The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Tuesday September 20th, 2022
President Buhari And The Blame Game by Kola King
The Buhari administration has made a fetish of lame excuses, the blame game and buck passing for its inability to deliver on its promises. In fact, the administration has turned the blame game into an art form. Recall that the administration was ushered into power in 2015 by long-suffering Nigerians secured in the belief that the incoming All Progressives Party (APC) would make a difference in their lives and wipe out the perceived misdeeds of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). PDP described as the largest party in Africa had been in power for16 years and it had failed abysmally to deliver the dividends of democracy for Nigerians. Puffed up with pride and hubris, the party had boasted that it will rule for more than 60 years. But the APC, a special purpose political vehicle turned out to be its nemesis. But today, things have turned full circle with Nigerians clamouring for a return to the PDP years since things have further worsened instead of improving. In the present circumstances, an estimated 95 million Nigerians are projected to fall into poverty in 2022, according to the World Bank reports.
Indeed, many Nigerians expected the APC administration to hit the ground running, instead, President Muhammadu Buhari on assumption of power acted with the speed of tortoise, as if he had the whole time to revamp the economy. It was as though Buhari came to power with no blueprint to fix the nation. He repeatedly at every turn heaped blame on his predecessor for mismanagement and running the economy into the ground. For a man who had run for president four times, it was unsettling that President Buhari would spend almost five months before picking his cabinet.
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A Definition of Time #poem by George Cassidy Payne
“On a dead-end block in
an Atlanta suburb,
she lays down to drink
alone, not giving a damn
about being married”
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Fika bonding! #043 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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