Many Nigerians, me included, have complained about the fact that President Jonathan did not hit the ground running as soon as the polling season ended.
Toghanro Toju Xtian, a reader who resides in Agege, Lagos State, sent me the following text message a couple of days ago and spoke for many when he said:
Please tell GEJ to forget about six-year tenure. Let him fix power and roads if he wants us to have faith in his PDP. A lot of people believe that the PDP government is not working. Let him prove his critics wrong by his good work.
We who desperately want our country to be dragged out of its rut as soon as possible had hoped that Mr President would roll up his sleeves the minute his electoral victory was confirmed in April and to quickly appoint a credible cabinet and announce – and start to implement – an impressive development programme.
Ministerial choices
We were extremely disappointed when all we got out of him in May, June, July and the first half of August were overly flashy inauguration celebrations and premature talk-talk about non-priorities like his six-year tenure idea. It also didn’t help that quite a few of his ministerial choices raised eyebrows.
But it looks as if Mr President is, at long last, ready to make up for lost time and about to embark on some serious nation-building activities.
He has just constituted a 24-member Economic Management Team that will be coordinated by the famously dynamic and widely respected Minister of Finance and former World Bank Managing Director, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.
Courtesy: Vanguard Newspaper
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