“Buhari Set Nigeria 100 Years Backward” – Buba Galadima Reveals His Only Regret

A chieftain of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Buba Galadima has revealed his only regret with the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.

Speaking in an interview on Arise Television on Monday, Buba Galadima said his only regret as Buhari prepares to leave office this month is that the president has left Nigeria’s polity doubled by religious and monetization issues.

According to him, Buhari has set Nigeria back 100 years and divided the country along religious and ethnic lines, adding that the president did nothing to warrant applauding him

Galadima was responding to a recent claim by Buhari’s media adviser, Femi Adesina, that his principal would leave Nigeria better than he met it in 2015 in terms of security and the economy.

He said “We wished he had kept the country the way he met it. We would have clapped for him and even escorted him to Daura whenever he intends leaving office. The man has taken Nigeria one hundred years back, dividing Nigeria along religious lines, dividing Nigeria along ethnic lines, crash economic policies that had left the dollar that he met at one hundred and fifty-seven naira per dollar, he is now leaving it at nearly eight hundred. That is if you see the dollar to buy.

“Insecurity was confined generally in the North-east except for some dark spots but today you cannot travel to anywhere in Nigeria with your eyes closed. You have to spend the night praying that God delivers you. Now if that is the kind of Nigeria that Femi Adesina wants, then I pray to God to visit him with what the common people suffer daily in Nigeria.

“My only regret in this country is that Buhari has left Nigerian polity bedeviled by religious and monetization issues which is worse than rigging because you can no more win election on the basis of quality of service or credibility, basis of your pubic service or the basis of hat you had done but also only on the basis of what you have done”

The former Governor of Kano also accused the religious leaders in the country of contributing to the unsatisfactory outcome of the election.

“Of course, religious leaders, both Christians and Muslims were a disappointment during this election. Instead of preaching morality and telling Nigerians that look this is what God expects from a leader, they made themselves God, and thought they can install a leader of their choice. They have utterly been disappointed”. He said

Responding to the statement of the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, asking some political leaders to stop whining, he said the minister is not a politician and does not understand the pain of the people.

“Lai has been a friend for a long time. He has never been a politician and he doesn’t know the feelings of the people. He doesn’t know the conditions of the people. He has always been appointed to reap where he did not sow.

“So, he cannot see the conditions of the ordinary Nigerian nor can he see the condition under which the opposition has worked to wrestle power from them. So, since they have used the instrumentality of government, since they have used the power of money which they have in abundance and bought themselves into government, he is free to say what he wants to say” He said

Buba Galadima also advised the president-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu to beware of people around him, who will do anything to be in power.

KanyiDaily recalls that the presidency has released a 90-page fact sheet that highlights the high points of President Muhammadu Buhari-led government.