I must confess. I am one of those people who helped to work on the Buhari campaign. I did three things for him. I was working for my country. That's how I saw it and that's how I still see it. Of the three things I did for him, you will only ever know of one----the book I wrote in an attempt to influence his policy trajectory---the book: If I Were Buhari. Many friends had advised me to title it: If I Were President. I refused because my motive was clear. I had run for President and I had failed. Let us now help the man who is likely to be, for only one reason---for the greater good. That is what I have always wished for. I believed, therefore, I wrote. 
When I read tonight that the President gave an interview in which he responded to a question as to why his children schooled abroad by saying "I can afford it," I was very angry. I am angry. Wrong answer, sir. You do need a lot of help sir. First of all sir, you must stop giving interviews. You are alienating your own people.
Nigeria has changed sir, for the simple reason that the world has changed. You did not change it. Because it changed, she took a good look at your candidacy and people trooped out to vote for you versus a party that had come to take the people for granted. It was in the same way that the people took a good look at Jonathan in 2011, when he said—‘I had no shoes’ and we voted for him. In 2015, we switched our votes when you said at Teslim Balogun---‘I have no money.’
Now that you are Mr President sir, there are things you can say and there are things that you cannot think not to even talk of saying it for anyone to hear. You are fast losing your people. That emotional capital which took Goodluck four years to blow, it would appear that you are determined to blow in one year. We need to do some quick work. First sir, you must take a step backwards. Get transcripts of all the interviews you have given, local and international, and do a review with your media team and a few honest, fearless men and women. Ask them a simple question---What do you think? I am hoping you will get some help to guide you about making future utterances.
Also, interview rules do not preclude you from obtaining questions in advance. You can make it your official policy not to grant any interviews if the interviewers decline to send you the questions in advance. There can be nothing wrong with that if those are the ground rules you have set.
Now, to the matter. Did you really give that response that your children are schooling abroad because you can afford it? If that is the case, there are many Nigerians who say they can afford it and they have chosen to import toothpicks and Champaign. What is wrong with that? We cannot have two sets of rules for the citizens of this country. What is good for the goose must be good for the gander. Mr President sir, your answer is flawed because the logic is flawed in all fundamentals. The nation demands an apology.
Our country is in need of help and our leaders are in need of help. We need deep thinkers in our midst. We need crystal ball gazers, people who will with a high degree of certainty help us to predict our future based on a model that would shift and guarantee certain outcomes when we do or fail to do certain things. Let us take the N5000 allowance that the party promised for example. How did we plan to qualify the beneficiaries? How did we plan to find them? What level of education should they have or not have to qualify? What age bracket should they belong to? For a society that suffers from an aversion to having proper data because it is not politically wise to have proper data, this proposal could therefore be considered dead on arrival.
Our food supply chain is broken. Our export supply chain is broken. Our fuel supply chain is broken. Our hospital system is broken. Our education system is broken. Our infrastructure system does not exist. The only thing that has really worked for us seamlessly these past 40 years has been and remains our import supply chain. We mastered that to the level of toothpicks and gifts to be shared out at parties.
Mr President sir, there is a precedent for what we are going through. If we go down history lane we would find a certain Minister of the economy in 17th century France. The country was having economic problems and he called the leading lights of business in the country and asked them one question---What can I do to help your businesses? He got the answer. They told him simply---Sir, leave us alone----Laissez Nous Faire!---
Can you leave electricity alone?
Can you leave fuel prices alone?
Can you leave the Naira alone?
All the things that have been left alone are in abundant supply and the prices are right. Look at tomatoes for example---do you see anyone complaining?
Look at Plantain for example---do you see anyone complaining?
As sure as the sun would shine; as sure as a ripe mango would fall from a tree due to gravity; the laws of Supply and Demand are immutable. They cannot be challenged. Anywhere there is scarcity, competition to obtain a product will increase and the price will increase. Anywhere there is abundance, prices will fall. Running the Nigerian economy is as easy as that sir. Do not let anyone try to bamboozle you with Macro and Micro economic theories.
Nigerian goods will never be competitive if the entrepreneur has to generate his own power, tar his own roads and produce his own water. He needs an edge. How do you plan to give the Nigerian producer that edge in a global world? That is a question you must direct your energies to sir. No one buys any goods based on patriotism. Sir, you have demonstrated this already by your own actions. There are over 100 Universities in Nigeria. You made a decision to send your children abroad. I do not begrudge you that decision sir. You exercised a choice every consumer must exercise—the freedom to choose. I will not join the chorus of people who say you must withdraw your children and force them to attend Nigerian schools. That is a non- argument. However, a solid argument goes thus. Give me the opportunity to exercise my own decision to send my child abroad. Give me the opportunity to import my Champaign and toothpicks. Give me the opportunity to import my chairs and tea. Even though this is a good argument, I know it is not good for the country. That is why sir, your answer to that question is flawed. God give you wisdom to do us good.