In few days it’ll be 1 year since PMB assumed office with a promise to change Nigeria for better. Things have changed a great deal, but for worse. Nigeria is face perhaps with its worst economic crisis since independence and government response has been at best calamitous.

The joy that greeted Buhari’s ascension to power has fizzled away. A government that held so much promise and raised the hope of Nigerians has lost its groundswell of goodwill to the grinding hardship that has marked its one year of governance.

The change mantra that obliterated PDP from power has become a poisoned word. If it were possible, many would prefer a return of Goodluck Jonathan, the man whose modest efforts was derided, but is now being appreciated in the face of his successor’s foibles.

An opposition that labeled the previous government ‘clueless’, has demonstrated greater cluelessness and confusion as she grapples to find solution to the economic challenges facing the country it now leads. Needless to say, their economic policy is at best hazy, disjointed and riddled with contradictions.

President Buhari and his party are now confronted with a situation where they cannot fulfill many of their bogus campaign promises as both the barefaced lies they told Nigerians just to win power and the ones they told against the previous government, have now come back to hunt them.

To win election, APC made promises they were not ready to meet. It was a classic case of ‘the end justifies the means’. Unfortunately for PMB, he is now faced with a situation where his performance no matter how sterling, will be assessed against APC’s impossible promises. With the bad economic outlook, it will take a miracle to make any sterling dent on the nation.

Jonathan’s modest achievements which were downplayed or blatantly denied as meaningful by the then opposition are now receiving accolades denied it then. Some policies that were castigated as oppressive have been embraced by the same people that once repudiated them. Many would ask, what then was the need for change?

Truly, promises can win you friends but only performance can keep them. The APC and Buhari may wake up in 2019 to find out that no one is #standingwithBuhari.