President Muhammadu Buhari’s close political associate and National Secretary of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Alhaji Buba Galadima spoke candidly about the president recently… “Buhari has abandoned his political base completely and brought in new people that he does not know their background or their politics. He is trying to distance himself from the elite, including political juggernauts that contributed to bringing him to power. Four, he has alienated his supporters who had been with him since 2002. None of those people is visible in his government. And these are tested hands that were offered whatever position you can think of in life but rejected because they wanted to promote him.”
“Today, he doesn’t know them again because he says he doesn’t want to associate with politicians, forgetting the fact that it was politics and politicians that brought him to the chair which he is occupying. He has now found new friends in civil servants and technocrats through whom he wishes to perform. This group has neither political base nor committed to his cause. Once he is out of power, they will be the first group to expose the activities of his government, especially when they are not getting what they used to get before. A combination of all these will definitely destroy any goodwill that somebody has gathered in the process of getting into power.”
“There has never been any government that received the goodwill and support of the people of Nigeria from colonial time to date like this government. But all this goodwill is fading away like quicksand. No government in Nigeria has ever increased fuel money above two folds and got away with it. No government has ever devalued currency by about 200 percent and got away with it. No government has ever stopped importation of Nigerians’ basic needs; no government has ever witnessed tripling of food prices and survived without public outcry or outright removal except this government. It is only good for the government to do a self examination of itself before it pushes the people further to the wall.”
– Culled from The SUN