You don’t rush development, you plan it; When President Muhammadu Buhari whimsically asked sometime in 2018 what happens to those who were in hurry to provide governance? The answer of course was the stagnation we found ourselves 16 years of PDP’s rule. The party was in needless rush to share money without planning through. The reason billions went into road infrastructure with nothing to show for it, more billions in dollars went into power infrastructure with no commensurate impact.
Buhari came and slowly embarked on silent rejuvenation of our governance template; in fact, he didn’t come up with anything novel, he harnessed the policies and initiatives on ground to achieve results. First was the implementation of the Single Treasury Account (TSA), the Biometric Verification Number(BVN) two masterstrokes that streamlined government income and spending and tamed the vicious incidence of corruption in public service to the barest level.
Just yesterday, the abandoned Ajaokuta steel roared back to life with the extrication of the legal shackles that hold that giant steel village by the jugular when the FG finally secured a deal that makes the steel complex solely a Nigerian ownership.
And this morning, we are greeted with this pleasurable development that FG has signed a contract with Siemens to take over generation, transmission and distribution of electricity in Nigeria.
Yes, you heard me right! Brace up for the dividends of Buhari’s slow pace and taciturn governance. He refused to use the fast lane that others used and didn’t fetch us much progress. His snail-like pace is yielding results in rail infrastructure, roads, housing, agriculture etc.
While he is getting it right in all these areas, it is expected that he quickly gets it right in SECURITY- otherwise, his modest strides would be stained by the embarrassing situation of insecurity. Baba Buhari, you can do it, don’t let us down.
Optimistically musing
