ormer APC, governorship aspirant in Benue
state, Nath Apir has said that Nigerians are
currently regretting that they voted President
Buhari into office. According to Vanguard,
Apir said this in a media chat with newsmen
in Makurdi, Benue state yesterday September
1st.
"During the last administration. Our economy
was performing above average. This
government came in and because every
government comes in to fix the problems of
the previous government. It took Presidemt
Buhari six months to appoint Ministers in a
country where, whether rightly or wrongly was
rated by the World Bank and the IMF as
Africa’s largest and number one economy.
We did not get that rating through bribe. On
coming to government it behoved this
administration to inflate the tyres that were
low on air pressure, grease those bearings
that needed to be oiled so that we don’t grind
to a halt just like we are in now. Our country
is in shambles, the people can hardly feed, the
Naira has crashed to over N400 to the Dollar.
They talk of recovering money from looters
and we have not seen where the monies have
gone to. Where exactly are the three or five
key pillars of the economic policies of the
APC government? Agree that there are issues
of militancy in the south south, other
governments also faced same challenge.
Buhari came in with a military mentality to
crush them. Look, civilized people negotiate,
they don’t do that because they are weak.
They do that because they know that you
cannot go forward in a situation of crisis and
chaos. He has just aggravated our economic
situation in the country. Six months no
Minister and the country was drifting and has
not recovered till today and he has brought us
to this level. Nigerians are regretting voting
Buhari, that is the truth. All his policies had
been anti corruption, by the time he came in
as military ruler in 1983 we resorted to the
purchasing of essential commodities. We are
back to that vicious circle. We are back to anti
corruption war without real economic policies.
Let me tell you, western countries are neck
deep in corruption. Don’t be deceived, they
have been receiving stolen monies from Africa
without questioning the sources of such
wealth. Today we are asking for the return of
those monies and they are asking for proof
that the monies are our own when they did
not ask the alleged thieves where they got the
monies from. These are basic things we
should know, they use the monies to develop
their economies. President Buhari’s war on
corruption is excellent and I support it, but he
must not use his anti corruption war to
destroy the country’s economy. He should
strengthen institutions to fight corruption. You
want to fight corruption go after bankers,
permanent secretaries as well, don’t just go
after only highly exposed political people.
These people cannot transfer monies without
the banks. Permanent secretaries are the
accounting officers of their offices. How come
they are not being held to account. “The
economy is in shambles and he has no
solution. The experience of the Finance
Minister is low. Who is running this economy.
You cannot assemble a group of yes sir
people and expect good results. No one to
challenge you. An educated man said, ‘we are
all ignorant of everything except in that which
we know’, that is why you need great minds
around you as a leader. So our country is in
recession, though I’m not surprise because we
had same in 1983 to 1985. Who is running
this economy? As a President he is looking at
a maze but you cannot read or lead the
economy inside that maze without anybody
interpreting it to you, it’s a matrix. Buhari has
to reorganize his administration, he has to
push out those who obviously have no
business in the government, corrupt and
inefficient people are everywhere in this
government they must leave now to save our
country.”he said
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