SAN FRANCISCO, June 13, (THEWILL) – A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Kanti Bello, who had represented Katsina North as senator has noted that ninety per cent of Nigerians are disappointed with the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, which it said, has no agenda for getting things done.
Disclosing this in an interview with Independent, he observed that there is a little improvement in governance whenever Vice President Yemi Osinbajo steps into the saddle as Acting President.
“We thank the acting president, because each time he comes in, there seems to be some improvements in the way things are done. We don’t know why it is happening that way. Maybe it is his luck, but there are some little improvements,” he said.
Asserting that the Buhari government is not implementing any blueprint, Bello pointed out that, “power generation and transmission is one of the problems met by Buhari. Up till today, how much are we generating? 4,000 megawatts?
“It hasn’t gone beyond that! Is it not a disgrace for a government that is supposed to be moving forward? Up till now, our factories, our industries are dead, our people are poorer.
“Look at our economy, it has been so bad; the exchange rate, they say it has been improving. Improving? From N160 to a dollar, now it is N368 to a dollar. Is that an improvement? Two years ago, it was N160 to the dollar. Is that something to be proud of? It reached almost N500.”
The former PDP lawmaker, who stated that he contributed a lot towards the formation of the current government, said “I thought that a government, when it comes to Buhari, will be able to put smiles on the faces of Nigerians.
“I know that there are some difficulties; I know that the price of oil has gone down. I know all that but the human expectations, of the ordinary people, the way the government works, I can say 90 per cent of Nigerians are disappointed.
“And the simple reason is this; when we voted for this government, we believed, it was not only corruption that we wanted it to stop. We also felt that ordinary people should have enough to eat; they should have work to do. We expected some of our factories, especially up North here, would be revitalised.
“But look at what is happening. I can tell you, no nation with 120 million people can live and be a great nation when it has to import the food it will eat and it has to import clothing.
“We have the land, a favourable climate. We have sunshine. So, there is no reason we should be importing food and there is no reason why we shouldn’t be clothing ourselves. The reason is simple; there is no agenda to get things done.”
He disclosed that people cannot afford to eat twice a day in the President’s home state of Katsina, lamenting that “whatever you are buying, and inflation has tripled. A bag of maize that used to sell at N4,000 when Buhari took over is now selling at N16,000 and at that price, people aren’t getting it to buy”.
While lauding the government for tackling the Boko Haram insurgency, he however observed that, “People are being kidnapped and murdered. We aren’t safe, you cannot even travel from here to Kaduna without feeling that something can happen to you”.
