Buhari not bothered by propaganda - APC secretary

The propaganda about his approach to governance is just to coerce him to relax and he will never relax until things are done right. The insistence to have the complete budget document is to ensure that Nigeria has a document that is truly a policy guide, a realistic budget that has interest of the people.” Buni noted that Nigeria was going through a challenging period caused by the former administration but expressed optimism that things will get better. “It is sad that Nigeria has to pass through these hard times at this moment under the APC-led administration. It is equally sad that the economy is weak, owing to the dwindling oil prices, which is our major source of income. The difficulty is over bloated by the damage done to the economy and infrastructures in the last 16 years when, as a nation, with buoyant economy, we failed to maintain and improve on the existing infrastructures. The players at that moment engaged in massive stealing of the nation’s commonwealth, whose colossal consequences we are forced to pay now. I have heard people saying we have been shifting all the blames to the previous government. “The truth is that some people are ignorant of the scale and quantum of destruction done by the previous regime to the economy and the polity. Not quite long, prominent Nigerians and renowned professionals predicted hard times for the country because of the damage inflicted. They cautioned government on the massive looting of the nation’s treasury and the decay in infrastructures, with a strong warning to redress the situation. “In 2011, the Emir of Kano, His Royal Highness, Muhammadu Sanusi ll, then, the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, warned Nigeria to address the abuse on the economy, saying if nothing was done, Greek economic meltdown will be a child’s play compared with what awaits the Nigerian economy. He said unless the system was sanitised, the US dollar will rise against the Nigerian Naira astronomically, and government may not be able to pay salaries. In January 2015, the former president, Goodluck Jonathan, during his re-election campaign, paid a courtesy visit on the emir of Ilorin, where he emphatically told Nigerians that “Nobody can fix Nigeria in four years.” The former president knew very well the volume of damage done to the economy under his watch to have made such a statement.

Source: Naij.com