By Nwankwo Ebuka Geoffrey
Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, former President of Nigeria (may his soul rest in perfect peace), achieved a lot as President of Nigeria. His achievements included, but not limited to the following:
1. Yar’Adua brought to end the militancy in Niger Delta region when he invited the militants to Aso Rock and urged them to lay down their arms.
2. Yar’Adua reversed the fraudulent sale of Nigeria assets by the Olusegun Obasanjo government, which sold the assets to cronies of Obasanjo at give-away prices.
3. Yar’Adua pioneered the policy of returning unspent funds to the national treasury at the end of the fiscal year.
4. He courageously released the N10billion Lagos State Local Government Council funds withheld by the Obasanjo administration because of political differences with the then Governor of Lagos state.
5. Yar’Adua’s government initiated the dredging of the River Niger bank, Abuja metro line, Abuja-kaduna rail and the Abuja-kano rail.
Source: Legit.ng News.
All this and more for just 4years in office as president of Nigeria.
Muhammadu Buhari became President with a lot of high hope from Nigerians because of his campaign promises. Instead of keeping to them, he rather turned everything around to the extend that everything he met that was low is extremely high now. Nigerians can bearly survive now; nobody is talking about 3square meal in Nigeria anymore because if you manage see 2square a day you will thank God for it.
The worst is the borrowings that have made every Nigerians owe debt of N157,906.30 each as at march 2021, according to debt management office.
When Yar’Adua became sick, Nigerians prayed for him to get well but he died. On the contrary, when Buhari took ill, Nigerians prayed for him to die because of the hardship in the country then, still he is still much alive.
Personally, when he survived such prayers, I thought he would show Nigerians his good side, rather he still continued in his normal way.
Truly, good things never last, bad things never die.
