OPA's Grading Buhari's First Year in Office

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Grading President Buhari’s First Year Performance Score Card Based on

2015 Campaign Promises

Buhari’s First Year Grade - R

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S/N Campaign Promise Score Grade Comments

1 Constitutional amendments toensure true federalism(Contains about ten promises).

-100 R • At the 25% mark of his tenure, Buhari

has consolidated power to the centermore than any government in post-colonial Nigeria.

2 Strengthen INEC to reduceand or eliminate electoralmalpractices

20 F •

Changed INEC leader• The rights to vote murdered on the altar

of imposed party selection and highest bidder systems.

• Electoral malpractices are on the rise

3 Attract the best and brightest Nigerians to serve ingovernment and civil service

-75 R • Really? If Buhari’s cabinet is the best of

Nigeria, Nigeria is indeed lost in thewoods.

• Buhari recycled old failures and promoted state level looters to newfederal positions.

4 Ensure the implementation ofthe rule of law, especiallyequality before the law, andseparation of powers

-100 R • Buhari’s first action in office violated

the spirit of the rule of law when he ran Nigeria as his fiefdom for six months

• Remember jailing people without trial,denying bail, overruling the court, andextra-judicial killing of Nigerians?

5 Leaner and efficient publicservice with effective privatesector participation.

-50 R • Merged a few ministerial functions, sowhat?

• Zero private sector involvement

6 Reform and strengthen the

judicial system

-40 R • Buhari weakened the judiciary and

undermined the constitution.7 Fully enforce freedom of

information act-100 R • Buhari and his government is shrouded

in mystery and is totally opaque.

8 Improve national security and public safety

33 F • Significant gain fighting Boko Haram • Lied to us about technically defeating

Boko Haram.• Armed robbery, kidnapping, and other

heinous crimes on the rise nationwide.

• The whereabouts of Chibok girls are

still unknown 365 days later.

9 Create state and local police 0.00 F • No action yet, folly to expect any action

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I thought I saw Daura PoliceDepartment (DPD) at work yesterday?

10 Ensure geo-politicalreintegration and stabilitythrough conflict resolution

-100 R • Buhari’s antiquated leadership skills

stand between him and his wish to unitethe country or bring any geopoliticalstability to the nation.

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• Instead of peace, reconciliation, andunity, his high-handedness has createdmore chaos, disaffection, and agitationfor self-determination

• Increased herdsman grazing tensions

11 Bring permanent peace to Nigeria particularly the NorthEast, Niger Delta, and otherarmed conflicts

39 F •

Some reasonable work on Boko Haram• Pipeline vandals increased

• Hostage taking and kidnappingincreased nationwide.

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Buhari also reignited his unfinished1984 hostility against Shiite Muslims.

• IPOB/MASOB agitation is at thehighest post-civil war level

• What about Niger Delta Avengers vs.the Nation Nigeria?

12 Professional security force 50 F • Some haphazard training of the NigeriaArmy.

• No real system wide professionalizationagenda, zero improvements.

13 ECOWAS free trade andstandard tariff.

0.00 F • Impossible fib, just another pipe dream.

14 Close economic link with therest of the word particularlyBRIC

-100 R • President Buhari has traveled the worldin one year more than any president inthe history of the nation.

• No results, Nigeria is not back in BRIC(formerly BRINC) and is almost

slipping out of MINT now MInT because Nigeria the “n” in the group isalmost falling off the group.

15 Sound micro andmacroeconomic policies

-100 R Whimsical economic policies continue tohurt national and private wallet because:

• Buhari raised key interest rate above

12% instead of lowering rates to nearzero. Effect, higher than normal borrowing rates, and zero growth;

• Buhari subjected the Naira to the forces

of demand and supply but failed to

ensure supply moves at par with themarket. Result? Aso Rock Bureau deonce climbed N400 to the dollar;

• Inflation rose by more than 5% point toslightly below 12% in the past one year.

• For the first in two decades, theeconomy shrunk by more than 7%.



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16 Restore financial confidencethrough robust regulations

-100 R Could this be the actual metric of Buhari’s performance?

• Ongoing exodus of foreign investors

• High rate of capital flight, and

• It is almost impossible to find financial

and technical collaborators for any new Nigerian business interests.

17 Real GDP growth of 10% -12% annually.

20 F • The GDP trekked at a pedestrian 0.5%during Buhari’s first year.

18 Equate N1 to $1 -100 • Perhaps the biggest sign of Buhari’sdelusional leadership.

• Squandered the nation’s reserve onshoring up the Naira at 198 while thesame sells for twice the official pricewhile the corrupt government looks theother way.

19 Skill acquisition program tolower graduate unemployment

0.00 F •

Buhari is still busy blaming PDP, andCoercing Nigerians to give him time tofigure things out. Gross, dishonesty

20 5 Million new jobs by 2019 -100 R • Didn’t someone get fired for trying toadvertise federal jobs to help move thisvision forward?

• Instead of gaining 1.25 million jobs, Nigeria lost slightly over one million jobs in Buhari’s first year in office; notas bad as the 2.5 million jobs lost in

1984 alone under a reclusive armyGeneral.

21 Infrastructure investment 0 F • No action, very delusional infrastructure

development plan.

22 N300 billion regional growthfund

0 F • No action, Buhari sold Nigerians a pipe

dream.

23 Additional 4 million newhomeowners by 2019

-100 R • With Buhari’s social totalitarianism, weshould be praying the ability to afford basic daily needs, not homes.

• Where are the first one million homes?

24 N5,000 social welfare for

poorest and most vulnerable

0 F • No action, absolute political lie!

25 Modernize Agriculture andfood production

0 F • Ten action items under this subcategory but no action on any of them. Or hasanyone seen any new irrigation schemeanywhere in Nigeria? Pure lies.

• This promise was BID, brought in dead!

26 24/7 electric power availability 0 F • Easiest of the promises, yet no change.



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27 Revive the refineries -100 R • How do you like petrol @ N145/liter?

28 Break up NNPC to make itmore functional and efficient

75 C • Yes, the breakup occurred.

• Functionality and effectiveness remain a

myth.

29 Strategic partnership for LNG

export

-50 F • Extensive travels, no measurable results

30 Strategic education and humancapital improvement

-100 F • Does anyone know what this mean?

• More Nigerians are going abroad for

same purpose these days.

31 Eradication of infant mortality,HIV and infectious disease

0 F • Just another talking point.

• Zero action to date.

32 Increased the number offederal government ownedhospital

0 F • Maybe the first national hospital isunder construction at Daura

• No action, another campaign fib?

33 Boost local manufacture of

pharmaceuticals

0 F • Very laughable, wishful thinking

34 Ban medical tourism by politicians from May 2015

-100 R • No doubt, Buhari needs a healthy doseof realism on how things work inautocracy versus democracy.

• Isn’t Buhari guilty of medical tourism

35 Enhance liberty to live freelywithout hindrance andinterference

-100 R • All hail the worst civil rightsinfringement in post-colonial Nigeria

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More police, road safety, and militaryroadblocks than any time in the historyof Nigeria. What exactly is the purpose?

36 Assist the full development of

Nollywood

0 F • Intentional campaign gimmick to attract

people in the SW and SE.

• No action, possibly no intent to act.

37 End corruption -50 R • A corrupt system cannot successfullyfight or stop the crime of fraud.

• Buhari’s anti-corruption fight is aselective and purely political vendettaagainst perceived enemies.

Total Score/Summary -1,278 R • Absentee President

• Implemented very delusional policies

• No administrative/nation building skills.

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Out of touch with the reality of what ishappening to the people and the nationshe is supposed to be governing.

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Quite the opposite of what he promised

• Any bright spot? At least he admitted hisfailures, but we didn’t vote for him to goin there and fail.

• Still in perpetual campaign mode



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• Incompetent and irresponsibleleadership.

• No ability to revive the ailing economy.

• Very divisive with extreme regional bias

Average Contributory Score -53.25 R • Very retrogressive government

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Rudderless leadership

• Extremely delusional and unrealisticview of life before and after taking theleadership of Nigeria

• Has nothing new to offer

• Atrocious business and economic policies

• Very divisive and lack the ability to

unite Nigerians

• New ethnic crises brewing nationwide

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C-in-C now means Complainer-in-Chief• Extreme hardship for the citizenry

• Lower wages with a currency that havesubzero buying power.

• No coherent nationalistic and nation building policy

• Economy is in recession

• Destination? …… 1984 or 1960!

Grading Rubrics

94% - 100% A Exceptional performance

90% - 94% A _ Very good performance

85% - 89% B+ Good Performance

80% - 84% B Average Performance

75% - 79% C Fair Performance

70%- 74% D Poor Performance

0% - 73% F Fail

-1% - -100% R Retrogression, Reverse, Recession

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