*Says Buhari headed most corrupt provincial government in history of Nigeria
*Insists Tinubu facing law of karma for roles in 2012, beyond.
*Backs state police, cautions Against abuse by governors
The Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) has while lamenting that Nigeria has gone through hell since the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) took over power in 2015, coming along with sorrow and tears.
CUPP National Secretary, High Chief Peter Ameh expressed this yesterday, in an interview with our correspondent.
“Fast forward to 2015 and beyond, Nigeria has become like hell on earth, killings and bloodletting have become our new normal. The humanity in us has been benumbed. We hardly shudder anymore at the mention of more than one hundred and fifty persons killed in a single night.
“The APC government that President Tinubu brought to power in 2015 brought with it sorrow and tears. Hardship became the order of the day, coupled with rising inflation. Corruption which was in single digit under Jonathan rose to close to triple digits inder Buhari.
” And now Tinubu has taken the helm of affairs, the situation has not improved and is not improving. It is getting worse by the day, and exchange rate of the naira to the dollar nearing two thousand naira to the dollar. President Tinubu has always been prepared for the office,” he said.
According to him, “the performance of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s predecessor in office was so dreadful and appalling that he has been reputed to be the president that has superintended the most corrupt and provincial government in the history of Nigeria, mortgaging our future and going home with whatever that would have survived us in the present.
“The second reason is the law of karma and retribution which is playing a part in the happenings now because of the ignoble role President Tinubu played in 2012 and beyond,” CUPP Secretary said.
Fielding a question whether Tinubu was prepared for the presidency, or has been overwhelmed, he said, he is facing the Law of Karma.
“You are talking about the grab 2023 presidential election, there is this Biblical quote that says, ‘He who plans evil shall see destruction waiting for him at his doorstep’. I remember that in 2012 when President Goodluck Jonathan was in power, there was this attempt to remove the fuel subsidy which was vehemently and fiercely resisted by ex Governor Tinubu as he then was and others including Prof. Wole Soyinka, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, as he then was, and others.
“There was also this conspiracy of the elites, especially the Northern elements, led by former Governor Nasir el-Rufai, Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, , etc in collaboration with their South West partners to remove President Goodluck. At that time, life in Nigeria was still bearable to the ordinary Nigerian, except the Boko Haram menace in Borno and Yobe states, which was also encouraged by these elements to help make Goodluck’s government ungovernable and normal sundry criminality here and there,” he pointed out.
On if state police will solve the present insecurity bedeviling the country, he said that it would be a step in the right direction.
“Let us begin on the premise that every crime is local, the law preventing such crime and their enforcement should be local too. The challenges are local and thus require local solutions. I am of the opinion that state police should be the starting point for restructuring of the country.
“Nigeria has been yearning for this in the last fifty-four years. The centralisation of authority as a result of the unitary federalism that was forcefully imposed on us by the military both before and in the 1999 constitution as Amended has resulted to the stunted economic and democratic growth of Nigeria, but also in the insecurity that has enveloped the country.
” I feel that with the introduction of state police, the locals and indigenes who will constitute one hundred per cent of the force will fully and faithfully take custody and the fate of their locality and state into their hands by ensuring that no criminal entity from within and without the locality and state are given any breathing space, and the idea of waiting for order or permission from Abuja before major operations are carried out will come to an end but must be made that the legislation is well drafted to prevent abuse by the state governors and my being apprehensive is due to what the state governors have done to prevent smooth running of state independent Electoral Commission (SIECS) to conduct an inclusive, transparent and credible election process for Local Elections,” he said.
On the current economic hardship resulting to hunger in the land, he blamed ex President Buhari.
“The hunger and starvation ravaging our land did not start today. The genesis could be traced to 2015 when President Buhari, as he then was, assisted by the current President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, ascended to power under the platform of APC.
” The then President Buhari came with a hateful and vengeful mind and attitude, consigning whatever thing that was good from the outgone PDP government into the trash can.
“He imposed his provincial and religiously bigoted bent on the nation, alienating a majority of the citizens from participating in Nigeria’s affairs, elevating nepotism to an art, elevating the rights of animals such as cows and rams herded by his fulani kinsmen way and beyond the constitutionally and God given rights of ordinary Nigerian.
“Herders/farmers clashes became the new normal and killer herdsmen were literally given the marching orders to go, conquer, and occupy the Middle Belt region including Southern Kaduna, Taraba State, which are reputed and recognised as the food basket of the nation, and the forest Southern Nigeria.
“These areas became afflicted with unending killings and bloodletting. Farmers who hitherto depend on agriculture for their livelihoods were either killed, kidnapped for ransom, or forcefully removed from their ancestral inheritance by these cold blooded murderers.
“With the above violent setting orchestrated by President Buhari, coupled with the desertification that had ravaged the far North, farmers, both commercial and subsistence farmers, were driven out of their vocation, leading to low output in production thus necessitating the astronomical rise in the cost of agricultural products which has gone beyond the purchasing power of both the average and unaverage Nigerian, and now recently excercerbated by the now famous “subsidy is gone” that has pushed the cost of goods and services to levels that are pushing Nigerians to great beyond prematurely,” he alleged.
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