– Feyi Fawehinmi said he campaigned and supported Buhari to become president
– The economic analyst said the president has failed to deliver
– He expressed regret and urged the president to resign
An ardent supporter of Muhammadu Buhari ahead of the 2015 presidential election, Feyi Fawehinmi has revealed that he regretted campaigning for the president.
In an interview with The Punch, he said the president’s economic policies since he came into power has plunged Nigerians into poverty and that the honourable thing for him to do is to resign.
Fawehinmi regrets supporting Buhari to be president
He said: “I supported (President Muhammadu) Buhari in the last (presidential) election. I actively campaigned for him and donated my money to his campaign. If I have turned against him, it is since he got into office and based entirely on his government’s policy choices. I have nothing personal against him.
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“It just became clear to me that the government sold one thing during the campaign and were doing another thing entirely upon assumption of power. The sheer pointless and needless suffering Nigerians have been put through in the name of discredited ideas and waste-of-time economic policies has been too much to bear. For me, Nigeria is the point of any support and I consider it a serious mistake on my part to have blindly supported Buhari like I did in 2015.”
The economic analyst noted that although he did not like the administration of Goodluck Jonathan, they could have president Buhari to make some commitments before he was voted in.
“We did not question Buhari hard enough. We should have pressed him harder to force him to make clear commitments and adopt clear positions we wanted before the elections. Something like taking six months to appoint ministers was such an irritating and costly waste of time. And it came as a surprise to even his supporters. But we all gave him the benefit of the doubt. We allowed him to get away with too much too easily.”
On the fight against corruption, he said the president might have good intentions.
“He might have the right intentions but it is suffering from the pervasive sickness of Nigeria – incompetence. Money is not really being recovered and cases are either being bungled or progressing very slowly. Most of what has been recovered has been real estate and expensive items. In this economy, it is very difficult to turn those things into money. And the longer people get away with not giving up their stolen wealth or their freedom, the greater their chances of getting away with it completely. This is Nigeria after all.
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There’s probably a lot less money to steal now. Price of crude oil is $50. But it raises an interesting question: if people are still stealing the small money available now, will they steal more if oil goes to $100? How would Jonathan’s people have coped with half price of crude oil? The more important issue for me is this: Jonathan failed Nigeria. Buhari is failing Nigeria. Depending on how Buhari finishes his term, he can still overtake Jonathan in the unfortunate stakes.
(Calling for the President’s) resignation won’t be a bad idea. It is the honourable thing for him to do. He is clearly not up to the job; that is the fundamental problem with this government.
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