A Kano-based public affairs analyst, Malam Aminu Idriss Fagge, has predicted a bright future for the country under the leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari and that it was poised to regain its lost glory in the comity of nations.
Speaking to newsmen on the nation’s 55th independence anniversary, Fagge said the founding fathers of the country were known to have toiled blood and sweat in keeping the unity of Nigeria sacrosanct, adding that maintaining such a feat entailed the commitment and total sacrifice of people of their ilk.
He said the country had begun to lose its revered status over the years with the rising wave of corruption that had enveloped the political class during the second, third and fourth republics.
Fagge lamented that the country had carved a negative image in the parlance of excessive corruption and bribery.
He said “Nigeria is on the road to regaining its lost prestige in the eyes of the world with President Muhammadu Buhari in the saddle of leadership,” stressing that his resolve to fight corruption in high places was what had earned him the unfettered confidence of the outside world.
He, however, stated that the trial of oil thieves set to begin was a commendable step taken to punish looters of the public till, affirming that it “is a gigantic task that could not be effectively handled by a weak president.”
He pointed out that the Buhari administration would have been in a better position to improve the lot of every Nigerian without much ado with the treasury of the country not looted by those who believed that it is their legitimate right to steal and go scot-free.
On the spectre of insurgency rocking the nation, he maintained that the current military offensive had almost reduced the Boko Haram militias to naught and dismantled their enclaves, saying that without commitment and sincerity of purpose the battle could not have been won.
He further revealed that with the insurgency almost coming to be defeated totally, the economy is also beginning to take shape stressing however that the speedy recovery of the looted funds would instil some same balance of sanity into the economy to forge ahead.
He berated the architects of the lingering crises in the Senate “which is taking a heavy toll on the nation at the expense of the citizenry for doing a great disservice to the nation at the time the nascent democratic system is gradually taking shape.”
