Former Spokesman of ex- President Goodluck Jonathan Presidential Campaign Organisation, Chief Femi Fani Kayode has taken another swipe at President Muhammadu Buhari.
Chief Fani Kayode said that the president had either lost his memory or was badly misinformed.
Fani Kayode rebuked President Buhari for telling Nigerians that he inherited nothing from the PDP administrations of Olusegun Obasanjo, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua and Goodluck Jonathan.
President Buhari had said that he inherited nothing from the PDP administrations of former president’s Olusegun Obasanjo, late Umaru Musa Yar’ Adua and Dr Goodluck Jonathan.
[The trio ruled Nigeria from May 29, 1999 to May 29, 2015 when Buhari took over on the banner of the All Progressives Congress, APC.]
Buhari made the comment on Monday after attending Eid prayers in Daura, Katsina State on the heels of the economic recession in the country.
“I want Nigerians to realise that what this government inherited after 16 years of PDP government was no savings, no infrastructure, no power, no rail, no road and no security,” he said.
Reacting, Chief Fani Kayode blamed the president’s lost of memory or poor information.
Speaking with Vanguard, Fani Kayode noted that President Buhari had in the last one year and three months, brought nothing but chaos, destruction, division, fear, deaths and shame to Nigeria compared to the PDP governments he was ridiculing.
His words: “It is obvious that President Muhammadu Buhari has either lost his memory or he has been badly misinformed.
“If you look at the state of the country in 1999 when former President Olusegun Obasanjo took over and compare it to what it was in 2007 when he left office, you will find out that there was not just development but also a miraculous transformation in every sector.
“That is what Obasanjo managed to achieve and I am very proud to be part of that government and part of those legacies.
“After Obasanjo left, Umaru Yar’Adua took over and then came former President Goodluck Jonathan.
As far as I am concerned, Jonathan built on Obasanjo’s legacies and foundation and he took us to yet another level.
“If you compare Nigeria in 2015 by the time Jonathan left to 1999 before Obasanjo came in, you will have to thank the PDP for lifting this nation up and taking us from strength to strength.
“By the time Jonathan left in 2015, we had the largest economy on the African Continent and the fastest growing economy in the world, among other things.
“In one year and three months, all of that have been destroyed by President Buhari and his APC, we are now back in the dark ages.
“Every sector in the country has been destroyed and everyone is complaining.
“President Buhari has brought nothing, but ethnic cleansing, recession, abuse of power, persecution, genocide, chaos, destruction, division, fear, death and shame to Nigeria.
“They have no other way of running the country, but to intimidate the citizens and threaten them. That is his own legacy.
“It should also be noted that a large number of people that supported Buhari in his quest to become the president, last year, were all originally from the PDP, whether the PDP governors, who decamped or PDP ministers who decamped or PDP legislators who decamped.
“70 percent of people that helped to put Buhari in power used to be PDP including former President Olusegun Obasanjo; former Vice President Atiku Abubakar; Senate President Bukola Saraki; Speaker, House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara; former speakers Aminu Tambuwal, Aminu Masari; Umar Ghali Naaba; former minister of the Federal Capital Territory and governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El- Rufai; Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State; Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi; former governors Olagunsoye Oyinlola; Segun Oni; Danjuma Goje; Aliyu Wammakko; Rabiu Kwankwaso; Murtala Nyako; George Akume; Senate Leader, Ali; former PDP national chairmen, Barnabas Gemade; Audu Ogbeh, among others.
“When he insults PDP legacy and said that nothing was ever done by PDP in 16 years, he is insulting those 70 per cent that put him in power starting with Obasanjo.
“I think that this is most unfair and very ungrateful of him.”
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