According to President UMARU MUSA YAR’ADUA, INAUGURAL ADDRESS to us Nigerians, he said and I quote “We are determined to intensify the war against corruption, more so because corruption is itself central to the spread of poverty. Its corrosive effect is all too visible in all aspects of our national life. This is an area where we have made significant progress in recent years, and we will maintain the momentum”. Is this statement still valid???
“Fellow citizens, I ask you all to march with me into the age of restoration. Let us work together to restore our time-honored values of honesty, decency, generosity. The question here is “Are we working together at all now? Because if we do we won’t be missing contact with our President since God knows when.
The president further continues to say “modesty, selflessness, transparency, and accountability. These fundamental values determine societies that succeed or fail. We must choose to succeed” Are we failing now as a nation or we are progressing???
Again the president said “I will set a worthy personal example as your president” I totally disagree with this statement; because currently our own Mr. President is ACTING out of the Nigerian constitution. If not Mr. President wouldn’t have left the Presidential seat empty while He knew He will be out of the country in order to attend to His critical state of Health without HANDING OVER POWER to His Vice as He as earlier said that “I will set a worthy personal example as your president”
I quote Mr. President again saying “To that end I offer myself as a servant-leader, I will be a listener and doer, and serve with humility” Is this, what serving with HUMILITY as Mr. President has said means or what? Serving with humility means you will always do what pleases the citizen you are ruling. Right now Mr. President, Nigerian’s are not happy at all and they are not seeing you as a ROLE MODEL that you have earlier said that you will be, you and your ministers don’t care to listen to the hearth groaning of we Nigerians.
Now come to BBC, Is BBC a Nigerian media house? If not, I think it's not acceptable for our own President to have granted this kind of interview to a foreign media, when Nigerian government spends billions of tax payers' money in funding both a state TV network and a radio network? (NTA), it would have shown maturity, patriotism and leadership by example, if he had granted this interview to a Nigerian media and not BBC.
Meanwhile, we thank God that the president is alive and has finally broken his silence but this fact does not justify his failure to hand over to the vice president. What is he afraid of? Oh! He doesn't believe in his ministers just as he doesn't believe in our health care system too… What a pity on us as a Nation.
Just as I round off, I will like to inform those that surround Mr. President that, He is no longer a private person, he lost his privacy since the day he was elected as the President of the Feral Republic of Nigeria, therefore his health status should not be shrouded in secrecy.
Finally, I will like to say that, the telephone interview with our Mr. President UMARU MUSA YAR’ADUA, by BBC is not enough to convince Nigerians on the state of the President's health. A video interview will be more acceptable to Nigerians.
GOD BLESS NIGERIA. GOD HEALS OUR DEAR PRESIDENT.
