“What you have said summarises the problems
of this country. You have looked carefully and found out that this year, 2015,
whichever way politicians and the elite look at it, is another time or
watershed in our political system.
“If we get it wrong this time, and allow
the PDP to go again for the next four years, this country is going to be in
trouble. Right now, with the unfortunate event of crumbling oil price, the
economy is really in a mess. Coupled with insecurity, it is only a country like
Nigeria that can survive and get out of this situation we are in. A lot of
countries will just disappear either from the map or from the political
equation of nation states. But Nigerians are so resilient to the extent that
there are international personalities who could not understand why Nigeria
still exists.
“There was a former UN Secretary General
who said that if he retires, he will go to Nigeria because, according to him,
what is happening to Nigeria, no other country can go through it and survive.”
Buhari added, “The 16 years of the PDP has
been hell. Remember that we use to have Nigeria Airways, Nigeria Railways,
Nigeria Shipping Line. Try and find out how much we have spent on power in the
last 16 years from the vast resources we accumulate over that period because
the price of oil went up to 142 dollars per barrel.
“What did we do with that money? We said
that we paid debts with billions of Naira. If that amount was put into
infrastructure such as power, roads, railways, farming etc, the amount of job
it will create would be enormous. Today, some of our youths have become danger
to the society because of lack of jobs. I hope the elite will properly document
these 16 years as presenting the worst leadership this country has ever
witnessed.”
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