Insecurity Worse Under Buhari Than Abacha, Mailafia Laments

The former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Obadiah Mailafia, yesterday, said insecurity was worse under the President Muhammadu Buhari administration than that of late Head of State, Gen Sani Abacha.
Abacha was Nigeria’s military ruler between 1993 and 1998, and his administration witnessed series of political assassinations.
He also said that last weekend’s attack on Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, by gunmen suspected to be herdsmen in his farm on the outskirt of Makurdi, was an attack on the people of the state.
Mailafia, who stated this in an interview on Channels Television’s breakfast programme, Sunrise Daily, lamented the state of security in the country, saying Abacha would not have tolerated such attacks.
According to him, “This is totally unprecedented. This is the worst time ever in the history of Nigeria. You can’t even compare with Abacha’s time; Abacha’s time was a golden era compared with what is happening. You think Abacha would have tolerated all these? You can’t travel on the roads, killings, destruction everywhere.
“World powers want to destroy Nigeria and what they have done is to come and meet some people and tell them, ‘You are born to rule’. There is an agenda ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo called Fulanisation and enforcement of one particular religion on the rest.”