I am very happy and impressed by the series of steps the President is taking in the last few days/hours. That is what we have been demanding from him. Purposeful leadership, uniting the country by bipartisan approach, being firm and fair, refocusing and rejigging the economy, sending the right and appropriate warning to rascals and criminals, and on the whole, being a father to all.
As we continue to pray for your health, we await from you an immediate cabinet reshuffle with vibrant young men, women and few old ones to spice up the cabinet with wisdom.
We await you to take drastic and radical approach to the power sector, just as we demand a timeline to the end of criminalities, insurgency, and secessionist elements. We demand a surgical overhaul of our major medical centers and teaching hospitals so that our you can be treated in Nigeria and not in London, and pressure on our foreign exchange can be reduced.
From you, we demand a fresh approach to overhaul our primary and secondary schools across the nation with a young passionate professor with vision and courage as minister. We demand you to be open-minded and listen more, and act more and speed up his decision making process and execution velocity.
Dear Mr President, you should caution your media aides to be more civil, appreciate our impatience and address us with more respect and decorum. We, the citizens, demand respect and understanding.
We have been raped, robbed, lied to, devoured, exploited, taken for granted, killed, kidnapped, bombed, used and dumped, name it! Nigerians are very easy going people. All they ask for is justice and equity and a detribalized leader they can trust. We have been told good afternoon severally by our leaders while our wristwatches were at midnight. We have been inundated with promises by leaders without good execution plans and focus. The only focus they had was on our treasury. The only plans they had was to perpetually cause ethnic and religious divisions amongst us to allow them refocus on the treasury and in turn re-plan to create more divisions. As you returned rejuvenated with much vigour, stand firm to ensure that your government did not toe this ignoble path.
We are tired of being told that Nigeria is a country of great human and material potentials! We were told this cliché ad nauseum. As a Mechanical and Gas Engineer, I see potential as dormant. Without external force, everything lies inert. Mr President, kindly assemble a team that will positively release that potential into kinetic, mechanical, electrical, chemical, thermal energies that will propel us into global reckoning and make us hold our head high wherever we go. Let them push us with a thrust and power from the level of a one-stroke cycle engine to that of a giant gas turbine.
It is your duty to tell us with the loudest of voice and Conviction of Jesus Christ and Prophet Muhammad that the blood that runs in the veins of the Igbos, the Efiks, the Yorubas, the Hausas, the Uhrobos, the Kanuris and so many of our country’s hard working citizens is the same. We share the same DNA, our destiny is the same. Our diversity is our strength.
Let there be no more quit notice to any citizen of this great nation. Instil in us the spirit of unity and love in such a way that Nigerians will feel at home wherever they are. As a leader, you can create a situation whereby Muslims could listen, with rapt attention, the beauty and moral teachings from Genesis to Revelations, while the Christians tap the wisdoms and lessons of Surah Maryam (the mother of Jesus who occupies the highest position of reverence that no woman has attained in Islam).
Make Nigeria a proud nation loved by all. Make us all forgive each other, for all of us are guilty of one little hate speech either in public or in a small corner of our rooms.
Mr Bashir, a business man, wrote from Kano
