Apolitical analyst, Mr. Temitope Ajayi, has said that ceaseless efforts by President Muhammadu Buhari to ensure that Nigerians experience new lease of life must have contributed to his current failing health condition.
While arguing that Buhari inherited a badly mismanaged country, Ajayi said that the means of restructuring and re-shaping the country became a burden for the President since he was elected in 2015.
Scoring Buhari’s administration high, the political analyst expressed optimism that despite the President’s health challenges, the present administration had been working on ensuring that the economic recession in the country became a thing of the past.
The burden and the challenge might have contributed in making him sick
He stressed that Buhari would restore the economy before the end of 2017. Ajayi stated this while speaking with our correspondent on the campus of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, shortly after addressing the final year students of the institution’s Department of English during a conference.
He said, “The President’s health challenges or whatever anyone calls it, is normal and being a President doesn’t mean that you can’t fall sick. He is not a super human. Whether you are a president or gateman, you will still go through the course of nature.
The burden and the challenge of carrying the country he so much loves might have contributed in making him sick. Don’t forget that he became a president at the age of 73. This man loves Nigerians so much, he thinks about our country everyday and how to fix the problem; he inherited a badly mismanaged and damaged country.
According to the political analyst, who was a member of Buhari Support Organisation and also a member of the All Progressives Congress Presidential Council Campaign team in 2015, Nigerians calling for a return to the past style of governance were shortsighted.
He said, “Some of us who supported Buhari did not do that because of personal gains; the only gain we expected was collective be cause we believe in the President. We believe in his agenda and the campaign promises of the party and also for the fact that Nigeria had a government that mismanaged the country, a government that was looking when Boko Haram took a whole region of the country; we lived in a period of unprecedented corruption; there was insecurity across the country because it was badly mismanaged and we felt that with APC, with President Buhari, in particular, and in his integrity, Nigeria will have a new lease of life.
“We felt that Nigeria will be better managed and secured and resources of the country would be better managed and secured and we believe that the country will prosper. The country is better secured now and Boko Haram is almost defeated.
Though we are in recession, the little resources that the country has, he is managing them better. Thirty three states could not pay salaries before Buhari came; some of them were owing seven months, one year salary backlog. But this man (Buhari) came, he has given over N4trillion to states to pay pension and arrears.
Ajayi further said, “So, he is doing well, the country is better managed; the infrastructural projects are going on across the country and the fact that Boko Haram is no longer ravaging the whole of North Eastern region is a major credit to this government and the fact that the global community is willing to do business with Nigeria because of his impeccable integrity.
“Anybody who says that corruption should be brought back doesn’t know the damage and the evil effects of corruption on Nigeria. Nigeria is in recession because of mismanagement, not because of Buhari. People should not forget that Buhari inherited a damaged country and we never had an economy. We had an economy that was built on petro-dollar; when the price of petrol crashed, there was a shock. “
