Elder statesman and chief of the Pan-Niger Delta Discussion board, Chief Edwin Clark, has mentioned the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari set the nation again 5 a long time in his eight years in workplace.
Clark mentioned the Buhari administration has failed miserably, lacked path, is stuffed with uncertainty and has recorded an financial collapse.
The South-South chief made the assertion in response to the launch of a e-book “Working with Buhari: Reflections of A Particular Adviser, Media and Publicity (2015-2023)” authored by Buhari's former Particular Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina .
The e-book was launched alongside 5 elements of one other e-book titled “Muhammadu Buhari, the Nigerian Legacy, 2015-2023”.
In a press release dated Thursday, January 18, 2024, Clark accused the previous president of praising his achievements in the course of the e-book launch, including that his reward contradicted residents' evaluation of his tenure.
“What struck me most was the angle and assertion of former President Buhari, who on the event recommended his achievements as President of the nation. I need to say that that is opposite to nearly all of Nigerians' evaluation of his authorities.
To most of us as Nigerians, Muhammadu Buhari has failed miserably as president. His reign was stuffed with uncertainty, financial collapse, injustice, spiritual bigotry and lack of path. The eight years of his rule set Nigeria and Nigerians again by 5 a long time. Even his successor, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, famous this in his speech when Buhari praised himself,” he mentioned.
In a shared 12-page assertion he had beforehand written on the eve of former President Buhari's departure from workplace on Might 28, 2023, Clark acknowledged that he (Buhari) left behind a “bouquet of unfulfilled guarantees, a divided nation and a big left a variety of crucial voices. federal infrastructure initiatives in shameful states, particularly roads, and particularly within the Niger Delta area”.
He added that President Buhari’s eight-year tenure was unjust, biased and nepotistic, saying it was “a interval of full and complete decline.”
