By Dele Ajaja
“In layman’s lingo, benchmarking is the procedure for comparing the performances and practices of an organization to those of the foremost organizations in the same industry. Comparing the Buhari administration to the best governments in Africa, using the performance metrics of transparency, accountability, and integrity, a rational mind would arrive at the conclusion that the new government has been good, so far. Although, the impunity, incompetence, and ‘all-you-can-steal-buffet’ that became the rules, not the exceptions, on erstwhile President Goodluck Jonathan’s watch, had no place in benchmarking, one could never overlook the past when assessing the Buhari administration. Comparing the Buhari government and that of Jonathan is like likening life and death. Not perfect, but the new government is changing the immoral status quo, from Abeokuta to Zaria, Aba to Zungeru.
Observably, the only groups or individuals who would dissent from the above deduction are those the Buhari administration has stopped from poaching the commonwealth of the Nigerian nation, and the unwitting, ill-informed, and destined-victims of the past administration, who continue to defend the Jonathan maladministration on the basis of the regional, religious, or political affinities they shared with the corrupt officials. Decisively, those who doubled down, and continue to defend the dirty and miry lawlessness of the Jonathan regime, are the insensible folks who continue to give the world the right to call Nigeria and the rest of Africa unprintable names. They are the lethargic ones who won’t thrive on their own, unless they pilfer what belongs to everybody, but nobody in particular.” – DELE AJAJA
IMAGE: Naïvely, some Nigerians continue to call the ‘piss’ rained on us by the immediate past administration ‘pure water.’
