Main opposition events within the nation have berated former President Muhammadu Buhari for urging Nigerians to beseech God to revive Nigeria as an alternative of admitting that successive All Progressives Congress-led authorities has failed the lots.
They expressed their anger in separate interviews with The PUNCH.
Buhari incurred the wrath of many Nigerians when he inspired his supporters in Hausa language not to surrender on the nation throughout an APC stakeholders assembly in Katsina on Saturday
In line with him, ‘Solely God who created Nigeria can resolve the issues of Nigeria.’
His assertion has since generated combined reactions amongst Nigerians on totally different social media platforms.
Reacting, the Nationwide Publicity Secretary of New Nigeria Individuals’s Social gathering, Ladipo Johnson, said that Buhari’s utterances have been a mirrored image that the APC-led authorities had been deceiving the folks regardless of figuring out that it had no clue concerning the nation’s issues.
He mentioned, “Nicely, it’s an admission that the APC authorities has completely failed Nigerians, and so they have led us all the way down to an financial downturn. This assertion by the previous president exhibits that even the present administration is confused.
“It additionally means they don’t have any clue about what they’ve been doing all this whereas. It’s like a trial-and-error course of. What we’d like is the appropriate set of leaders. The APC has failed and can’t present the management required to show the fortunes of this nation round.”
The Peoples Democratic Social gathering shared the identical sentiment.
In a telephone chat with our correspondent, the Deputy Nationwide Youth Chief of the PDP, Timothy Osadolor, mentioned Buhari’s comment was additionally an indictment on President Bola Tinubu’s administration.
“Firstly, I believe Nigerians ought to commend Buhari for being sincere concerning the state of the nation and the truth of right this moment’s authorities. Buhari, nevertheless, failed to say that he laid the groundwork for this authorities and its ineptitude. It’s a continuation of his previous management failure.
“Once more, it’s a vote of no confidence in President Tinubu, which additional reaffirms what now we have been saying that the person is simply there giving folks vibrant speeches and doing nothing. It isn’t a time to criticise Buhari for what he mentioned or why he mentioned it. It’s a wake-up name to this authorities and all Nigerians to salvage this nation from going the way in which of South Sudan.
“That is what occurs in nations the place management fails. So we should not give in to partisanship or nepotism. President Tinubu solely consolidated on the ineptitude of Buhari who was simply lucky sufficient to steer this nation.
“Due to this fact, all males of goodwill should arise and salvage what stays of this nation earlier than issues disintegrate. Nigeria can solely get it proper if the leaders are there.”
Equally, the Nationwide Youth Chief of the Labour Social gathering, Prince Kennedy Ahanotu, mentioned he wasn’t shocked by the previous President’s speech as a result of he was one of some well-meaning Nigerians who knew he had nothing to supply the nation.
Ahanotu added that it was excessive time Nigerians gave the youthful technology an opportunity to appropriate the ills of the previous.
He mentioned, “The reality is that I’m not a fan of Buhari and by no means anticipated him to do properly. So, I’m not shocked that he did nothing for eight years. However my level is that we’re in a rustic the place, earlier than a brand new president takes over, there may be all the time a notion that he’ll do higher. Sadly, after every successive regime, there can be lamentation that he didn’t do properly.
“Nevertheless, now we have choices in Nigeria, I preserve saying it. Till we embrace a youthful technology of leaders, we can not benefit from the dividends of democracy which can be occurring all all over the world. So, there isn’t any level lamenting as a result of there may be one other Sheriff on the town.
“However identical to all of the letters former President Obasanjo wrote to him, Buhari neither heeded nor applied any of the recommendation. So, if the ex-president decides once more to write down Tinubu right this moment, he’s additionally at leisure to hear or to not any of the counsels. It’s because profitable APC governments don’t take heed to folks they think about outsiders.
“This is the reason I mentioned Buhari’s lamentation doesn’t make any sense to me. It’s not one thing I even wish to speak about as a result of it’s their system. Don’t overlook this present President was amongst those that protested and fought in NADECO for the federal government to do the appropriate factor. However right this moment, it’s not secure or wholesome to protest in Nigeria.”