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Ango Abdullahi: Buhari’s Major Problem Is Incompetent And Selfish Lieutenants by agwom(m): 6:33am On May 30, 2020
Professor Ango Abdullahi is a former minister and former Vice Chancellor of the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria. He is now the chairman of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF).

In this interview with Daily Trust Saturday, he has, among others, blamed what he called incompetent and selfish appointees/associates for the “failure” of Buhari’s administration.

Excerpt: Nigeria is celebrating 21 years since the return of democracy, what is your take on that?

I did not believe 29th of May is the Democracy Day for Nigeria. Democracy Day is 1st of October, because that is the day that Nigeria became politically independent from colonial masters. If the interpretation of Democracy Day means Nigeria has moved from military to another form of administration, I wouldn’t say that we have moved from military administration to democracy. What we have done was to move from military administration to civilian administration.

There is difference between civilian administration and democratic administration. As far as I am concerned we have not enjoyed democratic administration in the last 21 years, including the current period that we are in now. In fact, we have suffered more in terms of less democracy in the last four to five years than any other time in the last 21 years.

How then do you view the leadership style of the incumbent President, Muhammadu Buhari?

Well, it is difficult to give straight answer to this question. From a distance, I would say that he delegates power to other people who probably have no qualification and competence to execute the duties of their offices. They may also have no mandate to execute those powers delegated to them.

The presidential powers that are enshrined in the constitution are entailing the responsibilities of a person who offered himself for election, as Buhari did. Eventually, he emerged as the president and therefore those powers are exclusively his own powers. All he needs to do is to ensure that those powers are executed in the expectation of the people of the country. Yes, he can’t do everything all alone; we concede. He has to find people or assistants, associates and colleagues who would be assigned various roles and responsibilities to carry out those functions that are his own.

I once postulated few months after he emerged as president for second term that we trust his honesty, but unfortunately he has failed to gather the necessary materials with which to execute the duties and functions of the office of the president by the poor quality of people that he gathered around either as ministers or any other role they play.

As a teacher, if you asked to grade the performance of Buhari in comparison to the previous presidents since the return of democracy, what would be your score for him?

I have worked with only one of the presidents. I worked with Obasanjo for three years. Of course, Obasanjo was a better president. I ranked Obasanjo far better president than Buhari. This is because of his ability to take on the duties of president whether sometimes right or wrong. The critical job of the president is to take decision. Some of the decisions may be right, while others may be wrong. The most important thing is that there must be somebody who takes decisions and take responsibility. This is where Obasanjo excelled. He took decision and took responsibility. This is the major difference between Obasanjo’s presidency and that of Buhari.

Aside selection of competent lieutenants, which other area do you think that the Buhari presidency is lagging behind?

I have never personally been close to him, but from afar I would say lack of firmness. Firmness means that he should come out as president to ensure that his decisions are executed to the latter. However, we notice that he did not exhibit that firmness.

For example, when somebody is alleged to have done something wrong and you requested for evidence and ample of them were provided; the president should take decisive action to serve as deterrent. The reverse is however the case. We have instances of people close to him that engaged in one wrong doing or the other, but went scot free after a lot of evidences have been adduced directly and indirectly. These were in terms of both moral and material corruption.

https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/buharis-major-problem-is-incompetent-and-selfish-lieutenants-professor-ango-abdullahi.html

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Re: Ango Abdullahi: Buhari’s Major Problem Is Incompetent And Selfish Lieutenants by Redoil: 6:34am On May 30, 2020
assuming osibanjo is the president of Nigeria hausa and Fulanis with the help and support his fellow Lagos ibadan express way journalist would have demonize him to high heaven

Nigeria is having over 250 tribe

appointing people from his village and tribe to run the affairs of Nigeria is the most selfish things to do.

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Re: Ango Abdullahi: Buhari’s Major Problem Is Incompetent And Selfish Lieutenants by Emmacolinho(m): 6:36am On May 30, 2020
Them go chop u raw oooo me no get strength to settle this matter

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Re: Ango Abdullahi: Buhari’s Major Problem Is Incompetent And Selfish Lieutenants by kayusely70(m): 6:38am On May 30, 2020
Weak

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Re: Ango Abdullahi: Buhari’s Major Problem Is Incompetent And Selfish Lieutenants by SILVERLINES: 6:39am On May 30, 2020
cheesy

Buhari incompetency have everything to do with his illiteracy and other dumb creatures he appointed to his useless government.

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Re: Ango Abdullahi: Buhari’s Major Problem Is Incompetent And Selfish Lieutenants by Tallesty1(m): 6:47am On May 30, 2020
Redoil:
Nigeria is having over 250 tribe
The reason we are perpetually backward

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Re: Ango Abdullahi: Buhari’s Major Problem Is Incompetent And Selfish Lieutenants by chatinent: 7:00am On May 30, 2020
A f-up story is what Nigeria is. NP: Timaya - Pity.

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Re: Ango Abdullahi: Buhari’s Major Problem Is Incompetent And Selfish Lieutenants by samincredible44(m): 7:41am On May 30, 2020
it only takes an incompetent and selfish leader to appoint incompetent and selfish lieutenants

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Re: Ango Abdullahi: Buhari’s Major Problem Is Incompetent And Selfish Lieutenants by obasi101(m): 7:52am On May 30, 2020
Hahahhahahhahahha........ Naija which way naaa
Re: Ango Abdullahi: Buhari’s Major Problem Is Incompetent And Selfish Lieutenants by Kizyte(m): 7:52am On May 30, 2020
There used to be Democracy, Aristocracy, Autocracy, and the rest of them, but now Buhacracy has been added and is the worst of them all

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Re: Ango Abdullahi: Buhari’s Major Problem Is Incompetent And Selfish Lieutenants by Criptofxt10: 7:53am On May 30, 2020
Every Nigerian already know this fact, though some will still not admit to it but they know its a well established fact.

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Re: Ango Abdullahi: Buhari’s Major Problem Is Incompetent And Selfish Lieutenants by irepnaija4eva(m): 7:53am On May 30, 2020
Oga you guys should stop wailing abeg.. We warned you of this calamitious, ethnic bigoted, nepolistic, incompetent fellow in the name of

Major Gen MuMuhadu buharia..

ThankGod those who voted him in are also feeling the heat of his incompetencygrin grin grin..both in the economic sector and security etc.

ThankGod all man dey wail together. grin grin grin.

Last last we go dey Alright eventually cool cool cool

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Re: Ango Abdullahi: Buhari’s Major Problem Is Incompetent And Selfish Lieutenants by paulolee(m): 7:53am On May 30, 2020
yes thats what we all know bt his workers wount agree with u mr professor and they may come for ur head when hear this and we won't settle dt matter because we are too busy settling other serious matters oo..
#stillonthematter....my guy victor go fall plasma for where he go settle matter, as we de the electronics shop to setlle him case and come they beg mk dm collect half of the plasma money, naim him papa go fall anoda bigger plasma....we dey station lyk dis and don de beg the shop owner since last nite, no be small matter oo

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Re: Ango Abdullahi: Buhari’s Major Problem Is Incompetent And Selfish Lieutenants by bayotwice(f): 7:54am On May 30, 2020
This Man said nothing but the pure Sad truth... Check my signature, i sell Video Courses on vital skills you can master in a short time and be financially free for ever... It is well with Nigeria

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Re: Ango Abdullahi: Buhari’s Major Problem Is Incompetent And Selfish Lieutenants by yusluvad(m): 7:54am On May 30, 2020
Professor don talk...

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Re: Ango Abdullahi: Buhari’s Major Problem Is Incompetent And Selfish Lieutenants by MANNABBQGRILLS: 7:54am On May 30, 2020
Aside selection of competent lieutenants, which other area do you think that the Buhari presidency is lagging behind? 

I have never personally been close to him, but from afar I would say lack of firmness. Firmness means that he should come out as president to ensure that his decisions are executed to the latter. However, we notice that he did not exhibit that firmness. 

For example, when somebody is alleged to have done something wrong and you requested for evidence and ample of them were provided; the president should take decisive action to serve as deterrent. The reverse is however the case. We have instances of people close to him that engaged in one wrong doing or the other, but went scot free after a lot of evidences have been adduced directly and indirectly. These were in terms of both moral and material corruption.
About our darling daddy being too gentle and not firm with people, the Prof is not far from the truth.

Exc2000, remember this?
We made this post just 2 hours ago on another thread about Trump coming against and censoring WHO, Twitter. Facebook et all
And Prof just confirms what we pointed out.


Exc2000:
grin
I hope imbecilic Nigerian Trump supporters know that once Trump gets this done, Buhari would also follow suite and censor social media in Nigeria
yusufu16:
This is what BUHARI should have done.
In Nigeria our law makers wants to censor the users instead of the companies.

Lol, our darling Daddy won't do that.
That is one thing we tell Daddy at home,
He is just too soft and gentle with some troublemakers in this part of the world, loud-mouth-porn.star mofo, pained loosing modafockers. 'I'm in pain criminals'! grin
That is one thing we like about Baba Ota, the Farmer.
Baba Fire for fire.
Who born u well to cough in Baba Ota's presence? undecided
A man that does anything and everything without blinking twice.

That is the only part we have issues with dad at home, all in the name of 'we don't want more wahala in our darling nation, they should return all they stole and get out'
No Dad, send more of them to jail.
That is where they belong, to teach others sense!

But, PMB pays no mind to them cos he knows, wailers must wail, no matter the situation
Especially wailing about about someone that collected the keys to our national treasury from them to stop looting and stealing.

EgunMogaji2:

Baba, it’s too early to be rousing the rebels grin
Let them sleep small.
Lol cheesy
Na our lane we dey always dey o.
They are the ones that come to Dem MANNA with foolishness, almost on a daily basis.
We will wake up to see some of these kid's (6 of them, with 1432 monikers among them) quotes everywhere!
Seems they are always having MANNA nightmares.

Dem go dey alrite las las.

Btw,
We no be Baba o,
We are simply WE!

Have a blessed weekend ahead Baba Agbalagba! wink cheesy
One and Only EgunMogaji.
#RESPECT

Exc2000:
you are right
well Buhari seem to be trying all his possible best not to look like a dictator since he was once a military, and people are abusing that and taking it for weakness... if he act tough they woud blackmail him with media hogwash calling him a General
You have said it all bro.
END OF THREAD.

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Re: Ango Abdullahi: Buhari’s Major Problem Is Incompetent And Selfish Lieutenants by SLAP44: 7:54am On May 30, 2020
I dedicate this post to our brothers and sisters that lost their lives during the Biafra war and those that have died for refusing to go against their faith, may their souls rest in peace. Amen. 


May 30, WE CAN NEVER FORGET.

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Re: Ango Abdullahi: Buhari’s Major Problem Is Incompetent And Selfish Lieutenants by MoDaniel(m): 7:54am On May 30, 2020
Whether Buhari incompetent or not, he still has 2 years and 364 days left.
You would have corrected that a year ago, but you keep mute till now.

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Re: Ango Abdullahi: Buhari’s Major Problem Is Incompetent And Selfish Lieutenants by JAWBONE(m): 7:54am On May 30, 2020
Sir you forgot to add asslickers and sycophantic zombies that support him on Nairaland, Twitter, Facebook.

They are also part of his problem

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Re: Ango Abdullahi: Buhari’s Major Problem Is Incompetent And Selfish Lieutenants by lenghtinny(m): 7:55am On May 30, 2020
Sinzu money is one lucky son of a B....

They are always blaming everyone around him except him for the obvious failure of his government.

Show me your friend and I will tell you who you are. If his lieutenants are incompetent and selfish then he isn’t any better because they are only following his footsteps as he has been a leading example in that aspect

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Re: Ango Abdullahi: Buhari’s Major Problem Is Incompetent And Selfish Lieutenants by Nobody: 7:55am On May 30, 2020
we should pretend buhari is a saint and not a bigot?


Mr Abdullahi go and sit down. Buhari is everything that is wrong in this government

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Re: Ango Abdullahi: Buhari’s Major Problem Is Incompetent And Selfish Lieutenants by SLAP44: 7:55am On May 30, 2020
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Buharri is really incompetent.

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Re: Ango Abdullahi: Buhari’s Major Problem Is Incompetent And Selfish Lieutenants by SLAP44: 7:56am On May 30, 2020
Lostz:
we should pretend buhari is a saint and not a bigot?

They are trying to save his reputation but we know better.

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Re: Ango Abdullahi: Buhari’s Major Problem Is Incompetent And Selfish Lieutenants by Hisincrease: 7:57am On May 30, 2020
Okay.
All these talks change nothing.
Let's channel our talks to God.

We need him to either fast forward the remaining days of APC in Nigeria or fast forward their lives.

Simple!

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Re: Ango Abdullahi: Buhari’s Major Problem Is Incompetent And Selfish Lieutenants by bigfish3k: 7:57am On May 30, 2020
.This president really bleeped the country up, he divided us so much. These are some of the deductions I made while I interacted.

Most people didn't know that there exist two major types of Muslims: Shia and sunni until he came to power
Most southerners are unaware that hausa is different from the fulani until he came to power then most people started reading about the history of how fulanis came into nigeria

Most people didn't know that carrying a cutlass in a sheath up and down in a city center is part of the fulani dressing fashion until he came to power

Most people didn't know that all emirs are fulanis that overthrew the original natives until this man came to power

I never heard of the word "Yoruba Muslims" until he came to power. Then MURIC started fighting for hijab up and down even into the law school graduants ceremony and the University of ibadan

Most people never knew that kaduna is divided into southern Christian kaduna and Northerner Muslim kaduna until he came to power

Most people didn't know that its possible to discard federal character and appoint only your tribesmen/region as the only trusted people into the security architecture of the country even when there performance is abysmal

Most people never knew that benue state is not part the hausas/fulani states until he came to power
The killings in benue brought about the knowledge that benue state is not indigenous to the hausas /fulanis
The state is only geographically situated in the north

On my own I never knew that 5% and 97% can make up 100%

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Re: Ango Abdullahi: Buhari’s Major Problem Is Incompetent And Selfish Lieutenants by Racoon(m): 7:57am On May 30, 2020
Bigotry, clannishness, nepotism, ethnic supremacist agenda compounded by cluelessness and incompetence
Waiting for what Femi Adeshina will call this man now.

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Re: Ango Abdullahi: Buhari’s Major Problem Is Incompetent And Selfish Lieutenants by Hoephase: 7:58am On May 30, 2020
Buhari major problem is laziness.

I can sum all his short comings into one word - laziness.

Laziness to improve himself : he was too lazy to resit for o level.

He was too lazy to go back to school or even take courses to improve himself after his failed outing as a military president.

He was too lazy to read and learn how to run cattle business, hence, he got stuck with his small herd of cow for several years.

Laziness made him spend 6 months before forming a cabinet. If that is not laziness I don't know what to call it.

After failing in his first term now he is too lazy to make any meaningful change in his cabinet.

I have never seen anyone as lazy as Buhari.

No wonder he was projecting on Nigerian youths by calling them lazy whereas he is the chief commander of lazy grin

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Re: Ango Abdullahi: Buhari’s Major Problem Is Incompetent And Selfish Lieutenants by ThatFairGuy: 7:58am On May 30, 2020
Ango Abdullah is a real statesman. He nailed it. PMB and few Patriots like him were surrounded by unpatriotic Nigerians.

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Re: Ango Abdullahi: Buhari’s Major Problem Is Incompetent And Selfish Lieutenants by Nobody: 7:58am On May 30, 2020
SLAP44:

They are trying to save his reputation but we know better.

same way Abacha saved asset for Nigeria?

this old man think we are all fools

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Re: Ango Abdullahi: Buhari’s Major Problem Is Incompetent And Selfish Lieutenants by Inda2020: 7:58am On May 30, 2020
I can’t believe the Buhari I campaigned for is like this. I’m still thankful we voted him because had it been we didn’t vote him, we would have thought he’s the solution to Nigeria’s problems.

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