Letter to Buhari: I am dying of hunger, some politicians stole billions – Chukwudi Chidozie

– Nigeria’s president, Muhammadu Buhari just returned from a week trip from China after series of developmental discussions

– Chukwudi Chidozie is a Nigerian who finds himself in a dilemma regarding his socioeconomic status and whether he should find a way of leaving Nigeria without returning

– Nigerians are groaning in pains under the present political set-up either as employees or unemployed good citizens of the country

– The blame game subterfuge has been used times without numbers by the political elites

There is hardly any Nigerian who is not in awe of what is wrong with the country. The manner in which the nation is being navigated by the present administration at the centre, is highly worrisome. It is almost a year into the Buhari-led government, and Nigerians are yet to point at any tangible thing or infrastructure or developmental project the administration has put in place, since it came on board.

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It is a common saying that the patient dog eats the fattest bone. However if the patient dog is too hungry, it could die of starvation, before it gets to its own turn to eat the fattest bone. This is what necessitated a Nigerian, Chukwudi Chidozie, who lives in one of the states of the country, the Southeast to be specific, to join the groups of Nigeria, who love the country dearly, to write a short but strongly-worded letter to President Muhammadu Buhari on what he feels about his administration and what he has failed to achieve up to the present moment.

Chidozie also wrote on the economic challenges he has been facing after completing his one year mandatory national service, about seven years ago.

Below is the content of the letter from the Igbo man to the nation’s number one citizen.

Dear President Muhammadu Buhari,

Sir, I feel like shedding tears as I am writing this letter to you. I can feel some tears gather in my eyes. With all sense of humility and respect for the seat of the president of Nigeria, I am at a lost at where you are taking us to, as the president of Africa’s largest economy and giant of Africa.

I am not unhappy with you at all. I have always admire you, because of all I heard about you, while you were Nigeria’s Head of State between December 1983 and August 1985. Although I was given birth to on May 27, 1985. My father told me a lot of things about what your deputy then, Tunde Idiagbon and you, brought to restore discipline and hope in Nigeria, in the name of War Against Indiscipline (WAI). It was all what my father told me and what I found out later on by myself, that has made me to be one of your fervent followings.

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Your Excellency Sir, I completed my national youth service about seven years ago. I even served in Katsina state, being an Igbo man. I was very happy because I was posted to the North. It gave me a leverage at learning Hausa language, which I had wished to speak, since I am fluent in Yoruba and Ibo languages already. Presently, the nickname my friends gave me is ‘WAZOBIA,’ because I speak Yoruba, Hausa and Ibo languages fluently.

Since I finished my NYSC, I am yet to be gainfully employed despite graduating with a second class upper (honours division), studying Mechanical Enginnering from a first generation university. All the places I tried to get a good job, have not come into fruition, just because I do not have a top person, who could secure employment for me. I am wasting away, because I had to be forced to take up a teaching job which I do not have any interest in at all. Unemployment and under-employment have pushed me and some of my friends into doing what our hearts never thought of, while we were under-graduates.

Some Nigerians and even some of your party men, could still be taking a swipe at the government of former president, Doctor Goodluck Jonathan for institutionalising corruption and bequeathing a highly fractured economy, however, you should do something urgent, and move beyond the blame game, as I am not happy at all with the federal government under your watch.

I believe you have men of timbre and calibre, working with you like Babatunde Raji Fashola, Udoma Udo Udoma, Isaac Folorunsho Adewole, Geoffrey Onyema, Audu Ogbeh, among others, who could bring their wealth of experience into the fore.

Sir, what is really stagnating the growth of the economy of the country? This is because growth and development are now at a snail-speed, even if not at deceleration.

There is nothing I want to say again, because the anger brewing in me and my sadness of being a Nigerian at this precarious times, are both unfortunate.

Yours faithfully,

Chukwudi Chidozie.

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