revolutionized with transparency.

Stop wasting money on refineries. Sell it as is. Focus on the quick wins, stop fighting market forces. This is how the economy will grow. Forget about oil, Germany has no natural resources, ditto Japan. The commodity has made leadership for lazy people here. See our governors? 90% of them only wait for Abuja to share money. The party is over.

Help yourself for us to help you or God willing, in 2019, God sparing our lives, we will vote you out so fast that you won't know what hit you. Your party is already touting you for second term without reason. This tone-deaf behavior won't help you or them."