Former Ambassador to the Philippines and veteran broadcaster, Dr Yemi Farounbi has confirmed how incredibly incompetent President Muhammadu Buhari is as a president of Nigeria adding that he was not surprised the president imposed great pains on Nigeria.
Describing Buhari as a dictator and autocrat, Farounbi pointed out that the failure of Nigerians to be guided by the bad antecedent of Buhari made them vote for him in 2015.
The veteran broadcaster who stated this in Ibadan on Saturday, August 13, 2022, while featuring on a weekly radio programme said, that God is using President Buhari to punish Nigerians because “in 2014/2015 when we were campaigning when Nigerians decided to accept the campaign of once chance, they were warned of the antecedent of Muhammadu Buhari and informed about how he imprisoned many politicians including Chief Obafemi Awolowo. God is a wonderful Being. He decided to use Buhari to punish Nigerians for their evil deeds and Nigerians deserve these punishments.”
Noting that he is an incurable optimist that Nigeria can still be better, the diplomat said, “Those who are enjoying proceeds of bribery, corruption, epileptic power supply, insecurity among other vices are not looking forward to seeing a better Nigeria.”
Speaking on banditry and terrorism ravaging the country, he stated that the threats from bandits against Buhari and Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna state portend great danger to the country’s unity.
He said, “The acts of the bandits have shown that they mean business. They recently ambushed officers from the Brigade of Guards in Abuja and this is an absolute insult and injury to the sovereignty of the country. Whenever I hear this, I feel ashamed of our country. I was once an Ambassador to the Philippines and whenever I have the opportunity of visiting Cambodia, I was treated with great honour like a saviour. One day, I asked the King of Cambodia why I was accorded that honour. He replied that when Cambodia had the problem of insurrection, it was Nigerian policemen that were drafted to quench the mutiny and create order. Now we are being threatened by terrorists in our country and our soldiers are almost incapacitated, the Nigerians soldiers that went to Lebanon, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Congo but now they cannot effectively defend the territorial integrity of their country.”
Also speaking on politics, the elder statesman further stated that there is no difference in the ideologies of the two frontline political parties (APC and PDP) in the country, revealing that the two major parties are only recycling politicians who have little or nothing to offer the country while citizens of the country are nonchalant towards their rights.
He condemned APC on the adoption of a Muslim-Muslim presidential-vice Presidential ticket for the 2023 presidential election stating that such acts could further put the unity of the country in jeopardy.
His words, “In any decent society, there are traditions. After the annulment of the 1993 election, we felt that there should be equal access to power in such a way that it will rotate between the South and North so that all Nigerians will be equally represented. This agreement is an unwritten rule. One of the fundamental principles that guided the establishment of PDP at inception was that power must be rotated. In addition, there must be a balance between the two major religions in the power rotation. The two political parties broke the unwritten rule of religion and ethnicity in the power rotation because they see Nigerians as impotent.”
