President Muhammadu Buhari
Those who mismanaged Nigeria’s economy in previous administrations led by the Peoples Democratic Party had no love for the country, President Muhammadu Buhari said on Tuesday.
The President of the world’s most populated black nation made this known when he received members of the Buhari Support Organizations at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The group was led by the Comptroller-General of Customs, Col. Hameed Ali.
‘‘I went to the CBN Governor, with my cap in my hand, and asked if we had savings. He told me we had only debts, no savings. Some of the roads were not repaired since the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) days,” Buhari said.
‘‘I don’t care the opinion you have about Abacha but I agreed to work with him and we constructed roads from Abuja to Port Harcourt, Benin to Onitsha and so on. We also touched education and health institutions.
‘‘One of the former Heads of State was bragging that he spent more than 15 billion dollars on power in Nigeria. Where is the power?” the President said.
Buhari further stated that those responsible for the fall of the country’s economy lacked imagination.
‘‘Sometimes, I wonder about those who can afford to send their children abroad for studies and yet continue to sabotage the economy, I wonder what kind of Nigeria they want their children to return to and work. There is a lot of lack of imagination,” he added.
‘‘If you are working for the country, then you shouldn’t be misappropriating and misapplying public funds the way people did.”