President Muhammadu Buhari has
said that he had been called “Baba go slow” meanwhile Nigerians elites never
spoke of the misrule of the country by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for
16 years.
According to Buhari, while the
elite allowed the country to be mismanaged in 16 years without raising a voice
in consternation, they have been accusing him of being too slow in decision
making.
Buhari queried what those that
were considered to be fast achieved.
This was part of a statement made
available on Friday by his Special Adviser on Media and
Publicity, Femi Adesina.
Buhari spoke at a meeting he had
with the Nigerian community in the United States of America on Thursday in New
York.
The meeting was held on the
margins of the 73rd United Nations General Assembly holding in New York.
The President said, “They
(Nigerian elite) didn’t say a word. Under the PTF (Petroleum Trust Fund, of
which he was Chairman), we did roads from Lagos to Abuja, to Onitsha, to Port
Harcourt.
“Since then, the roads were not
done, between 1999 and 2015, yet the elite did not say a word.
“I was called Baba Go Slow. Those
who were going fast, where did they get to?
“In 1983, military officers
gathered and made me Head of State. I packed the politicians into jail, told
them they were guilty until they could prove their innocence.
“We seized what they had looted,
but after I myself was put in detention, the politicians were given back what
they had looted. How many elites complained about that?
“Three times I contested
elections; three times I went to court after the elections were rigged against
me. No justice, but I said ‘God dey.’”
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