Protesters numbering over 60 stormed the National Assembly complex, yesterday, demanding a 60 per cent cut in salaries and allowances for members of the eight National Assembly and all political appointees in Nigeria. The protesters who gathered under the aegis of a civil society organisation, Conscience Nigeria, also demanded that the Nigerian legilature be made a part-time one , in view of the high cost of maintaining the National Assembly and frequent recess embarked on by federal lawmakers. “Why will 469 members share N120 bn in a year? If we don’t act, Nigeria will collapse like Greece. The time has come for National Assembly members to declare their pay. The secrecy must stop,” the executive director of the group, Comrade Tosin Adeyanju, told newmen during the protest. In a comparative analysis conducted by Conscience Nigeria on salaries and allowances of lawmakers in five developed countries, Nigerian federal lawmakers were highest earners. The break-down shows; United States of America lawmakers earned $174,000, United Kingdom $105,000, France $85,000, Germany $119,500, Canada $154,000 and Nigeria $181,974. “In terms of lawmakers’ salary as ratio GDP per capital, the gap is even wider; the salary of the Nigerian lawmaker is 116 times the country’s GDP per person. That of the British member of parliament is just 2.7 times. “The average salary of Nigerian workers based on the national minimum wage of N18,000 x 12 months = N216,000 per year. Remember, yearly, salary of the Nigerian senator is $2,183,685. Therefore, it will take an average Nigerian worker more than a time to earn the yearly salary of a senator,“ Adeyanju said during his presentation. NASS Budget to be reviewed in Line with Economic realities – Senate Meanwhile, Senate President Bukola Saraki, yesterday, promised that an adhoc committee will be setup to reappraise the structure of the National Assembly budget in line with current economic realities. Saraki decried the unsustainable cost of governance in the country and the rising cost of doing business, insisting that since Nigerians voted for change, they expect an improvement in the quality of governance., therefore, called on the lawmakers to brace up for the challenges ahead. He also labelled as “false and malicious” media reports of lawmakers allowance, describing the reports as “reckless” and stressed the need for the National Assembly to run a more transparent system to avoid the attendant misinformation of this sort of mischief. Saraki appoints chief of staff, Media Adviser The Senate President, yesterday, appointed Senator Isa Galaudu as his Chief of Staff, while Yusuph Adesola Olaniyonu will be his Special Adviser on Media. The appointments were contained in a statement issued yesterday and signed by the Deputy Clerk of the National Assembly, Benedict Efeturi. “The President of the Senate, Distinguished Senator Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has appointed Senator Isa Galaudu as his Chief of Staff and Yusuph Adesola Olaniyonu as his Special Adviser on Media. The appointments take immediate effect,” the staement read.
Anthony-Claret is a software Engineer, entrepreneur and the founder of Codewit INC. Mr. Claret publishes and manages the content on Codewit Word News website and associated websites. He's a writer, IT Expert, great administrator, technology enthusiast, social media lover and all around digital guy.
President Muhammadu Buhari is dangerously close to leaving Nigerians disillusioned. Forget about his failure (as at this writing) to announce his cabinet, bad as it is. For me, the deeper disappointment lies in the near-absence of the president’s voice from the national conversation.Okey Ndibe
Let’s begin, however, with the least important element of Mr. Buhari’s so far lack-luster Presidency. It’s approximately three months since Nigerians voted for Mr. Buhari, on his fourth try, to be their president. By any objective measure, three months is more than enough time for a man who sought power with a certain persistence to figure out his cabinet.
The president’s explanation for his tardiness in unveiling a cabinet is two-fold. One is that his predecessor, President Goodluck Jonathan, had been less than fully cooperative with his transition team. The second: that he wants a thorough background check done on potential ministers to save himself the chore of firing ministers shortly after nominating them.
There are, I suggest, two other—perhaps even more important—factors that Mr. Buhari chose not to name. One has to do with Nigerians’ (unreasonably) high expectations from the Buhari administration. Aware that his cabinet will be the most closely scrutinized of any recent president, perhaps Mr. Buhari has succumbed to a sort of partial paralysis or suspended animation.
Of equal significance is the impression that President Buhari has yet to find an effective formula for resolving the conflicting demands and expectations of various factions within the fractious family of his political party, the All Progressives Congress (APC). In Nigeria and elsewhere, the disposition of ministerial posts is an instrument for rewarding various “stakeholders” who contributed, in one way or another, to a political victory. President Buhari’s unusual and bizarre string of IOUs includes real or perceived debts to former President Olusegun Obasanjo, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, and former Governors Bola Tinubu and Rotimi Amaechi.
Leadership involves a measure of deliberation, prudent and pragmatism. Yet, even when we allow for Mr. Buhari’s official explanation, the grand scale of public expectation, and the intractability of intra-party squabbles, one insists that the president’s snail pace is troubling. It has left some of his most fervent fans scratching their heads, scrambling for answers.
In the end, it should not matter whether Mr. Jonathan cooperated with his successor’s transition team or not. Candidate Buhari presented himself as the answer, the epitome of change, as a man capable of addressing Nigeria’s perennial problems. Nigerians subsequently hired him, in a veritably historic election, to be the chief minder of their business of state. It behooves the president to find ingenious ways of doing his job without making excuses. He may well take off in the near future, and soar as a leader. For now, however, one finds no justification for his inordinate delay in achieving a goal as basic as composing a cabinet. The delinquency suggests a failure to prepare for the task ahead.
And I say this as somebody who was on record as expecting little from a Buhari Presidency. I always stipulated that the singular gift that the man would bring to office was a modest lifestyle and a legacy of self-restraint in the department of material accumulation. I was certain that a country like Nigeria, deeply deformed by its elite’s greed, could use a man of Mr. Buhari’s ascetic temperament. But I was just as certain that the challenge of leading a complex country demanded more, far more, than a man who would not lose his head in the presence of lucre.
That Mr. Buhari, a serial seeker of the Nigerian presidency, has squandered three months since his election, a month since his inauguration, without naming his cabinet, points, quite simply, to a level of unpreparedness. And if our brand new president is unprepared in personnel matters, how is he to tackle the weightier issues of unemployment, infrastructural dilapidation, terrorism, a shambolic healthcare system, educational crisis, and electric power woes?
Which brings me to a more disquieting aspect of the fledging Presidency. Mr. Buhari’s handlers would wish to frame his disappearance from public discourse as evidence of a deliberative cast of mind. But one must ask: Is there no aspect of Nigeria’s malaise that the president has figured out a set of proposals? Is there no area where he feels the need for urgency?
It’s remarkable that, in one month as president, Mr. Buhari has not laid out a single policy proposal on any of the major national issues that concern the millions who voted for him. He has not specified even the outline of what he intends to do about Nigeria’s educational system, which has been on life support for some time. He has not defined a pathway to a healthcare system worthy of the name. With the price of crude oil still relatively low, the theft of Nigerian crude at an all-time high, and crude oil exports at wishy-washy levels, Nigerians must gird themselves for a long spell of hard times. Yet, our president has not made any pronouncement about the shape of things to come. He has not cared to remind Nigerians that the days of dependable oil revenues are, possibly permanently, behind us.
In the Nigerian imagination, President Buhari’s antipathy to corruption was supposed to strike fear in the hearts of past plunderers and stay the hands of current custodians of the public trust. Yet, Mr. Buhari has not revealed any strategy for combating corruption, or recovering hundreds of billions of dollars stolen by public officials, including many of his APC cohorts. I daresay that his silence on corruption is the biggest letdown, so far, of the Buhari Presidency. If care is not taken, the idea will soon gain ground that it’s business as usual, as far as corrupt practices go.
In a rare soul-baring moment, President Buhari confessed that his age, 72, is an impediment to his effectiveness. It was a devastating confession, one that Nigerians had better reckon with as we re-calibrate our fantasies about the new president’s superhuman powers. Those who saw in Buhari the answer to all questions having to do with Nigeria must adjust their expectations quotient.
The question is, when did Mr. Buhari realize that age would be a debilitation? If he felt that age or infirmity would hamper him, why did he present himself for office? Was he not always aware that, even for those who view the Presidency as a four-year ticket to endless jollification, the office poses arduous challenges?
One has the sneaking suspicion that age may not be the sole issue here. As I proposed before the elections—and now reiterate—both the APC and the dismissed Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are ideologically indistinguishable. The drama in the National Assembly, where the PDP essentially stole the APC’s thunder in determining who and who will shape Nigeria’s legislative agenda, has demonstrated this essential fact. Nigerians must hope that Mr. Buhari not been hemmed in by forces he has little power to shake.
Time will tell. But this much one can claim with confidence: the first month of the Buhari Presidency has been far, far from inspiring.
Anthony-Claret is a software Engineer, entrepreneur and the founder of Codewit INC. Mr. Claret publishes and manages the content on Codewit Word News website and associated websites. He's a writer, IT Expert, great administrator, technology enthusiast, social media lover and all around digital guy.
It’s the 50th birthday of Nigeria’s comedy pioneer, Ali Baba and unsurprisingly, he is receiving tons of goodwill messages and birthday wishes. One of his ‘boys’ in the business of stand-up comedy, Bovi has just wished Ali Baba a happy birthday with the lovely message below
"OCT 30th, 2005…. Around 10pm; alibaba walked up to me and said "you're funny. You should do standup comedy. You're funnier than many of the guys already out there. You even funny pass *************" . Well, it wasn't until 2008 I chose to make the very bold move. 3 years later. In those three years I had had trouble sleeping each night I watched other comedians. And his words echoed repeatedly in my head. The night he saw me, it was at an arts exhibition. The mc was doing a bad job. There was an interlude. But there was nothing to fill the space. So I grabbed the mic, blood rushing to my head and started to blurt out the few jokes I knew. It was the first audience in lagos I had ever faced as a standup comedian (save for a private party in December 2004). The audience stared at me, either out of pity or curiosity. But not out of interest. The jokes were funny but I wasn't. However the bespectacled alibaba looked on with his hand to his chin and a permanent smile. He was the only source of encouragement in this firing squad. Soon it was over and just as the event rounded off and guests made their way outside, he walked up to me and said those words I will never forget . "You're funny…." Happy 50th birthday to @alibabagcfr".
Going down memory lane, Bovi also said he doesn't collect jokes from Ali Baba anymore since the day he set him up.
"Alibaba is not one to shy away from encouraging you. He always sees the cup as half full. Many of the classic jokes that are evergreen in the minds of average Nigerians are alibabas creations.
Some have been retold in a shameless manner by less creative forces and audiences still laugh. Some have been refurbished and improved upon. But the source of these materials are still alibaba. Now this is where ali baba did wrong. Ali baba once told me a joke. He said check out this material. I died of laughter. I had barely finished when he said "you can have it". I froze in shock. "Bros make I take am""?" He nodded with assurance. I arrived the next comedy gig with an air. I had an ace up my sleeve. I was going to bomb this show with my new joke. The audience will die with laughter and they will be buried with memories of the joke and their remembrance will feature my picture and my voice. In loving memory of the joke that Bovi killed the audience with. I had barely finished planning this obituary when I heard the audience already dying with laughter. The comedian on stage was saying something I had heard before. Wait, he was saying my joke. My new joke. Where did he hear me say it? But I hadn't said it before. It was only a few minutes before I discovered the distress in the face of two other comedians. I thought it was something else until the comedian came off the stage leaving a trail of blood from an audience murdered with laughter. He was confronted by three of us with "oh boy why you crack my joke". "Which joke?" We chorused again.. "The last joke". He retorted "but na my joke: bros Ali naim give me" wrote Bovi on Instagram.
"And a mild argument ensued. I quietly withdrew and went to rework my set. Phew!!!!! I was deflated. In no time I confronted alibaba. He laughed so hard, I couldn't figure what was funny. But that was until he spoke. "Make Una dey wait make I dey write give Una. Which one me go come talk if I dash out all, one by one".i got d message clearly. If you don't create your own material, the audience will kill you. From that day till today when alibabas offers a joke, I run. And he laughs" he further wrote.
Anthony-Claret is a software Engineer, entrepreneur and the founder of Codewit INC. Mr. Claret publishes and manages the content on Codewit Word News website and associated websites. He's a writer, IT Expert, great administrator, technology enthusiast, social media lover and all around digital guy.
ind the critically slurred legislative tape back to the first National Assembly of the Fourth Republic. It began sometime in 1999, you’d recall. That was the period the incautious yet irrepressible Chuba Okadigbo, then a brand new senator of our perpetually blighted Republic, first gave an inkling of what the legislators had in stock for an already battered people. A furniture allowance of N5m each had just been announced by one unfeeling government agency for 109 senators, and something a little less for their 360 equally rapacious partners stationed in the House of Representatives. Chido Onumah Chido Onumah
“What!” Nigerians screamed in ear-splitting anger. They wondered why newly elected legislators would be asking for that much for their convenience in a country that had been robbed blind and severely wrecked by the retreating military oligarchy. Typical of him, Okadigbo – Oyi as he was then widely saluted by his admirers and subjects – poured cold water on the issue by declaiming flamboyantly that if anyone cared to know, he was not in Abuja to live like a cockroach. Since that open display of arrogant indiscretion, Nigerian legislators have not looked back in their avowed journey of mindless plunder.
It has since assumed the tale of as you cut off their finger, they find new ways to adorn it with a diamond-studded ring, thus lending strong credence to the widely held view that more than being legislators, these so-called lawmakers are nothing but a terminally dependent class of Nigeria’s prebendal state. In their heedless quest for material and sensual pleasures, they have only stopped short of demanding from the state the power to keep permanent suites in the poshest hotels across the country for as long as their tenure lasts. And who says they won’t soon get to that point?
So bad it is that even in this era of clamour for a decided “change,” they are not showing any faint sign of taming the odious grab-grab mentality. There is no other name for this kind of behaviour other than pathological greed. Stretching it further to accommodate synonyms in three local languages, the Yoruba would call it iwa wobia; in Igbo they would say it’s something like anyan ukwu, while the Hausa will see it as typical halin azzalumai.
In a few days, these azzalumai of the 8th National Assembly will shamelessly stretch their hands to pocket about N9bn ($45million) – senate president, Bukola Saraki, says the figure is lower, without giving the real figure – courtesy of the Nigerian state, for what they call wardrobe allowance. Last week, it was reported that the preening new Senate President (the de facto President of the Federal Republic) was still operating from his personal residence because the N27.1bn naira ($135million) castles being built by the government for principal officers of the National Assembly were still under construction. All these in a country with a minimum wage of N18,000 (about $80); a country where more than half the states have not paid workers for months.
Whatever the real figures of the official extravagance, it is one story that leaves a sour taste in the mouth. This shameless affront or iwa wobia by our certified anyan ukwus is coming at a time of intense expectation of total break from the ignoble past, a period when citizens are yearning for new ways of running public office in Nigeria.
In this period of national emergency, of debilitating and fast dwindling national revenue, when an overwhelming population of government workers and their families are crying due to starvation occasioned by non-payment of salaries for several months, you would expect the legislators to say NO, not again; you would expect them to reject with unequivocal bluntness the imposition of any privilege, deserved or not, that seems to depict them as insensate gorgers. And this criminal and silly wardrobe allowance, certainly, is a typical example of that insensitivity.
In 2004, Robert Rotberg, the US professor of governance and foreign affairs, among other qualifications, described the Nigerian leadership as “predatory kleptocrats” and “puffed-up posturers”. We now know the class that largely informed that unflattering but apt description.
If the lawmaking business in Nigeria is truly about the people why, for instance, would a David Mark, a Bukola Saraki, an Ike Ekweremadu, a Yakubu Dogara, a Stella Oduah, a Remi Tinubu or any other legislator collect money from the state to clothe him/herself in these lean times or any other time for that matter? In the sixteen years of David Mark in the Senate (eight as Senate President) what sort of clothing has he not worn at the expense of the state that he would now again rely on the people’s money to replenish his stock? When will these people ever think of denying themselves some things in the interest of the common good?
Why would a Bukola Saraki, who spent eight years as the governor of a state, been a senator for the past four years, and recently elected Senate President, not feel any scruple collecting money for what they call wardrobe allowance when there are hundreds of thousands of children orphaned by Boko Haram and homeless victims of unending ethnic/religious conflicts sleeping under sub-human conditions in makeshift Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps across the country without food to eat, not to talk of clothes on their backs? Who cares what legislators wear so long as at they make laws that will improve the lives of the people? They could go to the National Assembly naked for all we care! After all, most of them are flabby imposters and we don’t think their nakedness would excite anybody.
Sadly, not a whimper yet of outrage from legislators including, Ben Bruce and the boisterous Dino Melaye, who so far have been most vocal in the ironically feeble crusade to trim the cost of maintaining lawmakers in the National Assembly. Although it’s heart-warming that the duo has expressed interest in reducing the cost of governance through personal sacrifices, they must focus on the attitude of the Senate in general and its leadership in particular, if they expect to be taken seriously.
Riding around Abuja (from the National Assembly to his residence) in a black, expansive Mercedes Benz in a 15-car convoy that includes a bomb disposal vehicle, a state-of-the-art-ambulance, motorcycle outriders and a retinue of aides and security personnel, Saraki is already carrying on like a latter-day emperor, in blatant contrast to the “change” mantra on which his party, APC, campaigned and was voted in as the “governing” party.
Saraki’s Maitama neighbourhood is daily assailed by the raucous blare of siren from his long and needless convoy. This obscenity, a throwback to the David Mark era, won’t be markedly different from what obtains in the neighbourhood of Saraki’s deputy as well as those of the Speaker and his deputy. Just imagine the cost of keeping these vehicles on the road and maintaining these retinues of aides and, of course, the inconvenience for ordinary citizens!
If this is the “change” the APC talks about, then it means the “change” that brought it to power was a mere slogan. Nigerians were deceived to get their votes. President Muhammadu Buhari, the symbol of the leadership of Nigeria, surely has his work cut out for him. While we believe in the principle of separation of power, President Buhari must defy the so-called godfathers and show leadership because, in the end, he is the President of the Federal Republic.
The last time we heard from him it was that his age might affect his performance. Mr President, you were not voted to represent Nigeria at the under-17 World Cup. You were elected president to lead. Apart from showing good example, all you need to do is put the right people in the right places (a test of that will be when you send your list of ministers to the Senate), empower state institutions to do their work effectively and take bold actions in the interest of the masses.
The style of the present order must not be a carry-over of the abomination of the last 16 years. As a first step, the President should immediately meet with APC legislators in the National Assembly and impress on them the need to reject forthwith the satanic wardrobe allowance.
Onumah and Onyeacholem wrote from Abuja and can be reached at conumah@hotmail.com (@conumah) and gonyeacholem@gmail.com
Anthony-Claret is a software Engineer, entrepreneur and the founder of Codewit INC. Mr. Claret publishes and manages the content on Codewit Word News website and associated websites. He's a writer, IT Expert, great administrator, technology enthusiast, social media lover and all around digital guy.
A LOT of Nigerians who believed General Muhammadu Buhari was a befitting replacement for former President Goodluck Jonathan are now being given reason to have second thoughts. The irony of it is that Pa Muhammadu Buhari, President and Commander-in-Chief of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is the one deflating their balloons of enthusiasm.
On 6th May when he met newly elected All Progressives Congress (APC) governors in his temporary abode at the Defence House, he expressed his worry that the expectations of Nigerians from him were “too high”. How do you expect Nigerians to feel when you ask them to tone down their expectation of a new administration that campaigned on the mantra of change? They will feel disappointed and begin to doubt if they took the right decision to give you their mandate.
Again, at the African Union Summit in South Africa, Buhari met with a group of Nigerians and delivered an even bigger shocker. He said: “I wish I became the head of state when I was a governor, just a few years as a young man. Now at 72, there is a limit to what I can do”. Even though he went on to say that his administration would bring “positive change” and implement the APC manifesto, telling us that his old age is a burden was a dramatic departure from what he told us when he was campaigning and his opponents made a big issue of his age.
Unless there is more to the issue, why should Buhari, without being prompted or cajoled, make an issue about the burden of old age? For me, there is nothing hard and fast about age. That is why, throughout the campaigns, I never made an issue of it. Even the idea of Buhari paying regular visits to London hospitals and taking frequent times out to “rest” were not an issue to me. Anyone at any age can see a doctor and take a rest. For that matter, anyone can die at any age.
Ronald Reagan was elected for a second term at the age of 73. He had Alzheimer’s disease, which makes people to be forgetful to ridiculous levels. He was renowned for his many public gaffes and got frequently heckled in the Press. But this was the man who eventually dissolved the Soviet Union, brought down the Berlin Wall, and drove the USSR out of Afghanistan, without firing the proverbial single shot. He certainly was one of the most epical of the presidents of the United States.
Back here in Nigeria, the Father of African nationalism, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, ran for the presidency in 1983 at the age of 77. Beat that! If he had won the election he would have served two terms (everything being equal) and rested for another four years at Onuiyi Haven, Nsukka, before boarding his eternal flight to the Great Beyond. Chief Obafemi Awolowo, who was 74 when he contested along with Zik, died in 1987. He would have died in office had he been elected. Our own General Olusegun Obasanjo is officially 78 but is believed to be well over 80. But he is still physically and mentally agile enough to do some of the things much younger people have since retired from.
Therefore, it is not the age that matters. It is what you have, what you do with it. It was unwise of Buhari to dabble into it at a time when his ovation is still loud and he needs to keep it going for the onerous tasks ahead. It was not surprising that his media aide, Femi Adesina, came out with a commendable effort at damage control, saying Buhari is good wine that gets better with age. If Buhari is afraid of failure, he should tackle his fears privately with the help of professionals and learn not to transmit it to the public.
It is not just the “I’m too old” gaffe that is making Nigerians nervous. That bit about being stymied by the refusal of former President Jonathan to give him “useful tips” on how to kick-start his administration also did not do him much credit. What “useful tips” would a former state military governor, head of state, Executive Chairman of the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) and four-time presidential candidate be looking for from his erstwhile opponent? Shouldn’t he have perfected his vision and mission years ago, ready to explode on arrival? I don’t expect former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, former Governor Sule Lamido or even Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso to need “expo” from anyone to take off if they found themselves in Buhari’s shoes.
Another issue that made Nigerians to shake their heads in disappointment in these past, non-eventful three weeks was the manner in which the president and his deputy declared their assets. Many Nigerians expected that on submitting their completed forms to the Code of Conduct Bureau, copies would immediately be made available to the media for public perusal. That way, they would have sent a no-nonsense message about their anti-corruption agenda. But the president reminded us that he promised to make it public “within the first 100 days”. Fine. But some of the wind has gone out of the sail.
The CCB has not proved itself to be an anti-corruption agency so far. Rather, it tends to protect the interests of highly placed government officials such as governors, presidents and vice presidents. It has never come out to expose corruption. The CCB appears to be a very convenient hiding place for executive big shots.
But we are consoled by the fact that whatever is eventually disclosed will be savagely and minutely tooth-combed in the public. We are watching to see if it is true that our president was living only on his military pension before he got elected. We will examine the plausibility of his needing to obtain 27 million Naira “bank loan” to pay for his APC presidential form.
We will extend our searchlight to the assets of Hajiya Aisha Buhari, a beautician who reportedly owns a N10,453,000 Cartier Baignoire Folle 18-karat white diamond-encrusted wristwatch. She proudly displayed it for all to see during her husband’s inauguration. If a president’s wife wears a N10 million wristwatch, then can you fault federal lawmakers for their wardrobe allowances of N21.5m for Senators and N17.8m for members of the House of Reps?
This apparently wealthy wife of a pension-sustained husband had also donated N135 million worth of drugs to Internally-Displaced Persons (IDP’s) in Adamawa during the campaigns. She got us wondering why she did not give some of that hefty cash to her husband to purchase the form. After all, she would bathe in the power and glory of her husband emerging as the elected president of Nigeria.
Indeed, she is already doing so, in lavish style. Though President Buhari had promised, during the campaigns, to abolish the office of the First Lady, which his predecessor’s wife, “Mama Peace” had occupied rather scandalously, it did not stop Hajiya Aisha from organising a grandiose “thank you” gig for women, during which she played court just like a First Lady. Or, are we going to see another Abacha episode? General Abacha announced the scrapping of the First Lady’s office. His wife, Maryam, answered “Wife of Head of State” and ended up more regal and ostentatious than “First Lady” Mariam Babangida!
And did you hear how APC spokesman, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, claimed that Buhari has already “surpassed” in three weeks what Jonathan achieved in six years in tackling the Boko Haram insurgency? Apart from his foreign tours to garner support and moving the command centre of the operations to Maiduguri, Buhari has not made real move to engage the terrorists, yet Lai says he has “surpassed”.
Lai Mohammed should stop awarding himself non-existent plaudits. We, the Nigerian people, will be the judge of Buhari and APC’s performance.
Anthony-Claret is a software Engineer, entrepreneur and the founder of Codewit INC. Mr. Claret publishes and manages the content on Codewit Word News website and associated websites. He's a writer, IT Expert, great administrator, technology enthusiast, social media lover and all around digital guy.
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