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Despite Buhari’s austere economic policies, growth in output was reduced to record levels, and inflation and unemployment skyrocketed to unprecedented levels, with Nigeria earning the ignoble status of the poverty capital of the world under Buhari.
While Buhari struggled to manage human rights abuses that peaked under his watch, the level of abuses the people suffered, whether they survived or were smothered, exceeded the average levels of abuses suffered under Buhari’s predecessors.
A recent data published by SBM Intelligence revealed that 2,047 deaths were recorded in Nigeria in the first quarter (Q1) of 2023.
Dataphyte Research noted that “In 2021, One million, One hundred and Nine Thousand, Six hundred and Twenty-one passengers (1,109,621) arrived the country, while One million, One hundred and Nine Thousand, Five hundred and Twenty-Five (1,109,525) passengers departed.
The importation of refined petroleum has significantly contributed to the country’s import bill, which requires foreign exchange. A review of the OEC data shows that refined petroleum took 18.3 percent of the country’s import bill in 2021.
From this ranking, data show that corruption is far worse today in Nigeria than it was in 2015 when Buhari came into office, contrary to the recent claim of the president that he had delivered on all his campaign promises, one of which was fighting corruption.
There has been increased agitations for the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CNB), Mr Godwin Emefiele, to resign his position or for the President to fire him.
Across the globe, the conduct of elections is important because it is the only way citizens in a democratic setting elect their representatives into different political positions of authority to pilot the affairs of their country.
After a year-long break due to the Covid 19 travel restrictions, President Buhari has resumed his usual medical trips to the United Kingdom. This is in spite of the huge annual budget allocations to his official hospital at the Villa. The federal government had budgeted N6.4 billion for the Aso Villa Clinic in the past 6 years.
Many Nigerians looked forward to the April 13 presidential address hoping to get answers to concerns during the lockdown. The reassurance of the head of government means a lot to the already distressed citizenry battling series of assaults since the forced closure on the 30th of March.
