A former lawmaker representing Kaduna Central in the Senate, Senator Sani Shehu, has claimed that former President Muhammadu Buhari destroyed Nigeria’s economy, saying the former president is responsible for the current economic hardship in the country.
Sani stated this in an interview on Channels Television’s
Politics Today on Wednesday.
He said some of the economic policies that President Bola
Tinubu is implementing now, which triggered the economic hardship, should have
been implemented by Buhari.
The Kaduna senator said former President Buhari failed to
implement the policies, which consequently allowed the economy to deteriorate.
Sani said, “We must be very factual and realistic with
ourselves; the problem we find ourselves today, originated, was engineered,
fabricated and sustained by the Buhari administration.
“The Buhari administration, institutionally, fundamentally
destroyed the Nigerian economy,” he addded.
Sani absorbed Tinubu’s blame for the current situation,
noting that, having said he (Tinubu) would implement the policies he has
implemented so far during the campaign, Tinubu did not deceive Nigerians.
He said, “When Tinubu took over, he knows there is not going
to be subsidy and to be realistic, he was very frank during his campaign. I am
going to remove subsidy and whatever protest that will come out of it I will
not back down’ and then people went ahead and voted for him, so he has not
deceived Nigerians.
“Now he is in power, we are paying the price for the mistake
of the past, for the failure of the past and for what we have refused to do in
the past, so this is the reality,” he said.
Recall that some Nigerians in some states have taken to the
streets to protest the situation over the economic hardship occasioned by some
of Tinubu’s policies, especially the removal of petrol subsidy and the
unification of forex rate.
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) also joined the protest
over hardship on Tuesday with a nationwide action.
But, Sani said the NLC has the right to protest, adding that
the protest to be wary of is not that of the NLC but the one that may be
carried out by unorganised civil society.
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