Nigeria’s
President Muhammadu Buhari was sworn in on 29th May, 2015 and one thing has
been consistent about his office since then: apportioning blames. For every
thing that has gone wrong in the country and for every mistake his
administration has made, President Buhari has blamed everyone else but himself.
Here are all
the times he has assigned blames accordingly since he became President:
1. In June 2015, President
Buhari blamed the outgoing government of former President Goodluck Jonathan for
delaying new ministerial appointments. “I agreed with former President Jonathan
that the ministers of the outgoing government should hand over their notes or
their documents to this interim committee so that a position can be prepared
for the new government to start from with clear records from ministers but
unfortunately, the outgoing government did not cooperate.”
2. In August 2015, the
President blamed all the past administrations from 1985 from Gen. Ibrahim
Babangida’s to President Goodluck Jonathan’s for “allowing the infrastructure
in the energy sector to collapse so that their cronies can steal by bringing in
refined products from overseas.”
3. November 2015, at a dinner
of Commonwealth Heads of Government with Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth,
President Buhari blamed the fall of the late Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi for
the terrorist attacks in Nigeria and the entire Sahel region. “We have agreed
to a joint task-force for the elimination of Boko Haram, but it may not be
easy, especially after the events in Libya when trained people with weapons
moved back to Sahel region from where they were recruited by the former Libyan
leader.”
4. In December 2015, the
President remarked that “we uncovered that billions of naira and hundreds of
millions of dollars were expended by the previous government to acquire good
equipment and ammunition so that the military can use, but unfortunately, there
was abuse of trust at various levels that cost Nigeria a lot of lives and
goodwill.”
5. In a BBC interview in
February 2016, President Buhari blamed the ‘death’ of the Naira on former
military President Ibrahim Babangida’s Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP).
“I went through the devalue in 1984, its SAP that killed the naira, I have
asked the governor of Central Bank and others to sit and see if they can
convince me to murder the naira.”
6. In March 2016, President
pinned terrorist sect Boko Haram’s activities on telecoms company, MTN’s
inability to disconnect unregistered users. “You know how the unregistered GSM
are being used by terrorists…that was why the NCC asked the MTN, Glo and the
rest of them to register GSM. Unfortunately, MTN was very slow and contributed
to the casualties, that was why NCC looked at its regulations and imposed that
fine on them.”
7. In April 2016, President
Muhammadu Buhari held PDP’s 16 years rule responsible for the poor state of the
Nigerian economy. He said there was an all-time rise of crude oil prices at
$100 per barrel but the PDP failed to put that to good use. “We showed a lot of
indiscipline in managing our economy and that is why we are where we are today
but this time around, we’ll do our best.”
8. May 2016, President Buhari
blamed the international community for not paying attention when corrupt
Nigerians stashed stolen funds in bank accounts abroad. “When it comes to
tackling corruption, the international community has looked away for too long.
We need to step up and tackle this evil together.”
9. In June 2016, the
incompetence of the most recent past administration was yet again blamed for
turning the country into a mono economy. “We refused to save for the rainy day,
now the rain is beating us. No money, no savings, nothing. And we are
thoroughly wet from the rains.”
10.
In July 2016,
the presidency attributed the slow implementation of the 2016 budget to the
crisis in the Niger Delta, saying that the economy has been largely affected.
“The budget has been passed, the intention is to implement it as much as
possible but then the circumstances are making it difficult because projections
are not being met because of what is happening in the Niger Delta.”
11.
In August 2016,
the presidency said the selfish acts of some government and military officials
caused Nigeria thousand of lives, extended the reign of terror and strengthened
terrorist’s hold on some 27 local government areas in the country at a time.
12.
In his Sallah
message on Sunday, President Buhari’s had another blame-riddled speech for
Nigerians. “This present recession is as a result of cumulative effects of
worldwide economic downturn and failure in the past to plan and save for
difficult times. It is impossible to separate the present from the past to
appreciate the extent to which mistakes of the past are affecting everyday life
today.”
Oga Baba we need action not blames or you want us to nickname you and your minister of information LIENUS.
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