Former 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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