Dear Editor
Having become the president of Nigeria he must be seen as having outgrown the period of political apprenticeship. There is nothing wrong if a person is found to be good and those employing him or her want the person”as long as she is good in all political respects.

But what I wished the president to do was that during the period of the tutelage, he should have busied himself in writing resume of the likely Nigerians he would like to work with when he finally became the president.

In 1983, Chief Obafemi Awolowo had resume on two thousand Nigerians. If he had become the president of Nigeria, he would have consulted this list for many of or the strategic appointments. There is the need for the president to go ahead swiftly to making the historic political impact because the whole nation is waiting on him to take crucial decisions starting from the appointment of all political office holders”

The president is the premos interpares and as the arbiter it should be very difficult for any minister to outstretch his political determinism. It may not be in detail but certainly, the president has a political goal not only to be president of Nigeria on record but to take certain historic actions for the well being of the whole people of the federal republic of Nigeria.

When I read in the newspapers that the woman pressed the president to the political wall that she would recruit all the economic team without the input of the president, I said to myself that Nigeria is in trouble, It would be unreasonable to think that Okonjo Iweala cannot goof and if she does, the president would not be able to sack her! I believe that every intelligent reader of this article will agree with me that the president h’as not done enough homework on this.

There are highly active, knowledgeable, patriotic, innovative, Nigerians with prodigious cognitive powers across Nigeria and around the world. The research findings released about five years ago stated that there were about fifteen thousand Nigerian professors working around the world and certainly, those in the country are more than this figure. Amongst these are great technocrats.

I am talking about a country with a population of one hundred and forty million people. I wish to let the president know that Nigeria has great men and women and there is nothing special about Iweala.

Since the president is having his own political and social determinism, there is no question of going to America to bring the model or bringing the policy of the World Bank to Abuja for the management of the social and economic system of the country. I know that Nigeria would not need the so called

American model. I must warn that the president should not try to bring someone who would impose one draconian economic system on the people of Nigeria because the poor has been making the real sacrifice since the time of Nigerian independence in 1960. The Structural Adjustment Program me was foisted on the embattled people of Nigeria by the totalitarian military rule of Babangida.

It will be too dangerous to contemplate that or such type of evil in a kind of democracy that we have today. I know that such will be resisted by the poor of this land.

It was the exiled Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn who said: “Ambitions can be thwarted, Schemes can be shattered by words cannot be muzzled”. The president is likely to be on the tight rope if he will be calling on the poor to make any sacrifice. I must explain that before now, the president had good image and it is only the future actions of the president which is yet to make or mar his image.

When the critics of Obasanjo accused him of mismanaging the state house, he always tell them that he appointed some minister who were then doing something and that if those ministers were doing something it meant that the then Obasanjo was doing something.

I certainly want to see a president that is doing something of historic significance and not the one who will hibernate under his ministers. It is never too late, Iwuala can return to her job at the World Bank.