“…I approached the President and the governors that we defer the loan deductions from the Federation Accounts entitlement….The aim of this is to ensure that we support them through this difficult period to be able to meet salary obligations.” Minister of Finance, April 21, 2016.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) won the 2015 Presidential elections in Nigeria because the party promised to bring about positive change in governance. Before the elections, it was generally agreed that corruption was the nation’s number one enemy which must be aggressively fought.

Like other psychological traits the combination of which, with physical and intellectual attributes, constitute human nature, faith and fear are not necessarily harmful. Faith, in the sense of tentative conviction about something or acceptance of a belief inspite of insufficient evidence, is rational and justified as long as the individual is willing to change his or her mind when better evidence supporting the contrary view becomes available.

Sometime in 2001, at a meeting of the Fulani of West Africa that was convened in Cameroon, Muhammadu Buhari, not yet a president or even a presidential aspirant was one of the key speakers.

It is not really a hard exercise to judge the mood of Nigerians at this time in point. Generally, one can say, it is at the lowest ever in the history of the country.