Economic Hardship: N’Delta Youth Leader Demands Apology From Buhari

The Coordinator of the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC), Eastern Zone, Opobo/Ibani Clan, Hon. Ibitamuno Cookey-Gam, has called on former President Muhammadu Buhari to publicly apologize to Nigerians for allegedly inflicting hardship on them in place of quality leadership in the eight years that he presided over the affairs of the country.
Hon. Cookey-Gam stated this in an interview with journalists in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, recently.
While reacting to statement as credited to Buhari that Nigerians are difficult to govern, Hon. CookeyGam berated the former President, accusing him of subjecting the citizens to penury, hunger, indebtedness, killings and other forms of mis-governance.
According to the youth leader, the perceived difficulty of Nigerian people was, in fact, a manifestation of the incompetence, cluelessness and general weakness of the former President’s governance style of the country.
Hon. CookeyGam admonished Buhari to look for something better to do for himself, stressing that his government offered nothing to Nigerians within the life-span of that administration.
He said, “It is as clear as crystal that life in Nigeria was exceptionally better during the reign of Goodluck Jonathan as President before Buhari and his APC beguiled Nigerians and brought in a complete deceptive, corrupt and incompetent regime that wrecked Nigeria’s economy and foisted an era of hardship, pains, sorrow and mass destruction of lives and people’s properties in Nigeria”.
The youth activist said it was regrettable that at a time when the Nigerian electorate expected Buhari and the APC to be remorseful and plead for forgiveness, he chose to do otherwise.
“If there is any political party, globally, that should never seek for electoral votes due to its multiple failures, that party remains the All Progressives Congress (APC) “, he said.
He added: “Nigerian electorate are aware that instead of President Bola Tinubu to demand for the probe of Muhammadu Buhari’s unproductive government for eight years, he is only trying to cover it up as they currently divert public attention from their inability to articulate matters of governance, as well as Buhari’s incapability to tell Nigeria how he turned the country to a debtor nation overnight”.
The IYC leader called on President Tinubu to shun the idea of covering Buhari’s sins and bring the former President to account for stewardship of the country in the past eight years.

By: Bethel Toby