Where is the ENERGY Mr President?

On May 29th of this year Mr Jonathan Goodluck was sworn in as the President of the federal republic of Nigeria and since then nada. Unless I am totally mistaken I have been underwhelmed by the lack of action and energy following this swearing in. Bearing in mind this is not a totally new Presidency I would have expected some things to be already formulated in his mind and ready for implementation. whilst I admire his great desire to be all inclusive there is only so much consultation a leader requires before he makes his decisions and sets out his strategy and agenda. Here we are six weeks later and I am not quite sure whats going on.

I see he went to NY to attend some forum on HIV and whilst this is laudable I think it would not top the list of priorities that most Nigerians would want him to focus on. There was also a flying visit to President Obama for the obligatory rubber stamping of being seen to be cool with Barrack. Bearing in mind how Obama snubbed us when he came to Africa and stopped off in Ghana rather than Nigeria what was the point of this?

Rather I would have liked to hear what our new Domestic policy is. What are we doing about unemployment? What are we going to do with the vast and very restless youth population? What is going to happen about diversifying from our almost total dependence on oil? What is going needed to drive agriculture, tourism as alternative sources of income? Etc, etc.

Where are the daily, weekly Press conferences informing the citizens of your plans? Updating on progress? Engaging in a national discourse? Just letting us know you are doing something besides engaging in photo opps? Where is the ENERGY of action?? The vibrancy, vigour, zeal, oomph that one would expect of a newly expected administration? I get the sense of sliding towards zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Is it this lack of action and energy that allows a Boko Harem to step into the void and create chaos? Do they also wonder who is in charge and what that person is doing?

And a final word on ENERGY. Where is the promised improved power supply? Sir? Sir?