A former presidential aide Reno Omokri has accused former President Muhammadu Buhari of destroying Nigeria’s economy during his eight years in office.
At the end of Buhari’s tenure in May 2023, Nigeria’s debt
had almost doubled from 18 per cent to 35 per cent of the Gross Domestic
Product, GDP.
The Daura-born politician left inflation at 22.4 per cent.
The economic hardship has continued under the administration
of President Bola Tinubu made worse by the removal of fuel subsidy and volatile
exchange rate.
And Omokri believes the blames should go to Buhari, who
according to him, ran a criminal enterprise instead of a government.
In a post he shared on X on Monday morning, Omokri said,
“Buhari Destroyed The Economy. Tinubu Is Trying to Restore It. That’s just the
honest truth. Even our oil sales are useless to us now, because Buhari sold
them in advance and pocketed the money.
“This is because he borrowed more than all past governments
combined, until our debt service to revenue ratio was so high that even China
stopped lending us money.
“The exchange rate was being subsidised with $1.5 billion
every month. What you saw then was not Naira’s actual value.
“Buhari lied to you about our foreign reserve position.
Those funds had been used to guarantee loans and purchases. Long and short of
it all is that Buhari would have jailed President Jonathan if Dr Jonathan had
done half of what Buhari did. Buhari did not run a government. He ran a
criminal enterprise that turned his former recharge card selling nephew into an
overnight private jet flying multi-billionaire.
“We, in the opposition know this. But some of us are playing
politics with it because they lost the 2023 election, and as far as they are
concerned, if they did not win, Nigeria must collapse.”
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Reno Omokiri, I used to think that most of you living outside the country know something but at a closer watch, you know nothing. Are there differences between Buhari government and that of Tinubu. Many of the ministers in Buhari regime were appointed by Tinubu. So tell me Reno, are you not aware that Buhari is not different from Tinubu? Have you forgotten that Tinubu told Nigerians that he was going to build upon the progress of the last administration. So Reno take a red card.
ReplyDeleteYour problem is speaking from both sides of your mouth. The money looted by Tonight's Ministers, what does Buhari have to do with that? What has Buhari got to do with the one billion naira Tinubu just approved for a so called minimum wage committee? These are men who don't have the interest of the country at heart. There is no difference between the two
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