Engr. Buba Galadima, spokesman of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), has adviced President Muhammadu Buhari, his former ally and friend, to “leave and stay away from Nigeria immediately you leave office in your own interest or face the consequences”.
Galadima, who was a guest on The Morning Show, a breakfast programme on Arise Television on Wednesday, warned that the avalanche of attacks the President would get from even those he trusted so much and gave a lee-way in his eight-year tenure now coming to an end, would be enough to give him a heart attack, if he decided to stay back.
Incidentally, the President, already seems to be thinking in the same line, as he was quoted recently to have told his audience at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, during the last Eid-el Fitr, that he could be relocating to Niger Republic, fearing an avalanche of onslaught from Nigeria’s apparently those he had hurt in his eight years in office.
After begging for forgiveness from those he might have offended, the President, was quoted as saying: “I can’t wait to go home to Daura. If they make any noise to disturb me in Daura, I will leave for the Niger Republic.
“I deliberately arranged to be as far away as possible. I got what I wanted and will quietly retire to my home town. In spite of technology, it will not be easy to get to Daura.”
Echoing the same sentiments, Galadima, who was a great ally of the President from the All Nigerian Peoples Party (ANPP) days to the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) and later All Progressives Congress (APC), suggested it was the best way for the President to avoid, what he saw as a possible “heart attack.”
“For him, I’ll advise that he should move completely out of this country, because of messages or the kind of criticisms he will come through from those he has assisted is enough to cause him a heart attack,” the NNPP spokesman, said, adding that as a good Muslim, he had since forgiven the President despite been deeply hurt.
Regardless, Buba, had no kind words for his old friend, despite the claims by the Presidency through its media team, headed by Femi Adesina, presidential spokesman that Buhari not only left his footprints on the sands of time, but did not leave the country the way he met it.
Confirming the claim that Buhari had not left the country the way he met it, he said: “We wished he had kept the country the way he met it. We would have clapped for him and even escorted him to Daura whenever he intends leaving office. The man has taken Nigeria one hundred years back, dividing Nigeria along religious lines, dividing Nigeria along ethnic lines, crash economic policies that had left the dollar that he met at one hundred and fifty-seven 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 bedeviled 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 hat you had done but also only on the basis of what you have done”
The former Governor of Kano, also accused the 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
Also responding to the statement made by Lai Mohammed, Minister of Information and Culture, asking opposition political leaders to stop bleating, he accused him of being aloof to the suffering of Nigerians, because he had always found himself in the corridors of power through various appointments.
Hear him: “Lai has been a friend for a long time. He has never been a politician and he doesn’t know the feelings of the people. He doesn’t know the conditions of the people. He has always been appointed to reap where he did not sow. So, he cannot see the conditions of the ordinary Nigerian nor can he see the condition under which the opposition has worked to wrestle power from them. So, since they have used the instrumentality of government, since they have used the power of money which they have in abundance and bought themselves into government, he is free to say what he wants to say.”
