Eromosele Ebhomele

Ahead of 2016 and at a time when various prophets are still looking to tell the world what the new year would look like, Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State, western Nigeria has released his predictions.

The difference between Fayose’s predictions and those of the Christian clergy is that while those of the latter is a mixture of positives and negatives, Fayose’s own predictions, 20 in number, are all negative.

The governor is currently the most outspoken member of the now opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

Here is a list of his predictions under the title: “20 Things Nigerians May Experience in 2016 Under Buhari’s Government’ released very early Tuesday and personally signed by him:

1.Workers Strike: There will be so much industrial unrest, especially
in the first quarter of the year.

2.Subsidy: There will be removal of fuel subsidy and petrol (PMS)
will sell over and above N100/litre, leaving the masses in more
serious hardship. Product will not be available and long queue in
petrol stations will persist throughout the first quarter of 2016 and
beyond.

3.Electricity: Power generation will drop to the lowest ebb. Still,
Federal Government will increase tariff in 2016.

4.Unemployment: Millions of jobs will be lost in 2016 as against the
three million jobs promised by the APC yearly. Most States and Federal
Government will retrench workers as evident in the over 2,000 Federal
University workers already sacked.

5.Economic Policy: Most private owned middle-class businesses will
fold up because of bad economic policies of the Buhari-led government.

6.Devaluation: The Naira will continue to have a free fall which will
take it to as low as N320 to one Dollar.

7.Economy: The Buhari-led FG will have no solution to country’s
economic problems.

8.Security: Boko Haram will keep spreading and the Shiite Muslims
will get more emboldened.

9.Human Rights: Penchant for dictatorship will rise with rampant
human rights abuses and disobedience to court orders.

10.Anti-Corruption: Insincerity in the fight against corruption will
continue and the fight will not only be selective and political, but
targeted more at Southerners.

11.Elections: Attempt to forcefully control any of the South South
States of Akwa Ibom, Rivers and Bayelsa by the APC will lead to
unprecedented deaths.

12.Economy: Crude oil price will fall to below and about $30 per barrel.

13.Anti-Press Laws: The masses, especially men of the media
profession will rise against the FG’s plot to deny Nigerians of their
rights to freedom of expression. There will wide condemnations by
Nigerians and the International community against President Buhari’s
human rights abuses and disobedience to court orders.

14.Polity: Renewed efforts will be made to remove Senator Bukola
Saraki as the Senate President; this will not only fail, but will heat
the polity.

15.Hardships: Nigerians will experience more hardships. The President
himself attested to this (THE SUN newspaper Tuesday, December 15,
2015). This obviously negates the change Nigerians voted for.

16.Elections: Plot by the APC to take control of at least one South
South State will lead to death of many people. Particularly, rerun
elections in Rivers and Akwa-Ibom States will cause many deaths.

17.Corruption: Halliburton scam may be revisited in 2016.

19. Kogi State: Court will sack Governor-Elect, Yahaya Bello.
Bayelsa State: Governor Seriake Dickson will win the supplementary election.
Taraba State: Governor Darius Ishaku will be victorious at the Court.

20.Politics: There will be subtle political alignment and realignment
before the end of the year ahead of 2019 elections.