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Obasanjo, Yar’Adua, Jonathan destroyed Nigeria, Don’t Blame Me, Hold Them Responsible – Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari in his Nigeria’s 60th Independence Anniversary address, has accused past leaders from 1999-2015 for destroying the country and yet have the impudence to criticize his administration.
The period in question was when Olusegun Obasanjo, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua and Goodluck Jonathan held sway as Presidents.
Buhari while justifying why petrol price pump has to be increased due to fall in revenue, said in the nationwide broadcast on Thursday morning that no government has done as much as his administration has done with scarce resources despite huge spending on security.

The President cited that costs of petrol in some other oil-producing countries especially the country’s neigbours were much higher, adding that the previous cost in Nigeria is no longer sustainable.
Buhari stressed the need for tough decisions as the country must face realities.
He said: “No government in the past did what we are doing with such scarce resources. We have managed to keep things going in spite of the disproportionate spending on security. Those in the previous Governments from 1999 – 2015 who presided over the near destruction of the country have now the impudence to attempt to criticize our efforts.
“In the circumstances, a responsible government must face realities and take tough decisions.
“Petroleum prices in Nigeria are to be adjusted. We sell now at N161 per litre. A comparison with our neighbours will illustrate the point.
“Chad which is an oil producing country charges N362 per litre.
“Niger, also an oil producing country sells 1 litre at N346.
“In Ghana, another oil producing country, petroleum pump price is N326 per litre.
“Further afield, Egypt charges N211 per litre. Saudi Arabia charges N168 per litre. It makes no sense for oil to be cheaper in Nigeria than in Saudi Arabia.
“Fellow Nigerians, to achieve the great country we desire, we need to solidify our strength, increase our commitment and encourage ourselves to do that which is right and proper even when no one is watching.
“Fellow Nigerians, let us collectively resolve to continue our journey beyond the sixty years on the clear understanding that as a nation we are greater together than being smaller units of nationalities. By the special grace of God we shall come through any transient challenges.
“It is my sincere hope that by the end of this anniversary on September 30th 2021, we will all be proud of taking this individual and collective self-assessment for the progress of our great Nation.”

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11 Comments

    1. Buhari still remains the same criminal that he was when he was overthrown.
      It is the Yorubas’who put us in this mess.
      Now tell us the rewards they are reaping?Deaths from Buhari’s family members they put in power
      That’s what it is when you put a murderer as your President.
      How can you give yourself passmark, it’s others that will do the evaluation.
      If you do right, we will see it and if you do wrong, we will also see it for we are not fools. If his household is made up of fools, the Nigerian people are not.
      Did Obasanjo not support him to become President?
      Did Jonathan not accede to him to become President?
      Obasanjo inherited a broke Nigeria and did everything going to foreign nations to cancel debt. Let Buhari try it and see who would listen to him let alone support him.
      Bloody criminal.

    2. is it comparing Nigeria to Saudi Arabia and others that is the reason for buhari government’s pump price hike?has Ghana borrowed the stupendous amounts that this APC led government has done?was buhari’s trip to Saudi Arabia only to study pump prices?did he ever remember ask chad or Niger how much they got as palliative during the covid19 lockdown.Saudi Arabia had cushioning mechanism in place for her citizens what did Nigerian got from this government.is buhari not aware that why we were on lockdown and schools shot down his government was still feeding students with billions? buhari should please try and phantom what is conspicuously missing in his government and this 6years of blame game.

  1. Buhari still remains the same criminal that he was when he was overthrown.
    It is the Yorubas’who put us in this mess.
    Now tell us the rewards they are reaping?Deaths from Buhari’s family members they put in power
    That’s what it is when you put a murderer as your President.
    How can you give yourself passmark, it’s others that will do the evaluation.
    If you do right, we will see it and if you do wrong, we will also see it for we are not fools. If his household is made up of fools, the Nigerian people are not.
    Did Obasanjo not support him to become President?
    Did Jonathan not accede to him to become President?
    Obasanjo inherited a broke Nigeria and did everything going to foreign nations to cancel debt. Let Buhari try it and see who would listen to him let alone support him.
    Bloody criminal.

  2. I am sure you saw the mess before buy the presidential ticket and making all those promises of fuel, dolar price and the like. When you hear a teacher persistently complaining about another teacher over poor performance of a student in his class; something is wrong with the teacher. Mr. President you are out of ideas pls resign.

  3. President bihari can compare Nigeria petrol price with other countries that sell higher ask him how much is the monthly salaries of those countries compared to Nigeria

  4. At least Obasanjo paid the debts from Shagari to Abacha regimes which we thought our grand children will continue to pay, safe money for raining day and increased salaries- Gbemu Aremu. You have been borrowing and increasing Nigerian pains. What Nigerians can boast of in the past 5years are inflation in the economy, banditry, corruptions, insecurity and the like. Nigeria put their trust in the President as the leader of APC to rescue them but unfortunately what they received is inflation in the calamities they wanted to be rescued from.

  5. It is not easy to be a leader.A leadermist know that being a follower I not that we are still but he was lucky to be there.whenever a state wants to impose Tax on us,they compared us with Developed countries but when we demanded for our they shifted to compared us with under-developed neighborhood states,Why?Nigerians needed social amenities like Britons,Americans,Saudis because we paid Taxes as they paid,pls

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