On January 1, the former president of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, published a letter addressed to the Nigerian youth. In that letter, he said a number of things, one of which was that the presidency of Major General Muhammadu Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) has been catastrophic.
He stated, “ will not stop attacking Buhari because the former President won’t stop being jealous of anyone who beats him to a new record in the nation’s development process.
That sounds similar to what the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, said about Buhari in October 2021. He said that no Nigerian – living or dead – “has the kind of attraction, magnetic pull, that Buhari has.” In December, while he was in Kogi State, Buhari declared that the All Progressives Congress under him had delivered on all electoral promises made to Nigerians at all levels.
The economy has also fared badly under Buhari, with the naira being most depreciated ever, exchanging for over 700 for a dollar. Late last year, the National Bureau of Statistics reported that 63 per cent of Nigerians were multidimensionally poor. Also, under Buhari, insecurity surged to its highest level, permeating all the six zones of the country.
Obasanjo became president in 1999 when Nigeria was a pariah state and oil price was selling less than $20. He was able to revive the Nigerian economy that had been nosediving since the military, led by Buhari, took over in 1983. Under Obasanjo, the middle class, which virtually disappeared during military rule, reappeared. Nigerians, who had been buying second-hand cars, clothes, shoes, refrigerators, TV sets, etc, began to buy brand-new ones.
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