Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday praised the country’s late brutal dictator, Sani Abacha, for building infrastructure for Africa’s most populous nation, while declaring that former President Goodluck Jonathan left only debts.
“I challenge anybody to check from Europe, America and Asia; between 1999-2014, Nigeria was producing 2.1 million barrels of crude oil per day at an average cost of 100 USD per barrel and it went up to 143 USD.
‘‘When we came it collapsed to 37 – 38 USD and later was oscillating between 40 and 50 USD.
‘‘I went to the CBN Governor, with my cap in my hand, and asked if we had savings. He told me we had only debts, no savings. Some of the roads were not repaired since the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) days.
‘‘I don’t care the opinion you have about Abacha but I agreed to work with him and we constructed roads from Abuja to Port Harcourt, Benin to Onitsha and so on. We also touched education and health institutions.
‘‘One of the former Heads of State was bragging that he spent more than 15 billion USD on power in Nigeria. Where is the power?’’ the President said while receiving members of the Buhari Support Organisations (BSO) led by the Comptroller-General of Customs, Col. Hameed Ali, at the Presidential Villa, according to a statement by the President’s spokesman Femi Adesina.
Mr. Buhari urged Nigerians to remain vigilant and ensure that only ‘‘people of conscience are in-charge of governance at all levels’’, as the nation prepares for general elections in 2019.
However, Mr. Buhari was lying. According to public records at the Central Bank of Nigeria, former President Goodluck Jonathan left $2.07 billion in the Excess Crude Account when he handed over to President Buhari on May 29, 2015. He also left Foreign reserves of $29. 6 billion for the incoming government in May 2015.
And as had argued Reno Omokri, Mr. Jonathan’s ally who sometimes acts as his spokesman, in an opinion article published in 2017, “if ex President Jonathan left no savings, with what money did President Muhammadu Buhari use to bail out those states that could not pay salary (mostly APC states) after he assumed office in May 2015? Of course the Central Bank of Nigeria did not print money!
‘If ex President Jonathan left no savings, what money did Buhari use to …?’
“That money came from somewhere. On Tuesday the 26th of July, 2016, President Buhari commissioned the $1.457bn Abuja-Kaduna standard gauge rail project. This was a project built and COMPLETED by the Jonathan administration. It is a 187 kilometer railway that enables Nigerians to live in Kaduna and work in Abuja. Is this not infrastructure?”
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A brutal leader that supposed to be in the Hague facing war crimes if he’s alive becomes a saint in the eye’s of a current president,because the late dictator comes the same tribe as the current president pmb is nothing but to support evil as long as it is committed by a Fulani man no wonder the president finds it too difficult to declare killer fulani herbsmen a terrorist group and he proscribed banner carrying IPOB youths who peacefully demanding for a referendum a terrorist group,history will judge this president accordingly.