The National Coordinator of All
Workers Convergence (AWC), Comrade Andrew Emelieze has urged President
Muhammadu Buhari to remember that he is a tenant at Aso Rock, the seat of power
in Nigeria.
Emelieze, who is the immediate
past Chairman, Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, Oyo State chapter, made this
declaration via a letter on Wednesday in Ibadan,
the state capital, while reacting to the various political, socio-economic
abnormalities in the country.
The labour leader in the letter
addressed to Buhari, entitled, “Letter to President Muhammadu Buhari: Please be
reminded that you are a tenant in Aso Rock, stop behaving like a landlord”,
insisted that he had been criticising Buhari not because he hated him as a
person but basically to enhance his performance.
He said he had not seen anything
satisfactory in Buhari’s conduct as the President of Nigeria since he was sworn
in.
Emelieze in the letter said that
the existential conditions of citizens was enough to tell the President that
all was not well with Nigerian.
He added that the expectations of
the people from Mr. President based on his electoral promises had already been
betrayed.
Emelieze, in the letter said, “Your excellency, I bring you greetings and the
very best of my wishes. I hope this letter meets you well, I am one of your
unrepentant critics, I have been criticising you not because I hate you as a
person but basically to enhance your performance and also because I have not
seen anything satisfactory in your conduct as the President of Nigeria since
you were sworn in.
“Mr President don’t be surprised
that, I am talking this way, let posterity judge me if I do not mean well for
us all, let it also be the same for you if you do not mean well for us all.
“Sir, the existential conditions
of citizens is enough to tell you that all is not well with the state. The
expectations of the people from you based on your electoral promises is already
betrayed. Cost of living is unimaginable too high, social infrastructure is
further collapsing under your watch; our national currency is badly devalued
under your care. More and more people are becoming hopeless and suicide rate in
the country is like never before.
“Our country’s debt profile has
increased beyond measure. It appears to me that there seem not to be any viable
ideology for development .The present national creed has been that of unending
tension such that Nigerians are at a state of war, a condition of the survival
of the fittest in all their social life. Mr President Sir, I am disturbed and
equally worried that our present condition is very dangerous and equally
antagonistic to progress as our living conditions will in no way encourage
creativity and productivity.
“In all these Mr President, you
pretend not to be aware of the real situation in the land, rather your
dispositions suggest a leadership that has abandoned governance. Despite the
wailing in the land, your national policies portray a government that is out to
add to the existing pains of the people All your programs have been
confrontational to the Nigerian people . Our people are now being led like a
sheep without a good shepherd, more of a ship that is drifting in a
directionless manner.
“What is really painful is the
fact that you are still trying to impose unpopular,unworkable and unacceptable
policy on our people, It is as if you want to turn yourself to a dictator and
put our people in prison as you have done with some that are now being referred
to as prisoners of conscience .It is to this end that I write you as a citizen
in defence of our constitution that you are a tenant in Aso rock.that you have
a fixed tenure; which you may or may not complete.
“You are an occupant in Aso rock
and any other person can occupy same position. You will not be President
forever, you are not the landlord of Aso rock, stop acting as one. I am equally
sure that I am speaking the minds of most reasonable Nigerians.
“Mr President as you read this
letter, pause and look back, then you will know what people will say about you
someday when you exit the leadership of Nigeria.
“My prayers for you is that you
begin to make your people happy because Nigerians are really not happy with
your quality of leadership”.
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