Wonder why they re all weeping!! According to Punch, Former
military Head of State and Congress for Progressives Change (CPC)
national leader, General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), yesterday opened up on
why he shed tears in public during one of his presidential campaign
rallies in 2011, saying he wept for Nigeria.
Buhari,
who was guest of the week on a Kaduna-based radio station, revealed
that when he read an article in one of the newspapers and saw the
amazing opportunity Nigeria got through petroleum resources from 1999 to
2011, he shed tears.
“That
was the only time I broke down publicly; it was as a result of an
article in a paper I read before the 2011 general elections… And I saw
the amazing opportunity we got through petroleum resources from 1999 to
the time I shed tears, and I saw the state of the country, the decay in
infrastructure and that people were just in a position of
irresponsibility and they were just doing their own thing minding their
own business”, he said.
“Nigeria
is absolutely mature but the execution is the beginning of the problem,
all the laws have been put in place but it appears like people are just
doing their own thing and it is a tragedy in Nigeria. The people at the
top, at various levels, are just doing what they like, not what the
constitution of the country prescribes”, he noted.
The
three-time presidential aspirant blamed the country’s elite for the
path democracy is taking; saying the running of the country is the
“responsibility of the elite including you, me and those that have had
the opportunity to go to school to earn correct entry points into
various professions”.
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