Daily Trust Sunday

My New Years Resolution

- Elnathanjo­hn.blogspot.com, Twitter: @elnathan with Elnathan John ecceneljo@yahoo.com

Dearest Buhari,

Ihave been thinking of how far we have come, of all the obstacles we have overcome together, of all the challenges: your ill health, your enemies, your campaign promises, your wife, and ungrateful people who want you to do crazy things like turn around the economy, follow the rule of crazy laws like the procuremen­t act and waste time talk to them. We have overcome them all and I am proud. Now we have to talk about the new year. What is your plan dear? Me, I have many resolution­s. Let me share them with you. BE PATIENT I will wait in 2018. I will not ask you to speak to me always like those ungrateful Nigerians who think that you should always update them on the state of the nation, and react to issues as they arise.

I will be patient and not expect you to solve the perennial fuel crisis, even though you were and now are Petroleum Minister. What’s that got to do with anything? I will simply wait for father Dangote’s refinery which he has promised will perform signs and wonders, miracles. I will wait for Dangote to reach out and touch our petroleum industry and finally complete his Nigeria domination, for we know that with Dangote all things are possible. I will not pretend to understand how this subsidy or no subsidy works. I see Nigerians uploading things they claim you said in 2015 during the campaigns about Nigerians wasting time in fuel queues and losing productive hours and how you were going to end all that. Those are just rumours as far as I am concerned. Nobody said you were going

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