It is 2018 and Muhammadu Buhari has been president of Nigeria for over 3 years. The below are top quotes from leaders who have fiercely spoken up against Muhammadu Buhari’s tenure as one of a handful of presidents Nigeria has had in recent decades.1
Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Former President of Nigeria:
“When you have an ineffective and incompetent government, we are all victims. And don’t let anybody deceive you. Those of you who are in business, your business could have been better today if we have a competent and effective and performing government.”
Charles Soludo, Former Governor of The Central Bank of Nigeria:
“Nigeria is now, some say a fragile state, some say a failed state; it is not going to be a tea-party to come out but unfortunately, we are not taking it serious. Nigeria is not just in recession but in a massive economic compression; it will be a miracle for the present APC administration to return this country to the dollar size it met in May 29, 2015, if it stays for 8 years, that’s till 2023. It is business as usual; propaganda, lies, double-speak. Current government is fighting corruption, insecurity, but we say to them, enough of the blame gain. They inherited a bad situation but they have made it several times worse; getting us out here is not a tea-party like I sad before. Nigerians should rise in unity; it should no longer be ‘let them’; only united citizens can rescue Nigeria out of this position.”
Mustapha Chike Obi, Former Managing Director of Assets Management Corporation of Nigeria:
“Look, the national debt has gone from N9 trillion when this government came in, to about N20 trillion today, and it is still rising. They have doubled the debt! I challenge anybody to tell me what they have done with the over N11 trillion they have borrowed so far. This government has borrowed more money in two and half years, than the civilian government since 1999 had borrowed. So, in two years, they borrowed more than what had been borrowed for 16 years and nobody can point out what they have done with the money they have borrowed so far. That’s the problem. It’s an ad hoc thing. It is not part of the coherent plan. I know there is an Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP) that they are all talking about, but when I look at the targets in the ERGP, I am not impressed. I believe we can do better. I think corruption is about two per cent of GDP and incompetence is about 10 per cent of GDP and that is a bigger problem than corruption in Nigeria. Until we recognize it and start fighting incompetence, we may not get anywhere.“
Ben Nwabueze, SAN, Nigeria’s Former Minister of Education:
“If president Buhari is given a second term in office, God forbid that he should ever get a second term, Nigeria will cease to exist, except in the sense in which Zaire, under (late) Mobutu (Sese Seko) existed. That is as an idea without an existential content, a state existing only in name or the map as a mere geographical expression.”
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