My open letter as sent to Mr. President.

Today.

 

Mr. President,

Its very disheartening that your candidacy is coming when Nigeria politicians are busy running down our great country Nigeria.

 

I have been watching Nigeria politics with its up and down trends for about 20 years. Not because you are president; the truth is, your emergence was timely when some crazy notable politicians are hell bent in turning Nigeria to their private estate. Its also important to let you know that 99.9% of people who are working to actualize your dream come 2011, are not doing it for the love of this country or your person, instead for their individual interests and personal gains.

 

Nigeria is far behind development and we have all it takes to be among the 5 best nation in the world. Why are we at this mess?

 

We witness in our various state of federations where the Executive Governor of State create personal income for their political friends and associates. i.e, Special Assistance, Executive Assistants and Personal Assistants. All these office gulp a lot of public funds to maintain, yet they have no significant role in improving our economy. Having satisfy the statutory requirements of two tenures, they still head to senate whereas majority of them have no significant developmental project to justify their 8 years in office.

Please address this area as a sitting President.

 

Your proposed budget for 2011.

 

We cannot have a significant development where your overhead vote rises far above capital vote.

The salary structure should be reviewed downwards and all entitlements attached to political offices, as witnessed in some other part of the world.

We will continue to have this crisis so long the monetary benefits is too attractive, because majority of the politicians are after the monetary aspect attached to the office.

 

You may wish to address the spate of abuse of office by political office holder having security details attached to them, Sen. Folarin's case is a litmus test as alleged, if he's not having the number of security as claimed in the media, i am very sure he will not have been involve in the alleged crime and would have stayed out of trouble.

 

Please save Nigeria sir.