A chieftain of the New Nigeria People’s Party, NNPP, Buba Galadima, has decried the performance of President Muhammadu Buhari in the past seven years.
Mr Galadima, who used to be a close ally of Mr Buhari, also claimed that the Nigerian leader had taken the country 100 years backward.
Speaking during an interview with Arise TV on Wednesday, Mr Galadima also disagreed with a statement by a presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina, who claimed that the President would leave the country better off.
He said, “We wished he had kept the country the way he met it. We would have applauded him and even escorted him to Daura whenever he intends leaving office.
“The man has taken Nigeria 100 years back, dividing Nigeria along religious lines, dividing Nigeria along ethnic lines, crashing economic policies that had left the dollar that he met at 157 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 bedevilled 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 what you had done but only on the basis of what you have done.”
The NNPP chieftain also accused 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.
He however, advised the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, to beware of people around him, who would do anything to be in power.
