Acting
President Yemi Osinbajo has been praised for the spectacular manner he
has helped steer the country following the President's long vacation.
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Former military administrator of Kaduna State, Col. Abubakar
Dangiwa Umar (retd), has praised Acting President Yemi Osinbajo for
steering the country out of tension since he assumed office in acting
capacity.
Citing the forex policy by the Central Bank of Nigeria, Umar, who
is also chairman of Movement for Unity and Progress, said the
appreciation of the Naira against the dollar is a step in the right
direction.
In a paper, titled: The Deft Moves of Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, Col Umar said: ‘’It’s
one and a half months since President Muhammadu Buhari sent a letter to
the National Assembly conveying his decision to proceed on leave.
‘’He also transferred power to his Vice President Prof Yemi
Osibanjo as is required by the Constitution. The President has now
extended his leave to an indefinite period on the advice of his UK
doctors.
‘’Since taking over, the acting President has embarked on
measures which have effectively set the country on the path of positive
change. In an effort to reunite a dangerously polarized nation since the
APC took power at the centre, he has paid visits to the Niger Delta
region and parts of the southeast.
‘’These are two zones of the country which feel genuinely
alienated by the Federal Government’s discriminatory doctrine of
favoring those who gave President Buhari over 95% of their votes over
those who gave him less than 5% of theirs.
‘’The implementation of this policy in the initial political
appointments, including those of the military service chiefs had the
negative effect of spawning a more determined Niger Delta militancy.
That in turn, succeeded in crippling most of the nation’s oil and gas
assets.
‘’As we all know, this country depends for over 90% of its
foreign exchange earnings and an equally huge proportion of governments’
revenue on the oil resources in that region. Even more, it exacerbated
the agitation for an independent state of Biafra.
‘’The acting President’s initiative appeared to have convinced
the belligerents to engage in meaningful dialogue. This has led to the
suspension of acts of sabotage and in raising our crude oil output to
the optimum level of over two million barrels per day; as per our OPEC
quota.
‘’Power generation has also gone up substantially, thanks to
the reduction in gas pipeline vandalism. He has been proactive in
attending to state affairs. He has so far signed seven bills while
rejecting four, offering cogent reasons for rejecting the others.
‘’Much to the relief of the nation, the acting President
forwarded the name of the acting Chief Justice Onnoghen to the Senate
for confirmation as substantive CJN just before the expiry of his 90-day
acting status. This has averted what could have been a major political
crisis in a fragile federation as we have.
‘’The acting President has been chairing very lengthy and
regular weekly Federal Executive Council meetings, at which memos are
dispassionately debated after, which far reaching decisions are taken.
‘’He has prevailed on the CBN to adopt new and more transparent
Foreign Exchange Management procedures, which have yielded the desired
result of reducing forex market volatility.
‘’The Naira is making tremendous gain against the US dollar and other currencies, much to the delight of the masses.
‘’He met at the state house with senior members of the NLC and
other demonstrators who are protesting the current economic hardship in
the nation.
‘’This is a departure from a situation where such demonstrators
were forcefully dispersed by security forces and refused access to
senior government officials. Even members of the Bring Back Our Girls
(BBOG) group, a recognized ally of this administration, were prevented
from meeting with the President.
‘’The acting President has also demonstrated an unalloyed
loyalty to his principal by continuing to attribute his successes to the
President’s inspiration. He has also debunked any criticism of the
Buhari administration in his absence.
‘’In contrast, the governor of Imo State, Mr. Rochas Okorocha,
criticized the Buhari administration for allegedly marginalizing the
Igbo. He complained that even under a President they supported, they had
nothing to show for it.
‘’The governor went on and on in indicting the Buhari
administration which he had hitherto praised for its wonderful
achievements. In a show of loyalty to his principal and his
administration by the evident disloyalty of a governor who had pretended
servile obeisance to the President, the acting President responded with
a rebuke: “If there is any governor in this country that has the ear of
the President, I will say that it is Governor Okorocha. As such, it
cannot be said that the state is marginalized by the APC-led federal
government.
‘’This definitely was intended to discourage traitors and
effectively shut down the door to would-be turncoats. Credit for the
acting President’s trialblazing actions and high performance must surely
be attributed to President Muhammad Buhari who selected a running mate
with tremendous intellectual capacity and character where most
Presidential candidates would go for docile, inefficient and greedy
ones; a person whose blind loyalty is to his principal as to himself.
‘’President Buhari’s choice of a running mate might well have
been informed by his prescient consideration of the need to select a
competent, patriotic and loyal person in appreciation of the challenges
of his advance age and the enormity of the task of reclaiming the
country.
‘’The President also deserves praise for his prompt transfer of
power and continued support to his deputy as required by law. This will
undoubtedly enhance and sustain our nascent democracy.
‘’All people of goodwill must condemn those who are making ill
thought out comments that portray the acting President as a puppet and
who needs continuous prompting from his principal to function. This is
likely to cause ill will and disaffection between them. The acting
President must continue, undeterred with the good actions he has already
started.
‘’He must maintain the zeal and tempo of his good performance
which will do justice to the patriotic wish and desire of his
convalescing principal. He cannot afford to succumb to blackmail and
selfish machinations of his critics.
‘’Nigeria is a nation in need of rescue. We must all come
together to rescue it. The acting President needs all the support to
steer the ship of state. As Deng Xiaoping rightly observed: “It doesn’t
matter whether the cat is white or black as long as it catches mice”. We
cannot allow the forces of division to prevail at this point.
‘’We also have to caution all those who are regaling us with
stories of their daily phone contacts with Mr. President as this can
only misrepresent him as belonging to a few and therefore not to
everybody as he initially declared.
‘’We are optimistic that the President will speak to the nation as soon as he can and return as soon as he is able.’’
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