A former governor of Ekiti State, Otunba Niyi Adebayo, has come hard on President Goodluck Jonathan, claiming that it would have been too disastrous for the nation if the outgoing President had won the March 28 election, Daily Sun reports.
Adebayo, who spoke in reaction to the nation’s crumbling economy and the difficulty faced by Nigerians in the last three weeks as a result of fuel scarcity in the country, stressed that the Federal Government led by Jonathan failed to move the nation forward.
According to him, “It is obvious by what is going on that if the PDP were to remain in power, honestly, it would have been too disastrous for this country. I believe the only thing that has made people to exercise patience and not take to the streets since all these days, was because they know that come Friday, a new government will take over. And that is what is giving people hope.”
The former governor appreciated God for causing the people of Nigeria to take the right decision during the last general elections by voting out the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and bringing in the All Progressives Congress, APC.
“The president has shown lack of respect for the people, who he claims to love. If you are leaving government and at the time you are leaving, you begin to sack people and appoint new ones, that means you just want to create problems for the incoming administration,” he said.
Otunba Adebayo continued that if Jonathan had been given second term, the hardship being faced by the people would have been the beginning of total destruction of the nation’s economy.
He expressed concern over the way the outgoing President and his government allegedly relaxed and felt less bothered about the prolonged fuel scarcity and the power outage.
The APC chieftain wondered why President Jonathan could pre-occupy himself with sacking some top government officials and appointing other ones to replace them within few days to the expiration of his administration as if he was just waking up after four years to know that the people were not good enough.
He however advised the incoming administration of Muhammadu Buhari to do a comprehensive review of damages done to the country by the PDP, with a view to making corrections.
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