Why former president Goodluck Jonathan thinks Muhammadu Buhari has failed
The Media Office of former President Goodluck Jonathan has described the APC government of President Muhammadu Buhari as a failure.
It said this while accusing the federal government and the Special Assistant to President Buhari on Media, Femi Adesina of peddling falsehood over claims that Nigerians did not protest the hike in fuel price by the Buhari government because they trusted the government.
The special media adviser to President Buhari, Mr Femi Adesina had earlier mentioned that it is because of trust that Nigerians did not rise up against the Buhari administration when it increased the pump price of petrol from N87 to N145, he betrays a deep ignorance and arrogance.
Former President Jonathan feel the hike in fuel price must have brought more suffering for Nigerians who have been battling to survive the harsh economy condition in the country,
Jonathan administration increased the price of petrol on January 1, 2012. The hike sparked a lot of controversies
Nigerians had not so soon forgotten how Malam Nasir El-Rufai led other chieftains of the opposition to the Gani Fawehinmi Freedom Park, Ojota, Lagos, where they attracted crowds by inviting top musicians to perform and by giving out free food and drinks.
The excuse given by the military for this massacre was that the Shiites had blocked a road during one of their procession and this allegedly affected a trip by the chief of army staff. After killing his followers and destroying their place of worship, Sheikh Ibrahim Zak Zaky, the spiritual leader of the Nigerian Shiite community, was illegally and unconstitutionally detained and has not been seen or heard of in public since December 15, 2015.
One of the reasons why Former President Jonathan felt Buhari has failed is due to the fact that the President Buhari led administration has failed to tell Nigerians how much of their own money the President spent in treating himself in London when the State House Clinic cannot boast of ordinary Panadol (by his own wife’s testimony)
Jonathan berated the campaign promises of President Buhari whose number one campaign promise was that “no Nigerian Public official should receive medical treatment overseas at public expense
Not keeping to promise to end corruption:
Jonathan related how it would be hard for Nigerians to have forgotten the promise to end corruption when the $25 billion Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation scam is ringing in their ears along with the denials by the Vice President that he never approved any contracts.
Inflation and instability of the Naira:
President Jonathan and or PDP supporters have always argued that In the five years that Former President Jonathan governed Nigeria, President Goodluck Jonathan spent N16 trillion. The economy grew. The Naira was stable. They claimed to have had the greatest expansion of infrastructure since the Gowon years and inflation was in single figures. In the two years that President Muhammadu Buhari has ruled Nigeria, he has spent N15 trillion. Inflation has gone back to double digits and the only infrastructure that he has started and completed is the Daura helipad.
The statement from Jonathan camp says “Femi should spare us his propaganda and accept the truth that he is the mouthpiece of a murderous regime sustained by propaganda and surviving on corruption,” the statement added.
