Mr. President, Council members, ladies and gentlemen, I send you glad tidings from my abode; I refuse to congratulate you because you do not deserve our cheers, but rather our sympathy and prayers. This sympathy is because you promised a lot under the “change mantra” – good roads, good housing, employment generation, 5000 Naira to 25 million poor Nigerians, regular power supply, cheap petroleum product and infact, cooking gas to every household, paid employment to every graduate and many more very lofty promises. Yes! Nigerians loved it but there is a snag, the oil prices are low, below $50, and Charles Soludo the former CBN governor warned against such promises during Mr. President’s campaign. Now there was a prediction, just yesterday, that the oil prices are likely to remain so for the next five years. Wow!!! That is why you deserve pity, more so that Nigerians have started asking for the payment of the 5000 Naira promised to poor Nigerians, including its arrears for six ...