Yemi Farounbi, former ambassador to the Philippines, says
President Muhammadu Buhari is God’s punishment imposed on Nigerians.
Farounbi said this on Saturday while featuring on a weekly
radio show, Ayekooto on Splash 105.5FM.
He said Nigerians were warned about the past history of
Buhari and how he imprisoned many politicians.
“In 2014/2015 when we were campaigning when Nigerians
decided to accept the campaign of once chance, they were warned of the past
history of Muhammadu Buhari and how he imprisoned many politicians including
Chief Obafemi Awolowo,” he said.
“God is a wonderful
being. He decided to use Buhari to punish Nigerians for their evil deeds, and
Nigerians deserve these punishments.
“Nigeria is not what I thought it would be. I have incurable
optimism that Nigeria will still be better. Those who are enjoying proceeds of
bribery, corruption, epileptic power supply, insecurity, among other vices, are
not looking forward to seeing a better Nigeria.”
The former ambassador added that the threats made by bandits
against Buhari and Nasir El-Rufai, Kaduna governor, portend great danger to the
country’s unity.
“The acts of the
bandits have shown that they really mean business. They recently ambushed
officers from the Brigade of Guards in Abuja, and this is an absolute insult
and injury to the sovereignty of the country, and whenever I hear this, I feel
ashamed of our country,” he added.
Farounbi said during a visit to Cambodia when he was still
an ambassador, he was accorded great honour and treated like a saviour because
Nigeria had helped the country during the crisis.
“Now we are being threatened by terrorists in our country
and our soldiers are almost incapacitated, the Nigerians soldiers that went to
Lebanon, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Congo but now they cannot effectively defend
the territorial integrity of their country,” he said.
On politics, Farounbi said the country’s two main political
parties share identical ideologies — and that they just serve to recycle
politicians with little or no value to the nation while people remain oblivious
to their rights.
He further criticised the ruling All Progressives Congress
(APC) for fielding a Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket, stating that such act
could further put the unity of the country in jeopardy.
Farounbi, however, said Buhari may still improve his
reputation by becoming Nigeria’s best leader if he honestly restructures the
nation into six geographical regions, adding that it would boost the nation’s
economic and political space.
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