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ugo4u:
A former president of Nigerian Bar Association, Dr Olisa Agbakoba (SAN), has said President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration is the worst in the history of Nigeria.

Agbakoba, who is one of the leaders of the National Intervention Movement, on Tuesday described the almost four years under Buhari as locust years, saying the Coalition of United Political Parties was determined to save the country by bringing Buhari’s reign to an end.

He described Buhari’s re-election mantra, “Next Level,” as a failed document and one lacking in “conceptual overhang.”

Agbakoba, who rated the campaign document of the Peoples Democratic Party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, higher than Buhari’s, said were the presidential election to hold today, Atiku would win, while Buhari would come “distant second.”

He, however, expressed the fear that Buhari, if defeated, might not be willing to relinquish power, decrying the presence of the service chiefs at the launch of Buhari’s re-election campaign on Sunday.

The lawyer spoke with journalists in his Ikoyi, Lagos office on Tuesday morning.

He said, “We clearly understand that to win the forthcoming elections, we require a united opposition. So, all the parties are simply presenting their presidential candidates but by January, the CUPP will formalise its consensus candidate.

“It may well be Atiku or it may not but the person who will be chosen must be one who has the heavy-lifting, who can get the job done.

“Personally, I’m pro-Atiku because I think he has the heavy-lifting but I will not preempt anything.”

He added, “We are all united in the mantra and the strong song around our campaign, that is, ‘Anybody but Buhari.’

“We are making sure the four locust years from 2015 to 2019 will never repeat themselves in Nigeria. This has been the worst government in Nigeria’s history.

“Unemployment rate at 20 million, youth unemployment is so high, inflation at about 18 per cent, borrowing requirement or interest rate at about 22 per cent; nothing is working. So, we need to do something to reclaim it.”

Agbakoba said part of the strategies of the CUPP was to engage with the people at the grass roots and to ensure that people’s votes count in 2019.

He said, “We want to make sure the votes count. Clearly, the signal and the obvious determination on the part of this government is to potentially rig the election and or refuse to leave if beaten and we are staring a potential legitimacy crisis next year because President Buhari isn’t (former) President Jonathan.”

https://punchng.com/buharis-govt-worst-in-nigerias-history-agbakoba-2/

KingKingKing:
If only you knew me you wouldn't have spilled this trash.
you think everybody on nairaland is a commoner like you!

yjgm:
Who's Agbakoba?. Keep shut man. Buhari we know till 2023.

emiliadolphin83:
Of course it is. Unfortunately, he has INEC and the security apparatuses in his pocket, so there is hardly any hope but we pray something out of the ordinary happens so the poor people can dream again and their hopes restored, Buhari's government is the worst government in the history of Nigeria only for the criminals and looters.

Kenturkey048:
all dis persons calling PDP like its somebody's name don't have sense..
what's the difference between APC and PDP .
alphabet..

use your head..same people in PDP moved to APC just to unseat gudluck jonatan..take proper understanding from godswil akpabio..learn from dat and stop dis ur apc, pdp nonsense.

abbeyfel:
So what did PDP meet after those wasteful and stealing prone military era?? PDP met a sick Nigeria after the
military almost ruined our wealth and future...

ba7man:
Buhari, Osinbajo, Fashola, Osiomole, Aregbesola, Fayemi, Ambode, Tinubu etc were all in PDP, I guess.

ugo4u:
So PDP is now responsible for the prices of oil in the international market abi? low global oil prices is as a result of Corruption fighting back abi? No end to this foolery by some APC supporters currently the price of oil have jacked up to over $80 per barrel what are the visible changes you have noticed? Your case is different wallahi

dokie:
1. All the statistics being released by various organizations. They are available online.

2. Friends and relations who have become jobless over the last 3 years.

3.increase in Cost of food prices in the market over the last 3 years.

I could go on and on but this should be sufficient.

And let no one say Jonathan laid the foundation for the mess and oil prices went down. PDP took over from a nation wrecked by the military, and oil prices were under 30$ yet things picked up in the nation.

contigiency:
What were prices of things at that time PDP took over from the military you claimed they messed up the country? even the exchange rates and prices of major commodities at the time pdp took over and the situation at the time they handed over to apc. Please i need an honest answer.

dokie:
I don't have the answer because I was under my parents then. The only thing I can remember is that my father was not complaining of increase in cost of commodities the way I have been complaining to my wife since buhari took over.

I can also remember that as a secondary school student in the 90s, I buy a pair of jeans from mandilas and tejuoso market at slightly over a thousand naira. That price range remained until I finished my university education in 2004. I am being 100% sincere to you.

ba7man:
The had the highest oil revenue and after 16yrs, they still handed a battered economy to PMB with little infrastructural gain.

contigiency:
It's not your fault that you were under the care of your parents then. Every adult at one time or the other passed through such stage.

However, the information is still at your disposal. If you turn to Google or the website of the Nigerian bureau of statistics you will have all the answers that you need. Even if you don't want to bother yourself very much, just check the prices of basic commodities like, fuel, gas, kerosene, rice, beans, bag of cement, costs of various Labour, cost of transport, house rent, spare parts, even the almighty exchange rates etc.

My dear if you do this, you will be surprised and shocked how far and fast we have retrogressed as a nation. you will even see that we recorded much growth in infrastructure under the military that every body condemn in a haste as if the civilian governments served us better. I remember that most of the unversity hostels and lecture halls were built under the military era through PTF, a lot of federal roads, hospitals, various stadium, gas pipeline, water dams, hydro power plants, even the constitution that we have today etc.

Check the status of all these before military handed over to PDP in 1999, then compare the prices and the status again in 2015 when they handed over to APC. You will observe how battered they left the country. Do you know that the entire national assembly budget was around 20billion. So Whatever that pushed it to above 120billion when they handed over even when their number did not increase are fundamental issues that should worry you and I.

Yes, your father may not have been complaining then because things were relatively stable. that's why I reffered you to the prices of things when they took over, and how fast things were worsening under their watch. which is my headache today. a lot of people were still farming, many local and foreign industries were still functional near 100% capacity. but almost all of these were already destroyed before they left government. The famous statement from prof. soludo that any body that will win 2015 election was going to suffer in administring the country because the previous government have destroyed the economy. Even Peter Obi was famous with the statement that for 16 years, PDP did not achieve any of the millennium development goals let alone going to SDGs.

You See, I am taking time to highlight some of these things not because there are no problems in buhari government, but My issue is that, I can't forgive the likes of obasanjo and Atiku who spent 16 billion dollars on power alone without anything to show for it. And others that messed up the country for such a long time only to turn back today looking for gullible minds to deceive by, saying that the present government is responsible for owe woes. we all know that it takes more time to rebuild than to destroy.

Again, it's always important that we dig deep to study the source of our problems so that we may know how best to approach them. Because when a man refuses to take cognizance of where the rain meets him, he will not know the type of bunfire he is to make to quench his cold.

abbeyfel:
And the so called highest revenue lasted those 16yrs?? Can you be more specific about the period of oil boom and the amount made during that time?? 16yrs is broken down into 4 year term remember?

ba7man:
GEJ is seen as a fool for earning that much, depleting the nation's reserves, still borrowing and having just a handful of uncompleted projects to present.

dokie:
1. All the statistics being released by various organizations. They are available online.

2. Friends and relations who have become jobless over the last 3 years.

3.increase in Cost of food prices in the market over the last 3 years.

I could go on and on but this should be sufficient.

And let no one say Jonathan laid the foundation for the mess and oil prices went down. PDP took over from a nation wrecked by the military, and oil prices were under 30$ yet things picked up in the nation.

Ovamboland:
Only the economically of ignorant will compare $30 of 1999 to $30 in 2018.
Only mischief will make one not realize that the military sold oil at $10-12 most of their tenure and $30 oil in 1999 is a boom equivalent to over 100% increase in income.
If military sold oil at $30 and had to contend with $10 a barrel and still performed excellently then we can say he did something great.
Many of you expecting eldorado and paradise after government income fell over 70% will die if your salary is reduced from 100,000 to 30,000, but expect government to build all roads, bridges, railway and increase minimum wage when it's income source is depressed and highly volatile and uncertain.

dokie:
I don't have the answer because I was under my parents then. The only thing I can remember is that my father was not complaining of increase in cost of commodities the way I have been complaining to my wife since buhari took over.

I can also remember that as a secondary school student in the 90s, I buy a pair of jeans from mandilas and tejuoso market at slightly over a thousand naira. That price range remained until I finished my university education in 2004. I am being 100% sincere to you.

dokie:
Oil prices have been stable for over 2 years now, what has changed?

Ovamboland:
See the type of ignorant, thoughtless, simple, lazy monikers we are forced to debate with on NL this days. No depth, no rigorous search for information on the subject matter, and he's prepared to take life changing decisions on the basis of very weak information, and to my chagrin, he's sincere enough to share on social media his weak analytical capacity. To make matters worse he's married and has or about to have children.

chiangwar:
In case you still do not know him his name is Dr Olisa Agbakoba (SAN) you will be ashamed of yourself 2019 general election
Your so called Buhari will lost out

Bobbyfreshh:
Cry us a river jare... Atiku we know... U won't pray for sound knowledgeable govt to take over.... U don't have a job 20 million people like u don't have jobs but because of tribal or religious bigotry u come online with 10 MB to spew trash

SarkinYarki:
Show us any man in your family history that is more recognized than Agbakoba or shut