His Highness, Muhammad Sanusi II, yesterday, expressed his angst at the current situation Nigeria has found herself, insisting that the country is in a deeper hole and a bigger mess now, than it was in 2015.



The Khalifa of the Tijanniyah Sufi Order of Nigeria also warned that 2023 will be worse, compared to what we had in 2015.



The former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, also pilloried the current administration, saying that despite the current mess, the present leadership expects to be rewarded with appreciation after leaving office.

He spoke at the Akinjide Adeosun Foundation, AAF’s, Leadership Colloquium and Awards, Chapter 7, themed ‘Are Good Leaders Scarce in Nigeria’?



The foundation is a non-profit organisation focused on charity in the spheres of free, qualitative education and free, qualitative medical outreach.

Yesterday’s event was its seventh which also marked the birthday of its founder, Akinjide Adeosun, husband of Olubamiwo Adeosun

We’re in a complete mess
He said: “This is the only oil-producing country that is grieving at the moment when oil prices have gone up as a result of the Russia/Ukraine war. Our total revenue is not able to service our debt. And if anybody does not understand that we are in a complete mess, we are.

“We were in a deep hole in 2015. And between 2015 and now, we have been digging ourselves into a deeper hole.

“We thought we had a big problem in 2015. 2015 is nothing compared to what will happen in 2023. We have terrorism, we have banditry, we have inflation, we have an unstable exchange rate, and the worst thing is that those in leadership actually think we are going to thank them when they leave office, that we are going to appreciate them. There is no change.

There is no sense of urgency. If you are running a company and your sales revenue cannot pay interest, you know you’re bankrupt.

“When the total revenue of the Federal Government cannot service debt? And we are smiling. These are the kinds of questions we need to ask. And the reality is that there are so many Nigerians, who, given the opportunity will do well but they simply cannot contest in that space.”

Lack of vision by leaders

Sanusi hinged the challenge on the lack of vision of some of the country’s leaders.

“What is our vision for Nigeria? Do we have a vision of one country? Do we have a vision of one united country, that lives peacefully with itself — diverse, multicultural, multi-religious but one?

These things are not self-contradictory. Where did we get it wrong?

“Leaders after leaders, most of those who have ruled did not have a vision for a united Nigeria. How would you like to be remembered after eight years as a President, after eight years as a governor, eight years as a minister, eight years as Governor of CBN? How will you like history to remember you? They have not thought about it.

The vast majority of those in office have a vision that is limited to the next election. It is to win. And when you’ve won, you’ve reached a destination, not a journey.”

He told his audience that the vision of General Yakubu Gowon cascaded down.

He used his days at Kings College and the type of bonding that existed between and among students of different tribes and religions as an example of a vision for unity, explaining that 90 per cent of his friends are from other tribes and are in Lagos. He wondered why the framework and mindset of unity remain
Lagos. He wondered why the framework and mindset of unity remain missing in the country.

Controversy over Muslim/Muslim ticket

In a veiled reference to the raging controversy over a Muslim/Muslim ticket, he said: “We are going into an election. What are we talking about? North and South, Muslim and Christian?

Is that really what we are concerned about? Does it matter if you have a government made up of 100 per cent incompetent Muslims or 100 per cent incompetent Christians? Will that government work? Yes, we must think of diversity and we must begin to think of fairness in this country and balance, not create any tension.

“How many people can go to a political party and bring out tens of millions of dollars to pay delegates? Where are you going to get the money and when you get the money, assuming you raise it from people, how are you going to look at the people when you are in office and do the right thing? You’re already finished; you’ve already sold your conscience to get there. Or when a nation is ready to sell itself; when the poor people on the streets are ready to be given N5,000, N2,000, and cast a vote for N2,000 today and give up education, give up healthcare and give up security for the next four years?

“Then, maybe we understand what Chief (Obafemi) Awolowo meant when he said a nation gets the leadership it deserves. We, as Nigerians, need to ask these questions.

Why I keep criticising people

“People say to me, ‘why do you keep criticising people? Why do you keep talking about public policy?’ And I say I was a public officer and I have a record – talk about my record. I met inflation at 15.6 percent, left it at 7.8 percent. I stabilised the exchange rate; I saved the banks. I transformed the payment system.

“I have my record. And because I had the opportunity to serve, I served and I left a record, so, I’ve earned the right to criticise any public officer who is incompetent and I’ll call him out. I think we need to start calling out incompetence.”


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Lalasticlala, Mynd44

The type of insult a brilliant man like Sanusi went through for speaking up will tell you the state of the Nation

ok

who no know before

idiot.
it's funny that Nigerians expected (and still expect) a 73-year old, retired and under-educated millitary dictator to lead a complex, dynamic, multi-ethnic and multi-religious Nigeria of nearly 200-million people to becoming a prosperous country in this 21st century of super-complex global economy.

Tinubu’s 1billion northern votes keeps nosediving on a daily.

But BATstards keep living in denial.

Ndi ala!

Always on point....

All of them gather to bring this evil people called APC inflicting pains on populace

Gradually, Tinubu's support will drop to zero. He has nothing to offer. He's sick to start with, what achievements will APC use to campaign? Got it! Insecurity.

Of course not....economic meltdown would suffice.

Really?

I thought they said Jonathan was the WORST?

The cursed and evil party,APC will never win any presidential election again.

You were part of the people that supported and brought this calamity upon this nation in 2015,
Are you telling us that you didn't know Buhari has nothing to offer, or you guys were bent on sending GEJ away by all cost.

Am sure if Ganduje, didn't deal with you, you will not be speaking out against the government because you will still be dinning and wining with them.

Very funny set of people.

Agbado and corn urchins will disagree
On another note Sanusi should shut his trap!

His propaganda against GEJ also added insult to injury in the Goodluck administration.

He shouted wolf about missing billions of dollars and couldn't prove it.


He is a chameleon

Sanusi is one of the reasons we are in this mess.

Mentor

For anyone who is willing to sell his or her vote in 2023.
If the wrong candidates wins, God will NEVER let anybody listen to you when you go borrowing after the election.
May your best friends and family members refuse to give you even one Naira at your point of need.
May A.P.C happen to you and your entire family,
& may you never get Visa even if you try to japa.
Amen.

Sanusi, the dethrone Fulani King is no better than the people he is now trying to demonize. Sanusi is bigotry, hateful, tribalistic & vegeful just like buhari, tinubu & atiku.
Sanusi was 100% against Gej's government for the singular reason that he was an Ijaw man & a South South minority.
He raised a false alarm of an imaginary missing billions, and when he was ask to come & prove his allegation, he Sanusi & his backers have failed to substantiate their allegations till today.
Sanusi was enthrone to spit Jonathan by Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso's government, before he was disgraced out of the throne,
by Governor Ganduje, and he escaped to Lagos.
One wonders why Sanusi has not join Kwankwaso in NNPP & perhaps becomes Kwankwaso' spokesman, now that Kwankwaso is running for president.
Sanusi was one of those who brought Buhari & APC to power, so he shouldn't come on any media platform & try to play saint that he is not.
Sanusi is as evil as the APC government he now wants to blackmail for his selfish relevance.

APC, Buhari, Tinubu and all their governors/supporters have failed God and humanity!

So, moderators are sleeping but if it was about Peter Obi, it will be posted twice on the front page.

mycar:
So, moderators are sleeping but if it was about Peter Obi, it will be posted twice on the front page.

And some people are campaigning for Tinubu (Buhari pro max)

unclejb2:
And some people are campaigning for Tinubu (Buhari pro max)

Emi Lokan dollies

Nigeria is in a deeper hole than it was in 2015 – Sanusi

Dear Friends, everybody is jumping from the sinking evil boat of the genocidal criminal Tyrant Buhari including his close allies, associates and those that benefited from his regime.

This genocidal criminal Sanusi, the dethroned Emir of Kano, was part of the gang that executed the Saudi-funded #ShiaGenocide agenda in Nigeria. No Emir spread Shiaphobia (Shia hate) like Sanusi. Sanusi publicly justified the genocidal massacre of more than one thousand innocent Shia civilians in Zaria in December 2015. Sanusi followed Tyrant Buhari to Saudi Arabia to be rewarded by the Saudi regime for #ZariaGenocide. Sanusi was one of the genocidal criminals that we reported to the International Criminal Court, ICC.

Today this same Sanusi is condemning Buhari. What a world! Nobody want to sink with Tyrant Buhari.

Daily Trust Newspaper that was the official mouthpiece of the Saudi-funded Shia Genocide in Nigeria was recently fined 5 million Naira by the Buhari regime for airing the BBC documentary on armed banditry in Northern Nigeria.

The shameless Shia traitors in Nigeria are still silent. These shameless traitors betrayed their community and supported the genocidal criminals that massacred more than one thousand innocent Shia civilians in Zaria. They paid millions of Naira as paid advertorials to support Buhari's reelection campaign in 2019. Now that the intergenerational failures of Tyrant Buhari is out in the open, these shameless traitors are silent like a graveyard.

#ElbinawiTweets

Elbinawi:
Nigeria is in a deeper hole than it was in 2015 – Sanusi

Dear Friends, everybody is jumping from the sinking evil boat of the genocidal criminal Tyrant Buhari including his close allies, associates and those that benefited from his regime.

This genocidal criminal Sanusi, the dethroned Emir of Kano, was part of the gang that executed the Saudi-funded #ShiaGenocide agenda in Nigeria. No Emir spread Shiaphobia (Shia hate) like Sanusi. Sanusi publicly justified the genocidal massacre of more than one thousand innocent Shia civilians in Zaria in December 2015. Sanusi followed Tyrant Buhari to Saudi Arabia to be rewarded by the Saudi regime for #ZariaGenocide. Sanusi was one of the genocidal criminals that we reported to the International Criminal Court, ICC.

Today this same Sanusi is condemning Buhari. What a world! Nobody want to sink with Tyrant Buhari.

Daily Trust Newspaper that was the official mouthpiece of the Saudi-funded Shia Genocide in Nigeria was recently fined 5 million Naira by the Buhari regime for airing the BBC documentary on armed banditry in Northern Nigeria.

The shameless Shia traitors in Nigeria are still silent. These shameless traitors betrayed their community and supported the genocidal criminals that massacred more than one thousand innocent Shia civilians in Zaria. They paid millions of Naira as paid advertorials to support Buhari's reelection campaign in 2019. Now that the intergenerational failures of Tyrant Buhari is out in the open, these shameless traitors are silent like a graveyard.

#ElbinawiTweets

Where is your evidence??

The whole is getting deeper by the day

Only Peter Obi can turn this mess around. Even Buhari will be glad to handover to Peter obi.

Honest truth.