As we enter the new year, the AH2H {AtikuHouse2House} support group wishes all Nigerians a prosperous new year in advance.
Yes, our new year will only be prosperous when we have planners who understand that running an organisation is a team work and achieving glory requires a positive, proactive team with the requisite mindset, which is what Alhaji Atiku Abubakar (Turakin Adamawa) always stood for.
The fate of 180 million Nigerians is too big and demanding for a group of people who believe that perception in the public domain according to their dictates is all that matters.
In the passing year Nigerians were being fed with statistics that left well meaning citizens thinking about how we got to this sorry state.
First, it was the case of a badly prepared budget that could not sail until June of this year. Remember a nations budget is supposed to show the income and expenditure of the country for a given year. As at December 2017, the 2017 budget could not achieve 30% execution owing to crass understanding of the challenges at hand.
Before this administration came to power, Nigerians had adjusted to their fiscal year running from March of a preceeding year to the other. However poor we used to think that used to be, the task is being taken to an abysmal low under the current regime.
A poorly prepared budget couldn't be passed until our ailing president got back home, when the year was deep into the second half. The 7 trillion naira plus budget was passed into law but not until Nigerians were told that some funds that were meant for major infrastructural developments like the 2nd Niger bridge were taken away for 'more pressing matters'.
In essence corrupting the very sacrosanct document that shows the expenditure of our federation.
As if that is not enough, the various money generating agencies of the federation gave us their score cards, with Customs & Excise declaring over 1 Trillion Naira, FIRS 2.3 Trillion, NPA 1.2 Trillion, VAT over 2 Trillion, NOTE, all these without the income from oil and gas.
Yet, the government claims it can only fund 20% of the budget, that it must borrow to fund the budget.
The revenue from FIRS alone as stated is more than 32% of the 2017 buget. The question that comes to mind is - 'what and how' are the other accruals to the federation's account managed? From the revenues so generated, is there any justifiable reason to go borrowing? Enough of the deciet. Our nation deserves an urgent renewal. It is not the retrogressive change that has become the nightmare of the citizens, but a positive push to a new frontier devoid of primodial sentiments.
The year 2017 witnessed a reinvigorated demand for the restructuring of the country. Despite the blatant denials of Restructuring been a cardinal point in the ruling party's manifesto, Turakin Adamawa, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar stood out as a shining light to the dumbfounded citizens who could not believe that one of the major reasons that made them to vote massively for the ruling party had been tossed to the waste bin.
Alhaji Atiku Abubakar stands with the truth and that informed his resignation from the APC.
Nigeria at this hour needs a leader that understands the yearnings of the people. Enough of the lies, let us align with the man that made the deregulation of our telecom industry possible.
Unlike the empty promises that is now the standard, it is time for pragmatic leadership, let's all join hands and get Nigeria #Atikulated.
By - Louis Ndimele; NMT, AH2H2019
@ah2h2019, @chynedofficial
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