Former lawmaker representing Kaduna Central in the Senate, Sen. Shehu Sani, has blamed former President Muhammadu Buhari for the current economic hardship in the country.
Sani said that some of the economic policies that President Bola Tinubu is implementing triggering the economic hardships were policies made by Buhari whom he noted failed to do so and allowed the economy deteriorate.
“We must be very factual and realistic with ourselves; the problem we find ourselves today, originated, was engineered, fabricated and sustained by the Buhari administration.
“The Buhari administration, institutionally, fundamentally destroyed the Nigerian economy,” Sani, as guest on Channels Television Politics Today on Wednesday, said.
Absolving Tinubu of blame in the current situation, the ex-lawmaker noted that having said he would implement the policies he has implemented so far during campaign, Tinubu did not deceive Nigerians.
“When Tinubu took over, he knows there is not going to be subsidy and to be realistic, he was very frank during his campaign.
“He said, ‘I am going to remove subsidy and whatever protest that will come out of it I will not back down’ and then people went ahead and voted for him, so he has not deceived Nigerians.
“Now he is in power, we are paying the price for the mistake of the past, for the failure of the past and for what we have refused to do in the past, so this is the reality,” he said.
With the economic hardship occasioned by some of Tinubu’s policies especially the removal of petrol subsidy and the unification of forex rate biting harder, some Nigerians took to the streets to protest the consequential hardships.
