TINUBU, HOW DARE YOU INSULT PRES. BUHARI

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President Tinubu says he is Buhari and Buhari is him!


The audacity of duplicity from a man who not only during and after the APC primaries campaigned distinctively by distancing himself from his predecessor and went on to rein abuses on the latter and even denigrated all the achievement of the latter as being a disastrous adventure. 

 President Tinubu decried Buhari’s competence. He called him names, derided him as weak –“O de nsunkun” for Buhari's stand in respecting the rule of law and our democracy. 

Under Buhari, he seized the Saraki National Assembly, the Oshiomhole APC structure, got his loyalists to deride President Buhari. In short, he funded hostilities against Buhari.

Let us ask Tinubu what happened to Buhari’s programmes to erdicate poverty in Nigeria? Why did he systematically dismantle them if he was Buhari and Buhari was him?

The Social Safety Nets Under Buhari (2015–2023)

The Buhari administration built the most formalised social protection architecture Nigeria had ever attempted, largely under the National Social Investment Programme (NSIP) which had a regulatory framework comprising an Act of the National Assembly, the NSIP Agency under the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs. 

According to analyses of social policy implementation between 2015 and 2023, these programmes were created to address rising poverty, unemployment, and economic shocks. 

Core Programmes (2015–2023)

1. Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT)

Targeted the poorest households using a national social register.

Provided small but regular cash transfers to cushion poverty. (N5k monthlyper household). By the end of President Muhammadu Buhari's administration in 2023, the World Bank reports that the FGN approximately reached 1.6 million households, comprising over 8 million individuals, were beneficiaries of the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) program. Some reports indicate that over 1.9 million households were covered by the end of 2022, aimed at reducing poverty. Small number, one may say, but 8-9 million persons were impacted positively and with verified data.

2. N-Power

Youth employment and skills-building programme.

Offered stipends and work placements for graduates and non-graduates.

Based on reports surrounding the programme before its suspension by President Tinubu in 2023, over 1 million to 1.5 million Nigerian youths benefited from the N-Power programme, which was launched in 2016 to tackle youth unemployment through various empowerment components.

3. Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme (GEEP)

Micro-credit for traders, artisans, and small businesses. (Trader Moni, Market Moni and Farmer Moni and others)

A total of about 4 million beneficiaries under the 2 tranches of the GEEP (the 2,424,253 beneficiaries from the first phase and 1,142,783 from second tranche). Data for the first tranche was 1,962,383 for the #TraderMoni, while #MarketMoni had 425,362 beneficiaries and 36,508 got the #FarmerMoni. 

Buhari aimed to achieve 10 million under this programme. Why did Tinubu not continue to reach the target if he was/is Buhari as he claimed?

There were many other initiatives of the BOI to give single digit interest rates for SMEs.

4. Home-Grown School Feeding Programme

Provided meals to primary school pupils.

Aimed to improve nutrition and boost local agriculture and local economy

Created employment in the localities in the participating states.

Under President Muhammadu Buhari's administration, the National Home-Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP) grew to feed over 9 million to 10 million pupils daily across 53,000 public schools. The programme also engaged over 127,000 cooks and supported local farmers, acting as a key component of the National Social Investment Programme.

5. Maternal & Child Health Interventions

Included targeted support for vulnerable mothers and children. 

What Has Happened to These Safety Nets Under Tinubu (2023–2026). A 25kg bag of rice and 4 packets of noodles thrown at impoverished random Nigerians. 

Tinubu said Buhari was his Partner and that he is Buhari. What an audacious duplicity! How do you go about dismantling all the good things the people benefitted from an administration that had low revenues, suffered COVID economic downturn, did not dismantle subsidy and kept the dollar under some control in order not to further impoverish the people!

Tinubu’s regime is not a continuation of Buhari's. Tinubu is about taxing the people to death. Higher revenues, but the people are poorer.

Tinubu demarketted himself. He continues to demarket himself by going after prominent Buharists who refused to join his satanic cult. 

Let it be known to you, Tinubu, You are NOT Buhari. 

Barr. Pascal Ononye

Amsterdam/Abuja

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