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Emir Of Kano To Buhari: Your Government May End Up Like Jonathan’s by justicejay(m): 11:07am On Aug 25, 2016 |
The Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi, has
warned President Muhammadu Buhari to
avoid repeating the mistakes made by former
President Goodluck Jonathan so his
administration does not end up in infamy like
that of his predecessor.
The former governor of the Central Bank of
Nigeria also warned the government against
continuing to blame previous administrations
for the nation’s woes, saying what was
important was for the administration to
concentrate on putting the nation back on the
path of progress.
The emir gave the warning on Wednesday
while delivering a paper entitled, “Nigeria In
Search Of New Growth model” at the 15th
meeting of the Joint Planning Board and
National Council on Development Planning.
Mr. Buhari succeeded Mr. Jonathan on May 29,
2015.
“If this government continues to behave the
way the last government behaved, we will end
up where Jonathan ended,” the former CBN
governor said. “You may not like it but that is
the truth. You have to listen.
“You don’t have to be an economist to know
that any system that allows you to sit in your
garden, and with a telephone call, make one
billion naira without investing a kobo, that
system is wrong. It is unsustainable.
“And just so we are not always blaming the
previous administration. We have also made
mistakes in this administration. We have
started retracing our steps or we have to
retrace those steps.
“And if we fall into the same holes that we fell
into the last time where the government is
always right… If a policy is wrong, it is wrong.
Nothing will make it right and it has to be
changed.”
Mr. Sanusi said there were many voodoo
economists parading around the
administration and advising the government.
“And many of them are not economists,” the
Emir said. “They are demagogues.”
“Look, I’m not going to change. I am never
going to be political. I will never tell people
what they like to hear. There is nothing we are
facing today that we did not know will happen.
That is the truth. We made mistakes, many of
them deliberate. We ignored every single
warning.
“If you take a brand new car, and give a driver
who doesn’t have a license to drive it and you
have an accident, you really can’t say you are
surprised unless you are some kind of idiot.”
The Emir said he would like to know those
advising the present government so he could
talk to the advisers themselves.
Mr. Sanusi blamed past federal administrations
for failing to diversify the nation’s economy
during the oil boom, saying Mr. Buhari should
not make the same mistakes.
He specifically accused Mr. Jonathan of
refusing advice given to him on how to turn the
economy around.
Warnings of impending economic doom were
also ignored by the former president, Mr.
Sanusi said.
The traditional ruler expressed concern that
the Buhari administration was toeing the same
path like the Jonathan government.
“In a situation where we cannot process
tomato. Tomato paste is being imported from
China. It is sad,” he said.
He said there was urgent need for the country
to return to the drawing board on the
deepening and expansion of the economy.
“If we do not expand the economy through
wise investment, we can end up in classical
Malthusian situation,” he said.
Mr. Sanusi restated his support for the removal
of subsidy on petroleum products, saying only
a few people were reaping from the system to
achieve their selfish ends. |
Re: Emir Of Kano To Buhari: Your Government May End Up Like Jonathan’s by begreat: 11:13am On Aug 25, 2016 |
Can somebody tell pmb and his advisers to remove this man's turban and make the finance minister without further delay? |
Re: Emir Of Kano To Buhari: Your Government May End Up Like Jonathan’s by AbuMaryam1(m): 11:21am On Aug 25, 2016 |
I've presented to you my almajiri traditional ruler. Present your PhD holder president to me. |
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